‘Dire’ Straits in Afghanistan
November 8, 2008A woman moves through a graveyard near Kabul in December 2001. In the first seven months of this year, at least 540 Afghan civilians were killed in fighting related to the armed conflict, and add…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
‘Transition’ Fear
November 7, 2008Fear has been Decider George’s top weapon of choice the last near-eight years. So now as he gets ready to get the shit out of Dodge, fear has cropped up again during some kind of…
‘Unlucky’ My Ass!
November 6, 2008Talk about some history-freaked whiners. CNN reported this evening a bunch of straight-faced historians said Decider George has just been “unlucky” with a lot of bad shit happening on his watch, and future people might…
Kill the Bride! Afghan Weddings in the Crosshairs
November 6, 2008What’s this with US bombs and Afghan weddings? These two kids, small members of an Afghan wedding party bombed to bits by US aircraft in July 2002, killing 20 to 30 people (Illustration found here),…
Herculean-Sized Spoon Required
November 5, 2008Amazing and nearly dreamlike. (Illustration of the new US First Family found here). As a child of the US deep South (now living in California), what Barack Obama pulled off yesterday is nothing short of…
An Incomprehensible Financial Meltdown Explained
November 3, 2008The entire story is pretty-much incomprehensible, this so-called financial crisis currently tormenting the entire planet. No one seems to know anything about what to do and Alan Greenspan, that great monetary wizard, blubbered last week…
Washout Terror War
November 1, 2008In the quick wake of Sept. 11, 2001, Decider George set the banner in the winds of war. In a national address that night, he set the tone for the next seven years, blubbering: “The…
Booby-trapped Left-Overs
October 30, 2008Lurching to a finish, Decider George will leave the next president a foreign policy situation worse-than a can of big, ugly worms. This particular can, however, is way-different, thus making the worms way-different — they’ve…
Piracy Now!
October 29, 2008Shipping in and out of the Red Sea is undergoing some old-time, real-violent incidents with pirates, so much so there seems to be a crisis in an ability to handle it. Information Dissemination, the best…
Treasure-Hearts of Darkness
October 28, 2008Despite all, wars keep warring. In Africa’s heart, seemingly all-perpetual war keeps hacking away at history, yesterday, today and tomorrow. The machete-AK-47 adventure continued in earnest on Monday as UN peacekeepers attempt to mount a…