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Did you see the one about the Bulgarian street artists who used a little color to repurpose a public monument commemorating the Soviet takeover of their country in 1944 into a cartoonish visual joke?
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By Richard Schickel — Sorry about this—a 10-best list dragging along in the wake of all the others, which began appearing around Halloween. And it isn’t even a nice round 10 in number. I could come up with only six movies this year. I have my excuses. [Pictured above, Werner Herzog, director of “Into the Abyss.”]
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 NIMATARADJI | photography (CC-BY)
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By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch —
Usually at year’s end, we’re supposed to look back at events just passed—and forward, in prediction mode, to the year to come. But just look around you! This moment is so extraordinary that it has hardly registered.
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The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize went to three women in a move the Nobel committee hopes will highlight the importance that women play in achieving world peace.
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On Wednesday, President Obama gave a speech to the United Nations General Assembly. His message—that Palestinians should return to the peace negotiations of 1979—seemingly contradicted his speech from a year ago.
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Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, Politicalcartoons.com —
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Olle Johansson, Cagle Cartoons, Sweden —
Posted on Mar 21, 2011
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Jiho, Cagle Cartoons, France —
Posted on Mar 18, 2011
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Frederick Deligne, Cagle Cartoons, Nice-Matin, France —
Posted on Mar 14, 2011
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Mar 12, 2011
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Pavel Constantin, Cagle Cartoons, Romania —
Posted on Mar 11, 2011
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Daryl Cagle, Cagle Cartoons, MSNBC.com —
Posted on Mar 6, 2011
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
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Dario Castillejos, Cagle Cartoons, Dario La Crisis —
Posted on Feb 25, 2011
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Peter Broelman, Cagle Cartoons, Australia —
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Frederick Deligne, Cagle Cartoons, Nice-Matin, France —
Posted on Dec 28, 2010
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Jeff Parker, Cagle Cartoons, Florida Today —
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Hamid Karzai and NATO would like Afghan forces to take over the country’s security by 2014, a goal Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell calls “aspirational,” as in “There may very well be the need for forces to remain in-country ... ” (more jibber-jabber after the jump)
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With the last American combat brigade pulling out of Iraq this week, the U.S. is turning much of the security effort there over to a small army of civilian contractors under the State Department.
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President Barack Obama on Monday announced his proposed 2011 budget, which includes boosted spending for creating jobs and waging wars, a potential tax on big banks, funding for infrastructure on the state and city levels ... and a whopping $1.6 trillion deficit for the fiscal year.
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