The Memos
Although physical documents are certainly not new or unique to the internets, the government's torture memos seem to have achieved a break-through, earning considerable recognition in their original form.
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A Rather Troubling Newswire Image On The Day Obama Releases Bush Interrogation Memos
A Rather Troubling Newswire Image On The Day Obama Releases Bush Interrogation Memos
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USA! USA!
With all the deep and less tractable problems the U.S. is weighed down with -- such as the the brutal recession, the near-collapse of the banking system, and the FUBAR situation in Afghanistan -- was the media, the public and the White House all too compelled to "go nationalistic"...
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America(n) Taken Hostage By Somali Pirates
In the picture, Andrea Phillips holds a photo of she and her husband, Richard Phillips. Phillips is the captain of a U.S.-flagged cargo ship hijacked today off the Horn of Africa in the first engagement between Somali pirates and a ship with an American crew.
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Saving The Women Of Afghanistan
What is troubling is the way in which we seem to have convinced ourselves that the reason we having been fighting the Afghan war, at least in part, has been to save its women.
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Gitmo: Down To Its Last Happy Meal
This image, taken in March 2002 by contributer Lori Grinker, has stood out in my mind since I first saw it. It was taken at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo.
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Captioning The New Year
Faced with another year of violence, journalists and citizens alike have to make choices about how to depict and understand what is happening, and how to do so without becoming cynical or otherwise numbed to the obligations and possibilities for change. One place to begin is by looking at...
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Counter-Terrorism In Mumbai
Is this image a non-verbal editorial comment on the effectiveness of Indian security forces in the four day siege in Mumbai?
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Mumbai: All About Us
As is typical, Stateside visual coverage of the Mumbai attacks personalize the tragedy for Americans while de-emphasizing and depersonalizing the experience of the Indians.
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