The World’s Carol Hills picks out her favorite political cartoons from the past week. In this episode: polar bears float on ever-receding floating ice chunks; Copenhagen climate change delegates blow a lot of hot air; the Nobel Peace Prize winner wears Army fatigues, and the sexy new look of Tiger Woods’ golf clubs.
Yodeling imams, exhausted camels, unwanted guests, and this week at least, the most recognizable member of the world’s charismatic megafauna: Tiger.
Some unexpected images in this week’s cartoons: Oprah’s a saint, Silvio Berlusconi’s a rock star, Israeli settlements are freezing, and the most ubiquitous image on television is a pig.
Afghan President Hamed Kharzai has the last laugh in this week’s cartoons. He literally thumbs his nose at the rest of us. Meanwhile, President Obama tries to keep the embattled president on message. And, the H1N1 flu is living up to its pandemic image. It’s everywhere!
Balloon boy made a lasting impression on cartoonists all over the world. It conjured images as familiar as a ballooning deficit and as unusual as the Afghan election being carried away in a balloon.
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Each week, The World’s Carol Hills produces a slideshow of some of the best in global political cartoons. Some make her laugh, some make her cry, and some just leave her scratching her head and going, “huh?” So this week, she gets help from cartoonist Daryl Cagle, the daily editorial cartoonist for MSNBC. Cagle also likes to look at how artists from the far reaches of the globe do their work. Download MP3
The Iranian president becomes the Joe Wilson of the UN General Assembly meeting. The real ‘Mad Men’? They’re in the Middle East. And nuclear weapons — the actual weapons — find the idea of disarming, well, disarming.
This week’s cartoons is show how difficult it is for President Obama to heal the US health care system, discipline Wall Street, or satisfy his European allies. We also see Israel defend itself against a UN report and who needs new footwear? The just-freed Iraqi shoe thrower.
President Obama’s hard sell on healthcare reform inspired a number of cartoonists this week. They also offer some visual thoughts on the increasingly suspect vote in Afghanistan, the health of embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe even the Beatles remastered.
Afghans went to the polls this week and international cartoonists felt compelled to comment about it. You’ll see plenty of burkas, and Kalashnikovs, often in the same image. The cartoons are somber, poignant, provocative and deeply irreverent.
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Each week, The World brings you the best in political cartooning from across the globe. In this week’s cartoon slideshow, artists take aim at Afghanistan’s upcoming elections, the continued detention of Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi, and those noisy town hall meetings about health care reform in the United States.
The World’s Carol Hills profiles the jazz quartet, Babik. The group is from Buffalo, New York, but their musical inspiration is Belgian-born jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. And for today’s Geo Quiz, we were looking for the European city currently hosting a rock festival called “Exit.” The answer is Novi Sad in Serbia. Listen
The World’s Carol Hills profiles the jazz quartet, Babik. The group is from Buffalo, New York, but their musical inspiration is from the life of jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.
Europe features large in this week’s political cartoons. We see President Obama and Russian President Medvedev try to flatter and dare each other into reducing their nuclear arsenals and this year’s G8 summit host, Italian president Silvio Berlusconi, appears to be preoccupied with his life outside of government. In other images, Sarah Palin has a plan to get to the White House and Barack Obama embraces his own plan to gradually withdraw from Iraq.
