As news happens, political cartoonists around the globe take up their brush pen or pencil and come up with images and often a few choice words to comment on the events of the day. Each week, The World’s Carol Hills selects a group of cartoons that reflect on issues in the news. For cartoons prior to June 2009, please click here.
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Political cartoons from Bangalore, the city at the heart of India’s IT boom.
The E. coli outbreak: when a cucumber is no longer just a cucumber; what Moammar Gaddafi and FIFA head Sepp Blatter share in common, and Syria’s best known opthalmologist continues his bloody crackdown on dissent.
Suicide bomber belts made of cucumbers; after 16 years, Serbian authorities “find” war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic in his cousin’s house. And in the age of Facebook, a dog ponders what it means to be man’s best friend.
President Obama’s meeting with Queen Elizabeth goes a lot better than his meeting with Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu. Syrian President Bashar Assad continues to turn Arab Spring into a cold and deadly winter. And a clever response to the failed prediction of the rapture: “Well it’s not the end of the world!”
The case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the now former head of the IMF. The charges against him are serious — sexually assaulting a woman who worked as a maid at the New York hotel where he was staying. The visual response by cartoonists around the globe include pigs, King Kong, Tarzan and a man with his pants down.
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President Obama gets a boost from Osama….his death, anyway. The human rights violations of a (now withdrawn) candidate for the UN Human Rights Commission: Syria. Lady Liberty gets frisked, South Africa’s ongoing toilet wars, and The Donald….Duck
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Political cartoonists have used humor and contemplation to comment on the killing of Osama bin Laden. In these cartoons you’ll see everything from baffled Pakistani security officials to long-form death certificates.
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Cartoonists around the globe react to news that al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been killed by US Special Forces in Pakistan. (Cartoon: Cam Cardow, Canada).
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It’s a week of troubled leaders — some clinging to power, others forced out. One so disgraced he was made to parade around in his undershirt. Also, the burka police in France, and Canada’s cheesed off hockey fans.
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Lisa Mullins speaks with The World’s Carol Hills about how political cartoonists around the globe have responded to the tragedy in Japan. They’ve used the red disc on the Japanese flag to convey everything from radiation hazard symbols to mushroom clouds. Download MP3
The Land of the Rising Sun has become for some The Land of Rising Radiation Levels. The aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami has cartoonists morphing the red disc in Japan’s flag into everything from a radiation hazard symbol to a skull.
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The massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan spawn multiple images of a famous Japanese woodblock print. The tangled role of oil in the world’s response to Libya, and the space shuttle Discovery retires into the arms of another beached phenom.
In the wake of Egypt’s successful political revolution, pro-democracy protests continue across the Middle East and North Africa. From Bahrain to Libya, citizens are taking to the the streets and using social media to communicate and coordinate.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced new initiatives to improve cyber-freedom in countries like Iran. Lisa Mullins speaks with Iranian cartoonist and editor Nikahang Kowsar of Khodnevis.org about what the best use of the money would be and how both Iranian online activists and Iranian authorities use social media to thwart each other. Download MP3
