By Mark | January 25, 2020
With everyone talking about the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, my mind went, as it often does when thinking about the Nazi extermination camps, to my friend, the Atlanta folk artist Ned Cartledge. Cartledge, as I may have mentioned here before, saw the horrors of the Nazis firsthand toward the end of the […]
Posted in Art and Culture, History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1945, 82nd Airborne, 89th Chemical Mortar Battalion, Atlanta, Auschwitz, cesspool, concentration camps, Dwight D. Eisenhower, folk art, Gardelegen, Gardelegen massacre, genocide, Germany, holocaust, holocaust denial, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Kurt Vonnegut, Lorrie Mell, Ludwigslust, Nazi, Ned Cartledge, Neuengamme, never forget, propaganda, racism, scapegoats, starvation, torture, Unitarian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, war crimes, Wöbbelin, World War II |
By Mark | January 5, 2020
As it’s been reported that, several days before the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, Donald Trump had told members of his Mar-a-Lago golf club that his administration would soon be delivering a “big” response to the Iranian regime, we can assume that the administration had time to plan not just the killing itself, but […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged assassination, bad planning, Brian Hook, credibility, deescalation, diplomacy, Donald Trump, foreign affairs, foreign policy, Gang of Eight, House Intelligence Committee, imminent threat, Iran, John McLaughlin, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mar-a-Lago, Mike Pompeo, national security, noise, offending allies, Qassem Soleimani, Secretary of Defens, Senate Intelligence Committee, State Department |
By Mark | January 3, 2020
I posted something here last night about the assassination of Iranian general Qassim Soleimani. In that post, after having said what a terrible man that Soleimani was, and acknowledging that he likely deserved his fate, I said that I found the timing suspect. Well, as some of you have written to say that you disagree […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Agnes Callamard, assassination, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Colin Powell, deescalation, Donald Trump, imminent attack, Iran, Mike Pompeo, nuclear proliferation, Qassim Soleimani, retaliation, targeted killings, terrorist |
By Mark | January 2, 2020
News has just broken that the Trump administration, without any congressional debate, has assassinated Qassim Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds force. I hate to think it of my own government, but I can’t help but wonder if this had more to do with changing the narrative around impeachment than it did making the […]
By Mark | October 13, 2019
When Donald Trump announced last week that, at the request of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, he would be pulling back American troops stationed in Syria, everyone knew exactly what would happen. We knew that our allies, the Kurds, would be wiped out by the Turks. And that’s exactly what’s happening right now. […]
Posted in History, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Ahrar as-Sharqiya, border security, border wall, chaos, Chuck Schumer, diplomacy, Donald Trump, enemy combatants, ethnic cleansing, Europe, foreign relations, Havrin Khalaf, Homeland Security, ISIS, jihad, Kurds, M4, mercenaries, murder, offending allies, Qamishli, Richard Engel, Russia, Stephen Miller, Syria, Syria Future Party, Tayyip Erdogan, terrorism, threats to Democracy, Turkey, withdrawal |
