René Magritte The Art of Conversation 1963 Sometimes you best fight fire with fire. This knowledge goes back to the advent of agriculture. Australian aboriginees have used it since as long as their stories of dream time can remember. For Native Americans it was an essential part of their lives. These days, we need Trump to fight the fire of an elite class world power that is a threat to all of us. Be stirring as the time; be fire
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Albert Freeman Effect of gasoline shortage in Washington, DC 1942 • Why Theresa May Is Right To Take A Huge Gamble On Hard Brexit (MW) • Trump Is Waving Adios To The Longstanding ‘Strong Dollar Policy’ (MW) • The Issue Is Not Trump, It’s Us (John Pilger) • Focus Turns To Julian Assange After US Decision To Free Chelsea Manning (G.) • Russia Extends Snowden’s Residency Permit ‘By A Couple Of Years’ (R.) • Putin Mocks Claims That Trump Was
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Arthur Rothstein Texas Panhandle Dust Bowl Mar 1936 • The Cheeto Cometh (Jim Kunstler) • Donald Trump Must Stop Cheering For Brexit, Says Top EU Official (Pol.) • Abolish The CIA (Rozeff) • Theresa May To Confirm UK Exit From EU Single Market (G.) • Corbyn Labeled Russian ‘Collaborator’ for Questioning NATO Troop Build-Up (I’C) • Carney: UK Rates Could Rise Or Fall (BBC) • France Is The Least-Trusted Country In The World (CNBC) • Deutsche Bank Holding Back 90%
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John Collier Japanese restaurant, Monday after Pearl Harbor, San Francisco 1941 • World Could Enjoy Utopian Future With Sustainable Development (Ind.) • The Global Chain That Produces Your Fish (AFP) • Trump Calls NATO Obsolete And Dismisses EU (BBG) • Trump Slams NATO And EU, Prepared To “Cut Ties” With Merkel (ZH) • NATO, Russia, Merkel, Brexit: Trump Unleashes Broadsides On Europe (AFP) • Trump Vows ‘Insurance For Everybody’ In Replacing Obamacare (R.) • CIA Director Warns Trump To Watch
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John Collier Street Corner, Monday after Pearl Harbor, San Francisco 1941 • Trump Team Denies Report Of Meeting With Putin In Iceland (Fox) • Trump is Hand Grenade Thrown by American Working Class Against the System (Sp.) • Americans Overwhelmingly Support Bernie Sanders’ Economic Policies (Salon) • Tulsi Gabbard Has a Bill to Stop the US Arming ISIS (RI) • We Are Getting Worried About Paul Krugman (ZH) • RealVision’s 15 “Killer Charts” For Q1 2017 (ZH) • Aid In
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Arnold Genthe 17th century Iglesia el Carmen, Antigua, Guatemala 1915 • Investors Are Bracing For A Massive Stock-Market Selloff (MW) • Trump Suggests He May Drop Russia Sanctions If Moscow ‘Is Helpful’ (G.) • Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald Discuss Deep State War Vs. Trump (ZPN) • As VW Settles, Probes Open Into Fiat, Renault Emissions Test Cheating (BBG) • Senior VW Managers Warned Not To Travel To US (R.) • Tulsi (Midweek) • Generate Your Own Personalized Insulting Trump
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Rene Burri Alexandria Egypt 1962 2016 brought a lot of changes, or rather, brought them to light. In reality, the world has been changing for many years, but many prominent actors benefitted from the changes remaining hidden. Simply because their wealth and power and worldviews are better served that way. It’s entirely unclear whether we will ever get a chance to see to what extent the efforts to hide developments have been successful, or even been perpetrated at all, because
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Edgar Degas Dancers in Blue 1895 • Assange Agrees To Extradition If US Releases Chelsea Manning (AFP) • China Posts Worst Export Fall Since 2009 As Fears Of US Trade War Loom (R.) • Fiat Chrysler Shares Plunge 13% After EPA Cheat Software Accusation (CNBC) • Wages For Lowest-Paid UK Men Have Been Stagnant For Two Decades (Ind.) • Abolish Central Banks And Slay The Zombies (Planet Ponzi) • WHO Warns Of Outbreak Of Virulent New ‘Economic Reality’ Virus (Steve
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Matisse Icarus 1944 • Trump Slams BuzzFeed As “Failing Pile Of Garbage”, CNN As “Fake News” (ZH) • Scorching Press Conference Shows Trump Won’t Have An Easy Presidency (GT) • Tillerson Says China Can’t Have Access to South China Sea Isles (BBG) • The Deep State Goes to War with President-Elect (Greenwald) • America Versus the Deep State (Jim Kunstler) • 160 Million Americans Can’t Afford To Treat A Broken Arm (BI) • Suddenly, Home Sale Agreements Are Falling Apart
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Dorothea Lange Hoe culture in the South. Poor white, North Carolina 1936 • Trump Said to Be Told of Unverified Russian Intelligence (BBG) • BuzzFeed Publishes Unsubstantiated Report On Trump (G.) • 4Chan Claims To Have Fabricated Anti-Trump Report As A Hoax (ZH) • Michael Cohen: ‘It Is Fake News Meant to Malign Mr. Trump’ (Atlantic) • Tillerson To Face Questions On Russian Ties At Confirmation Hearing (R.) • Meryl Streep, Obama Prosecuted Whistleblowers & Bombed Weddings (Ryan) • Banks
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