Change/Hope/Murder

I wanted to write something about Obama’s new escalation of the war in Afghanistan/Pakistan, but Cindy Sheehan said it pretty well: 30,000 Wrongs Won’t Make it Right By Cindy Sheehan I have had to reluctantly watch many presidential speeches since my son was killed in Iraq in 2004. I was …

The Romans thought their Empire would last forever.

Meanwhile, the mighty forces of peaceful Europe and the Obama-changed United States are fighting for the good of the people of Afghanistan by killing as many of them as they can, banks are growing more powerful than ever before, and huge amounts of low-wage workers are constantly having their rights …

Harsh Interrogation Techniques

Read this and weep. In another graphic instance, a former Iraqi general was beaten by U.S. forces and suffocated to death. The military officer charged in the death was given just 60 days house arrest. “Abed Hamed Mowhoush [was] a former Iraqi general beaten over days by U.S. Army, CIA …

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss…

From: Obama’s program of war Gates told the senators: “There is little doubt that our greatest military challenge right now is Afghanistan. As you know, the United States has focused more on Central Asia in recent months. President Obama has made it clear that the Afghanistan theatre should be our …

Change? Sorry, we’re all out.

It’s depressing to see so many people going wild over Obama. It’s nice, of course, to see that what people are expecting of him is all very progressive and left-wing (he was voted as the anti-war, anti-everything-Bush-stands-for candidate, after all, and mostly that’s left-wing sentiment, even if people don’t want …