The Stretcher
The question I'm interested in is whether this image, taken by the A.P.'s Lynne Sladky in February 2002, and which has become quite familiar and even common over the past seven years as a general reference to Bush's "terror war" and the facility at Gitmo, might have become something...
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Impenetrability
The image above is drawn from a TIME slide show of Adam Ferguson's photos, and does a convincing job of capturing -- almost exclusively through sequential, visual storytelling -- the almost futile task of American troops having any substantial impact in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley.
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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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Dover +18
It may be incidental that the first soldier to break the ban on the display of American caskets died in Afghanistan (as to opposed to Iraq), but it makes a huge difference in the way I look at this picture.
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Front Towards Enemy
The administration plans to shift 17,000 troops to Afghanistan and leave 35 - 50,ooo troops in Iraq? Tell him to his face.
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"I FACED THE ENEMY AND LIVED!"
If Salon's publication of these photos helps the military reform its culture and more effectively aid traumatized Iraq War vets before they get suicidal, this family will have done a great service.
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Dana’s Shine(r), And More
Shoe attack victim, and still attractive White House Press Secretary Dana Perino is recipient of extra-special close up coverage.
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Headed For Afghanistan
It's an evocative image, even if it wasn't Veterans Day. It was taken at the U.S. military's base in Mosul on election night.
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Iraq Update: Who’s Holding Who?
Did anyone else appreciate the utter irony of this shot in the Saturday NYT print edition -- representing how American forces, in the middle of their otherwise sprawling Iraq military base, are suddenly the ones trapped or "fenced in" by the imminent prospect of shutting the place down?
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Update On The (Unnamed) Civil War
Although U.S. interest in the Iraq War died with the so-called "surge," Sunni - Shiite tension in what remains a low-intensity civil war is making the situation far from stable. Because of the lack of interest in the war, images seem the most effective vehicle for getting basic points...
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Russia Resurgent: One Side Of The Same Coin
I'm not making excuses for the Russians, but I am interested in double-standards.
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Latest Cover For Iraq's Core Meltdown
Remarkable, isn't it, how this cover -- illustrating Sunday's NYT Mag lead story on Iraq -- manages to reduce what is otherwise a crumbling Rubrik's cube to a one-liner?
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4,000 U.S. Combat Deaths, and Just a Handful of Images
The military's visual censorship in Iraq was punctured today by a story in the <em>New York Times</em>. In a courageous piece, photographer Michael Kamber penned a concise exposé not only outlining the pervasive, hypocritical and ever more manipulative censorship being practiced by the U.S. military, but also specifically detailing...
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Lens On Gitmo
Why the 2003 interrogation tapes of Gitmo prisoner Omar Khadr look so bad...
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Sleepwalking Out of Iraq
There has been something strange about the recent coverage of the war in Iraq... Guest blogger, Robert Hariman discusses the sense of disengagement emerging from both fronts in the terror war.
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The Case Of The Invisible American War Machine
Last week, I thought there was something fishy about the photos from Amara, and now a new TIME article bears it out.
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Your Turn: Keepers Of The Palace
The military must have been pretty desperate not just for the 5,500 years of additional commitment, but for the recruiting poster otherwise advertising the the scale of America's occupying force and the fact that the U.S. is the real keeper of the palace over there.
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The Fix Is In
With the Iraqis working hard to resist a long-term U.S. occupation agreement, this week's Economist cover executes the latest version of "Mission Accomplished," reframing a potential American repudiation as the result of a country that -- through a new and profound capacity for self-healing -- might somehow, all-of-a sudden,...
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