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Nuba, Nuer, and Dinka


Darfur is just the latest in military and paramilitary attacks in the name of ethnic cleansing and its terrifying relationship with oil development. The Nuba, Nuer, and Dinka are all minority groups within Sudan that have been terrorized and displaced in the last 20 years of the Sudanese civil war. The Nuba are the most widely known because of German photographer Leni Reifenstahl’s idealized portraits of the historic tribes people. For a complete history, see “Sudan, Oil, and Human Rights” at  film at the Human Rights Watch website.

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Clash of Civilizations theory


Harvard professor Samuel Huntington’s theory for a post-Cold War United States claimed that the “Confucian” states represented by China and the “Islamic” states would unify against the West in a civilization war for the fate of humankind. This theory was heavily criticized by theorist Edward Said for the racial and colonial stereotypes upon which this theory relied. Conservative policy analysts believe 9/11 proves Huntington’s thesis to be correct.

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ITF goes to the Republican National Convention: Day 4


This week InTheFray Visual Consultant Dustin Ross is at the Republic National Convention in New York. Check out the RNC hoopla — through his camera lens!

Here are some photos from Thursday night:

Texas delegates show their support for President Bush

RNC fashion trends

First Lady Laura Bush waves to the crowd

Deep thoughts by President Bush

Let the flag-waving begin

One delegate shows her spirit …

While a New Yorker shows hers just outside the RNC

Secret service agents haul off a protester

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ITF goes just beyond the doors of the Republican National Convention


InTheFray’s Visual Consultant Dustin Ross hit the streets of New York this past Sunday to get a glimpse of the protesters:

Left/right love?

Billionaires for Bush

The word on the street …

The call to return unemployment to its rightful owner

Elephants? What elephants?

A sea of protesters marches through Manhattan

A few Madison Square Garden employees show their true colors in a sea of Republican fervor

Just outside of Madison Square Garden, one poster sums up protesters’ feelings well

Armed and dangerous?

X marks the spot

The truth about Bush

Who said protesting was unpatriotic?

Whose America?

Protesting the protesters

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Quote of note


Real men marry women.

—The fortune inside a fortune cookie handed out at the Republican National Convention by the Family Research Council

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ITF goes to the Republican National Convention: Day 3


This week InTheFray Visual Consultant Dustin Ross is at the Republic National Convention in New York. Check out the RNC hoopla — through his camera lens!

Here are some photos from Wednesday night:

Protesters get a little risque…

A sea of RNC delegates

President Bush and Laura smile for the camera

Texas delegates call for four more years of Bush

Lynne Cheney introduces her husband, Vice President Dick Cheney

Vice President Cheney addresses delegates and reminds them that John Kerry has a history of ‘changing his mind.’

These delegates come ready to party

Hardly a world apart?

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ITF goes to the Republican National Convention: Day 2


This week InTheFray Visual Consultant Dustin Ross is at the Republic National Convention in New York. Check out the RNC hoopla — through his camera lens!

Here are some photos from Tuesday night:

A protester outside the RNC sets the record straight on the Iraq war

Police haul away a protester

Democracy at work?

No protests here: A Bush-backer shows her support for President Bush

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Vice President Dick Cheney share a laugh

No Johns allowed at this convention…

Arnold Schwarzenegger gets into the GOP spirit

A family affair: Two generations of Bushes show their support for the President

President Bush checks in from the campaign trail

First Lady Laura Bush addresses delegates

A young woman shows her support for Bush — and reveals his support for millions of others like her

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ITF goes to the Republican National Convention: Day 1


This week InTheFray Visual Consultant Dustin Ross is at the Republic National Convention in New York. Check out the RNC hoopla — through his camera lens!

Here are some photos from Monday night:

The GOP mascot

A delegate sings the National Anthem

Jenna and Barbara Bush show their true colors

Vice President Dick Cheney and Lynne Cheney wave to the crowd

Cheney claps

A highly-decorated veteran shows his support for U.S. troops

Former President George Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush show their support as well

Actress Angie Harmon and her husband, NFL player Jason Sehorn

Senator John McCain calls for four more years of a Bush administration

9/11 widows recall the losses of their loved ones

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani voices his support for the Bush administration’s war on terrorism

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Quote of note


“Teachers and friends have been understanding about my decision to wear the veil for the past seven years, and I hope they will continue to be sympathetic … Maybe we will be able to compromise eventually on the acceptability of a small bonnet or a bandana, instead. If not, I risk missing the final and most important year of my education.”

Sania, a 17-year-old student in Strasbourg, worries that the French ban on conspicuous religious attire in public schools — which includes Muslim headscarves, Jewish yarmulkes, and large Christian crosses — will effectively curtail her education. Two French journalists, Christian Chesnot from Radio France International and Georges Malbruno from Le Figaro, are being held hostage in Iraq by a group demanding that the French ban on religious attire be rescinded. French government spokesman Jean-Francois Cope tersely and firmly told Canal Plus television station: “The law will be applied.”

—Mimi Hanaoka

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Propaganda wars


“The blood of our husbands and the body parts of our children are our sacrificial offering.”

Eager to capitalize on an expanding Internet audience, Al-Khansa, a new jihadist online magazine directed exclusively at women, incites women to participate in jihad. The BBC cautiously notes that “most of the articles are written as if by women, although it is not clear if they actually were.”

In recent months, governments and political organizations have joined the increasingly desperate scramble to gain a loyal Internet audience; in order to compete with and provide a counterpoint to Hezbollah’s satellite television channel, al-Manar, and the highly popular Qatar-based Al-Jazeera satellite TV station, America now airs the Arabic language Al-Hurra — which means “the free one,” — television network along with Radio Sawa. With Al-Khansa now joining the cacophony of voices, the propaganda wars are steadily escalating.  
  

—Mimi Hanaoka

  

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