The Winners of the International Gaza Cartoon Contest – 2008
Below: The Special Prize and the First Prize Winner. All finalists’ cartoons over the fold. * See also No Words Required for more international cartoonists on Gaza
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The International Gaza Cartoon Contest: 2008 Winners
30 June, 2008 — peoplesgeography‘Compromise’: a cartoon
29 June, 2008 — peoplesgeography.comAn excellent cartoon just in from comrade David Baldinger. The cartoon captures the Orwellian rhetoric and term ‘compromise’ as used by the Israeli regime so well, as it continues to build illegal Jewish-only settlements in flagrant contravention of international law, peace agreements and all precepts and percepts of human rights:
Thought Explosion by Ben Heine
22 May, 2008 — peoplesgeography.comHis wonderful, vivid artworks frequently accompany our posts but this striking one is the post. Another terrific creation. Thanks, Ben.
Tibetathon at the 2008 Beijing Olympics
24 March, 2008 — peoplesgeography.com
For a good nuanced read that puts the recent flare-up in perspective, see Pankaj Mishra’s At war with the utopia of modernity (Guardian CiF). An interesting essay can also be found in Michael Parenti’s Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth, and the mainstream Chinese perspective in Bevin Chu’s The Strait Scoop: Tibetan-Chinese Are Not American Indians. See also Soraya Ulrich’s The Tibet Card and Richard M Bennett’s Tibet, the ‘great game’ and the CIA (commented upon and excerpted below)*.
© Cartoon by Khalil Bendib
* Added 27 March:
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Soraya Ulrich’s The Tibet Card, in which she writes about just why the US might find Tibet of strategic interest, with resources constituting one of many reasons: “Tibet has the world’s largest reserve of uranium, and in addition to gold and copper, large quantities of oil and gas were discovered in Qiangtang Basin in western China’s remote Tibet area.“ Read the rest of this entry »
On Iraq At The Fifth Anniversary of Invasion
20 March, 2008 — peoplesgeography.com
Some time-pressed picks and recommended reads on this reprehensible fifth anniversary of the US neocon-led invasion. Cartoon credit: Carlos Latuff, Iraq war: Five Years- Salon Iraq Roundtable, Robbing the cradle of civilization, five years later
- Dahr Jamail, Five Years, And Counting
- Patrick Cockburn, This is the war that started with lies, and continues with lie after lie after lie
- DN!, Half a Decade of War: Five Years After Iraq Invasion, Soldiers Testify at Winter Soldier Hearings
- Juan Cole, Five years of Iraq lies
- John Ross, What Do We Owe Iraq?
- Seamus Milne, There must be a reckoning for this day of infamy
No words required
2 March, 2008 — peoplesgeography.comMore visuals added on or after 29 December after Israel’s airstrike atrocities.
Courtesy Carlos Latuff, Mr. Fish, David Baldinger, Benjamin Heine, Michael Leunig, Derkaoui Abdellah, Clay Bennett, Mazen Kerbaj, Egyptian football player Mohamed Aboutrika, Khalil Bendib, T. @ Boomerang, Za3tar, and Simon Farr.
Duty calls
22 February, 2008 — peoplesgeography‘Art Attack’: meet the new creative dissenters
18 January, 2008 — peoplesgeography.com
Amid the illegal occupation and the murderous blockade of Gaza by the IOF, here’s some inspired dissent. Artist Peter Kennard meets members of a new generation of artistic dissenters in a movement spearheaded by artist Banksy, whose art has featured in Occupied Palestine as well as his native UK.
Art attackby Peter Kennard | New Statesman | 17 January 2008
Banksy attracts the press attention, but around him is an increasingly influential movement of political artists operating outside the mainstream
The phone rings; the number is withheld. It’s Banksy. He wants to know whether I can go to Bethlehem over Christmas. He is putting on an exhibition, bringing together like-minded artists from all over the world to raise awareness of the situation in Palestine. Like the annual guerrilla art shows that have taken place in London for the past six years, it will be called “Santa’s Ghetto”. Two weeks later, I find myself involved in an experience that transforms my ideas about what artists can do in the face of oppression.Dilbert cartoon creator Scott Adams on President Ahmadinejad
5 October, 2007 — peoplesgeographyA great satirical piece by Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams (caution: language).
A Feeling I’m Being Had
by Scott Adams
I was happy to hear that NYC didn’t allow Iranian President Ahmadinejad to place a wreath at the WTC site. And I was happy that Columbia University is rescinding the offer to let him speak. If you let a guy like that express his views, before long the entire world will want freedom of speech.
I hate Ahmadinejad for all the same reasons you do. For one thing, he said he wants to “wipe Israel off the map.” Scholars tell us the correct translation is more along the lines of wanting a change in Israel’s government toward something more democratic, with less gerrymandering. What an ass-muncher!
Ahmadinejad also called the holocaust a “myth.” F*ck him! A myth is something a society uses to frame their understanding of their world, and act accordingly. It’s not as if the world created a whole new country because of holocaust guilt and gives it a free pass no matter what it does. That’s Iranian crazy talk. Ahmadinejad can [bleep] me. Read the rest of this entry »
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