When the US invaded Iraq and overthrew the government, we heard a bit about “nation-building” until the establishment discovered it no longer knew how to do that, and/or wasn’t willing to pay the price that it paid rebuilding Germany, Japan, and South Korea. [Read more…]
Warning: War, Death
Administrative note: I made an error attributing the movie and confused a different movie with a release of the same film under a different name. Explanation is [here] – in order to reduce confusion, I have done an edit-pass. If you see comments about how I am talking about the wrong movie, they are correct with respect to the initial version of this posting. Sorry about the confusion!
I don’t know if I have the necessary skill to convey how upsetting this topic is. I wish I could borrow the skills of Orpheus from somewhere, and get other people to watch it, get angry and scared, and – do something. I don’t even know what we can do, trapped as we are in the reality of nationalism and out-of-control militarism.
Threads is about the horrible deaths our political leaders have prepared for us.
If you don’t like spoilers, don’t read any further. But there’s really nothing to spoil. You already know roughly what happens.
What happened, I wonder?
78% voter turnout. They are tallying results and expect them within 72hr.
92%. Wow, that is a “mandate.”
I was expecting Andy Borowitz or someone to be all over it, but the media is full of derisive howling at Dotard Donald and his petty White House invitation Gaffe. The really mythological part of his comments was when he started talking about solar power and the wall.
Apparently Stanislav Petrov died in May, but the news simply didn’t get around.
The other day I posted a photo I found when looking for images about the many bombings that took place in the US in 1968.
Did you know it’s “Constitution Day”? I didn’t.
Kurdistan is still on track for its independence referendum on Sept 25.
I had been wondering how the US would bounce, and so – probably – have you. Well, the Magic 8-Ball we used to call the US Foreign Policy has spoken and it’s:
I’m disappointed that the news is not full of pundits screaming that we do something about this impending disaster:
New databases are being assembled for ‘tone’ surveillance. What’s that? It’s not Miss Manners.