One of the great outlaw-on-the-dodge stories of all time. Seven years and near-a-month after the 9/11 attacks, the supposedly-master-brain behind the operation, Osama bin Laden, the Saudi prince of terror, is still floating around out…
Near, so near to conclusion of the extreme-worse of all US presidential administrations, we find ourselves also with a view of the extreme-worse of all presidential candidates — Jackboot John McCain is the most retarded…
“[The Iraq war] broke his heart. … It wasn’t until the Iraq war and the end of his life that he became sincerely gloomy.” — Mark Vonnegut, introduction to “Armageddon in Retrospect,” by Kurt Vonnegut…
This afternoon, reports surfaced of a little dust-up between US-led forces and Pakistani troops. Although there’s been no US confirmation, supposedly US and Afghan GIs exchanged fire with Pakistani guards near/on/at the border between the…
Amazing how much is going on right now — a mother of a financial meltdown, a most-bizarre presidential election inundated with so much rhetorical, nonsensical bullshit, oil prices acting bi-polar, even global warming is apparently…
UPDATE: This now Tuesday evening and it might appear the story posted below might/might-not be bogus. Interesting tale to it. Link to counterpunch.org listed below has been broken. The story now can be found here.…
In the wake of the bombing of Islamabad’s Marriott Hotel — killing from 53 to 60 people, depending on the news outlet — the crisis in making war in Afghanistan comes under a deeper blanket…
Just when it was thought to be safe to venture over to a relative’s house in Afghanistan: An Afghan district governor and two of his bodyguards have been killed by mistake in a Nato raid…
As the nation seemingly ponders the application of lipstick on various barnyard animals and the financial IED on Wall Street, long-simmering Afghanistan has finally boiled over onto Pakistan. Near seven years ago, this little conflict…
As the absolute horror of Jackboot John McCain sitting in the Oval office becomes much-more intense with each passing white-collar lipstick smear the real repugnance lies in death and killing and suffering from the Tigris…