War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Coming upon the tenth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, the stories are starting to pile up on the history of it all, though, the biggest single reminder of that event can be seen nowadays and the view is not pleasant. Despite what the pundits and the GOP blubber, the attack on the World Trade Center…
(Illustration found here). “The economy makes it really tough right now,” said (Tyler) Mitchell. “People say, ‘You go to college, you get a degree, you’ll get a great job.’ Well nowadays, I don’t really think that’s really the case. You go to college, you get a degree, you get a lot of debt, and you…
Order was being attempted in the northeastern US this morning as peoples work their way out of the massive natural disaster called Hurricane Irene — Vermont, New Jersey and upstate New York are flooding nearly out of control as rivers pour over their banks, washing away a lifetime’s work of many, many lives. Scenes incomprehensible,…
Even as Vermont drowns in its own water, the politics of war still plays on the airwaves, especially after The Dick Cheney made the rounds boasting of his new literary efforts in disengaging the truth from a lie. Seemingly, the further away from the invasion of Iraq and closer to the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11,…
“I didn’t set out to embarrass the president or not embarrass the president,’’ Cheney told Gangel. “If you look at the book, there are many places in it where I say some very fine things about George Bush. And believe every word of it.’’ — Dick Cheney, lying again on NBC (Illustration found here). Deep…
(Illustration of Francisco Goya’s ‘Disaster of War‘ found here). US peoples — and for the final matter — all the world’s peoples stand not-so-nimbly on the edge of a strange and nefarious, swiftly-shifting, era in time, where all these multi-layered gushers filled with historical debris are coming swiftly from all directions, inundating all aspects of…
Early Wednesday, a sharp 4.5 aftershock hit about five miles from the epicenter of Tuesday’s earthquake, which rattled the whole US eastern seaboard and has put people on edge. Via Twitter this morning: visionAri_style 1:30am: #aftershock !!!! I felt that !!!! I knew I wasn’t trippen! But I am trippen bc I packed a bag…
“Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it was not an accident.” — John Lennon (The FBI assembled around 300 pages of files on John Lennon in 1971-72, part of President Nixon’s effort to deport Lennon to silence him as a critic of the war in Vietnam). (Illustration found here). Yesterday, I posted about…
Even as freedom bells seems to be ringing in Libya this morning — anti-Gaddafi forces are reportedly in downtown Tripoli and Muammar is nowhere to be found (even the Russians claim they don’t know where he be) — the supposedly bastion of democracy, the US, is now just more than a month away from celebrating…
In a time so awash in dramatic events, especially the last couple of weeks and the debt ceiling/financial markets bombast — worse Wall Street week in three years, the US downgraded from AAA to AA+ — and this morning came reports of 31 US GIs killed in an Afghan helicopter crash, a commemoration of a…