War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Politics does make strange bedfellows, as the saying goes, but in the US for this election cycle, it’s complete bat-shit-crazy — one wonders if there’s a certain element here that’s been created by some demented screenwriter. In a couple of weeks, US peoples will go to the polls and there’s no doubt a certain portion…
“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 Af-Pak theater is getting more dumb-ass everyday — not only are these remote-controlled killers running nearly blind, but this whole…
One of the key ingredients that formed the great “American Dream” was having your own home — king of the castle/manor/vast holdings. So it was for years and years: Hard work, thrift and owning your own home. And like dreams, daylight burned it all away. During the last decade or so, US peoples by the…
Fear is a soft sounding word, nothing scary about it, at least until some circumstance is attached. Last week, my first post on fear concerned the quiet, unassuming fright in the storing of mega-dangerous spent nuclear fuel at reactor sites — fear without example. Although the message is low key — all that radioactive material piling…
Tonight President Obama is reportedly set to go on national TV and proclaim the end to the Iraqi war, of course, without using the infamous phrase, “mission accomplished” — a tightrope walk between half-truth and full-blown lie. And the peace president will also not mention the other war zone, Afghanistan, where it’s been a nightmare…