Category Archives: war

The Mess That’s Texas

Posted on 2012-07-14 by TJ

The Republican Party of Texas (RPT) has released a platform that is so over-the-top stupid and self-contradictory it reads like a parody of itself. The brain trust of the RPT begins by affirming that governments in the US ought to … Continue reading →

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Escallating Violence Against Iran is the Road to War

Posted on 2012-02-05 by TJ

I know a little bit about the development of nuclear weapons, and I am comfortable saying that if Iran wants them, Iran will get them. There are a few tricks, but basically everything from Manhattan is now public, and what … Continue reading →

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I am not making this up

Posted on 2012-01-11 by TJ

It has been ten years since the United States started openly violating its own constitution by holding innocent people in indefinite custody without trial. One of those people is Canadian child solider Omar Khadr, who has been held there illegally–against … Continue reading →

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Mass Organized Killing, What’s It Really Good For?

Posted on 2011-12-17 by TJ

The New York Times has a brief account of a cache of secret American government documents found in an Iraqi junkyard that sheds some more light on the 2005 killing by American Marines of 24 human beings in the town … Continue reading →

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We Are the Dead

Posted on 2011-11-10 by TJ

We are the dead, we did not “fall” nor are we “lost”. We simply died. Shot through or gassed, blown up or starved or murdered by disease, that favoured weapon of the ignorant. We did not “sacrifice”. No glorious host … Continue reading →

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Green Eggs, Iran?

Posted on 2011-11-07 by TJ

I do not want to bomb Iran I do not want to, Uncle Sam! I do not want to kill with guns I do not want to shoot and run I do not want to kill with drones And leave … Continue reading →

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Some Notes on Insanity

Posted on 2011-09-21 by TJ

First, two important facts about me: I’m not an expert on the Middle East, and I’m not a professional pundit. The second fact means that I’m capable of understanding the implications of the first fact. I have no clue how … Continue reading →

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The Age of Assassination

Posted on 2011-06-26 by TJ

Apparently my tax dollars are being spent to attempt to assassinate a head of state. Many years ago a math prof at McGill named Donald Kingsbury wrote a novel called “The Moon Goddess and the Sun”. It was a Cold … Continue reading →

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Limping

Posted on 2011-04-25 by TJ

Along I limp through corridors of night Holding up a lantern to the dark Stumbling over fragments of the light Hoping here to find some vital spark That will illuminate the coming days To guide me on to where the … Continue reading →

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Glory

Posted on 2011-04-06 by TJ

Dropping bombs on innocents alike with guilty, don’t you know it works so well that recently we’ve seen a little spike in murdered children at the gates of hell. This is the glory that is modern war robotic drones swift-scouring … Continue reading →

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