Category Archives: USA

No Moral Center

A couple of days before Inauguration Day for Barack Obama’s second term, Noam Chomsky had a damning indictment for the President. As  a “man without a moral center,” he characterized him in an interview with Al Jazeera. Inauguration will be … Continue reading

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Turkey Shoot

On the night between 26 and 27 of February 1991 a massacre took place on highway 80 in Kuwait. Thousands of Iraqis had been caught in a long convoy while retreating to the Iraqi border. American airplanes had first blasted … Continue reading

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Obama’s Tears

My thoughts these days are with the parents and victims of last week’s carnage in Newtown, CT. These shooting sprees have conspicuously amassed in recent years in the U.S. and no wonder that apologetic supporters of America’s Second Amendment to … Continue reading

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Not Allowed to Communicate With the Press

According to Paula Broadwell talking on October 26 at University of Denver about her biography and having been asked by someone in the auditorium to talk about the Benghazi disaster where U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed, … Continue reading

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Rules for Living

Rather than explaining to the public early why he had to resign as CIA Director, General David Petraeus, once President Obama’s “czar of drone warfare  in Afghanistan” and in fact becoming later the “King of Drones”, had entertained just one … Continue reading

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