Portraits of Soldiers Before, During, and After War. Private Chris MacGregor, 24 Photographer Lalage Snow, who is currently based in Kabul, Afghanistan, embarked on an 8-month-long project titled We Are The Not Dead featuring portraits of British soldiers before, during, and after their deployment in Afghanistan. Similar to Claire Felicie's series of monochromatic triptychs, Snow captures the innocent expressions of these men transformed into gaunt, sullen faces in less than a year.
The three-panel juxtaposition allows the viewer to observe the physical changes a stationed soldier in a war zone goes through. Time is sped up for these men under the beating sun, amidst combat. Additionally, Snow's series accompanies each triptych with quotes from each of the servicemen that gives a great deal of insight into their mental and emotional state at each given time.
Snow's intention with the series is to not only honor their bravery by featuring them, but to also draw attention to every soldiers' psychological transformation. Private Jo Yavala, 28.
Obama. 9/11. Invisible: Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes: Trevor Paglen, Rebecca Solnit: 9781597111300: Amazon.com. Home and Away: Iraq and Afghanistan War Casualties. Jewish Communists - Jews and Communists. Jews have made a disproportionate contribution to the Left "Modern political history indicates a clear connection between being Jewish and being radical, Both as individual theorists and activists of the stature of Marx, Luxemburg, Trotsky and Emma Goldman, and as organized mass labour movements in, for example, revolutionary Russia and early 20th century Britain and the USA, Jews have made a disproportionate contribution to the Left.
" -- Philip Mendes, THE NEW LEFT, THE JEWS AND THE VIETNAM WAR, 1965-1972, Lazare Press, North Caulfield, Victoria, Australia, pp 9-10, from information in Rechter, David. Beyond The Pale: Jewish Communism in Melbourne. Master of Arts Thesis, Department of History, University of Melbourne. 1986, p1; Beer, Max. 50 Years of International Socialism. 1976, pplO3-107; Beit-Haltahmi, Benjamin.
Original Sins. Actions in the History of Zionism and Israel. Pluto Press. Jewishness Was International Communism -- Vladimir Ilich Lenin -- Lenin, Vladimir Ilich. V.I. Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World (9780525951018): Trevor Paglen. War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza’s Offshore Gas Fields. More than five years ago, Israel invaded Gaza under “Operation Cast Lead”.
The following article was first published by Global Research in January 2009 at the height of the Israeli bombing and invasion under Operation Cast Lead. In the wake of the invasion, Palestinian gas fields were de facto confiscated by Israel in derogation of international law A year following “Operation Cast Lead”, Tel Aviv announced the discovery of the Leviathan natural gas field in the Eastern Mediterranean “off the coast of Israel.” At the time the gas field was: “ … the most prominent field ever found in the sub-explored area of the Levantine Basin, which covers about 83,000 square kilometres of the eastern Mediterranean region.” (i) Coupled with Tamar field, in the same location, discovered in 2009, the prospects are for an energy bonanza for Israel, for Houston, Texas based Noble Energy and partners Delek Drilling, Avner Oil Exploration and Ratio Oil Exploration.
Michel Chossudovsky, January 3, 2014 Map 1 Map 2. EU Earmarking Billions to ‘Secure’ Borders. Ceuta, on the Spanish-Moroccan border. On the other side of the barbed wire lies Morocco. 2002 ©Bruno Arbesu via Picture Tank In an effort to manage migration flows and keep watch on its borders, Europe is turning itself into a fortress. That’s the conclusion of a provisional study on EU borders carried out on behalf of a European think-tank with links to the German Green Party. In the study, which will be published in full on June 26, researchers Mathias Vermeulen and Ben Hayes describe the direction of EU security policy on migration flows, and especially the technological arms race that is accompanying it.
In 2004 the European Council set up Frontex, a response force specifically dedicated to the mission of border control and migration monitoring. Based in Warsaw, it receives financial support from the EU, some €676 million in the period between 2008 and 2013. The Frontex agency's operations in Europe and the Maghreb But the European Commission has no plans to stop there. Drones. Moral Collapse of a Nation.