That Feudal Feeling
This photo of Kyrgyz street clash feels like something new and something very, very old.
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Not Joking
Apparently, it's getting harder to keep the politicians away from the hate.
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Searchlight: In for the Kill
Violent messaging has become a staple of the Tea Party, with the media in collusion in disseminating it.
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As Reform Vote Looms, So do the Haters — Though it’s Not So Easy to Tell
As the final health care reform vote looms, so do the haters -- though it's hard to tell by the pictures in the traditional media.
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The Hardly Audible anti-HCR Noise Machine. (Or: The Week the Tea Party Became a Caricature of Itself)
The Tea Party: Last summer they were scary. This Spring, they're laughable.
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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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Oh Come Let Us Adore Him
How dare anyone mock man's God-given right to buy name recognition and sway elections with his millions and billions.
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Copenhagen and the New Activism
I have a feeling that activists -- and the green movement, in particular -- will look back at Copenhagen as the moment when Protest 2.0 began its swift rise to the surface.
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Seattle + 10
BAGnewsNotes offers original photos from the Seattle WTO protests on the tenth anniversary of the the uprising.
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University of California: Adding Injury to Injury
This Getty/AFP shot, showing a campus policeman at UCLA tasering a student demonstrator yesterday, captures the pain, anger, abuse, degradation and the fury over the outrageous 32% fee hike by the University of California.
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Eating Our Lunch
I'm only wondering why it took so long for the Dems to turn the laser beam -- given the gaping absence of competition -- on the fat, happy and defiant health insurance industry. Props to Move On. You go, Heather Graham!
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Our Man at the G20 (#3): The Show Remains All Too Familiar
Looking at these Jason Andrew photographs, Perhaps the G20 protests are a lot like the establishment after all.
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Our Man at the G20 (#2): Radical Split
But who was the real enemy on the streets of Pittsburgh for the G-20
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Outside the Pittsburgh G20: Bats in Hand
Police action at the Pittsburgh G-20 proves more than a game.
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Cry the G-20
Just think for a moment about the deep irony of tear gas, reducing citizens -- having converted the sad state of oppression into a sharp sense of will -- (back) to tears.
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Teabaggers Subliminal Death Message
The most chilling and sickest thing about the Teabaggers strategy is the way their exploitation of death symbolism, merged with their hatred of the President, cross-fertilizing a "death of/to Obama" suggestion.
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