President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011.” (A classified document in the middle of the shot has been obscured.)
See the rest of the May 1 set here.
Based on two true stories and a bit of forward thinking, Three Big Pigs combines Angry Birds animation with Disney melodies to walk us through the fate of three Arab League leaders.
Excellent, excellent article on the not-so-extreme Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
(Source: 9gag)
THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.
THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.
THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.
Female would-be Afghan lawmakers attend a protest in front of the Afghan Presidential palace in Kabul, September 7, 2011. Hundreds of supporters of would-be Afghan lawmakers, declared winners by a court by losers by an election body, blocked a main junction in downtown Kabul, the latest scence in a long-running political crisis.
(Ahmad Masood/Reuters)
(Source: frompalestinewithlove, via verbalresistance)
Israeli soldiers march during prayers in the Old city of Jerusalem - Palestine 9/2010
Excellent, excellent article on the not-so-extreme Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.
THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.
THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.
