Alan Chin: Dover Air Force Base
Focus on the War: Photographer Alan Chin at Dover Air Force Base
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PowerPoint (or, Afghanistan in one Simple Picture)
What Liz Bumiller calls Stan's "spaghetti."
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Ashley Gilbertson: Bedrooms of the Fallen
Photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson has photographed the bedroom of deceased U.S. soldiers for the past three years. Hear him speak about the images in this audio slideshow from BagNewsSalon.
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The Children’s Crusade
A poignant reminder that those who carry the weight of our military efforts too often go off to war as naïve and wide-eyed children.
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Afghanistan: Finished Before We’ve Re-Started?
Is the US attack on a bus in Kandahar a tipping point for the US intervention?
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Namir Noor-Eldeen
It's both troubling and compelling to consider Noor-Eideen taking this photo of medics lifting a body after a rocket attack when the photographer was killed in much the same circumstances.
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You’re Toast, Sir
A shot of Obama and Karzai ... before the President of Kabul burned down the breakfast club.
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Wikileak’s Video of US Military Attack on Reuters Journalists: "All Right, Ha, Ha, Ha"
Watching the Wikileak's video of the US Military attack on Reuter's journalists is, itself, an indictment on virtual war.
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Showing Afghan Command Team Who’s Boss
After his resounding victory on health care reform, Obama pops up in Afghanistan. Besides taking the spotlight away from the Tea Party, he takes the opportunity to exercise some dominance over his war team.
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Afghan Update: I’m Sure You’re Dying to Have Your Picture Taken
Maybe there's a reason -- besides the success of the surge -- that we're seeing fewer photos of U.S. casualties in Afghanistan.
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The Shrine Down the Hall
BNN questions how much Ashley Gilbertson's photos of bedrooms of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq has to say about the maturity of our recruits.
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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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Surge Update: Major U.S. Victory in … What Was That City, Again?
When is the fall of a strategic Afghan city, perhaps the most important of the war, not the fall of a strategic Afghan city? Maybe, when there's no there there?
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(Revisiting) Chris Hondros on "The Hurt Locker"
I’ve been waiting for a truly great movie about the Iraq War. I know it’s still going on, but don’t think it’s impossible to ask for one. The issue is important to me, since like many journalists who have frequented Iraq I’ve often been frustrated by the public’s lack of...
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From the Land of the Poppies
Because American troops don't trust the Afghan police farther than they can throw them (1, 2) and because the Afghan cops are notorious for drug abuse and other nefarious behavior, I found this photo almost hilarious.
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Afghanistan: Passing Snapshot of a Down and Dirty War
What is wrong with the Afghan coverage this week -- if you're trying to make sense of the pictures -- is 1.) fragmentation and 2.) inanity.
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For the Birds
Who would even know what the impact of the NATO airstrike was on Afghanistan at all -- considering that the "strategically-apologetic" military propaganda machine is operating in such high gear now,
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America Calling
I don't know if they're less pissed off when Afghans kick their doors in, but the Marjah locals -- our precious constituency -- aren't happy about it us doing it.
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