As Dubai teeters at the edge of financial collapse, Martin Parr's 2007 shots from Dubai of the filthy rich are like salt in the wound.
Continue ReadingBAGnewsNotes offers original photos from the Seattle WTO protests on the tenth anniversary of the the uprising.
Continue ReadingHow much did Switzerland's terrifying anti-Islamic anti-minaret poster help the minaret ban succeed?
Continue ReadingWhy photos of Michaele and Tareq Salahi, the White House gatecrashers -- otherwise, a superficial story lapping up attention in a holiday news vacuum -- have the gut-level impact they do.
Continue ReadingDoes Newsweek cover, "crashing the government" into the ground, simply play as a Cheney '12 ad?
Continue ReadingServing up the U.S. as a country obsessed with living out childhood wild west gunslinger fantasies.
Continue ReadingThis small, distant and unplugged NYT Mag cover photo of Biden makes Biden look pretty emasculated.
Continue ReadingOn Thanksgiving, there are just too many Republican turkeys to choose from. This year, Nixon's the one!
Continue ReadingA look at two photos from Palin's book tour appearance at Fort Bragg. (Why she was able to exploit the installation is beyond me.)
Continue ReadingIn the last 13 days, the White House has posted only three photos to its Flickr stream, two of the three (the latest, yesterday) on the critical Afghan policy review. BAGnewsNotes readers deconstruct what they have to say.
Continue ReadingWhat the photos demonstrate is that military families can lose their loved ones to circumstances other than death on the battlefield.
Continue ReadingUsing his "latest-book" tour as the field test for a new (yep, Palin-esque) identity, Glenn Beck proposes to transform himself from screaming (faux-) media pundit into full-fledged political activist.
Continue ReadingAfter eeking out Senate vote just to START health debate, Harry Reid making love, if cute, not so sweet.
Continue ReadingBy tying in Fort Hood, Phil Wolf's birther billboard constructed at his Colorado auto lot takes the "Obama as a closet Muslim" (or "Obama as secret Jihadist") scare tactic to a whole new and much sicker level.
Continue ReadingI came across an interestingly composed photo of a Palin book signing event published on her Facebook feed.
Continue Reading(Click for larger size) On the last leg of a long Asian trip in which O was essentially bottled up, the shot, in this otherwise tongue-in-cheek Korean Taekwon-Do -themed photo-op, offers the Prez as a powerful action figure as he re-injects himself back into the homeland political martial arts....
Continue ReadingThis 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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