The Bell Gallery will hold an opening reception for the American premier of Iraqi-American artist Wafaa Bilal’s The Ashes Series on Friday, April 5th at 5:30pm. The Ashes Series is composed of ten photographs of models constructed by the artist over a period of ten years documenting the aftermath of Operation Iraqi Freedom. This series …
Much commentary and analysis will mark the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War, and while Vice-President Cheney insists he would do it all over again, most of us would consider our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq a veritable blueprint for how not to do anything ever. But as we try to learn the lessons of …
Ian has this article, on concerns about Clinton’s donations from big arms manufacturers — and, in particular, the money she’ taken from Textron: Last October, in an examination of campaign contributions in 2007 from employees of major defense industry contractors, Thomas B. Edsall wrote on the Huffington Post that “Senator Clinton took $52,600, more than …
Would be, say, to bribe Saddam Hussein. I can be incredibly cynical about the political process, but even I naively thought that there’d be unanimity about the above. Apparently not, per some of the comments over at RIFuture. So while members of the Assembly will introduce resolutions congratulating basketball teams and marching bands, or designating …
Scott Ewing is in the unusual position of having gone to fight in Iraq after he’d already been active as a campus anti-war activist: What are things really like in Iraq? How do the military and media filter information disseminated to the American public? Scott Ewing spent a year in Tall Afar, a city that …