2012 Olympic Opening Ceremonies: Populism Abounds
Just how populist or, dare I say, socialist England or, certainly, the Nike Visa games truly are is highly debatable. But last night was a people's show.
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The Picture of Romney in London? Ouch.
Even if a situation is awkward or uncomfortable, an effective politician knows how to fake it. That's just Politics 101. Instead, Romney's day -- by his own incompetence -- went from bad to much worse.
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The "Latest" Assad Family Photographs
I had a couple thoughts on the meager group of Assad family photos that just happened to show up in the media this week.
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Official Photos from Egypt as Scenes From the Chess Game
Given the transparency of the Egyptian power struggle, official government photos offer a record of the posturing more than anything else.
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Notes from Look3: Stanley Greene's Fallujah Bridge Photo
"In the day time, I keep you alive," the driver told Green, and "at night I go kill Americans."
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Obama + Souza + Football + NATO + Soldier Field + 2012
It's such a brilliant photo. We're on NATO's team but we're quarterbacking.
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On Surprise Visit to Kabul to Wind Down War, Obama Has Better Toppings
On a day where Obama "won the internet" with smashing "victory" photos from Afghanistan, Romney gets "called out" for trying to leverage 9/11.
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Foreign Policy's Painted Lady: Sex Issue Cover Model Too Sexy For "Her Burqa"
Foreign Policy quickly went viral last week, illustrating the public’s appetite for serious coverage of global gender issues. Ironically, the visuals that graced the cover and accompanied the essay suggest that FP’s editors thought they needed to appeal to a different appetite in order to sell their magazine.
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Loaded Images from a St. Petersburg Abortion Clinic
I look at them closely and feel glad neither of them are forced to be mothers at a young age.
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State-Sponsored Photo of the Week
In Syria, the couple who caused the carnage cram cartons of food aid for the victims of fighting in Homs.
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The Young and the Bored: North Korean Censors Letting Their Guard Down?
Regarding the strict control over what wire photos get taken and moved, are we seeing a policy shift or are officials just distracted in the transition from one Kim to another?
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David Guttenfelder, Ambassador
I imagine the North Koreans look at these factory shots and feel that Guttenfelder is paying them respect, capturing an ethic of hard work and industry, perhaps believing also that the photos must counter perceptions the country is barely scraping by.
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Some Good Friday Photos That Caught Our Eye
Should have figured it was an American pilgrim when I saw that belly.
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Obamajad: Subliminal Scaremongering
If anyone was under the illusion that the use of Islam and the "terror war" as a strategy for undermining Obama had ended, look carefully.
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IED
A rare photo, especially after the years of damage inflicted on American troops and tanks in Iraq.
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Asma Assad is Pumped
A daily stream of photos showing Assad's atrocities against his own people is one thing. More heinous perhaps, are images of domestic indulgence, items of vanity that reveal the bubble the Assad's have been swimming around in as the blood flows in the streets.
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Enter "the Patriot" Era
This is the first time I’m seeing wire photos of Israel’s “Patriot”-style Iron Dome missile defense in operation. I just wish I had a better idea how to read these.
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Afghanistan Kumbaya
I was already feeling manipulated by this photo in early February, and that's before things went from worse to unfathomable.
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