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Global Political Cartoons: January 16 – 22, 2010
The World’s Carol Hills reviews the news through political cartoons. This week: Lots of hands. Some reaching out from Haiti, others reaching back in with food, medical supplies, promises of food and medical supplies, lots TV equipment and US soldiers. Also, the Google-China standoff and one year on, President Obama is no longer walking on water. He’s sinking.
Global Political Cartoons: December 26, 2009 – January 1, 2010
The World’s Carol Hills reviews the week’s news through political cartoons from around the globe. This week it’s out with the old and in with the new as we begin 2010. The new in question appears to be an obsession with airport security, a shaky Iran, and an even shakier economy.
Global political cartoons: October 24-30, 2009
Halloween has found its way into this week’s cartoons but the scary images are not witches or goblins but pumpkins wearing face masks and sneezing trick-or-treaters. It’s the ghostly spirit of the H1N1 flu. And, the new sexy: hand sanitizers.
Dutch cartoon trial
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An Arab organization is to be put on trial in the Netherlands over its publication of a cartoon which questions the Holocaust. The Arab European League (AEL) said the decision to prosecute illustrated bias against Muslims. It said the same standards were not applied to the Dutch politician Geert Wilders (pictured), who made a film including cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The World’s Gerry Hadden reports. Download MP3Cartoon tensions in the Netherlands
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Prosecutors in the Netherlands say they will charge an Arab cultural group for hate crimes because of a cartoon on their website which has offended Jewish groups. Arab groups say prosecutors are guilty of double standards. The World’s Gerry Hadden reports.
Global Political Cartoons: August 22-28, 2009
Cartoonists around the world mark the passing of another Kennedy and what it may mean for his favorite issue: reforming healthcare. The CIA comes in for some dark caricatures after this week’s report detailing aggressive forms of interrogation. So does Libya for its warm reception of one of its own: the terminally sick (and to many sickening) convicted Lockerbie bomber.
Latest Edition: April 20, 2009
Today on The World: A walkout at the UN conference on racism during a speech by Iran’s president; Iran’s chief judge orders a judicial appeal for an Iranian-American journalist jailed for alleged espionage; and Japanese salary men trade in their business suits for farming tools.
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