Bill Clinton hasn’t ever meant much to me, other than being a greasy political animal with bad taste, thus seemingly just an inadvertent knuckle-head. (Illustration found here). This past week, however, the old bubba-boy seemed to…
Just a reminder, 64 years ago today Hiroshima was tagged. And Frida Berrigan at tomdispatch has a view this week on the Hiroshima legacy in today’s world: Keep in mind as well that the bombs which annihilated…
Although I’ve been working on some other projects the past few days, this came up last weekend and is such a glaring example of how this country in reality will never recover from the last…
Via ClimateProgress this morning: We show that increases in temperature cause annual mean area burned in the western United States to increase by 54% by the 2050s relative to the present-day … with the forests of…
Despite tough tours in Iraq, an even-more persistent and deadly situation: But he says he never encountered an enemy as tenacious as what he saw immediately after arriving at this outpost in Helmand Province in Afghanistan.…
The earth is indeed melting away. Â (Illustration found here). Clouds, those wispy, sometimes dark and ominoness floating forms we all take for granted as part of our natural environment whenever we look up —…
An example of why this so-called ‘War on Terror’ is such a complete, abysmal failure. Sen. James Webb, Democrat from Virginia, has called for an investigation into the details surrounding an attack on a US outpost…
There are old war correspondents and bold war correspondents but no old, bold war correspondents… –Â Joseph L. Galloway In an age of seemingly perpetual war all over the globe, those reporting from the front…
Seymour Hersh had ’em nailed all along. From the New Yorker online: They want to turn these guys into assassins,†a former high-level intelligence officer told me. “They want to go on rumors — not…
In the realm of stalemate/quagmire: But after nearly eight years of fighting in Afghanistan, the war’s strategic rationale still remains tenuous. Central Asia holds little intrinsic strategic value to the United States, and America’s security…