But He's Our Sonofabitch
In the way of visual analysis, I offer you the comment of one Zafar Sadik in response to last week's Newsweek Pakistan cover.
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Sarkozy Vs. 60 Minutes: Not Exactly The French Revolution
On the surface, what looks to have happened in this incident is that President Sarkozy walked out on Leslie Stahl and a 60 Minutes film crew simply for being pressed about his personal life.
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Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll
I'm amused by the latest way John McCain chose to frame Hillary Clinton in relation to what he was doing during Woodstock.
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Portable Justice
Five years since the first detainee was admitted, with only one out of 330 having been tried to date (on a plea bargain, no less), it appears a respectable sphere of legality is finally being ushered in to the controversial detention center in Cuba. I mean it looks just...
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Cheney/Bush
How about, a timely reminder about who is really running the show -- what with Cheney spearheading the "Bomb Iran" campaign. Reuters telegraphs the point in the second line of the photo caption. President Bush left the Oval Office early this morning on his way to Southern California to view...
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Somebody Please, Put A Brain In My Bullet
From the graphic and the main headline, the point seems to be that bullets are not the answer. The intimation I get (reading top-to-bottom) is that negotiation, clear expression, negotiation and consensus are more intelligent tools in future conflict.... Reading the intro and the main article, however, I think...
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Soldier In The Dark
This is a photo of Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Diaz, former military lawyer and Deputy Legal Advisor for the Army at Guantanamo. The image, along with his story, was featured this past Sunday in in the NYT Magazine. What is most tragic about this image -- besides the fact...
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Getting Pinked
This shot -- documenting Laura Bush's (drum roll please!) Breast Cancer Tour of the Middle East -- was featured in yesterday's NYT main slide show. The image -- featuring Mrs. Bush's sit down at the Sheikh Khalifa Medical Center in Dubai -- is a classic piece of Rovian cotton...
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He Might Not Be Serious, But Colbert's Not Kidding
If Russert wasn't, well, Russert, and TV News wasn't bootlicking, a real interviewer (still willing to be played a bit) might have taken Colbert at face value and made a not-fake interview out of it, vigorously challenging why SC felt the need to making a joke out of the...
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Not Just Our Wounded
The image above is from Iraq's Brutally Wounded, based on the images of photographer Farah Nosh. It is the latest in a series of photo essays at Alternet produced by Nina Berman and co-sponsored by BAGnewsNotes. Nothing makes these images more accessible than their familial impact.
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Hole In The Roadmap
Taking a break from her shuttling around, cajoling unwilling and increasingly resentful Israeli and Palestinian leaders toward a fantasy peace conference, Condi made a symbolic visit the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
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More WTF: Point And Shoot
Vietnam bumper sticker -- “Join the army: Travel to exotic distant lands; meet exciting, unusual people and kill them." bumper sticker: http://carryabigsticker.com/images/join_army500.gif curiosity?... Illusion, propagated by politicians, conservatives and our own denial that the troops are all good, pristine, godly.... By taking their image, appropriates a piece of their...
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Seeing The Enemy
It is easy to imagine the head of Blackwater as the Prince of Darkness, and the media have done a pretty good job of that. But what if Prince is a scapegoat for our collective sins and the all too easy willingness of the American public to allow their...
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Outsmarting Versus Plain Smarting
Painful as is it, it's time for a Condi update, and also a caption tune-up.
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Hillary: On The Face Of It
When the "Hillary laugh" business came up about two weeks ago, I didn't pay much attention. It seemed mindlessly superficial. I'm taking notice now, however, for the way its wormed into recent campaign imagery, and especially, the newswire stock.
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The Amnestic States Of America
Certainly, watch the Chris Morris slide show at Alternet that Nina Berman produced (and The BAG helped sponsor), and look at Morris' photo gallery at the Hasted Hunt gallery.
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Your Turn: '08 Uncoverage
(In light of this cover, isn't it funny how Hillary just told Olbermann: "It's kind of nice to have all these men obsessed with you.")
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And Veep Makes Three (or: Who's Whispering Behind My Back?)
This image accompanying Vanity Fair's dish on the Clinton-Gore-Clinton WH triangle, appearing as it does now, conveys relevance beyond mere historical (or gossip page) fascination.
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