Author: BooMan

If Anthony Shadid’s reporting on Libya for the New York Times is accurate, my prediction has come true. The United States of America will get blamed for everything no matter what we do. And I find it very irritating....

With the systemic failure of the Japanese nuclear power industry, it looks like the industry is going to have to activate its busy bees to flood the internet and airwaves with apologists. Talking points will have to include: 1....

What’s amazing, is that I didn’t feel a thing. The powerful earthquake that unleashed a devastating tsunami Friday appears to have moved the main island of Japan by 8 feet (2.4 meters) and shifted the Earth on its...

Wesley Clark lays out his prerequisites for military action, applies them to Libya, and concludes: Given these rules, what is the wisest course of action in Libya? To me, it seems we have no clear basis for action. Whatever...

I’m not comforted by this Stratfor analysis of the explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan. It looks like we could have had a perfect storm situation, and now there has been a meltdown of the...