War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Due maybe to the horrendous fact there’s so much weird, threatening news happening near-constantly, every day, day-in-day-out, a small blip on the event radar from last August couldn’t even register on the memory scale. On Aug. 5, according to satellite-photos from NASA, an enormous chunk of ice, roughly 97 square miles in size (one of…
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…
A good, quick guide for keeping track; from CNNMoney: The spike in oil last week could translate to an increase in gas prices of 37 cents per gallon in the coming weeks, according Moody’s Analytics economist Chris Lafakis. He estimates that for every $1 increase in the price of oil, retail gas prices typically rise…
As the massive unrest in Libya continues into its eighth day on Tuesday — reportedly more than 230 people have been killed so far — and despite declaring he’s still in control, Moammar Gadhafi is reaching the point of no return — meaning he’s about to flee Libya without a chance of returning. The popular…
In war, the crazed bull is sometimes left alone in the china shop. (Illustration found here). As the US attempts to wind down its horrible fiasco in Iraq, some mindless and numbing details have been left behind — in a futile grasp to curb violence in 2005, the US turned Baghdad into a kind of…
In September 2000, a peek into the future. During a Labor Day campaign stop in Illinois, George Jr., oblivious of a mic just inches from his mouth, blubbered an aside to The Dick, which eventually revealed a nasty, two-faced-lying politician. Via salon.com: “There’s Adam Clymer — major league asshole — from the New York Times,”…
Tony Blair’s speech before the UK’s House of Commons, March 18, 2003: “It will determine the way in which Britain and the world confront the central security threat of the 21st century, the development of the United Nations, the relationship between Europe and the United States, the relations within the European Union and the way…
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor, wrote in 1993 that in the last century (the 20th, if you don’t remember) 167 million to 175 million men, women and children had their “lives deliberately extinguished by politically motivated carnage.” And, of course, the first decade in this new century has been nothing but war. (Illustration…
‘Peace upon earth!’ was said. We sing it, And pay a million priests to bring it. After two thousand years of mass We’ve got as far as poison-gas. — Christmas: 1924, Thomas Hardy (Illustration found here). In shame, the US has become another asshole nation. Despite the overwhelming evidence to the absolute contrary, the NATO/US…
A sad state of affairs as the US of A goes quickly to shit — a Frankenstein-ed, old-body parts Dick Cheney looking a warmongering freak, another killing at another high school shooting, and John ‘The Boner’ Boehner continues crying out his shiftless, lying ass. And the cogs in an overwhelming war machine continues to grind…