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…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
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…
Syria Now!
October 27, 2008Why now indeed? After all these years, the US pulls a punch out of its bag of latent tricks and popped a farmhouse inside Syria on Sunday, supposedly chasing after some bad al-Qaeda types from…
Blood Down the Oil Hole
October 24, 2008Iraq is the nightmare version of Alice’s surreal Rabbit Hole. There’s blood on the walls. (Illustration was found here). When Decider George invaded Iraq in 2003 — carried out over the bodies of US GIs…
3rd-Worlded
October 23, 2008The real race problem in the US — economics. And despite Booker T. Washington‘s approach, African-Americans are getting the short-end of the paycheck stick. An UN Report today: Levels of economic disparity in major US…
Osama’s Endorsement
October 21, 2008UPDATE BELOW While Barack Obama snagged Colin Powell’s endorsement on Sunday, Jackboot John McCain has received thumbs up support from Osama and his boys. According to the today’s Washington Post, al-Qaeda has claimed the best…
Press, Press, Pull: Failure of the Media
October 18, 2008Only logic can save the day. As a kid (and even now as an ‘adult’), I loved the insane violence, and memory brings up a little bit about the media. In one of those The…
Shredding the Troops
October 17, 2008Warriors in that happy-go-lucky city-state of ancient Sparta either can back with their shield, or on it. Veterans from US wars, however, especially those from the little-horrors currently in Iraq and Afghanistan, have no protective…
Same Old, Same Old
October 16, 2008Another example of Decider George/GOP incompetence. Hurricane Ike tore across the Texas coast in September and flattened everything, and despite the Katrina experience, the US federal government is still too arrogant to help the helpless.…
Joe the plumber
October 15, 2008Watching this last debate is so depressing, I have to take more-than-the-usual smoke breaks. I don’t understand live blogging — only been doing this a short while — and so this a kind of real-time,…