Hypocrisy, from Wikipedia: The act of pretending to have beliefs, opinions, virtues, feelings, qualities, or standards that one does not actually have. Hypocrisy involves the deception of others and is thus a kind of lie.…
From a Bill Moyers speech last week at Boston University: George Bernard Shaw once complained that journalists are seemingly unable to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization. And Tuesday’s midterm elections…
A Pentagon spokesman blubbered out on Saturday the WikiLeaks doco-dump was “shameful” and does “an extraordinary disservice to America’s men and women in uniform.” What is the real service and role of the US military service,…
In the release by WikiLeaks of its batch of Iraq war logs Friday, and a quick, rapid look-see, the biggest sense is of frustration, and a tightening of the conscience, in the horror and misery…
The Dick can blubber along with the best of them — and if he shoots you in the face, well, you were in the wrong place at the wrong time, and if he “outs” a…
“Always find your target true And we will always pay for you To turn a terrorist’s skin a paler hue.” — To A Drone: A Poem (Illustration found here). The so-called drone war in the…
One of the great bad boys of history, Osama bin Laden, is reportedly living in a house in northwest Pakistan, hanging with his chief lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in relative comfort, and apparently still calling the…
In a conflict that’s moving quickly from mismanaged to just plain foolish, Afghanistan is seeing a spike in civilian deaths, especially in the southern part of the country where US and NATO troops are attempting,…
In deep spaces of the dark side, there’s no daylight, ever. Dying! Dying in the night! Won’t somebody bring the light So I can see which way to go Into the everlasting snow? — Emily…
Last Thursday — Oct. 7, the ninth anniversary of the start of the Afghan War –Â Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Against the War gathered in front of the Walter Reed Hospital in DC to launch “Operation…