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OWS: October 5th at Liberty Square
Occupy Wall Street rally & end of Union march in from Foley Square. 5 October 2011 OccupyWallStreet, a set on Flickr. For those who can’t make it, some photos and videos from Liberty Square as the...
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World Mental Health Day: Facts are the First Step, Action the Next
A mental patient poses for a photograph in a sanitarium in Harbe, Afghanistan. Over 5 million Afghans suffer severe mental disorders resulting from decades of conflict and repression. Image by Getty...
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Death and Career in the “Dark” Sahara: The Sad Fate of Jeremy Keenan
Image via Wikipedia I would rather be talking about real things. Since September 2011, northern Mali has been on tenterhooks, waiting to see which rumors of risings, rebellions, independence struggles...
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Mali: French papers’ Mali MIG evidence is photo of a truck
The 25 January Le Monde article and photo When the rebel group MNLA launched its first attack on 17 January, their Parisian supporters made some rather extraordinary claims: that it had captured the...
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Update on Jay Lehr: His price is pretty low.
You may remember Jay Lehr from an earlier comment on his use by CNN and other reputable news organization as a nuclear safety expert (“Unrequested fission surplus”: Kent Brockman, meet Jay Lehr 15...
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Hurricane Sandy on Staten Island
Front Street, Stapleton, c. 10 am on the morning after. Hurricane Sandy, a set on Flickr. My photos from New Brighton, Tompkinsville, St. George, Clifton, Stapleton on the morning after Sandy. The...
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Hurricane Sandy: Alice Austin House Park, Wednesday Morning
Alice Austin House park: Wednesday morning, originally uploaded by Tommy Miles. More photos of the hurricane Sandy damage and recovery in Staten Island. Photos from walking around my neighborhood,...
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Hurricane Sandy: Staten Island in a Race for Lives
As You Know, the Marathon was cancelled within hours of writing this. Promises were made to move their resources to disaster zones. So skip all this. Go to http://statenisland.recovers.org/ and...
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On Western analysts and the Mali Conflict, April 2012
Kidal town : as seen when being parachuted in. (Photo credit: ju-yaovi) In digging through my notes today, I stumbled upon this bit of an email exchange I had with a reporter on 20 April 2012 — more...
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The Measurement of a “World in Turmoil” : Background to a Terrible Idea.
Flashing Lights: a screenshot of impending doom or liberation? (“Foreign Policy”/John Beieler/Google Maps/CartoDB) Foreign Policy magazine this week declared that we are living “in a world of turmoil”:...
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African Commemorative Cloth: A Series
This English made Liberian print was made for President Tolbert’s 1968 campaign. Welcome to my collection of commemorative African printed textiles. I’m using the French term ‘Pagne‘ as sometimes they...
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Pagne: Peace, Dialogue, and Houphouët-Boigny c.1965
President Houphouët-Boigny print Here is two meters of a pagne featuring President of Cote d’Ivoire Félix Houphouët-Boigny (1960-93). It shows the slogan “Peace, Dialogue” of the Parti Démocratique de...
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Looking For Cocaine Terrorists: The 2009 US Drugs Sting in Mali.
This story originally appeared in Maghreb Politics Review on December 21, 2009, as US Arrests Malians in Terror Drugs “Link”. Those arrested later confessed their crimes to a 2012 American court in...
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World Cup 2014: We Can Calculate the Winners Now. Or Not.
Brazil 1990 national football team, smaller than actual size. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The Brazil 2014 World Cup draw was today. Finally we can begin six months of informed speculation and ponderous...
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