How I managed to get unemployment.
When last we left the intrepid Test Tube Phoenix, he'd just be denied the unemployment that was going to be keeping him alive and insured, and he was looking to go down hard. Martyrdom wasn't outside...
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The Night the Guns Fell Silent on the Western Front - December 24, 1914 (Update)
Wars suppress the natural urge of men to behave in a manner that has no bearing to and can even remotely be construed as civilized behavior. Combat does terrible things to human beings and transforms...
View Article"Violence, USA: The Warfare State and the Brutalizing of Everyday Life," Dr....
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GOP Tea Party Knows They Are Gonna Lose In 2012.
So they cheat, plunder and steal, every chance they get.Again, on Facebook, someone had posted this blog from Daily Kos: BREAKING: Leaked Rove email singles out Daily Kos it was dated August 27, 2011,...
View ArticleFirst Person Account by a Former British Drone Operator
Political theorist Hannah Arendt described the history of warfare in the 20th century as the growing incapacity of the army to fulfil its basic function: defending the civilian population. My...
View ArticleWAR AS WAS
I hate to admit it but that effete, arrogant, pompous intellectual snobbish Frenchman Marcel Proust was right about two things - first, when he observed that “We learn from history that we do not learn...
View Article"And so at last diplomacy had failed..." (An Advent Canticle, December 8)
…And so at last diplomacy had failed. The armies bristled, eager to collide; A few collaborative traitors wailed For peace, but mostly, others did not heed. Peace, after all, was far less...
View Article"Violence, USA: The Warfare State and the Brutalizing of Everyday Life," Dr....
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An Inspirational Christmas Story About the Night the Guns Fell Silent
I first posted a version of this diary on Christmas Eve last year. Even in the midst of unprecedented carnage in World War I, soldiers on both sides found within themselves a modicum of human decency...
View ArticleSome keen insights into the Objectives of War, from a guy who's been there
... and done that. A guy who knows the limits of this kind of "bomb em diplomacy" all too well.MSNBC military analyst Colonel Jack Jacobs sits down with Alex Witt February 10, 2013Congressional Medal...
View ArticleIndians 101: Traditional Northern Plains Warfare
After the Indian Nations on the Northern Plains acquired the horse in the eighteenth century, warfare became more common. Northern Plains warfare, however, was very different from the warfare waged by...
View ArticleNYT Lead: “Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S.”
In what is certain to become one of the—if not “the”—lead MSM stories on Tuesday, the New York Times informs us that a: “Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S.”Taken at face value,...
View ArticleWilliam Astore: Predatory Dreams
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Just who is doing the killing? That was the question that came up when the...
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Mark Ruffalo Hits The Proverbial Nail About Healthcare and Warfare
Video does not show up on my computer, don't know why?Here is the youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/...
View Article"And so at last diplomacy had failed..." (Advent Canticle, Dec. 8)
…And so at last diplomacy had failed. The armies bristled, eager to collide; A few collaborative traitors wailed For peace, but mostly, others did not heed. Peace, after all, was far less...
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"An Amazing Spectacle" - The Night the Guns Fell Silent on Christmas Eve
I first posted a version of this diary on Christmas Eve 2011. Even in the midst of unprecedented carnage in World War I, soldiers on both sides found within themselves a modicum of human decency and...
View ArticleTomgram: Engelhardt, A New World Order?
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.Missing in ActionWhat Happened to War and the Imperial Drive to Organize the...
View ArticleJust In: Senate Passes Military Safety Act 97-0
I turned on C-Span to listen to the climate all-nighter, and got the final vote on Senator McCaskell's Military Safety Act. When I tuned in, the vote stood at 96-0. Then Senator Harry Reid voted Yea,...
View ArticleA Veterans' Day Reflection
Veterans Day has brought a number of mixed feelings for me. On one hand, I think we don't take it seriously enough here in the United States. On the other, the day has a propagandistic side I find...
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"Today we have peace. Tomorrow you fight for your country. I fight for mine....
I first posted a version of this diary on Christmas Eve 2011. Even in the midst of unprecedented carnage in World War I, soldiers on both sides found within themselves a modicum of human decency and...
View ArticleTomgram: Michael Klare, Are Resource Wars Our Future?
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com.At the end of November, delegations from...
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A History of European Armor
When most people think of medieval armor, they picture a knight on a horse clad head to toe in plate armor. The reality though is that what we think of as the classic "knight in shining armor" only...
View ArticleKnee Jerk and Mosquito Bitten Reactions
Smack !!“Gol’durned little Blood Sucker. I’ll get that Skeeter yet,” Sam said as he scratched at the fresh Mosquito bite on his right forearm.“Hee-hee, they’re bad this year, alright. We went from...
View ArticleTomgram: William Hartung, How to Arm a "Volatile" Planet
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.[Note for TomDispatch Readers: TD is leaving the last day of the Democratic...
View ArticleWarfare in Ancient Scotland (Photo Diary)
Viewed from the perspective of the twenty-first century and looking back over the past two millennia of European history, warfare appears to be a pervasive human activity. Yet the archaeological record...
View ArticleTomgram: Engelhardt, A 9/11 Retrospective: Washington's 15-Year Air War
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.Bombs Away! Their Precision Weaponry and Ours By Tom EngelhardtOn the morning...
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The Gombe Chimpanzee War
Between 1974 and 1978, a tribal war raged in Tanzania. After the death of a local leader, two rival factions were formed which engaged in classic guerrilla warfare. In the end, the northern group...
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Christopher Columbus: father of modern-day white supremacy (part 2)
To read part one click here. The European reemergence from out the ashes of hundreds of years of bitter religious warfare and anti-Muslim crusades gave rise to new aspirations of global domination and...
View ArticleTomgram: Dilip Hiro, Unipolar No More
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.Last week in Afghanistan, the Taliban, once almost lacking a presence in the...
View ArticleTomgram: William Hartung, Trump for the Defense
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.[Note for TomDispatch Readers: As we enter the grim Age of Trump, a lot of good...
View ArticleTomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Yet Another Undeclared U.S. War
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.[Note for TomDispatch Readers: Many thanks to all of you who took up our special...
View ArticleTrump, the press and terror.
Where do I go to tell the President to STOP this pitting the press against himself? It makes it impossible for the American citizen to make informed choices. The press is the best conduit to a free and...
View ArticleIndians 101: Apache Warfare
While many non-Apache scholars and popular writers have labeled all the Apache as a fierce, war-like people, in actuality warfare was not glorified as it was in some other culture areas, such as the...
View ArticleAnn Coulter and Conservative Groups Attack Berkley U. and Follow the Advise...
Did you see the complaint of Ann Coulter that University of California, Berkley are biased against conservative speakers on CNN? Hard to imagine that CNN would play any such hogwash after the way they...
View ArticleThe Review – The Politics of Sexual Assault, Trump Above the Law, Class Warfare
Democrat Al Franken announced he is retiring from the Senate due to charges of sexual misconduct. He noted the irony that Trump bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault and Roy Moore is...
View ArticleUnasked Questions: The raid on Syria
UQ* has a number of questions about the missile attack on Friday, April 13, 2018 on a suburb of Damascas, Syria and Homs, Syria where chemical weapons were allegedly manufactured, stored, or...
View ArticleUse social media? You are now on the front lines.
So I wrote a comment yesterday about Twitter TrollBots on one of the threads and someone said I should turn it into a diary. And as we get closer and closer to the election, it’s important for every...
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The Christmas Truce: For At Least One Night, the Guns of War Fell Silent
I first posted a version of this diary on the night of December 24, 2011.Wars suppress the natural urge of men to behave in a manner that has no bearing and can even remotely be construed as civilized...
View ArticleThe Coronavirus Pandemic, Like Other Global Catastrophes, Reveals the...
We live with a profound paradox. Our lives are powerfully affected by worldwide economic, communications, transportation, food supply, and entertainment systems. Yet we continue an outdated faith in...
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The GOONIES AND Class Warfare
There’s a cruel, unfeeling villain in the 1980s classic Goonies. Its not a long dead pirate who has setup a series of traps under group. Its not the idiotic gang of Italian criminals who are racing...
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A Night Worthy of Remembrance and Celebration (with Poll)
I first posted a version of this diary on the night of December 24, 2011.Wars suppress the natural urge of men to behave in a manner that has no bearing to and can even remotely be construed as...
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US commission recommends ongoing work to develop autonomous killer robots for...
Sorry, I wrongly thought Terminator was a cautionary tale to warn humanity to never empower machines to kill humans. Instead, it apparently is an inspirational reference manual on the joys and benefits...
View ArticleThe West Doesn't Neglect the Middle East, but Maybe They Should
The USA has NEVER provided weapons for defense to Middle Eastern nations, right?The USA hasn’t ONCE attempted to foster peace talks between combatants and groups with conflicting claims in the Middle...
View ArticleA Simple Question
Is the war in Ukraine a pivot point in our history? As I see it, the Russian attack is a military invasion of a style used since World War I, go in in with tanks and artillery blazing to kill enough...
View ArticleWhy Does This War Get Sympathy While Other Conflicts Do Not?
One of the things that has been noted is the different attitude regarding refugees and interest and assistance that has been given to Ukraine compared to other conflicts. People have noted the easier...
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Fraternizing With the Enemy in No Man's Land — The Christmas Eve Truce of 1914
A Spontaneous Outburst of HumanityDuring the Great War, it was one of those rare events that reaffirm one’s faith in humanity. After all, everlasting peace remains first and foremost the ultimate goal...
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The "Friendly Skies" are not so friendly in a time of increasing electronic...
As conflicts ramp up in the the Middle East and Ukraine, spillover effects of electronic warfare are making air travel in those regions riskier — and the threat is not limited to just there. Via the...
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