Nota Bene #103: Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse
“To take people from the music world and give them the same kind of credibility that you give me, Morgan Freeman, Laurence Fishburne, Forest Whitaker—that’s like an aberration. I know there’s some […]
This is not about Sarah Palin
This is not about Sarah Palin. If you want gossip about Sarah Palin read The National Enquirer. If you want to do something about the terrible state of the American economy, health […]
The 935 lies of George W. Bush (and friends)
By Martin Bosworth That Bush and his inner circle of neocon zealots lied and cooked the books to get us into a war we never should have fought is not news, of […]
New National Intel Estimate on Iran catches White House with pants down
A new US intelligence report sheds significant light on the Bush administration’s duplicity regarding Iran’s alleged nuclear threat. Iran Halted Nuclear Bomb Program in 2003, U.S. Spy Agencies Say By Jeff Bliss […]
9/11: Living without fear
By Martin Bosworth This is going to be a slightly different 9/11 recollection. I’m not going to start by telling you where I was and what I was doing that day. Because […]
Will Iran’s good nuclear report card slow the march to war?
Even though Mohamed ElBaradei is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, he’s not resting on his laurels. Continuing in his role as the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, he handed in […]
Arms and the jihad, I sing…
80,000. That’s how many Glock 19’s and other pistols the GAO figures have gone missing among the 190,000 weapons that are “lost” in the Iraq War zone. Newsweek offers a thoughtful examination […]
U.S. intelligence gathering: bought and sold
By Martin Bosworth Several months ago Vanity Fair ran an absolutely scathing and incisive expose of SAIC, one of the largest government/military contractors in operation. The author went deep into the ranks […]
We broke Iraq and can’t pay for it
By Martin Bosworth For those who have interest, I’ve posted my thoughts on the hard truth that we have failed in Iraq over at my LJ. It’s not pretty, but nothing dealing […]
