Michael Moore: Open Letter to President Obama That Misses the Point

An Open Letter to President Obama …from Michael Moore Monday, November 19th, 2012 Dear President Obama: Good luck on your journeys overseas this week, and congratulations on decisively winning your second term as our president! The first time you won four years ago, most of us couldn’t contain our joy and found ourselves literally in …

Berto Jongman: Western-Imperial Violence — Detailed Dismantling of Steven Pinker’s Apologetics

Reality Denial : Steven Pinker’s Apologetics for Western-Imperial Volence By Edward S Herman and David Peterson ZNET, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 It is amusing to see how eagerly the establishment media have welcomed Steven Pinker’s 2011 tome, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined,[1] which explains not only that “violence has been …

Del Spurlock Jr.: Requiem for the All-Volunteer Force — and a Comment on Thomas Ricks’ “The Generals”

I supported the all-volunteer force but I now recognize the wisdom of General Matthew Ridgeway–he warned against relying on all volunteer force..  In combination with a battlefield full of unaccountable contractors — and a military no longer able to go to war without contractors — the failures of our generals are part of a larger …

Mini-Me: Karl Rove’s Final Prediction – Romney by 32 Electoral College Votes – Obama Wins Big – The Fix Was In But Hispanic Voters Rule

UPDATE:  Obama won — “nine ways” was not enough to repress the Hispanic vote, 71% for Obama. Huh? Karl Rove’s final Romney-Obama prediction: A 285-253 Electoral College squeaker Andrew Malcolm Investors.com, 6 November 2012 EXTRACT: Rove’s final Electoral College prediction: “Without twelve toss up states (MN, NV, CO, IA, WI, MI, OH, PA, NH, VA, …

Marcus Aurelius: National Geographic Plugs President on 4 November with Highly-Spun Bin Laden Narrative

At link is a trailer for a film supposedly to be released 04 Nov on National Geographic channel. ‘Vote Looming, National Geographic to Exhibit Dubious, Politicized bin Laden Raid Narrative’ | The Internet Chronicle By Tyler Bass, on October 14th WASHINGTON – The trailer for an upcoming film on the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin …

Marcus Aurelius: Mark Bowden Election Year Version of the Final Chapter of the Bin Laden Story

Another chronicle of Operation NEPTUNE’S SPEAR, the May 2011 Abbottabad raid that took down Usama bin Laden. In this case, the author is Mark Bowden, once of the Philadelphia Inquirer, who, at least in some people’s minds, has significant credibility in writing about special operations because of his prior works, “Blackhawk Down” and “Killing Pablo.” …