Before We Start Ascribing Bad Intent to Whole Countries, Regions and Cultures…
Most of the actions in play -- between the creation of the im-Bacile Muhammed video; the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Libya and the killing of the ambassador; and the chest-and-drum beating for war on the part of the Israeli Prime Minister -- are not generalized or mainstream...
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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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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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Visualizing Truth to Power: Putting Photos from Syria Together
These images aren't just random and they aren't just artifacts. They are testaments and they bear witness.
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Photo of Woman Stripped by Egyptian Military: Not Shamed, Not a Victim
This image does not portray a victim. It portrays a hero—a warrior waging a battle for democracy.
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Simeon to Cyborg: Is Anti-Democratic Meme (& "Arresting" Pics) Dooming Progressive Protest?
The photo may be fitting too well with the anti-democratic meme of late that progressive movements are incoherent. Worse, he looks grotesquely simian, as if political demonstrations were a form of devolution.
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Hillary and Libya: "V" is Very, Very Extraordinary
Although taken two days before, it wouldn't have surprised me one bit if this photo had been taken two days after Gaddafi was terminated.
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Sinking, Sinking in the Reign: Our 1 Pic Gaddafi Retrospective
I'm laughing at clouds So dark up above The sun's in my heart And I'm ready for love
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"Qaddafi’s Mile-High Club" Meets "You Won’t Have Dick to Kick Around Anymore"
Not much equivalent, though, to the South Lawn.
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Your Turn: Gaddafi Disintegrates?
The illustration is very cool, but I'm wondering: what does it symbolize, exactly?
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Gaddafi's Taste for Rice
Well, I like how they photographed Gaddafi's Condi Rice scrapbook on top of a flowery mattress in the dictator's compound.
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Nicole Tung in Eastern Libya. Next Stop: Qadaffi's Hometown
Nicole Tung in eastern Libya where the eastern front presses on towards the Qaddafi stronghold of Sirte, and fierce fighting may yet be in the cards.
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Saif Wins the Internet
To the extent politics today is dominated by celebrities -- the badder the better -- the captured, un-captured Saif Ghadafi vanquished the rebels tonight on cable news and won Monday's internet.
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My Favorite Shot from Tripoli
They high-tailed it so fast, the espresso's still warm.
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Quick Takes: Mubarak in the Cage with a Posturepedic*
Brings whole new to appreciation to "going out feet first."
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