Eight Years Later
October 7, 2009Today eight years ago, Oct. 7, 2001… “On my order, U.S. forces have begun strikes on terrorist camps of al Qaeda, and the military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan,” Bush said in a…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Extreme Saber-Rattling
October 6, 2009Iran getting nuked — one view of the repercussions… James Howard Kunstler, author of ‘The Long Emergency,’ describes a nightmare domino effect if Iran is bombed, and what the planet would then face. From his…
‘Bratty’ And Not At All Funny
October 5, 2009“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.†— Oscar Wilde (Illustration found here). The so-called Republican Party — the GOP — has descended into nothing…
Work is Job One
October 3, 2009Today one year ago, Hank Paulson and his boys ignited TARP — Troubled Asset Relief Program — the $700 billion bank bullshit bailout that has done nothing to relieve the economic woes of US peoples.…
News! Cat Wags Dog’s Tail
October 1, 2009A lot of shit bubbling in modern life’s drainage ditch — on the toilet with a bit of news. General Alarm In pushing President Obama even further back into the corner of Afghan war escalation,…
Spies, Lies and No Video Tape
September 30, 2009A major, major story, though few in the US are even aware of it. (Illustration found here). Via The Brad Blog on Monday, Marc Grossman, a former US ambassador to Turkey and George Jr.’s third-ranking…
Afghan Awful
September 28, 2009“On the heights of the Kabul Gorge, they still find ancient belt buckles and corroded sword hilts. You can no longer read the insignia of the British regiments of the old East India Company but…
Cash-n-Go: TARP Gone
September 26, 2009Naomi Klein talked with Michael Moore on his new documentary, “Capitalism: A Love Story.” The interview in The Nation online examines the lust-for-dollars. Says Moore: “Well, people want to believe that it’s not the economic system that’s…
Fragments from a place far, far away and long, long ago
September 24, 2009Announced quietly last week was the death of Jody Powell, 65, press secretary to Jimmy Carter, ‘A leader for a change,’ whose presidency inadvertently was the last apparently in Americana’s more sane and serene view…
9/11/01
September 11, 2009This from Josh Marshall and his fledging Talking Points Memo on Sept. 11, 2001 — unaware of even a worse horror coming: TPM, of course, is normally all about arguments among us, among Americans. But…