War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Amazing and nearly dreamlike. (Illustration of the new US First Family found here). As a child of the US deep South (now living in California), what Barack Obama pulled off yesterday is nothing short of incredible — and a damn-long-time coming. Who would have thought such a thing just a decade or so ago. Many…
The entire story is pretty-much incomprehensible, this so-called financial crisis currently tormenting the entire planet. No one seems to know anything about what to do and Alan Greenspan, that great monetary wizard, blubbered last week he was shocked at the whole affair, as if he couldn’t see it coming a mile away. Greenspan: Those of…
In the quick wake of Sept. 11, 2001, Decider George set the banner in the winds of war. In a national address that night, he set the tone for the next seven years, blubbering: “The search is underway for those who are behind these evil acts. I’ve directed the full resources for our intelligence and…
Lurching to a finish, Decider George will leave the next president a foreign policy situation worse-than a can of big, ugly worms. This particular can, however, is way-different, thus making the worms way-different — they’ve been trip wired, booby trapped, apt to explode when touched a certain way. And they’re really, really slimy. Worm One:…
Shipping in and out of the Red Sea is undergoing some old-time, real-violent incidents with pirates, so much so there seems to be a crisis in an ability to handle it. Information Dissemination, the best site for all things Naval, made note today on another freighter attacked by pirates as it tried to navigate through…
Despite all, wars keep warring. In Africa’s heart, seemingly all-perpetual war keeps hacking away at history, yesterday, today and tomorrow. The machete-AK-47 adventure continued in earnest on Monday as UN peacekeepers attempt to mount a rescue of its aid workers trapped in the deep Congo jungle, caught in the pincer of an escalating advance of…
Why now indeed? After all these years, the US pulls a punch out of its bag of latent tricks and popped a farmhouse inside Syria on Sunday, supposedly chasing after some bad al-Qaeda types from inside Iraq. Maybe one of Decider George’s final sword thrusts? From Syria Comment: I think we can assume that this…
Iraq is the nightmare version of Alice’s surreal Rabbit Hole. There’s blood on the walls. (Illustration was found here). When Decider George invaded Iraq in 2003 — carried out over the bodies of US GIs and countless numbers of Iraqi civilians — it was because Saddam Hussein was such a nasty sonofabitch and a threat…
The real race problem in the US — economics. And despite Booker T. Washington‘s approach, African-Americans are getting the short-end of the paycheck stick. An UN Report today: Levels of economic disparity in major US cities, including New York and Washington DC, are comparable to those of African cities, a United Nations report has concluded.…
UPDATE BELOW While Barack Obama snagged Colin Powell’s endorsement on Sunday, Jackboot John McCain has received thumbs up support from Osama and his boys. According to the today’s Washington Post, al-Qaeda has claimed the best man for the White House is the angry former POW: “Al-Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election,”…