Stephen Ferry reports from Colombia: Ants on the walls of Congress, a new president, and the war continues.
Continue ReadingWhen we talk about putting it on the line these days in the name of social justice, people who come to mind include those undocumented college students or immigrant youth who have lived in the country for five years or more and who have also self-identified. ... Oh,...
Continue ReadingAnd I was already wondering what was going on under the Republican big tent.
Continue ReadingThink a Tea Party Senate candidate would have trouble recollecting a Satanic experience? Well, watch the hands.
Continue ReadingIt is an inspiring sight, at first: the streets of Afghanistan are saturated with campaign posters. They're on storefronts, roadside billboards, even festooning lampposts like holiday streamers. Democracy must be blooming, right?
Continue ReadingIs the "angry FLOTUS" meme back again? How far is domestic media ready to run with a trashy quote attributed to Michelle Obama.
Continue ReadingAl-Ahram, Egypt's largest newspaper and government mouthpiece is very cognizant of the images used to portray the negotiations and Mubarak. So much so, in fact, that they photoshopped Mubarak into the leadership position in place of Obama in this image from the recent White House Middle East...
Continue ReadingAfter a recent class one of my students wrote with a question, wondering why it was that there are so many pictures of firefighters at ground zero and no pictures of “the Pennsylvania flight or the DC attack.” Of course, such pictures do exist and they have had...
Continue ReadingThis week's VWIR looks at the contentious 9/11 anniversary -- including photos by Alan Chin from Ground Zero and the conservative 9/12 rally in DC -- and the dramatic Tea Party upset in the Delaware GOP Senate primary.
Continue ReadingThis post was going to be about how despite being a fairly educated working stiff all my life, I have still only achieved one of six benchmarks that guarantee middle class status- a small modicum of health insurance (although in all honesty, I have afforded vacations- in the past)....
Continue ReadingOn the subject of Christine O'Donnell's character baggage...
Continue ReadingIs one privilege of Boehner and the GOP's top dogs that they don't get photographed around the privileged?
Continue ReadingI was interested in the juxtaposition below from Christine O'Donnell's multimedia page. the fundamentally unqualified Palin Tea Party knockoff running for Senate today in Delaware's GOP primary.
Continue ReadingAs opposed to more critical or outlandish portraits of Tea Party rallies, Alan Chin's photos speak to the emotional underside of the so-called movement.
Continue ReadingOverall, I continue to appreciate Glenn Beck's brilliant reframing of the Tea Party* and the extremistic messaging of the far right, building on his huge rally in D.C. on the anniversary of MLK's "I have a dream" speech. In this shot from Beck/Palin's rally on 9/11 this weekend...
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