Thailand Webzine, Bangkok Pattaya Thailand
History is written by the victors and for the greater part of the 21st Century the GOP claimed the 2003 invasion of Iraq to be a pivotal act to establishing modern rule in the Mideast, however that utopian vision seems to be metamorphorsizing into a mirage, for even the eminence gris of the last presidency […]
The Thailand Attorney General has decided to seize all assets of the deposed PM Thaksin. $2.2 billion will go to the coffers of the Thai government. The best of re-distributing this wealth would be a taxless gift of $30 to each and every citizen. A 1000-baht in the pocket might not seem much to most […]
Blackwater USA received a late Xmas gift when a federal judge threw out all charges against five employees involved in a deadly shooting incident resulting in the deaths of 16 Iraqi civilians. The company now known as XE Services remains on the Iraqi blacklist of US contractors, however the Pentagon still employs their services for […]
Private Eddie Slovik was last American to be shot for desertion. The year was 1945. In fact he was the only soldier executed for desertion in WWII
“They’re not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army — thousands of guys have done that. They’re shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years […]
A US Army squad was marching north of Fallujah when they came upon an Iraqi
insurgent, badly injured and unconscious.
On the opposite side of the road was a American soldier in a similar but less serious state.
The soldier was conscious and alert and as first aid was given to both men, the platoon leader asked the […]
