Category Archives: war

Pseudomenos [Greek: liar].

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Max LaCosse

The confusion of truth with lies, which makes it nearly impossible to maintain the difference between the two, and which makes holding on to the simplest cognition a labor of Sisyphus, announces the victory of the principle in logical organization… Continue reading →

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Obama: George Bush Jr. in Blackface?

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Max LaCosse

The Obama administration took further chunks out of the Miranda recently when it passed new rules allowing investigators to hold domestic-terror suspects longer than others without giving them a Miranda warning. According to the WSJ’s Evan Perez, the rules “significantly expand[] exceptions to the instructions that have governed the handling of criminal suspects for more than four decades.” Continue reading →

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No Shit: Powell says Iraq invasion was avoidable

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Max LaCosse

Powell also stated during an Aug. 24 telephone interview that he regretted the false intelligence that led the United States to claim the Saddam Hussein regime possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD), which Powell presented to the United Nations and which underpinned the U.S. case to invade Iraq.

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Pseudomenos

Posted on May 1, 2010 by Max LaCosse

The extreme case of Germany is instructive of the general mechanism. When the National Socialists began to torture, they not only terrorized people inside and outside Germany, but the more secure from exposure the more wildly the horror incresed. The implausibility of their actions made it easy to disbelieve what nobody, for the sake of precious peace, wanted to believe, while at the same time capitulating to it. Continue reading →

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Monica Lewinsky vrs. Abu Gharib, Iraq, Halliburton & the Trillion Dollar Deficit

Posted on October 26, 2009 by Max LaCosse

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country. –Karl Kraus

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The Debate is Over: The U.S. WAS Suckered In to World War I

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Max LaCosse

Ever since the ship went down, there have been suspicions that Lusitania was carrying live munitions. Under the rules of war, that would have made the liner a legitimate target, as the Germans maintained at the time.
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Let them eat sand

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Max LaCosse

Red Cross warns of food riots over soaring prices By BRADLEY S. KLAPPER, Associated Press Writer Tue May 27, 4:44 PM ET The Red Cross warned Tuesday of a possible surge in “food-related violence” because of soaring prices that are … Continue reading →

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America needs to Get Laid!

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Max LaCosse

With a spiraling national debt, trade deficit in the trillions of dollars, an elective war, which is little more than a $20 billion dollar a month rape of the national treasury by well-connected corporations, with no end in sight (to … Continue reading →

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Who Owns the Press, Part 1

Posted on February 25, 2008 by Max LaCosse

I came across a book by various lefty political cartoonists called The Bush Junta: A Field Guide to Corruption in Government, probably the only book of cartoons with accompanying footnotes and bibliography. As I am the type of person who … Continue reading →

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Support WikiLeaks!

Posted on February 24, 2008 by Max LaCosse

Judge Orders Wikileaks Web Site Shut By ADAM LIPTAK and BRAD STONE Published: February 19, 2008 In a move that legal experts said could present a major test of First Amendment rights in the Internet era, a federal judge in … Continue reading →

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