War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Friday morning shocker: President Obama has has won the Nobel Peace Prize — “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.†And the Nobel Committee added: “He has created a new international climate.” (Illustration found here). This will indeed piss-way-off the GOP and all wingnuts as the award comes much, much early…
There’s something I just don’t understand regarding climate change/global warming, although there’s plenty of opinions (Truism — opinions are like assholes, everybody’s got one) about this horrifying weather/sky/ground/ocean-related event barreling square at humanity, and with seemingly a lot of multi-verified science to warrant near panic — Why isn’t climate change taken more seriously? Does many…
Today 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 somber, televised address from the White House Treaty Room. … “We are supported by the collective will of the world,”…
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 aptly titled blog, Clusterfuck Nation: This is a dangerous situation. I’m not so sure that Israel could launch an effective…
“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.†— Oscar Wilde (Illustration found here). The so-called Republican Party — the GOP — has descended into nothing more than bullshit, and the hard part is that a certain segment of US society takes these assholes for serious,…
Today one year ago, Hank Paulson and his boys ignited TARP — Troubled Asset Relief Program — the $700 billion bank bullshit bailout that has done nothing to relieve the economic woes of US peoples. An example of fighting symptoms and not the cause of disease: “If you get a very expensive treatment that saves your…
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, Gen. Stan McNasty — oops, sorry — Gen. Stan McChrystal rejected calls for scaling down military objectives and the only way…
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 State Department honcho — right behind Colin Powell and Richard Armitage — was targeted as part of a “decade-long investigation”…
“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 their bones — those of all 16,000 of them — still lie somewhere amid the dark earth and scree of…
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 at the core of all this. You know, it’s just a few bad eggs. But the fact of the matter…