Taking a look at the very public Obama - Clinton Clinton relationships.
Continue ReadingProps to the NYT for this still image on yesterday's Senate Finance Committee death of the public option.
Continue ReadingLooking at these Jason Andrew photographs, Perhaps the G20 protests are a lot like the establishment after all.
Continue ReadingAs the U.S. prepares to sit down with Iran to press for nuclear sanctions, I'm still thinking about Netanyahu waving Nazi floor plans of Auschwitz at the U.N. last week.
Continue ReadingIt's hard to trust we've really got a "new partner" in applying Iran sanctions when such goofiness only reinforce who's really is running the show.
Continue ReadingBut who was the real enemy on the streets of Pittsburgh for the G-20
Continue ReadingCheck out what Ahmadinejad does with his face during a live interview with TIME after discovering he'd been busted hiding the existence of a nuclear development facility from the U.N.
Continue ReadingOver the coming week, BAGnewsNotes will be looking at last week's G20 protests in a way, we hope, that defies conventional thinking. To begin our inquiry, we offer (something wrong with) four girls on a roof doing a little drinking while hanging out on Friday night.
Continue ReadingMore reminders that the “terror bust” is a changing political art.
Continue ReadingI assume most of you are familiar with the Newsweek "butchering Cheney" controversy?
Continue ReadingPolice action at the Pittsburgh G-20 proves more than a game.
Continue ReadingJust 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.
Continue ReadingI think teasing this ad apart is a worthy exercise to better understand how "Carly," a former-Fortune 500 exec, and a woman taking on Barbara Boxer (and orienting herself as the dog versus the cat), approaches the challenge from a branding/Mad Ave/web/demographic perspective.
Continue ReadingLess than a year after America and the world were finally extricated from the tyranny of George "Coalition of One" Bush, his distain for diplomacy, and his abuse of the United Nations, we saw a historic event take place situating the U.S. at the center of international civility.
Continue ReadingIf it's off-topic headline-wise, I was really struck by this image on the wire yesterday of the Dalai Lama with Benjamin Hooks on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel.
Continue ReadingIt's at once a silent and deafening image set up by a delegate walk-out prior to Ahmadinejad's General Assembly speech yesterday.
Continue ReadingI don't know why the 2003 bombing that killed Sergio Vieira de Mello and 22 other U.N. personnel, and instantly spelled the end of the U.N. mission in Iraq, is so personal to me. Reminded of it, it seems I can almost taste dust in my mouth.
Continue ReadingWhile McChrystal is focused on why an attack on a few Taliban-hijacked fuel tankers went so wrong, check the map, folks, check the map.
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