MORE YAN'AN: THE LEADERSHIP CAVE HOUSE GATHERING ROOM

MORE YAN'AN

THE CAVE ROOM IN WHICH

THE LEADERSHIP OF THE

CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY

MET IN THE YAN'AN PERIOD

AS PRESENTED IN 1981

Compare The First Party Congress

The Sixteenth Party Congress

OBAMA TO NEW LOW

OBAMA

AT NEW LOW

IN THE POLLS

BARACK OBAMA MAKES A POINT

"Public confidence in President Obama has hit a new low," reports the Washington Post, drawing on a Washington Post-ABC News poll.

THE SEATS OF POWER, CHINESE STYLE, III: LIAONING

THE SEATS OF POWER 

CHINESE STYLE 

One of a Series 

LIAONING PROVINCE

LEADERSHIP DELEGATES

TO THE 16th PARTY CONGRESS

BEIJING 2002

(Bo Xilai on the extreme right; more Bo here) 

THE STEERAGE II: THE USSR, KIEV, & THE UKRAINIAN ELECTIONS

THE STEERAGE II:

THE USSR, KIEV,

& THE ELECTION IN UKRAINE

The presidential election in Ukraine today

(January 17, 2010), has resulted in the need

for a second round (no majority winner).

Above, a reminder of what politics looked like under the USSR. I call it "THE STEERAGE II." Here in Kiev

(Ukraine), on September 1, 1984, is a mass rally for Peace & Knowledge Day. Notice that although the participants have been vetted, the authorities keep their distance -- with a large divide between them and their "constituents," and only (Soviet) security and media allowed in an otherwise "no man's land" separating the leaders from the led. 

For me, there are echoes of "THE STEERAGE," the photograph by Alfred Stiegltiz. The photograph can be seen here, and an interesting discussion of it found here. 

THE SEATS OF POWER, CHINESE STYLE II: SICHUAN

THE SEATS OF POWER

CHINESE STYLE

One of a Ser

SICHUAN DELEGATES

TO THE 16th PARTY CONGRESS

BEIJING 2002

DUELING TVs #1: Electric Iraq, Bush/Maliki

DUELING TVs
#1

Photograph © Gwendolyn Stewart 2010; All Rights Reserved

Update, February 3, 2010: An interesting Washington POST article on Nouri al-Maliki, where he came from, how he has maneuvered as Iraqi Prime Minister, and what his chances in the upcoming elections are, can be found here.

THE SEATS OF POWER, CHINESE STYLE

THE SEATS OF POWER
CHINESE STYLE

One of a Series 

TIANJIN RULING DUO 

Zhang Lichang (left), then Tianjin Party Secretary, and Li Shenglin (right), then Tianjin Mayor, at the 16th Congress of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), in the Great Hall of the People, Beijing, November 2002.