I can also recommend Democracy Now http://www.democracynow.org/ they do simply amazing job to provide real news...

Could not have said it better myself....

In part because of the simplicity of its message of how vile have been the police states, monarchies, and theocracies the US's rulers (and previously Britain's) have set up in the Middle East, I would judge this as one of Mark Fiore's better efforts.

Of course, perhaps because of that simplicity, there's no mention in it of the fact that the current "turmoil" was precipitated acutely by a strikek of 40,000 textile workers in Mahalla, Egypt, that was put down brutally by Mubarak. There is in the cartoon mention of the role of the working class in Egypt, or of the repression and physical liquidation of a vibrant leftist / communist movement in the Middle East, generally, by the proxies of the US and Britain, leaving as the only opposition to the US-installed tyrants there the misogynist, homophobic, sadistic, insanely puritanical Abrhamic religious fanatics, such as Khomeni in Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

---marty

Awesome cartoon -- the best in some time.

I agree....

yeppers, been thinkin' this all week. too bad i didn't figure out how to make $ from thinkin like u did, though...

This is wonderful. I've also been glued to Al Jazeera. It perfectly captures our moment in time.

You will have to do another cartoon with all the things happening in Cairo. But that would wait till next week!

This was a very difficult cartoon to finish since I was glued to Al Jazeera's live coverage of Egypt. Today's events forced some changes in the cartoon as well. Finally had to turn everything off and crank out the rest of the toon.

-MF