Ponzi’s Glad Tidings
October 14, 2009Beware of feel-good economic news… (Illustration found here). Even as the US stock markets post some high gains, even as the Standard & Poor’s 500 index, which has risen over the past six sessions, also…
Category Archives: War & Politics
Crossing the Rubicon — Or How Not to Shit in Your Mess Kit
October 10, 2009US troops slugging through Afghanistan are sick of it and according to their chaplains: “The many soldiers who come to see us have a sense of futility and anger about being here. They are really…
Eight Years Later
October 7, 2009Today eight years ago, Oct. 7, 2001… “On my order, U.S. forces have begun strikes on terrorist camps of al Qaeda, and the military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan,” Bush said in a…
Extreme Saber-Rattling
October 6, 2009Iran 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…
Afghan Awful
September 28, 2009“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…
Obama’s Dark-and-Dire Decision — Afghan Cataclysm?
September 10, 2009(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…
‘Strange Days, Indeed, Mama’
September 4, 2009As 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…
Afghan ‘Lord of the Flies’
September 2, 2009How in the living shit of any-kind-of-daylight can the US ‘win‘ any kind of war in Afghanistan? On Tuesday via Raw Story: According to a watchdog group and a litany of whistleblowers, Armorgroup North America,…
Afghan’s ‘Toxic’ Election
August 19, 2009UPDATE BELOW The war-worn and weary Afghan people go to the polls tomorrow for a national election amidst Taliban scare tactics and a weak central government unable to comprehend the inevitable. In October 2004, Moqadasa Sidiqi…
Afghan Abides
August 7, 2009This morning the jobs report is better than expected even as AIG posts a second-quarter profit, the media continues to ignore the GOP reality behind the healthcare townhall disruptions and a DOS attack on Twitter, FaceBook and Google…