War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Surrealism is alive and well in Japan. Early Wednesday, according to CNN, Japanese authorities found traces of radiation in tap water in Fukushima city, 50 miles from the nuclear plant at Daiichi — odd, however, a check of tap water later in the day found nothing. Meanwhile, South Korea’s Astronomy and Space Science Institute reported…
“When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.“ – Bill Copeland (Illustration found here). In an interview Tuesday in the New York Times, David Petraeus blew smoke up the ass of history, a procedure that the good general is most good: “The momentum of the Taliban has been halted in much of the country…
“Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.” – George Orwell, 1984 (Illustration found here). The US Department of Homeland Security (a near-perfect Orwellian title) via its Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in a $3.5 million study is seeking…
Expect more intense weather such as the repeating winter storms in the eastern US in the immediate future and for decades to come “until the climate grows so warm that we pass the point where it’s too warm for it to snow heavily.” (Illustration found here). A daughter lives in a small town just south…
What the shit is the US doing, thinking? Even after nearly a decade on the ground in Afghanistan, the war there has gone beyond insane. (Illustration found here). Warfare should have at least some semblance of sense, though, the horror of it stretches one’s mind, but the main objective, one would think, would be to…
As the protests across the US against GOP governmental operations — Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, and on and on — gain momentum against the budget-busting, don’t-give-a-shit attitude of right-wing politicans whose exploits fly in the face of a big chunk of America’s children, who can’t do much learning while hungry. From UPI: Two-thirds of U.S.…
In the last few years, nuclear war and nuclear weapons has taken somewhat of a back seat to more conventional forms of killing (AK-47s, tanks, etc.) and even to the mega-simple (IEDs), but earlier this month the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science opened up the old Cold War can…
“I believe the real looting of Iraq after the invasion was by US officials and contractors, and not by people from the slums of Baghdad,†said one US businessman active in Iraq since 2003. — Patrick Cockburn, The Independent, 2/16/09 (Illustration found here). War crimes means more than what one would think. An official study…
In the annals of warfare there’s most-likely not been a most-obvious display of immoral lying than the case of George Jr.’s adventure into Iraq. Not only 4,436 US military people have been killed, nearly 33,000 wounded (estimates there top 100,000, not including the number of GIs suffering from PTSD and other problems), the illegal, murderous…
One of the major problems confronting the US right now (might be THE problem) is the nit-wit clueless ignorance of Republicans and just about anyone on the right. And it’s a ‘not my job‘ attitude coupled with a good dose of just don’t-give-shit. Not only do GOPers have no real game plan — except, of…