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Apparently Trump has made an impression on the Danish cartoonists...

Cartoons are supposed to be funny... but sometimes they're not.

David Horsey says it all

Update:  This one too:

How others see us right now

Cartoons of Donald Trump from around the world.

How to react to the killings in Paris

Juan Cole has excellent advice.  Apparently getting incensed and invading the wrong country is not the way to do it.  Overreacting and blaming innocent and law abiding Muslims is not the way either because it plays straight into Al-Qaeda's plans.

What happened in Paris.  The supposed reasons.  How the cartoonists are reacting.  French police have zeroed in on three men responsible for the attack.

Nice to be right

Always.

Teaching the vocabulary of Teabaggery

Can you imagine getting death threats over such a cartoon? JJ of Unrepentant Old Hippie has the fascinating story.

Update: Steve Benen of the Washington Monthly discusses the fissures in the various Teabaggery groups.

In response to the New Yorker's Obama cover

David Horsey draws a picture.

Update 7/17: Chet Scoville of Vanity Press has the best compilation of links and quotes about this cartoon I've seen yet.

While the U.S. warmongering media focuses on Iran

The rest of the world sees us as the new Nazis: (cartoon mentioned linked at bottom.)

Sadly, there are strong resemblances between the current anti-Iran propaganda in the US media and that of the Third Reich. As a case in point, the cartoon by Ramirez mentioned above is analogous to the Nazi propaganda film Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew), which showed maps of Europe teeming with rats and included the following script: "Whenever rats appear they bring ruin ... just like the Jews among human beings."

This recalls what sociologist Ervin Goffman has referred to as media's "framing" ability, ie, "labeling" the hostile other, in the Nazi case the Jews and in the current case the Iranians, as sub-human candidates for extermination, subjected first to a combined intense animosity and ritual humiliation through shame and ridicule.

Indeed, it is axiomatic that extreme prejudice, propagated through a gratuitously offensive media campaign, goes hand in hand with war fever. Political cartoons mirror political discourses, and pro-US-administration cartoonists such as Ramirez are now helping with the media mob lynching of Iran. That the mainstream US media publish such extremely offensive and racist visual images of Iran and Iranians, worthy of the notorious Nazi paper Der Stuermer, speaks volumes about the obscene anti-Iran climate sweeping the US today.

Here is the cartoon in question.

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Religious wars as the new Survivor series

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