Winning Fantasy — Again
September 22, 2008In 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…
Category Archives: Orwellian
Sarah’s Surge to War
September 14, 2008As 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…
Wake-Up Call Plus Seven
September 11, 2008As I drove my oldest daughter to work Monday, Sept. 10, 2001, we discussed her upcoming marriage to a guy then in the Navy stationed in Virginia. She was concerned about his safety being in…
Safeguarding ‘The Long War’
August 30, 2008As Decider George and his miserable band of legal cutthroats get ready for a much-anticipated kick out the door, the blood lust must remain first and foremost. As the rest of the US swirls around…
Cheney & Company’s Most-Excellent Caucasus Adventure
August 29, 2008In all indications, the skirmish in the Caucasus has developed into a long-running, hard-line situation. The US rigged a plan to pull at scabs, scratch open old sores and have accomplished the feat. Decider George…
McCain as Honcho
August 28, 2008As we bask in the happy-rhetoric of the DNC, just consider a Jackboot John McCain presidency — maybe one shouldn’t willingly do such a thing. It’s the stuff of horror fiction. A good comment/view on…
Warmongers Across the Rubicon
August 26, 2008Poland’s prime minister shortly after inking a missile agreement with the US earlier this month: Speaking in an interview televised on news channel TVN24, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the United States had agreed to…
Happy Hiroshima Day!
August 6, 2008Sixty-three years ago today Sueko Hada was then seven-years-old: “I managed to claw my way out from under the rubble. By now, our house was on fire and the cries of my sisters were getting…
‘An Iraqi Vision’ — Obama on the Euphrates
July 21, 2008This sad, ugly Wide World of War on Terror has gone from real bad to a mounting realization of a coming catastrophic turn for the worse, even as Barack Obama trips through Afghanistan and Iraq,…
True Liar
July 8, 2008Hats off to the most-excellent news site, thinkprogress.org for noting yesterday of Decider George’s blatant use of the most-forked of tongues. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki blurted out some heavy words to a meeting of…