The following entry is by Daniel Regelbrugge, one of matthewgood.org’s first contributing authors. Dan is a veteran member of the United States Army, served in Iraq and throughout Europe, and currently works at the Pentagon. His area of expertise is in linguistics, primarily Russian. Dark matter spreads surely across space and time. Currents of pestilent history and futures, as yet ill-described, lurch on and on toward the breech. An artery has been cut; just a prick at first, but now the pressure from the deep is ...More »

I’ve always been a big fan of Justin Raimondo’s commentary. His latest offering at antiwar.com entitled Mikheil Saakashvili: War Criminal - A politician's hubris causes untold human suffering is as poignant as ever. An excerpt... “Amid all the geopolitical analyses and ideological posturing on the occasion of the Three-Day War between Russia and Georgia, we are losing sight of the very real human costs of this conflict: thousands of civilians killed and grievously wounded, a city, Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, in ruins, and the ...More »

I'm not immune from the transgressions of culture. Nor am I immune from those aspects of life which, looked at from a morose comparable-to-the-rest-of-the-world view, make my very waking seem a crime. Though I don't despair nor do I endevour too far into patting my self on the back for my efforts day to day in making things a little better for myself and others. This website, and those who write on it routinely face some very disturbing e-mails from "right-wing" types, disgruntled fans, and those ...More »

Being that it’s an election year, you knew it was bound to happen. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, has written an open letter to US soldiers asking that they stay out of politics this election season. Of course, Mullen didn’t say don’t vote, just don’t talk about it… “As the nation prepares to elect a new president we would all do well to remember the promises we made: to obey civilian authority, to support and defend the Constitution and to ...More »

It’s no secret that former President Jimmy Carter has his detractors. His more recent attempts to confront the problems plaguing Israeli - Palestinian relations have drawn scorn from many quarters, with many labeling him anti-Israeli. And now, during remarks made at the recent Hay-on-Wye festival, he has done what no American President has ever dared to do – openly state that Israel possesses nuclear weapons. Despite the fact that within the international intelligence community it is widely known that Israel possesses a nuclear arsenal that ...More »

If you were looking for a fine example of ridiculousness today, look no further than the words of Stephen Mull, the US State Department’s acting assistant secretary for political-military affairs. Yesterday, Mull made the following comment with regards to those nations currently participating at a conference in Dublin where representatives from more than 100 nations are working to craft a treaty to ban the use, production, stockpile, and sale of Cluster Bombs… “This would have very grave implications. With one stroke, any country that signs the ...More »

With help from readers I’ve been able to track down what was said by John Lehman, Senator McCain’s foreign policy advisor, to Wolf Blitzer during a recent interview on CNN with regards to Iran… “They trained some of the 9/11 conspirators. They gave them free passage to al Qaeda.” Rather than simply discarding this for the nonsense that it is, let’s examine two fundamental questions regarding this statement. First, where did Lehman get his information? Obviously it’s not something that the current administration is willing to promote, which ...More »

Cluster Bombs have been employed by various nations for decades. When dropped, the initial casing releases ‘bomblets’ that then spread across a target area. There are numerous classifications for various purposes ranging from incendiary to anti-tank to anti-personnel, and numerous others aimed at affecting specific targets such as runways and electrical infrastructures. The problem with Cluster Bombs is that not all of the bomblets explode on impact and can lay dormant for decades waiting to be triggered by innocents that happen upon them. In the ...More »

The world is, rather understandably, disconcerted by the inaction of Burma’s military junta with regards to their response to the devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis. As many of you are aware, the regime has been hindering international aid efforts, causing the humanitarian crisis to worsen. As it stands now, some 78,000 to 100,000 people have been killed and a further 60,000 are thought to be missing. While shocking to the layman, the Burmese regime has some cause for trepidation. We are, after all, talking about ...More »

It’s eight o’clock in the morning. I have no idea what I am doing up, other than the fact that I went to bed pretty early. I watched The Other Boleyn Girl last night after rehearsal and prior to passing out. Why is it that no one can portray the Tudors with any historical accuracy? Recent Catastrophes Matters in China are looking grimmer by the day, as are conditions in Burma. One searches for words to put such catastrophes into context, but there are few. The ...More »