Flag Fetish
There is of course nothing wrong in celebrating America’s heritage with displays of the flag, especially on the anniversary of our national “birth,” but notice here how the elongated flag (one of three in the photograph) is completely out of scale with its surroundings—both in size and dimension—as if...
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An Assault on our Shores
It's troubling to see the President militarize the oil spill. After telling an assembly of troops that "within weeks, some of you may find yourselves serving on a carrier deck in the Arabian Sea or working a busy flight line in Afghanistan," Obama couches the spill as...
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Non-Explosions in Times Square and Afghanistan
Two quite different photos inadvertently expose habitual gaps in public understanding of the terror war.
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Americans March on Red Square
History made in Moscow this VE Day. The Americans are coming! The Americans are coming!
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Locking Down the Capitol
Not exactly fear in D.C.'s streets, but a whole lot of military buzz over a summit.
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Stupidité d’état at Guantanamo Bay
The national interest of a democratic people may be served well by reason, but the modern state, to the extent that it is a regime of coercive control, will rely on another mentality: stupidité d’état.
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Going to War Over Oil
If Obama is going to use a fighter plane to sell off-short drilling, is the media entitled to point the fighter at him to call him on it?
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A Moment’s Rest
War takes its toll in many ways, not least by how it deadens the human spirit by disrupting the ordinary routines of everyday life.
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Construction is Booming! The Recovery has Arrived!
The construction industry has recovered. It's just a little further east than anybody at home would like.
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American Militarism: Don’t Even Notice It Anymore
As Carrie Underwood completed her rendition of the Star Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl on Sunday, there was an (almost) perfectly timed military fly over and no one seemed to notice.
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Billions and Billions Served
There's great news for everyone who was worried about the military budget .
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Coke's Olympic Spirit: War is It!
Playing on the notion that the world community exist to tear itself to pieces, Coke imagines it's own little world war.
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Playing the Palace
I would love to know how the US military thought this picture/photo-op would play (in Haiti -- after the rush; domestically; abroad) in landing American troops at the Haitian Presidential Palace and claiming use of the place.
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Haiti: The Great U.S. War Machine
What if President Obama went on TV tomorrow and announced that the entire 70,000 person U.S. military mission in Afghanistan was going 100% humanitarian?
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Your Daily Moment of Spin (10/7/10)
Your Daily Moment of Spin: People Magazine lustily photographs a Marine before he gets gets swept up in the military's Afghan surge.
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TODAY in Afghanistan
Before Defense honcho Bob Gates had his first press conference with Karzai after the surge announcement, we see Gates kicking off his week "in country" with Today Show's smiley face Matt Lauer, surely a dose of comfort for the uncertain American audience.
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Yule Tide
With the terrible sadness I'm feeling over America's obsession with all things militaristic -- a preoccupation I somehow thought would end with Bush -- I look at this brilliant portrait from Obama's Afghanistan surge speech at West Point last week and I think....
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Having McChrystal (and Eikenberry) Well In Hand, Right?
With all the buzz lately about Obama caving in to the military, is this White House photo supposed to capture Obama with McChrystal's little head in a vice?
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