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Quote and Picture of the Day – Zoriah
Zoriah Miller writes of being a passenger in an armored vehicle convoy travelling through Iraq. I have come to realize that it is like being in jail, with a window looking out onto another jail. Zoriah, Photojournalist Source / ZORIAH … Continue reading
Worth a Thousand Words Dept.
A young soldier displays a tattoo reading “Walk Peacefully on Heavens Streets, You’ve Done You’re Time in Hell.” Baghdad, Iraq – July, 2007. Source / Zoriah Photojournalist The Rag Blog
4,000 U.S. Deaths, and Just a Handful of Public Images
Zoriah Miller, the freelance photographer who took this image and others of marines killed in a June 26 suicide attack and posted them on his Web site, was subsequently forbidden to work in Marine Corps-controlled areas of Iraq. Maj. Gen. … Continue reading
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Tagged Censorship, Civil Liberties, Iraq War, Journalism, Media, Photography, U.S. Military
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Kim Phuc : Then and Now
Kim Phuc now lives in Toronto with her husband and two children. Her organization, Kim Foundation International, aids children who are war victims. Photo courtesy of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. In one of the most famous images of the Vietnam … Continue reading
Books : Dick Reavis Sees John Howard Griffin in Available Light
Pardon for the Cult of Black Like MeBy Dick J. Reavis / The Rag Blog / May 27, 2008 In November, 1959, with the help of doctors and dyes, a white Texan briefly became a black man in Dixie as … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, American Society, Authors, Books, History, Literature, Photography, Racism, SDS, The Left
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