To Top
Panels 1-3: Despite a media blackout on these raids and an official denial by an army spokesman, several accounts corroborate the violent evictions: click here, here or here for spanish coverage.
Panels 1-3: Supporting evidence again thanks to Joe Shansky’s article, Killing Activists in Honduras, published in Upside Down World and on his website.
If you can’t wait to read the rest of this final installment of the Honduran Coup, the complete third part is now up online at the Huffington Post. Please leave a comment or RT the link.
In the meantime, become an Archcomix fan or pre-order your Honduran coup comic for $5 plus shipping if you haven’t already – pre-orders close in the next 5 hours.
Panels 1-4: Supporting evidence again thanks to Joe Shansky’s article, Killing Activists in Honduras, published in Upside Down World and on his website.
The big news you’ve all been waiting for – the whole final installment of the Honduran Coup is now up online at the Huffington Post. Please leave a comment or RT the link.
In the meantime, become an Archcomix fan or pre-order your Honduran coup comic for $5 plus shipping if you haven’t already.
Panels 1-3: Supporting evidence thanks to Joe Shansky’s article, Killing Activists in Honduras, published in Upside Down World and on his website.
The big news you’ve all been waiting for should be announced in a few hours time.
In the meantime, become an Archcomix fan or pre-order your Honduran coup comic for $5 plus shipping if you haven’t already.
Panels 1-4: The COFADEH report can be viewed here.
I also have some big news that you can play a part in. I’ll post it on Monday, so be sure to come back and see how you can get involved.
And if you haven’t already…
Become an Archcomix fan or order a copy of the Honduran coup comic – less than a week left for pre-orders.
Join the ongoing debate about the future of journalism in these technology-obsessed times, courtesy of authors Robert McChesney and John Nichols and their new book, The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again. The authors argue for increased government subsidies (like in the Old World) to support the US media and encourage a free press to combat the growing spectre of coporate dominance of content providers, best exemplified by Comcast’s takeover bid for NBC. It’s currently being reviewed to see if it complies with anti-trust laws, though seeing as Comcast currently provides 24m homes with cable, 16m with internet and will suddenly be granted cable networks such as Telemundo, MSNBC and Bravo, TV shows such as Jay Leno’s, regional stations such as Washington’s WRC (Channel 4), and Universal movie studios, it’s clearly a step towards massive media consolidation. Not to mention posing a big threat to net neutrality. How do you feel about it? Leave a comment below.
In other news, the first ever Tea Party convention is currently taking place in Nashville, proving that the right can actually mobilise and protest with just as much (perhaps even more) vitriol than the left. For those outside the US bubble unfamiliar with the trend, it’s essentially a grass roots organization against what they perceive as Obama’s socialist agenda (forcing healthcare, tax hikes and increased state control on an unsuspecting populace). Personally, I think it’s great to see more people engaged in the political process, standing up for what they believe in. Unless, of course, they aren’t so sure why they have those beliefs in the first place – see this video of their march to the White House last year.
One reason, Dr David Runciman argues, that people can feel so passionately against measures that are designed to help them is that they have fallen for the narrative of a specific agenda, despite its lack of substantiating evidence. For more, read this article from the BBC on how interesting stories can speak to voters more than facts and figures, courtesy of Steve Bissette.
Yet further proof that we need to rethink the way news content and information is presented – comics journalism, anyone? Speaking of which, if you haven’t already, you need to check out legendary comics journalist Joe Sacco‘s latest graphic opus, Footnotes in Gaza – a devastating piece of comics journalism form on Israeli policy towards Palestinians in the occupied territories, as well as an investigation of historical truth.
And last but not least comes the news of a corruption scandal at the heart of the world’s second largest arm manufacturer (the UK’s own BAE), and the £300m it has been forced to pay out in compensation. Check out the Guardian and the Serious Fraud Office’s combined efforts to bring the company to justice over the past 30 years here. Remember my Jan 28th post about Attorney General Goldsmith from the Chilcot Inquiry? Turns out he was once again silenced by Tony Blair, this time when it came to investigating BAE’s £43bn al-Yamamah fighter plane sales to Saudi Arabia. Which was on a par with the sale of a hi-tech military radar system to poverty-stricken Tanzania. Naturally, both cases were of the utmost concern to the respective parties’ national security.
Panel 1: Direct quote from Hillary Clinton on the State dept website.
Panel 2: Read the COFADEH report here.
And if you haven’t already…
Become an Archcomix fan or order a copy of the Honduran coup comic – less than a week left for pre-orders.
I don’t think I was alone in finding Barack Obama’s nuclear change of heart a little odd, and more than a little hypocritical. Let’s skip back to December, and his Nobel Peace Prize address. Which, incidentally, made him one of the few prize winners to argue for war in his acceptance speech: “To say that force is sometimes necessary is not a call to cynicism – it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason”. When it comes to waging war, reason will apparently only take you so far. Presumably after that it’s intuition, or maybe divine inspiration – we need only look back to the former President for that, courtesy of the Independent UK.
But I digress. The important thing here is Obama’s policy towards nuclear weapons, which incidentally was the reason he was awarded the Nobel in the first place. Here he is again: “One urgent example is the effort to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, and to seek a world without them. I am committed to upholding this treaty. And I am working with President Medvedev to reduce America and Russia’s nuclear stockpiles.” That was December 2009. Hence the double-take when he announced in the latest budget that the agency responsible for the US’ nuclear weapons stockpile would receive a 13.4% increase from the previous fiscal year, totalling $11.2 billion. Granted, some of that would go towards controlling and securing existing nuclear warheads, but then there’s also “plans to go to full production of the refurbished Navy W-76 Trident submarine warhead, to refurbish the B-61 bomb, and to study options for maintaining the W-78, the warhead in the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile.”
Coincidentally, in the same month that this nuclear leap was taken, one of the lone survivors of both of the 1945 atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Tsutomo Yamaguchi, died aged 93. Amazingly, he was within the designated ground zero area (3km from the blast) for both. The students of the Stanford Graphic Novel Project have chosen his incredible testimony as the basis for their graphic novel, and the first few pages were excitedly written on Monday. To get a sense of the unbelievably apocalyptic level of destruction in Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the bombs dropped, check out this recent NPR podcast with the author of Last Train from Hiroshima, a collection of survivor testimonies.
In other news, the Independent World Report is running my Diego Garcia comic in their latest issue, but you can check it out here. And there’s only a week to get your pre-orders for the Honduran coup comic in! See the widget to the right and spread the word.
Panel 2: For disputes on the legality of the coup and Zelaya’s supposed infraction of the Honduran Constitution, see the first part of the graphic history as well as the legal evidence here.
Panel 3: Go here for a list of such principles outlined by the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Geneva.
You can still pre-order your own 32p hard copy comic of the Honduran Coup here – $5 plus shipping (US – $2, rest of the world $4)
