From President Obama’s lips to boots on the ground. Word came Sunday night:Â Escalation — 35,000 more troops for the Afghan meat-grinder. And the first batch, 9,000 Marines for Helmand province, will leave as soon as…
One of the great turds of the US political system, Sen. James Inhofe, yes, that silly-assed Republican from Oklahoma, displayed a most-marvelous bit of horror-irony this week as he tweaked the future and all those to…
UPDATE/ADD-ON BELOW Yes, the Edwin Starr song paraphrased is the counterinsurgency of fighting dumb-shit wars. Last month on PBS‘ “Frontline,” an interview with Andrew Bacevich, a retired US Army colonel and a level head in this…
Iran getting nuked — one view of the repercussions… James Howard Kunstler, author of ‘The Long Emergency,’ describes a nightmare domino effect if Iran is bombed, and what the planet would then face. From his…
A lot of shit bubbling in modern life’s drainage ditch — on the toilet with a bit of news. General Alarm In pushing President Obama even further back into the corner of Afghan war escalation,…
A major, major story, though few in the US are even aware of it. (Illustration found here). Via The Brad Blog on Monday, Marc Grossman, a former US ambassador to Turkey and George Jr.’s third-ranking…
“On the heights of the Kabul Gorge, they still find ancient belt buckles and corroded sword hilts. You can no longer read the insignia of the British regiments of the old East India Company but…
Naomi Klein talked with Michael Moore on his new documentary, “Capitalism: A Love Story.” The interview in The Nation online examines the lust-for-dollars. Says Moore: “Well, people want to believe that it’s not the economic system that’s…
(Illustration of Salvador Dali’s The Visages of War found here). War is not pretty, funny or real clever. War is Ambrose Bierce‘s ‘Chickamauga‘ revealed as “the dead body of a woman — the white face…
As I was thinking fairly-clear this morning — thinking is sometimes for me a really, really mega-complicated ordeal and not so unclouded — and although mostly about all kinds of related/unrelated shit, the focus finally…