Category Archives: War

With My Bare Hands – Anthony Bourdain

I have always admired Anthony Bourdain, but never more than when he wrote in A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines, “Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that […]

Bomb Them To The Stone Age

Written Mar 22, 2012 On March 18, 1969 President Richard Nixon ordered American B-52s to bomb Cambodia, thus kicking off a deadly air campaign supposedly directed against North Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge targets. 540,000 tons of high-ordinance bombs resulted in the deaths of anywhere from 150,000 to 500,000 civilians and countless wounded in the agrarian […]

War Criminal # 1

Written Sep 28, 2016 When I first visited Cambodia in 1998, I arrived at Phnom Penh airport on a comfortable Bangkok Air flight from Bangkok. The previous year the Khmer Rouge had ceased their guerilla war against the government forces and the country was deemed safe for tourism. After landing the plane rolled across the […]

World Wide Destruction

As the world skids out of control with the Endless War penetrating every corner of the globe, a Jewish friend texted that he expected an imminent nuclear exchange, because of The Gaza War. I had been born with the Caul, the placenta, wrapped around my head. Celts believe it gives you the vision. Despite the […]

Visions of Armaggedeon

A Jewish friend wrote that he expects an imminent nuclear exchange, because of The Gaza War. I was born with the Caul, the placenta, wrapped around my head. Celts believe it gives you the vision. I don’t see such destruction with my inner sight, but I had several vivid dreams about nuclear bombs in the […]