War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
In the wake of all the solemn ceremonies this past weekend during the 9/11 commemorations and all the chatter of a possible terrorist attack during the proceedings, the US is still full of fright for that long-armed, snake-in-the-grass called al-Qaeda. Talking TV heads waxed eloquent on how bad the terror group — Jumping Joe Biden…
Watching the ceremonies this morning in New York is way sad — not just for the innocents killed today a decade ago and their families, but also for the naive, near-pompous nationalism inspired by the event. The only ones entitled to really grieve are friends and relatives of the victims (to them, most-likely, everyday since…
In the wake of the more-recent events in Libya, the world wants to know much-more about the US CIA’s nefarious so-called ‘rendition‘ program, which led to all those “black sites” in at least seven countries where “enhanced interrogation” took place — people were kidnapped off city streets, take to secret prisons and tortured. An operation created…
Coming upon the tenth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, the stories are starting to pile up on the history of it all, though, the biggest single reminder of that event can be seen nowadays and the view is not pleasant. Despite what the pundits and the GOP blubber, the attack on the World Trade Center…
(Illustration found here). “The economy makes it really tough right now,” said (Tyler) Mitchell. “People say, ‘You go to college, you get a degree, you’ll get a great job.’ Well nowadays, I don’t really think that’s really the case. You go to college, you get a degree, you get a lot of debt, and you…
Even as Vermont drowns in its own water, the politics of war still plays on the airwaves, especially after The Dick Cheney made the rounds boasting of his new literary efforts in disengaging the truth from a lie. Seemingly, the further away from the invasion of Iraq and closer to the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11,…
Continuing the literary realism of a war zone from earlier: This hard and brutal story during Irene’s turmoil this weekend. An Army Ranger captain supposedly killed four people in two states, one a young boy, wounded a couple of cops during a firefight on a rainy Pennsylvania highway, and although was at-large, armed-and-dangerous for awhile,…
“I didn’t set out to embarrass the president or not embarrass the president,’’ Cheney told Gangel. “If you look at the book, there are many places in it where I say some very fine things about George Bush. And believe every word of it.’’ — Dick Cheney, lying again on NBC (Illustration found here). Deep…
Even as freedom bells seems to be ringing in Libya this morning — anti-Gaddafi forces are reportedly in downtown Tripoli and Muammar is nowhere to be found (even the Russians claim they don’t know where he be) — the supposedly bastion of democracy, the US, is now just more than a month away from celebrating…
In the annals of US armed conflict, George Jr. and his gang is way-unique — they’re obvious war criminals. If their actions had taken place in another country, the whole bunch would have been hunted down by now and shipped to The Hague for trial — instead, they write books, blubber nonsensical bullshit and lounge…