Today’s mainstream media: “Based on true events.”

A reader suggested that mainstream news broadcasts these days should be preceded by a disclaimer like one sees in TV shows: “Based on true events.” Because that’s pretty much what’s going on. This latest business with Iran demonstrates that to a tee, while it is true that Iran revealed a nuclear fuel processing plant last [...]

Iraqis fake celebration of fake US withdrawal, Obama interview, and other news of the week

Well, I got my Internet connection back, and I got my cable TV back, all is right with the universe. At least my little corner of it. Lots of news this week, though it’s more and more apparent to me that what passes for news in the mainstream media is little more than talking points [...]

If you thought the Iranian hostage crisis was bad, just wait till Pakistan falls apart

I’m a little concerned about developments in Pakistan. More than a little concerned actually. This is easily the number one spot on the planet where all hell could break out in the near future. And by all hell, I mean a major war, possibly even a nuclear war. Usually when our leaders in Washington make [...]

Six years in Iraq, another proud milestone for freedom and democracy

“My fellow citizens, at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people, and to defend the world from grave danger.”    —George Bush 2003
It’s been six years since former President Bush announced that US forces were entering Iraq to defend us from the [...]

Everything you always wanted to know about fallout but were afraid to ask

OK, in a previous post we have escaped being incinerated by a nuclear weapon’s initial flash through dumb luck, and escaped being crushed and imploded by the ensuing shock wave through quick wits and a fortuitously placed shelter of some sort. Now we are standing outside the subway staring at the starkly beautiful and terrible [...]

Missile defense in Poland…one more step along the road to nuclear war with Russia…why are we doing this?

In a little break from Georgia, I thought I’d mention that the world has slipped a little closer to nuclear Armageddon in Poland. Yes, the USA and Poland have signed a deal to deploy a US missile system in Poland, purportedly to defend the USA and Europe from missiles from rogue states such as Iran [...]

Is war with Iran imminent? My ten reasons not to attack Iran revisited

There’s news today about a report concerning US preparations to attack Iran. I’ve been sort of quietly hoping that the whole issue will go away. The US can’t really be seriously considering attacking Iran, can they? If the report is to be believed, preparations are well under way for a massive aerial assault on Iran [...]

How did I miss this? Those ungrateful Kurds burned down the museum and memorial we built to commemorate the infamous 1988 Halabja gas attack!

Quick history lesson. In 1988 Iraq and Iran were at war, Saddam’s Iraq was an American ally…and was slowly losing the war. (A war of aggression that Saddam blatantly started by the way.) The Iranians were allied with Kurdish insurgents in northern Iraq, in the spring of that year with Iranian help Kurdish insurgents [...]

62 years ago…waiting for the bank to open, 11AM, Thursday, 9 August 1945.

Almost everyone knows about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during the second world war. Few know the name of the other city bombed just three days later. Sixty two years ago today in the second (and so far the last) nuclear attack in history, America dropped the “Fat Man” atomic bomb on the city of [...]

Through Thick and Thin July 17th

OK, I’ve been a bit remiss here lately, we’ll see if I can’t get back up to speed. I have all sorts of half written posts, but seeing as I have been gone for a bit, I’ll just be lazy today and go over a few headlines and see if I can’t flense a few [...]