Despite long-standing debates about the viability of missile defense technology and the ramifications of “weaponizing” space, a range of websites -- from the Department of Defense’s Missile Defense Agency, to lobbying or advocacy groups, like Missilethreat.com -- use powerful visual rhetoric to sustain the economic, political and military investment...
Continue ReadingWith Iraq appropriately finessed, GWB has been busy covering his flank on the economy. (If you hadn't noticed, the phrase "go shopping" has finally been replaced in Junior's cue card stack by the term "give back.")
Continue ReadingIt describes the gap between different peoples and cultures in Iraq. It attempts to show the space between two wars, the American invasion and the Iraqi civil war, the space between us and them, my experience and your experience.... —Christoph Bangert During the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003...
Continue ReadingI found Michael Kamber's image, documenting the bombing in the Baghdad pet market last Friday, to be particularly moving.
Continue Reading... Here's my latest take at Huffington where I take aim at The Economist (they more than deserve it for this one) as well as that charade in Annapolis.
Continue ReadingFor reinforcing the simplistic conclusion that the border fence successfully lowers the number of illegal immigrants who make it into this country on foot across our southern border, the LA Times headline, in combination with this image, is dangerously irresponsible.
Continue ReadingFirst, it leads off an excellent msnbc slide show collecting in one place a key sample of photos by AP photographer Bilal Hussein. If you haven't been following the story, Hussein has been held by the U.S. Military in Iraq for more than a year-and-a-half. His detention followed a...
Continue ReadingIf Ron Paul can take a short rest on a long march... I guess The BAG can too.
Continue ReadingOne can't help but welcome the bright and well-illustrated reports, arriving yesterday in both the NYT and Newsweek, of signs of normalcy returning to Baghdad.
Continue ReadingSo, America's almost sole recourse for contending with al-Qaeda has come down to ... bribery.
Continue ReadingAs obsessive as I am about sourcing and crediting, I honestly cannot remember where this portrait of Bush and Sheehan came from or even when I found it.
Continue ReadingAs we head into the holiday season, I wanted to pause a moment and take stock.
Continue ReadingThis photo of Bush and his "special friend" -- taken during "Mush's" visit to the U.S. in September a year ago -- seems to give entry to a number of points.
Continue ReadingIn her continuing look at militarization and the security of the homeland, contributer Nina Berman offers us a set of images tied to Atlantic City's "Thunder Over The Boardwalk" air show this past August.
Continue ReadingHaving watched Obama closely in the debate last night (and since we were discussing him earlier in the week), I wanted to come back to him ... but from a more psychological point of view.
Continue ReadingHere's the photo of the "incident" that, according to the NYT, "has the bridge world in an uproar."
Continue ReadingHave you noticed Absolut Vodka's new campaign illustrating what "a better world" might look like in various American cities?
Continue ReadingWhen a reader forwarded me a piece of anti-Obama email this last week, I dismissed it. Because its gone viral, however, I thought I would take another look.
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