This week, the editors return to Carol Squiers’s “Special Effects: The News and Its Pictures,” from the summer 1988 issue, in which the writer-curator takes a closer look at a newspaper image from occupied Palestine and sees the many forces documented therein.
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’s website is currently featuring a portfolio of images by Activestills, a collective of Palestinian, Israeli, and international photographers that has been documenting the violence in the Gaza Strip since 2005.
Images are necessarily documents, but what an image documents of course extends far beyond its frame. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Carol Squiers periodically wrote a column for
Biden Should Stop Payment on U.S. Funds to Sisi’s Egypt (Image by CODEPINK)
By Ariel Gold and Medea Benjamin
Under Donald Trump’s presidency, Egypt, as well as Saudi Arabia, Israel, the UAE, and other repressive regimes, had virtually free reign to commit unchecked human rights abuses without worry that they might be chastised or lose U.S. diplomatic and financial support. But when Joe Biden won the 2020 election, President Sisi of Egypt started to worry. That’s when he contracted lobbying powerhouse Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck for $65,000 a month.
The pro-Cairo lobby team includes a number of former politicians, including former Republican congressman Ed Royce, who chaired the influential Foreign Affairs Committee from 2013-2018. The most shocking PR agent for the Egyptian regime, however, is Nadeam Elshami, former chief of staff for House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. “It’s inconceivable that a man who spent his younge
When Biden won the election, Sisi of Egypt started to worry US aid to Egypt would be cut, so he hired lobbying powerhouse Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck for $65,000 a month.