Bogus Wars
June 10, 2011Being scared of being scared is pretty frightful, and more than a little neurotic. On this early Friday morning as I tap the soft keys of my laptop, the US is involved at least three…
Tag Archives: iraq
Memory
May 30, 2011My standard for Memorial Day: “Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth into battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — we also go forth from…
Batshit ‘Curveball’ Crazy
February 16, 2011In 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…
War as Lie
January 26, 2011State of the propaganda of the US war machine. (Illustration found here). Paul Nash (1889-1946) created the above artwork in oil, titled: “We Are Making a New World.” And Nash had a horror epiphany while…
Tony’s ‘Blank Cheque’
January 21, 2011Tony 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…
Non-Human Warfare
January 3, 2011Just as the new year began, the US war machine’s ultimate killing device reportedly nailed 19 people in Pakistan where drones kept hovering in the skies all most all the day long creating panic and…
No Way Out
November 8, 2010‘Cause suicide is painless it brings on many changes and I can take or leave it if I please. …and you can do the same thing if you choose. — Johnny Mandel, (M*A*S*H lyrics) (Illustration…
‘Damn Right’
November 5, 2010Hypocrisy, 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.…
Shame
October 26, 2010Torture is oldie-goldie rock music — after nearly 40 years, enough is enough of Pink Floyd. (Illustration found here). In all the documents dumped on the world’s people from WikiLeaks these past few months the…
Wiki, Wiki
October 23, 2010In 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…