Cartoons: From Riots to Christmas
After rioting between white Australians and Muslim immigrants resulted in scores of arrests this month in Sydney, Bill Leake of The Australian had his own take on the subsequent debate about multiculturalism and racism that raged in the country's media:
The news that President Bush had authorized surveillance of international phone calls without court approval had Peter Brookes of The Times of London seeing American eavesdropping closer to home:
Mexican politicians and cartoonists reacted caustically after the U.S. House of Representatives approved a plan to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border last week. El Fisgon, graphic artist for the leftist newspaper La Jornada, suggested the American government might need some help getting the wall built:

"We have a problem. To build an anti-immigrant wall, we need to hire a thousand illegals." (El Fisgon/La Jornada/Mexico)
As the Christmas shopping season hurtled toward the actual holiday, Rayma, cartoonist for the Venezuelan daily El Universal, captured the hemispheric-wide sense that perhaps something was lost along the way:

"Did you lose your keys?" says the man. "No, the spirit of Christimas," says the kid. (Rayma/El Universal/Venezuela)
World Opinion Roundup is going on vacation. The column will return on Jan. 3. Happy holidays!
By Jefferson Morley |
December 23, 2005; 9:15 AM ET
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Posted by: SpeakoutforDemocracy | December 23, 2005 10:01 AM
R.S. or Mr. Armchair Psychiatrist, as you like to call yourself. I saw your posting where you stated I must have an inferiority complex from living in America's shadow. You volunteered to be my Psychiatrist.
Here is my response:
R.S. I agree that when I am running with thoughts that the first thing that goes is the punctuation. I hope you are not offended because I know it is not what you say, but how it is written that is important.
I promise I will try to keep my run on sentences to a minimum, if you promise to drop the Armchair Psychiatry.
My inferiority complex, which you mentioned, is from years of living in a functioning democracy. It is too damn quiet up here; no name calling, demagogary, or bullet dodging. Everyone says please and thank you very much.
Everyone is so damn nice. All that kitten saving, free speech, and love thy neighbour crap. My problem Mr. Armchair Psychiatrist is where is the self righteousness that makes you Americans so strong and bold. Real Arnold Schwartzenager stuff.
I was raised to be polite to other's opinions, that Canadians are not a group of individuals but a community. Can you believe that crap Mr. Armchair Psychiatrist. I am so insecure that if I could scream I would, but I don't want to jar the nice Canadians sitting next to me.
I want to be tough too Mr. Armchair Psychiatrist. I called an exorcist to remove the run on sentences but he was too nice, he said,"Do not be ashamed my dear Canadian, what is of you is good. I cannot remove that quirky characteristic because it is part of who you are. "See what I mean about the niceness. I call it treacle terrorism, they are killing me with kindness.
What next Mr. Armchair Psychiatrist? I know you have no insecurity, but I am riddled with it. Please help me be tough like you, or pretty please as they say in Canada. I know how debillitating that niceness is, and that eventually it will eat at me like government rot must eat at you.
Posted by: SpeakoutforDemocracy | December 29, 2005 08:15 AM
I was amazed by the ignorance evident in Jackson Diehl's silly column today about the rise of the left in Latin America. It contains gems like this: "Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, who aspires to make Latin America anti-American and anti-democratic."
Anti-democratic? The man who has won resounding electoral victories and redistributed power and wealth out of the hands of the old corrupt oligarchy and into the hands of the impoverished majority is anti-democratic? Every credible independent observer of Venezuela's elections has concluded they were free and fair. The same cannot be said of the elections that brought George W. Bush to power.
And Diehl can write this with a straight face, even as the supposedly "democratic" United States government is punishing Latin American governments that dare endorse the rule of law by endorsing the International Criminal Court?
Let's keep in mind that over the past half-century, by far the biggest enemy of democracy in Latin America has been the United States, whose CIA trained and sponsored putchists whose coups overthrew democratically elected governments in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic and elsewhere through the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
So in Diehl's warped view, the Bush government, which thumbs its nose at international law, which sponsored a failed coup to remove Venezuela's popular elected head of state, is "democratic," but any elected Latin leader who stands up to it is "anti-democratic."
This kind of Cold-War-mentality garbage shows why the Washington Post has so little credibility when it comes to international affairs.
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I wrote to you RS or Mr. Armchair Psychiatrist on the Iraq thread, posted it and all of a sudden it was archived. My best work archived. I will look for you in the future as I desperately need an armchair psychiatrist.