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World Press Photo 2011
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The international jury of the 55th annual World Press Photo Contest has selected a picture by Samuel Aranda from Spain as the World Press Photo of the Year 2011. The picture shows a woman holding her wounded son in her arms, inside a mosque used as a field hospital by demonstrators against the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen on 15 October 2011. Samuel Aranda was working in Yemen on assignment for The New York Times. He is represented by Corbis Images.Read more...
White House Nixes Photo of bin Laden’s Body
His [Bin Laden] promises of overthrowing the pro-American or non-Islamic Arab dictators were fulfilled by the people of Egypt and Tunisia – and perhaps soon by Libyans and Syrians – not by al-Qa'ida and its violence.
The real problem, however, is that the West, which has constantly preached to the Arab world that legality and non-violence was the way forward in the Middle East, has taught a different lesson to the people of the region: that executing your opponents is perfectly acceptable.
Barack Obama:
It is important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head– are not floating around– as– an incitement to additional violence. As a propaganda tool. You know, that’s not who we are. You know, we don’t trot out this stuff as trophies. You know, the fact of the matter is this was somebody who was– deserving of the justice that he received. And I think– Americans and people around the world are glad that he’s gone. But– but we don’t need to spike the football.Read more...
Robert Fisk: Bin Laden death, the Al Qaeda and the Arabian Revolutions
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(...) But the mass revolutions in the Arab world over the past four months mean that al-Qa'ida was already politically dead. Bin Laden told the world – indeed, he told me personally – that he wanted to destroy the pro-Western regimes in the Arab world, the dictatorships of the Mubaraks and the Ben Alis. He wanted to create a new Islamic Caliphate. But these past few months, millions of Arab Muslims rose up and were prepared for their own martyrdom – not for Islam but for freedom and liberty and democracy. Bin Laden didn't get rid of the tyrants. The people did. And they didn't want a caliph. (...)
(...) Of course, there is one more obvious question unanswered: couldn't they have captured Bin Laden? Didn't the CIA or the Navy Seals or the US Special Forces or whatever American outfit killed him have the means to throw a net over the tiger? "Justice," Barack Obama called his death. In the old days, of course, "justice" meant due process, a court, a hearing, a defence, a trial. Like the sons of Saddam, Bin Laden was gunned down. Sure, he never wanted to be taken alive – and there were buckets of blood in the room in which he died. (...)
Robert Fisk: Was he betrayed? Of course. Pakistan knew Bin Laden's hiding place all along. Read more...
Osama, Obama
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OBAMA: ‘WORLD IS SAFER’
DNA Evidence Confirms Body Is Bin Laden’s, U.S. Says
Cohen: The Al Qaeda leader dies as a new Arab world is coming to life
JSOC: The Black Ops Force That Took Down Bin Laden
Osama Bin Laden Dead: Obama Speech Transcript
Notes on the Death of Osama bin Laden
New Test for U.S.-Pakistan Relations
Stanley Kubrick, Photojournalist
Before A Clockwork Orange, Lolita and Dr. Strangelove, director Stanley Kubrick worked as a photojournalist for Look magazine, supplementing his wages by hustling chess at Washington Square Park. (...)
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Everyday Exile Photojournalism from Tibet in Exile
Everyday Exile Photojournalism showcases images from Tibetan exile communities, mainly in India. The goal is to educate viewers in other countries re: everyday life, culture and issues facing Tibetans who have fled Chinese-occupied TibetRead more...
‘Restrepo’ Director Is Killed in Libya
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Tim Hetherington, the Oscar-nominated film director and conflict photographer who produced the film “Restrepo,” was killed in the besieged city of Misurata on Wednesday, and three photographers working beside him were wounded (...)
NyTimes
Hetherington has walked the front lines of documentary practice as well, exploring the boundaries between still images and moving, photojournalism and conceptual work
New Yorker
And Pulitzer Prize-nominated photojournalist Chris Hondros of Getty Images was gravely wounded. There were earlier reports saying that Hondros had died. However, The New York Times is reporting from a source in Libya in a hospital that Hondros has a severe brain injury and is barely clinging to life.
Two other photojournalists, Michael Christopher Brown and Guy Martin of UK-Panos, were wounded.
They may have been struck by a rocket propelled grenade while working near the front lines in Misrata, one of their peers said.
NPPA
It's an exceptionally sad day for the photojournalism community. Tim Hetherington, a British photojournalist and co-director of the documentary "Restrepo," was killed by a rocket propelled grenade in Misrata. Two other photojournalists, Chris Hondros and Guy Martin, were gravely injured in the same attack. A third, Michael Christopher Brown, was also injured, but less severely
MSNBC
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Pierre Clastres: Archeology of Violence
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Photographers in peril (Big Picture)
Quiet scenes of Cyrene, an ancient Greek and Roman city in Libya
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Creepy Soviet Posters From Mental Hospitals
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Hiroshima 65 years
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mitsuo matsushige
There is great debate surrounding the the term “terrorism” and precisely who can be labelled as such. What most scholars agree upon is that terrorism refers to non-conventional acts of warfare or violence which openly targets civilians, rather than militaries, and aims to force change by striking widespread fear in society. [...]Read more...
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