Gordon Brown: Put Your Face Straight, Now
Brown is unusually dialed in and overbearing with Gillian Duffy, who's no member of Parliament but just an ordinary citizen.
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Second Look: The Warrior Child
Lucaites: “The idealized world of youthful innocence” is a taken for granted assumption for western audiences.
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Chavez: The Inverted Triangle
Is there a method behind these messages or should they best be read as the signs of true madness?
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South of the Border, Down Mexico Way
The drug trade via Mexico has been escalating exponentially in terms of product distributed, money transacted and lives lost.
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English: The International Language of Police Power
The English speaking peoples of the world can bask in the knowledge that their common tongue has become the international language not merely of science and commerce but also of police power. No matter whether they maintain civic order or brutalize regime opponents, English gets the credit.
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Oh, Canada
This photo speaks to how interminably mundane and, frankly, piss poor much of the Winter Olympic coverage is.
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Iran: Feeding the Hardline
This stood out for me as a telling scene on a terribly disappointing day for the dissidents in Iran.
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Getting the Picture?
The situation between this Israeli settler and this evicted Palestinian woman is obviously tense, but what's going on? Are we supposed to guess?
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What The Haitians Did With All That Stuff They "Stole"
I can't help wondering how many of those scenes in which Haitians were construed to be stealing might have had something to do with the near-miraculous overnight tent cities they've been lauded for constructing.
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Haiti, 1915: …Or, I Have Often Walked Down These Streets Before
Given America's 20 year occupation of Haiti starting in 1915; it's hand (not so publicized these past two weeks) -- through Bush 1, Clinton and Bush 2 -- in ushering in and out the various dictatorial, military as well as democratically-elected regimes; and the push now to take a...
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Around Israel and Palestine
Call it the circle of life in the Middle East? In running two similar-looking pictures back-to-back in their photo gallery, WAPO emphasizes how, in much of the world, war is just part of daily life.
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Best of the Bag Decade: BAG Looks at the Iraq War
(The Best of the Bag Decade is our end of the year, end of the decade look at some of the best BAGnews posts and analysis.) The Iraq War has been (and still is) a frequent subject on BAGnews and, frankly, such a topic of government and media spin...
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Finally!
Deal makers from the world's largest energy firms assembled amid tight security at Iraq's Oil Ministry on Friday to compete for deals to develop some of the country's most prized oilfields.
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Minaret Missiles
How much did Switzerland's terrifying anti-Islamic anti-minaret poster help the minaret ban succeed?
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Afghanistan Leakers: Making Obama, Clinton Look Foolish
Rather than taking up the right wing's "dithering" or "what's taking SO long" meme when it comes to Afghan strategy (in a situation that some see as having no practical urgency) perhaps the better question to ask is, what's with the leaks? -- and, what are they costing the...
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British Army Accused of Sexual Abuse of Detainees in Iraq
I sympathise with arguments to say that only through release of such images can the world know the full extent of what happened, but I also doubt what we can actually and accurately “know” from photographs that we wouldn’t otherwise learn through full disclosure and description of events. ......
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Last Look On O China Trip: A Little Cold
A nation of umpteen billion people and Obama, a man recognized for wowing the crowds and stirring hope in the masses, especially overseas, is featured today on the newswires wrapping up his China trip alone at the Great Wall.
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Afghanistan: Ain’t That The Problem?
You can't painting it out any larger. As long as McChrystal and the U.S.A. are fronting for the crooked and discredited Karzai, we've got nothing to say.
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