Tag Archives: Tripoli

Piss off the warmongers a little…

This will make some Marines very angry. Tough. Their new recruitment add says ‘protecting freedom by battles won’. Does that mean their first overseas engagement at Tripoli where they a)didn’t overturn the government of the Barbary Coast b)took casualties c) … Continue reading

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Pro-Trump media outlet boasts of perfume sales

They’re crowing that Ivanna Trump’s online sales of her/his perfume are at the top sellers on Amazon. Whoop di diddly doo. It just shows that the Wall Street elitists are spending their stolen money on a political statement in favor … Continue reading

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Ah! the glorious 4th!

When once more we gather to burn up dead animals in our backyard, use explosives heedlessly and Most Important of All, listen to a bunch of Jingo speeches reminding us how the United States won every war ever fought, by … Continue reading

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Iwo Jima, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Memorial Day

There appears to be no more popular symbol of American patriotism and resiliency than the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima. Do Americans think Mount Suribachi overlooked Pearl Harbor? (As if Hawaii in the mid-Pacific was even US manifest … Continue reading

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Obama launches bold US medical relief program “Soldiers Without Borders”

The US response to Ebola is “Doctors Without Borders” with a cheaper payroll, serving US imperial needs above all. Okay, the US has been rolling out SOLDIERS WITHOUT BORDERS since Manifest Destiny and the Shores of Tripoli, but President Barack … Continue reading

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KFC’s fire-touched chicken

A branch of Hardee’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken on fire in Tripoli, northern Lebanon.   Yum, Love that American fast food!

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Angela Merkel il culone intrombabile

But Silvio Berlusconi might alternatively have used “strutto culo inchiavabile” to describe any other Euro usury kapo, like himself, or his mates Nicolas Sarkozy and David Cameron who paid a surprise visit to Tripoli yesterday to herald the victory of … Continue reading

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Another military victory where the Poor “socialized” their blood for Capitalism

Tripoli, the site of the FIRST U.S. Military engagement to prop up capitalism, is apparently fallen, not to economic “free” market forces, but to the Armed Forces. In a book titled “Liberty Reclaimed”, often described as the libertarian bible, the … Continue reading

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Tripoli and the Original Intent of the Founding Great White Fathers.

You know the first line of the Marine Corps Hymn, ends with “to the shores of Tripoli” So, why, exactly, was Tripoli so important? Well, since American Capitalism was and still is heavily dependent on goods and services produced by … Continue reading

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From the swamps of Okefenokee to the shores of Tripoli.. and beyond…

I know, it’s supposed to be unpatriotic to remind the U.S. Military of how many times they’ve had their Pasty White Collective Arse handed to them by barefoot dark-skinned savages… Such as the first two foreign engagements, one against the … Continue reading

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“A quarter billion for Public Ignorance, not a penny for Schools”

The new rallying cry of the Far Right Lunatic Fringe reflecting the famous “not a penny in Tribute” lie that was advanced in preparation for sending the fledgling Marine Corps to “the shores of Tripoli” where they were handed their … Continue reading

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