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Hmm. Are you thinking of this cartoon?
Heya, Barry! I'm so sorry if this isn't the place for it, but I sort of vaguely remember you doing…
To be admired, no. Capable of standing up to world leaders better than Trump? Yes. Not that that's exactly a…
"Have they never heard of Angela Merkel? Theresa May? Margaret Thatcher even? " Probably not, no. (I´m not sure I…
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Category Archives: International issues
Cartoon: Why We Say “As A Jew”
This comic was drawn by Becky Hawkins, who writes: I wanted to draw this cartoon. I feel like whether and how much I’m seen as Jewish fluctuates depending on where I am and who I’m with, so the conversation about … Continue reading
Cartoon: Free Speech on Campus
In the first draft of this cartoon, the first panel went out of its way to make fun of Emma Camp’s New York Times article about students being afraid to say controversial things. Camp described her own freedom of speech being threatened when … Continue reading
So Much In Common
Robert Wright writes: But then I remembered a conversation I had a few years ago with a psychologist at Boston College named Liane Young. She and some colleagues had done research on how Palestinians and Israelis view their conflict and … Continue reading
Cartoon: How Sanctions Usually Work
This cartoon is by me and Kevin Moore. Kevin writes: Any time I can draw over-the-top, absurd violence with satiric intent is fun for me. I don’t like guns or violence in real life, but in fiction it can be … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, International issues
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Cartoon: Yemen
If you enjoy these cartoons, please help me make more by supporting my Patreon! A $1 pledge really matters. My favorite foreign policy writer, these days, is Daniel Larison, who writes for The American Conservative. Larison’s beat is American foreign … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, International issues
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It’s Gross to Use Otto Warmbier’s Tragedy to talk about White Male Privilege
Otto Warmbier was a 22-year-old American who, early in 2016 was convicted by a North Korean court of stealing a poster. He was put in a North Korean prison, until he was returned to the US in a coma on … Continue reading
Posted in In the news, Korea, White Privilege
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Everyone Who Reads Rumi in English Should Read This New Yorker Article
Written by Rozina Ali, the article is called “The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi,” and it says something that Iranians I know have been saying for a very long time—something that I learned from them, in fact. … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Islam, Writing
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The Absolute Basics of the US-China-Taiwan Relationship
(A post by Ben Lehman, who many of you will recognize from “Alas” comments. Reprinted from Ben’s facebook, with Ben’s kind permission. The illustration, an 1985 1865 map of China and Taiwan, was chosen by Amp.) PREAMBLE: I’m going to … Continue reading
Posted in International issues
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Let’s Not Pretend Benghazi Was The Only Objection To Clinton’s Libya Policy
Issac Saul, a Bernie supporter who has learned to love Hillary Clinton, writes: Perhaps Clinton’s greatest blemish on her record is the destabilizing of Libya, which led to the Benghazi diplomatic compound attack. Certainly, it was one of the career … Continue reading
Posted in Elections and politics, International issues, Iraq
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Clinton’s Role in the Honduras Coup
Postmarxed writes: Q: What did Hillary to do Honduras? As secretary of state in 2009, she helped orchestrate a coup against a center-left president there, which resulted in a wave of political killings. LGBT activists and peasant activists in particular … Continue reading
YES! THANK YOU! It's been driving me crazy. Though I think I was also combining it on my head with…