War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Big Al and Decider George at show-and-tell. Four years ago near to the day: “There’s a lot we don’t know about his actions as White House counsel and his advice to the president,†said Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy of the Federation of American Scientists. “What we do know is rather…
Delusion is the child of ‘What, Me Worry?’ Especially if one doesn’t like homework and just goes with a gut instinct. In a pre-recorded interview broadcast Sunday on a Japanese television network, Decider George blubbered through his lying, delusional teeth he was very pleased with how the Iraqi war has been handled and how wonderful…
Decider George has become worse than useless. The little shithead is in Peru this weekend waxing “a little nostalgic” for the hallucinogenic heady days of shock and awe, mission accomplished, and ‘bring ’em on’ — certainly not for the reality of those episodes of horror. Events seem to have accelerated the past few weeks. Terror…
A reunion of history sipping ice tea and savoring the memories. Journalism became a celebrity job in the mid 1970s, surging upward an already-emerging elite, near-aristocratic class of news people, from the copy desk, reporters, editors, to the executive suites, and this mechanism of modern media received its biggest boost from a “two-bit burglary.” (Illustration…
Even here in the far reaches of northern California, life appears as a dilemma. If one ponders the entangled proceedings bursting at the seams, many questions arise in which the answer lies within the question itself, where the reply means more than the words — A horse goes into a bar, bartender asks, ‘Why the…
Villainy from a master. Corruption is Decider George’s real middle name — along with a nasty form of depravity named Karl Rove — and this innate form of life has spilled over into Iraq, an original corrupt state, where pocketing US cash has become a habit. In a war started with lies, the only recourse…
In full Arabic transliteration his name is UsÄmah bin Muḥammad bin`AwaḠbin LÄdin. In the West, however, in English-language mass media, it’s simply Osama. The original bad boy of modern times. The US military has been fighting and killing thousands of people all over the globe in the past decade searching for the reported mastermind…
Insights into the little dust up in the Caucasus region last summer keeps coming into the light just about every day. The West wanted to believe the Russians were the bad guys in the Georgia war, even Jackboot John McCain blubbered, “We are all Georgians” during the conflict, but the facts on the ground seemed…
Rhetoric dreams fade fast when confronted with political reality. Despite President-Elect Obama calling for easy, unconditional talks with just about everybody, and for quickly getting US GIs out of Iraq, reality bites the ass of expectations. How quickly should troops leave, however, is the main concern, especially with the Pentagon. Obama’s stance on Iran, however,…
UPDATE BELOW As President-Elect Obama continues a rapid transition into the White House, he faces not only the mundane problems, like the financial meltdown, wars and more wars, but also the most-major of issues: The end of civilization. Nothin’ heavy. (Illustration of Salvador Dali’s “Cavalier de L’Apocalypse” — Horsemen of the Apocalypse — can be…