Below the fold, tweets on Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and more. Also a little art.
Above, portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray. Read more about the painting at Pauline’s Pirates and Privateers, English Heritage, and at Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal.

As war returns to #Zawiya #Libya, rewind to March report Alex Crawford, Sky j.mp/f8tzet and @jrug 1 month later bit.ly/iflfDm

@
Fighting in #Zawiya #Libya Coastal road closed west of Tripoli. Crucial supply line for regime WSJ.com on.wsj.com/iDNixW via @librev2011

@
MT @elrob Terry Eagleton, Odium & the Stasi - @TimHarford goo.gl/OLptF MT @MrPaulStott Terry E & a private US uni bit.ly/maUa5D

by kelliestrom
Cubist ceramic cats made by Louis Wain http://flic.kr/p/9Sp9Ve http://flic.kr/p/9Ss2VL

Guardian: stories of massacre by #Syria wounded in #Turkey - #Iran forces accused guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun… by @martinchulov & @rachelstevenson

by kelliestrom
The Bob From Brockley Daily is out! http://bit.ly/fqxgxu ▸ Top stories today via @kelliestrom @bickerrecord @londonreview @ibishblog

by kelliestrom
Updated @thelede post includes more dramatic video of protests and clashes in Syria on Friday http://nyti.ms/kUWU7F

Beautiful, fantastic, and grotesque drawings by Sidney Sime monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2011/06/sidney… thanks to @AeronAlfrey

#ff #Syria @SyriansHand @MalathAumran @LeShaque Sifting & RTing: @_x4o @Kempo50 @acarvin @EANewsFeed More: bit.ly/kfCoC4 Suggestions?

@
@chrisalbon @bungdan When anyone can get their own drone, suicide bombers are going to seem so old-fashioned.


by kelliestrom
Not sure this revelation leaves Sy Hersh's "Iran doesn't want nukes" NYer piece from last week in a terribly good light goo.gl/v67tG

@
@ThinkStrat The @prospect_uk piece is from Sept'09. In Sept'10 they ran a cover:"Meet the Taliban - Not as bad as you think". And next Sept?

by kelliestrom
Which country takes the most refugees? Probably not who you think. http://bit.ly/lXdHBW

by kelliestrom
Sketches from 1970 Black Panther trials http://is.gd/8E9ipB

by kelliestrom
The Ben Gidley Weekly is out! http://bit.ly/gjpuRf ▸ Top stories today via @brockleycentral @opendemocracy @comm_links @heindehaas

EANewsFeed EA WorldView
by kelliestrom
"Body after body" of killed and injured rebels near #Misrata, #Libya http://bit.ly/jO31SH #p2 #tcot #Arabspring #NATO

by kelliestrom
Awesome sign in Libya: “WE WANT A COUNTRY OF INSTITUTIONS” tnr.com/article/world/…

by kelliestrom
Ken Livingstone says Boris's top aide is like Ratko Mladic blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewgil… via @JamesCleverly

Picturebook & trickfilm #ff @ianarchiebeck @AeronAlfrey @kraftgenie @50WattsDotCom @cartoonbrew @punkyscudmonkey & more bit.ly/msuBG8

Argy bargy #ff @modernityblog @markoah @OliverKamm @OpheliaBenson @fleshisgrass @bobfrombrockley @MaxDunbar1 and more bit.ly/mdcIEc

Pirate Pauline today on Dido, late of this locality bit.ly/ly4liJ Saw a good exhibit on her at Kenwood Hse in '07 bit.ly/mjcP1j

@
Many #Libya money stories today feb17.info no wonder China's repositioning MT @feb17libya The Post-Gaddafi Boom bit.ly/jHMx1Y

"Counterpunch is, er, controversial" - a Wikipedia nightmare, by @bobfrombrockley - bit.ly/mwPeUC

@
@ianarchiebeck Mine eyeballs vvill be poised to pounce!

by kelliestrom
The ongoing appeasement of Assad is emboldening him. A UN condemnation says more about what the UN can't do #Syria

Gita Sahgal on rape in war, and on ICC Libya investigation http://www.libyafeb17.com/2011/06/video-bbc-rape-is-used-as-a-weapon-of-war/

by kelliestrom
In Visegrad 1992. http://wp.me/p4XPG-3tw

@
Business minded realism RT @blakehounshell China leaning toward the Libyan TNC af.reuters.com/article/libyaN…

acarvin Andy Carvin
by kelliestrom
'Gay Girl In Damascus:' A Personal Friend Sifts Through What's Real http://n.pr/iMEpkY #amina

@
A sound plan MT @AeronAlfrey ... now to make a short horror comic with dungeons, floating ghoul heads and an assortment of maniac beasts.

Young @ianarchiebeck blogging since March only, but already the archive overwhelms. Here selected works by John Held Jr http://bit.ly/mkQhou

by kelliestrom
RT @BBCWorld: 1,000 Syrians crossed into Turkey overnight, raising total nbr of refugees in country to 1,600, Turkish official to AP

by kelliestrom
The Bob From Brockley Daily is out! http://bit.ly/eSvqH7 ▸ Top stories today via @bickerrecord @martinbright @lindasgrant @goldsmithsucu

by kelliestrom
New large attack launched against Misrata right now and the city has come under heavy shelling - #libya #feb17 - goo.gl/yVhCx

alphaleah Leah McElrath
by kelliestrom
#SYRIA : Pics of Syrian-Amer Blogger Called into Question on.wsj.com/iMepSc We'll see how this plays out. Until then #FreeAmina

channel4news Channel 4 News
by kelliestrom
Libyan Eman al-Obeidi's treatment in Qatar "outrageous", #c4news learns: http://bit.ly/kVQXgT

by kelliestrom
Here's @glinner on that v weird @r4today discussion. Makes good points about manufactured disagreement: http://goo.gl/jmGvu HT @bengoldacre

intelwire J.M. Berger
by kelliestrom
This is quite the correction, and quite the cautionary tale about Twitter http://intelwire.net/jxOqZD

@
MT @bobfrombrockley George Galloway's Denial of Tiananmen Square azarmehr.blogspot.com/2011/06/gallow… 57000 useful idiots on Galloway fan page, by @potkazar

An Iranian's experience of dealing with Turkish staff at the US Embassy in Ankara http://bit.ly/j9jbhG - #jobsworth #kafka

Listening To Afghans For A Change - Terry Glavin post on Letters to my Daughters, book by Fawzia Koofi http://bit.ly/mtu5Pw - #Afghanistan

Cycling in South London with Toulouse-Lautrec http://tinyurl.com/6bxqhe4 via The @bobfrombrockley Daily http://bit.ly/eSvqH7

@
@blakehounshell @tomgara Core of story is trade goes on wherever possible. Not surprise, in Blitz some firebombs recovered 'Made in UK 1938'

Our lives avoided tragedy http://tigerloaf.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/pantoum-of-the-great-depression/ Simply by going on and on

Reuters: Gaddafi aides present car crash baby as NATO victim feb17.info/news/gaddafi-a… via @Feb17Libya No evidence 4 regime claims on NATO deaths

JustAmira Amira Al Hussaini
by kelliestrom
Syria: ‘Gay Girl in Damascus' Seized globalvoicesonline.org/2011/06/06/syr… via @globalvoices #Amina #FreeAmina

Rex Whistler jacket art for Seven Gothic Tales http://bit.ly/kPgLXX compare Penguin cropped version http://amzn.to/lrfv6o via @ianarchiebeck

Hell is in the head: 1920s Boris Aronson designs for the Yiddish Unser Theater, the Bronx http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/?p=2653

Irish nationalism's part in history of submarine war http://www.hnsa.org/ships/fenian.htm More: http://www.submarine-history.com/NOVAtwo.htm

@
John Pilger & Rwanda via @MaxDunbar1 @OliverKamm added to the Pilger link list http://airforceamazons.blogspot.com/2009/10/pilger-links.html

by kelliestrom
Does John Pilger endorse Rwanda genocide deniers? A genocide PhD asks tiny.cc/qjwxy /via @OliverKamm

by kelliestrom
@
@blakehounshell @azelin speaking of high journalism there is this from the NYT http://nyti.ms/lQmtxU lampooned here http://bit.ly/jj3ZbG

Great collection of historical submarine plans: http://www.heiszwolf.com/subs/plans/plans.html - includes first German U-boat, U1 from 1906.

by kelliestrom
Note to all those partisans tweeting on Israel or the Palestinians: you're unfailingly making me sympathize with the other side.

Sietske in Shatila to get Palestinian recipes http://bit.ly/m34Fb2 and from 2007, Right of Return (to Nahr el-Bared) http://bit.ly/lEb2hp

@
.@fleshisgrass US do something, is bad. US do nothing, is bad. That's "critical analysis" by "the 82 year old has been" http://bit.ly/mvJ60x

by kelliestrom
@
@kelliestrom "wars unnoticed" huh. Well Chomsky can take a lot of credit for that. Peace prize winner my arse.

Prof Chomsky's unfailing courage rewarded with hand-made glass trophy, lots of money, slap up meal http://bit.ly/mvJ60x via @johnpaulpagano

@
Peace is distant prospect as Chomsky spends more time catching up with friends' enviable lifestyle, via @johnpaulpagano http://bit.ly/mvJ60x

Apaches & @WilliamJHague in Benghazi: "..there isn't a political solution that involves Gaddafi being at head of Libya" gu.com/p/2phad/tw

Oscar Grillo improves upon Constant Permeke's binocular art http://bit.ly/lC327R Sometimes it's good the other way too http://bit.ly/mydhuh

Gathering #Yemen tweets http://www.curated.by/meedan/yemen - and as ever see @acarvin for more retweets.

by kelliestrom
So now it's confirmed that #Saleh has gone to #Saudi for treatment. Are #Yemenis celebrating or too early? May he never return!!

Following 1 June tweet, more on Paul Julian and his art for The Hangman by Maurice Ogden http://bit.ly/kq82zS at end of today's Splog post.

by kelliestrom
NTC will support the aspirations of the Palestinian people to achieve their inalienable rights & desires to establish an independent state

by kelliestrom
Mr. Levy was received as a Special Envoy from the President of France & relations with Israel were never discussed in meetings with #NTC

by kelliestrom

by kelliestrom
@NTC_of_Libya responding to BHL's claim that he delivered msg from rebels to Bibi that they wld normalize ties http://tinyurl.com/3j5ffmv

@
Like that too: "UCU and the siren call of “my enemy’s enemy” MT @rob_marchant a link to my own piece (from LabourList) http://bit.ly/iwdGE1

From Ukraine to Russia to The Daily Mail - Mick Hartley on "The Chain of Misinformation, or How Journalism Works " http://bit.ly/liiSOz

@

@
Substantial worthwhile read RT @rob_marchant One last #ff @bengidley and a plug for his fine article on UCU and racism http://bit.ly/iCwAgb.

GoshComics Gosh! Comics
by kelliestrom
Speaking of lovely objects, we've also got copies of Two Sentences by our own @barnabydraws & Tanya Meditzky! http://bit.ly/inMprf

by kelliestrom
Former Spy Chief Questions Israeli Leaders’ Judgment http://nyti.ms/isfTLP

Anti-Taliban networking in Afghanistan http://transmontanus.blogspot.com/2011/06/green-is-colour.html

@
@abumuqawama Yes but, no but! Now if you'd written "I fail to see what regime type in Syria & Egypt SHOULD have to do with.. "

by kelliestrom
New post, with recommended reading, on the UCU anti-Semitism debacle: http://martininthemargins.blogspot.com/2011/06/moving-goalposts.html

@
Four by Francis Wheen from 1998-2000, reminder of some views on left & right in UK during Bosnia war http://bit.ly/mlcWmj via @hurryupharry

by kelliestrom
The Bob From Brockley Daily is out! http://bit.ly/eSvqH7 ▸ Top stories today via @madammiaow @kirkleesunity @deptforddame @contraryletters

Jeepster http://youtu.be/8wOsOsGIndc remixed with pix from Jackie - particularly like the ending.

Uses for junk mail - drawings by John Cuneo http://www.drawger.com/johncuneo/?article_id=12306

Polish edition of Erich Kästner's The 35th of May with illustrations by Bohdan Butenko http://www.book.hipopotamstudio.pl/?p=2390 via @drawn

From 1964, moody animation art by Paul Julian for The Hangman http://one1more2time3.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/paul-julian-9/

@
Hey ho. RT @SmithSofia @kelliestrom would you like to get blocked too? I read it and strongly disagree! Do not message me again!

@
@SmithSofia What did you disagree with? Any particular point of fact?

@
Pity you didn't read the link & respond. http://wp.me/p4XPG-3gM RT @SmithSofia @modernityblog You are blocked modernity blog! (@Dima_Khatib)

jilliancyork Jillian C. York
by kelliestrom
My latest for Index on Censorship » The dark side of the Syrian internet indexoncensorship.org/2011/06/the-da…

by kelliestrom
The Bob From Brockley Daily is out! http://bit.ly/eSvqH7 ▸ Top stories today via @goldsmithsucu @kenanmalik @bickerrecord @potkazar

Two from The Fat Man on #Libya: "Cassandras" http://bit.ly/kjg0Iz and "It's really all about..." http://bit.ly/lmiztE

@
Ready for helicopters: RT @fieldproducer Guardian: SAS veterans helping NATO identify Gaddafi targets in Misrata http://bit.ly/iRX7uw #Libya
No comments:
Post a comment