CIA Me Not
August 5, 2009Although 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…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Wood-Be Inferno
July 30, 2009Via 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…
‘Tragedy’ Escalates
July 29, 2009Despite 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.…
Stormy Days Of Fever Heat
July 26, 2009The 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 —…
‘Same Donkey…New Saddle’
July 25, 2009An 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…
War’s Media “Bloodbath’
July 24, 2009There 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…
The Dick Bourne Identity and the World as ‘Free Fire Zone’
July 23, 2009Seymour 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…
Exit
July 22, 2009In 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…
Astronomical
July 21, 2009A couple of celestial phenomena have graced eyes and telescopes most recently, especially this evening as the longest total solar eclipse this century swept across Asia, starting in India, sweeping east across China and into…
‘Please, please bring us home…’
July 21, 2009Four more US soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Monday and this morning news of eight suicide bombers striking government compounds in two eastern towns as this near-decade-long war is going from bad to worse to even…