Category: International cartoons

Haiti, this is the first time I ever thought about you.

Gary Markstein from gocomics.com

But now I’ll never forget you. The story and images coming from Haiti after the earthquake were so shocking  and grievous that it didn’t even occur to me to do a cartoon about it. I felt that tragedies like  this couldn’t be summed up in an image or drawing. More importantly, that cartoonists would be [...]

Making raw meat into Obama’s War Team.

When Presidents decide war is a good idea, what ARE they thinking?

One cartoon, two versions, about a shocking event in 2009 – President Obama deciding to continue the war. Wow.
I missed the 60 Minutes interview the LA Times is talking about here. (Is that show still on the air?)
Discussing in strikingly personal terms his order to escalate the war in Afghanistan, President Obama said Sunday that [...]

How Democrats cheer themselves up.

the discouraged Democrats Club

For the Friday before Thanksgiving, one of my favorite cartoons this year!!

You know who inspired me to do this cartoon? Two liberal cartoonists, Ted Rall and Rob Tornoe.  Ted writes about the war and other things making him itchy about Obama – he’s just not a fan this year! And Rob has issues with gay [...]

I support Swiss Miss and off-shore bank accounts!

IRS scares people into giving up Swiss bank accounts

Today was tough. I couldn’t find anything I wanted to do a cartoon about!

Then I read this. According to Yahoo News:
Some 14,700 rich Americans, worried about a stepped-up U.S. crackdown on offshore tax cheats, have turned themselves in under the government’s amnesty program.
The Swiss Justice Department said it would hand over the names of wealthy [...]

Torture in Gitmo, and Tasers in the USA.

Police discuss torture with tasers

Nancy Pelosi seems so far away now, doesn’t she? There was a story that didn’t last long. Or tptb buried it! Yet it was just last month…
I’m sure she did know about the CIA tortures in Guantanamo Bay. Politico says she did. She was probably only given a few details, and didn’t quite understand it: [...]

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