War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
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,”…
Only logic can save the day. As a kid (and even now as an ‘adult’), I loved the insane violence, and memory brings up a little bit about the media. In one of those The Three Stooges clips, and there seems to be thousands of them, the boys needed to get inside some official meeting.…
Warriors in that happy-go-lucky city-state of ancient Sparta either can back with their shield, or on it. Veterans from US wars, however, especially those from the little-horrors currently in Iraq and Afghanistan, have no protective shields to ride back home. US Veteran’s Affairs has been just piling up those shields and shredding them. Department of…
Another example of Decider George/GOP incompetence. Hurricane Ike tore across the Texas coast in September and flattened everything, and despite the Katrina experience, the US federal government is still too arrogant to help the helpless. In this day and age, natural disaster can be more than just a storm. Caught between a rock and a…
Watching this last debate is so depressing, I have to take more-than-the-usual smoke breaks. I don’t understand live blogging — only been doing this a short while — and so this a kind of real-time, after-thought observations on Barack Obama and his table chatter with who we here call Jackboot John McCain, a guy that’s…