When it Comes to Dubya, Every Day is 9/11
Speaking of Bush and the war decade. (Hey, did you see that B-52?)
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There is People Power and There is Firepower
Eighteen days in Egypt, Tahrir chock full of tanks, and hardly did I see a photo as phallic as this one.
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David Cameron –- Escorting Arms Dealers to Huge Mid-East Defense Expo –- Drops By Tahrir Square
Only slightly obscured by the palm trees and the olive branches, here are a few choice photos laying out the blatant hypocricy of the West when it comes to the arming of Middle Eastern dictators and autocratic regimes -- on sale now!
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War Vs. Summer Camp: Hipstamatic Debate Just More Distraction Game?
It doesn't bother me all that much that Damon Winter shot "A Grunt's Life" using an iPhone with a Hipstamatic app. What does bother me is how much the impassioned debate surrounding the aesthetics of Winter's images takes place at the expense of their content.
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Egypt Uprising: Coach Mubarak and QB Suleiman's Own Little Super Bowl
What's so brilliant here is how Suleiman is simultaneously using a regal and highly-official looking (but actually, completely informal and unofficial) sit down with the Muslim Brotherhood to feign good faith negotiations, while at the same time stoking fears in the West about an Islamic take-over and raising the...
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The New Pentagon: Soldiers of Fortune 500
America can not only occupy a country and level its industrial capacity, it can now, as a combined war machine and colonial Chamber of Commerce, actually pave the way for US companies to move on in.
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Thursday's DADT Hearing in Two (Okay, Three) Pictures
Sadly, DADT coming down to John McCain versus the world.
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Leaks? What Leaks?
When did reality, let alone the threat to U.S. security, ever get in the way of the opportunity to stonewall a Democratic president?
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Gay Rights and the Killing Fields
While still struggling to wrap my head around the idea that Americans could take an American war for granted, I also marvel at the day-to-day compromise involved in fighting for a more humanistic killing machine.
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Mario Tama: Dan Choi
With DADT still ambiguous at best, there's more in play here than just a pleased Dan Choi after he, to his surprise, was able to re-enlist.
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Jeremy Lange's "War At Home": Individual Wars
Jeremy Lange's fourth post from the War At Home: The individual experiences of war.
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State Power When the Center Should Not Hold
Both this photograph and a second, featuring Hamid Karzai, reveal the same, sad reality: no amount of military force on the periphery can compensate for injustice or corruption at the center of the state.
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Jeremy Lange's "War At Home": Surge Babies
Jeremy Lange's third post from the War At Home: Death in uniform, surge babies, and cupcakes.
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DADT: Media Gaga Over Everything … Except What She Had to Say
Most of the reports on her rally are primarily, if not exclusively photographic, almost to the exclusion of what she actually had to say. The irony, of course, is that a quasi-faux rally cast as political spectacle received far more coverage than the presumably unintentional spectacle of actual Senators...
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Jeremy Lange's "War At Home": Wounded Warriors
Jeremy Lange's War Home At Home: The Wounded Warriors of Camp LeJeune. President Obama made a speech from the Oval Office ten days ago, but the question neither he, nor anyone, can truly answer is if all this death and suffering was in vain.
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The First Guy to Die in "Post-Combat" Combat vs. the Last Guy to Die in Combat (And Other All-Too-Fine Distinctions)
No soldier wants to be the last casualty in a war, but that designation pales in comparison to being the first fataliyy in a combat mission that has already been declared “over.” One week after “turning the page” on Operation Freedom two unidentified U.S. soldiers were killed by Iraqi...
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Jeremy Lange: The War At Home
Photographer Jeremy Lange photographs the war at home, near his home in North Carolina.
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How BP Can Afford to Take All Those Losses and Risks in the (US) Gulf…
Afghan war fill up. (Thank you, BP!)
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