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Sunday, April 21, 2024

Flugennock's: Latest'n'Greatest: "#DemocratsDeliver"



#DemocratsDeliver
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3845

Been out of town for a while, been sick for a while, finally getting 
my tired old ass to the drawing table again.

So, I'd been noticing this #DemocratsDeliver hashtag crawling like a 
rash all over Facebook as the "election" freak circus cranks up, and 
thought I'd have some fun with it — like, yeah; I know what the 
Democrats "deliver", alright.

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"#DemocratsDeliver" on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/democratsdeliver/

"A day after mass arrests, Columbia students continue protest against 
Gaza genocide", Daniel de Vries at World Socialist Web Site, 04.19.2024
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/20/qzcb-a20.html
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Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
Mike's press kit: http://sinkers.org/stage/?page_id=2

Monday, February 19, 2024

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Ve Vill Bury You!"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist Mike Flugennock -

"Ve Vill Bury You!"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3831

Da, komrade, and then ve are takink kare of Moose and Sqvirrel!

Oh, f'crissake, are they shittin' us with this mess? Are they really 
that desperate to take our minds off THE GODDAMN GENOCIDE? 
"Unspecified dire risk"? Really? Unspecified? BWAH HA HA HA HA HA HA 
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAHHHH. Yeah, Russian Space Threat 
Emerges — straight outta the asses of "U.S. Officials". D'AAHH HA HA 
HA HA HA... So, what's next, guys — the "Missile Gap"?

Dear GOD, they really are reaching now; they couldn't look any more 
desperate than they do at this point, serving up this exhumed, 
warmed-over, hoary-ass old McCarthy Era droolage. Why don't they just 
give it the hell up?

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"Officials sound alarm about new Russian 'space threat'", Shane 
Harris, Ellen Nakashima
and John Hudson at the Washington Post, 02.14.2024, paywalled at 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/02/14/national-security-threat-mike-turner/

"Russian 'Space Threat' Emerges; U.S. Officials Raise Alarm Over 
Unspecified Dire Risk To America And Its Allies" Page A1 headline, 
Washington Post print edition, 02.15.2024 
http://www.sinkers.org/posters/russianspacethreat/wapoA1_Feb1524_russianspacethreat.jpg

"Dearborn residents denounce Wall Street Journal slander of city as 
'jihad capital'" Kathleen Martin at the World Socialist Site, 
02.09.2024 https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/02/09/hhmv-f09.html

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Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
Mike's press kit: http://sinkers.org/stage/?page_id=2

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "My Heart Will Go On"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist...

"My Heart Will Go On"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3807
http://flugennock.blogspot.com/2024/02/my-heart-will-go-on.html

I hate to break it to the kiddies at the Dyin' In Darkness Daily, but 
misidentifying the President of Egypt as the President of Mexico is 
NOT a "false caricature that could jell" — and neither is being 
nicknamed "Genocide Joe" and helping to instigate racist violence in 
his own country, for that matter.

All together, boys'n'girls...
"🎵 Nearer my God to thee... 🎵"

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"Dearborn residents denounce Wall Street Journal slander of city as 
'jihad capital'", Kathleen Martin at the World Socialist Site, 
02.09.2024 https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/02/09/hhmv-f09.html

"Abandon Biden" protesters part of national Palestinian solidarity 
mobilization, Washington DC 01.13.2024, foto by Mike Flugennock
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=361936359788603&set=pb.100079167253678.-2207520000&type=3


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Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
Mike's press kit: http://sinkers.org/stage/?page_id=2

Friday, February 02, 2024

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "But... What About Abortion?"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist...


But... What About Abortion?
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3788

Normally, my Daily Random 15 Seconds Of MSNBC is your standard-issue 
eyeroll-inducing partisan babbling, but Steve Kornacki's election 
report last week totally warmed my heart. Best goddamn news I'd heard 
in months. F'crissake, Genocide Joe is FIFTY POINTS UNDERWATER with 
voters 18-34, reportedly the group he needs the most to get his filthy 
ass re-elected. FIFTY POINTS.

So, after the better part of 4 years of immiserating the working 
class, serving up shit-ass public health emergency response, ginning 
up a New Red Scare, trying to instigate a world war non-stop, proudly 
enabling a genocide overseas and trying to crush dissent at home, the 
Democratic Party still wants us to turn out to play their little 
Democracy Game with them. The bastards still think they can scare us 
with that tired-ass abortion rights schtick, and that "Trump is worse" 
horseshit, and their trademark "Democracy is at stake" drooling, but 
guess what...? There's a whole new generation of folks out there who 
aren't buying that shit, and sure as hell aren't going to pretend that 
the Democrats haven't been actively funding and enabling a genocide 
since last October.

FIFTY GODDAMN POINTS.
BWAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA


"Fifty Points Underwater", Steve Kornacki on MSNBC:
http://sinkers.org/posters/whataboutabortion/kornacki_msnbc_50pts_underwater.mp4


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Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
Mike's press kit: http://sinkers.org/stage/?page_id=2

Thursday, January 25, 2024

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "It's Always Sunny At The DNC"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist -

"It's Always Sunny At The DNC"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3780

If there were a sure sign that the Donkeycrats are pants-shitting 
panicked at the prospect of traditionally-Leftish/progressivish voters 
abandoning their worthless asses en masse at the polls over the 
genocide in Palestine, it's the fact that the likes of MSNBC and the 
Washington Post just can't stop the tubthumping over the economy and 
the "consumer confidence" polls just out this week.

Never mind the piss-poor public health response to COVID19, or the 
historic re-enactment of the fall of Saigon in 2021, or the piss-poor 
disaster response in Maui last year, or the metric fuckton of cash 
flushed down the shitter for a bunch of Ukrainian Nazi hillbillies, 
the wide-open support of fascistic ethnic cleansing in Palestine, the 
continued attempted instigation of world war — nahh, screw that shit; 
the consumer confidence numbers are in and the economy is rockin', so 
let's turn that frown upside down, ya' fusty proles.

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"Feeling sunnier on the economy", Washington Post headline, Page A1, 
01.20.2024
http://www.sinkers.org/posters/smileseverybody/wapoA1_Jan2024sunnieroneconomy.jpg

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Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
Mike's press kit: http://sinkers.org/stage/?page_id=2

Monday, January 15, 2024

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Us And Them"

The latest from DC's anarchist cartoonist...

"Us And Them"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3774

"Haven't you heard? It's a battle of words!" the poster bearer cried;
"Listen, son," said the man with the gun, "There's room for you inside!"
— Pink Floyd, "Us And Them" (1973)

Throughout MSNBC's nonstop, never-ending, ceaseless, mind-numbing, 
soul-crushing, forever-grinding-on coverage of Trump's little bullshit 
real-estate fraud trial, they pretty much paused only to scream and 
yell and bitch in befuddlement about how the Donmonster could possibly 
still be the goddamn GOP front-runner and bitch bitch bitch above the 
law and whine whine whine rule of law and snarl growl yell democracy 
is at stake, followed by a pivot to their illustrious GOP primary 
coverage in which their chirping mutant anchortarts just couldn't shut 
the hell up about how Trump and the GOP's rhetoric is about "us vs. 
them" and the Democrats are all about "us".

...and all I could think of in that moment was how thoroughly the 
Democratic Party groundlessly scapegoated and demonized Russia for 
their own ineptitude and general suckage in the Easiest Slam-Dunk 
Election Ever In All Of Recorded Human History Including The Lascaux 
Cave Paintings, and how just how much of the Democratic Party's 
attitude and general M.O. involves demonizing, scapegoating and 
otherizing — whether it's people calling out their Russiagate sham, 
their idiotic policy decisions or their collaboration with fascists, 
or pretty much anyone on the left calling out their poor record with 
ethnic minorities, students, the working class, the poor, or pointing 
out their long-established reputation for warmongering, you can pretty 
much count on the Democrats to stand on their record, no matter what.

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"Joe Biden arrives in Middle East on first trip as US president; US 
leader will visit Israel, the occupied West Bank and Saudi Arabia 
during four-day trip", Al Jazeera 07.13.2022 
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/13/joe-biden-on-way-to-middle-east-in-first-trip-as-us-president

"Bone Deep", cartoon by Mike Flugennock 07.16.2022
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3484

"We Shall Return", cartoon by Mike Flugennock 06.20.2023
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3658

Pink Floyd, "Us And Them", 1973
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoLhKJuGhK0

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Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
Mike's press kit: http://sinkers.org/stage/?page_id=2

Monday, January 01, 2024

Fluggenock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Happy Goddamn New Year"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist -

"Happy Goddamn New Year"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3759

(New York Times, Page A1, 12.29.2023: "Israel Admitting Fault In 2 
Strikes Hitting Civilians; Regret From Military; Sees 'Unintended 
Harm' Where Locals Said Dozens Died")

"REGRET From Military", it says here.
That's right — REGRET for "unintended harm".

Oh, for Christ's sake, why do these goddamn thugs even bother? Who do 
they think they're kidding? Do they think that after nearly 3 months 
of genocidal brutality, fascistic bullying, threats and media lies, 
Genocide Joe's little buddy actually expects us to believe that they 
REGRET this goddamn horror show?

The threat of the Bad Old Rethuglicans taking over stopped scaring me 
nearly 30 years ago, and right now it scares me even less, if such a 
thing is possible. Four more years of Trump? Big goddamn deal; we've 
ALREADY been through 4 more years of Trump, so I could give the 
slightest molecule of a rat's ass who "wins" your goddamn "election" 
next year. For all I care, the Democrats can get their asses shredded 
so goddamn bad that they have to be identified via dental records. At 
this point, I don't care so much about defeating Trump as I do about 
defeating America.

Happy goddamn New Year.

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Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
Mike's press kit: http://sinkers.org/stage/?page_id=2

Monday, December 18, 2023

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Know Your Enemy"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist.

"Know Your Enemy"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3747

So, this week, about two and a half months into this horror, it 
finally dawned on Genocide Joe and the New York Times that 
relentlessly bombing the ever-lovin' piss out of a practically 
defenseless civilian population which is at least half children in a 
genocidal campaign of ethnic cleansing might cause you some PR issues 
down the road...

About this same time, the Washington Post was clutching its pearls 
over the staggering amount of "dumb bombs" being used to pummel 
civilians' homes into a flaming hellscape, as if using more precisely 
guided munitions might make the genocide more palatable to Mr. and 
Mrs. Amerika. Dumb bombs, dumb policy, dumb leadership, dumb people 
and a dumb nation. Dumb all over, and ugly on the side.

Meanwhile, Jews all over the place are getting on the right side of 
history and remembering the value of resistance, and Hamas is Numero 
Uno in Gaza (I wonder why?). Despite the shrieking, blustering, 
threatening, banning and blacklisting, this time around they can't 
stop the world from talking about Palestine and acting on it.

What's that sound, getting louder? Time's up.

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"Priority of the Oppressed: Let the Small, Red Triangle Guide You", 
the Palestine Chronicle 11.24.2023
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/priority-of-the-oppressed-let-the-small-red-triangle-guide-you/

"Support for Hamas more than tripled in West Bank: Poll", The Cradle, 
12.14.2023
https://new.thecradle.co/articles/support-for-hamas-more-than-tripled-in-west-bank-poll

"Palestinian Resistance Has A Sibling", 'SexualityScholar' on TikTok, 
10.17.2023
https://www.tiktok.com/@sexualityscholar/video/7290879203896085802?_r=1&_t=8hPYWMiBjeY

"Vetoing Gaza ceasefire resolution, Biden administration upholds 
genocide as state policy" Andre Damon at the World Socialist Web Site, 
12.11.2023 https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/12/11/heng-d11.html

"Israel Is Losing Support Over War, Biden Says, Exposing Leaders' 
Rift; Warns Against 'Indiscriminate Bombing'", Page A1, New York Times 
12.13.2023 
http://sinkers.org/posters/knowyourenemy/NYT_Dec1323_israellosingsupport.jpg

"Wide Use Of 'Dumb Bombs' In Gaza; U.S. Analysis May Explain High 
Toll; Almost Half Of Munitions Used By Israel Unguided" Page A1, 
Washington Post 12.15.2023 
http://sinkers.org/posters/knowyourenemy/wapoA1_Dec1523_dumbbombsingaza.jpg

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Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
Mike's press kit: http://sinkers.org/stage/?page_id=2

Saturday, November 25, 2023

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Rules-Based Order"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist -

"Rules-Based Order"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3739

To think that all the arduous years I spent assiduously avoiding 
dropping a "fallen and can't get up" gag could be undone by this 
single column at The Cradle last week. If Amerika's imperial 
batshittery in Ukraine hasn't totally wrecked our rep with the rest of 
the Earth, than our enabling Israeli butchery in Palestine pretty much 
ripped our mask the rest of the way off.

We've fallen, and we can't get up.

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"Gaza war shatters west's Global South clout", Mohamad Hasan Sweidan 
in The Cradle, 11.20.2023 
https://new.thecradle.co/articles/gaza-war-shatters-wests-global-south-clout

"What is Osama Bin Laden's 'Letter To America'?" via 
interestinganswers.com 11.16.2023 
https://www.interestinganswers.com/what-is-osama-bin-ladens-letter-to-america-read-the-full-text/

"Renewed Fascism: In Gaza Western Elites Live Out Genocidal Fantasy 
Against Global South", Rania Khalek Dispatches at Breakthrough News, 
11.15.2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZDGvT04sNA&t=1s

"USA & NATO responsible for Ukraine war, German & French public say in 
poll", Ben Norton at Geopolitical Economy Report, 08.21.2023 
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/08/21/us-nato-responsible-ukraine-war-germany-france-poll/

Original LifeCall "I've fallen and I can't get up" TV commercial, ca. 
1987: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQlpDiXPZHQ

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Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
Mike's press kit: http://sinkers.org/stage/?page_id=2

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Shaddup!"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist -


"Shaddup!"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3732


For real, serious — the USA and Israel are obviously 110% on the wrong 
side of history, millions around the Earth are standing together 
against their butchery, and the only response that the USA, Israel and 
their media flunkies can muster is to basically just scream back at us 
to shut up and then try to pretend we don't exist. If it weren't so 
disgusting, it'd be even more hilarious; these bastards have built 
themselves a seriously goofy alternate reality and are determined to 
stay in it even while it's collapsing on them. It's as if they 
actually know how much of the Earth actually believes their shit, but 
it's all they got, so they have to stick with it.

Meanwhile, yesterday saw the "National March For Israel" polluting my 
neighborhood — from all accounts, spit in the ocean compared to the 
waves of uprising going on against their fascist asses and, as I'd 
guessed, the likes of MSNBC were absolutely all over this horseshit 
this morning. I could almost smell Joe Scarborough & krew soaking 
their panties on the air as they swooned over that gaggle. 
"Politicians, celebrities, hostages' family members joined 
thousands..." they gushed all morning today; the MSNBC anchor didn't 
even bother to tamp down the schoolgirl pride welling up in her voice. 
The celebrities included alleged actress and veteran Left basher 
extraordinaire Debra Messing, which ought to tell you something.


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"Ocasio-Cortez says pro-Palestinian demonstrations should be "shut 
down" as opposition to Israeli war crimes grows", Eric London at 
WSWS.org, 10.11.2023
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/10/11/rwvd-o11.html

MintPress FB post "National March For Israel"
https://www.facebook.com/MintpressNews/posts/pfbid0TQvhHBVKLTq6EDARMufM7H9ZYA1viFWk3Joq827yYJkSFZfRhXsCpYbc67goGxDpl

Joe Scarborough "Morning Joe" on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/joenbc

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Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
Mike's press kit: http://sinkers.org/stage/?page_id=2

Sunday, November 05, 2023

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "#EjectIsrael"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, and unedited as always -

"Eject Israel"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3726

So, late last week, I'm hearing all this bullshit bubbling in the news 
about Genocide Joe calling for a "pause" in the Israel-Palestine 
"conflict" so that the hostages can get out safely — god bless their 
exceptional asses — and maybe also so that any Palestinians remaining 
who are actually able to move can also get out, and probably end up 
being bombed on the highway to the refugee camps, or bombed at the 
camp once they get there, or both; thanks so much, Joe.

And as I was starting to work on this piece the night before the big 
mobilization for Palestinian solidarity here in DC this past Saturday, 
I was seeing a lot of chatter on the Web about how Israel should be 
expelled from the United Nations for this horror — an excellent idea, 
though they'd never get it through because Israel's big, fat, rich 
asshole Uncle has veto power at the Security Council. Still, what an 
awesome thought — drum the bastards outta the UN.

But, aaaanyway, yeah; El Presidente wants a "pause". "Pause", my 
goddamn ass. Time to hit "Stop" and "Eject". Israel is the scuffy, 
overplayed, worn-out, hissy old British post-punk mixtape tangled up 
in the Earth's 1989 cassette/CD combo boombox, and no pencil made can 
save it.

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"US President Joe Biden calls for 'pause' in Israel-Gaza conflict", 
BBC 11.02.2023
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67294334

Mike Flugennock fotos of the National Gaza Mobe in Washington DC, 
11.04.2023 on Facebook, 1 of 2:
https://www.facebook.com/flugennock/posts/pfbid02ABDCPv51Y2VwPAcR9m8Ep2bNkGiA4jBwniKudHuseJiZQrgcjswcwvBjuYMW193Ll

Mike Flugennock fotos of the National Gaza Mobe in Washington DC, 
11.04.2023 on Facebook, 2 of 2:
https://www.facebook.com/flugennock/posts/pfbid02mdREQWab3DMHFB73hCDddTrBzBn58D8ScqU4X9kLn7WokQkZosEssv2bjycijUkwl

Mike Flugennock video footage of the National Gaza Mobe in Washington, 
DC, 11.04.2023 on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/flugennock/posts/pfbid02RqqdL7TuZxFx35FJHFVCDwHxDKsvSQ6jFy32q1uZRhAjtgPAuHsinoELAtjXYoUBl
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Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
Mike's press kit: http://sinkers.org/stage/?page_id=2

Thursday, October 26, 2023

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Wiping Hands On The Flag (after William Allen Rogers, 1917)"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist -

"Wiping Hands On The Flag (after William Allen Rogers, 1917)"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3719

The ongoing, escalating roaring of bloodthirsty racism in support of 
Israeli thuggery in Gaza — speaking of mass shootings — put me in mind 
of a book of cartoons entitled "America's Black & White Book", 
published during World War I by an artist named William Allen Rogers, 
in particular one of the "greatest hits" from that book, a ripe little 
nugget entitled "Another Case Of Wiping Hands On The American Flag", a 
classic rendition of the "Filthy Dirty Huns Kill Children" genre of 
the WWI era. Rogers was arguably one of the most raving, drooling, 
jingoistic warmongering editorial cartoonists of that era — sort of a 
poor man's James Montgomery Flagg — and drew for the New York Herald, 
arguably one of the most raving, drooling, warmongering newspapers in 
the US of that era.

Their presentation nowadays may be slicker, their media more 
sophisticated, their rhetoric a little more refined, their approach a 
little classier, but if you strip it to the core it's the same old 
shit they've been serving up since the Spanish-American War, at least: 
filthy dirty Huns are killing babies, filthy dirty Huns are throwing 
babies out of incubators, dirty filthy Huns are beheading babies... 
you get the idea.

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"White House walks back Biden's claim he saw children beheaded by 
Hamas" Al Jazeera 10.12.2023
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/12/white-house-walks-back-bidens-claim-he-saw-children-beheaded-by-hamas

"Source of dubious 'beheaded babies' claim is Israeli settler leader 
who incited riots to 'wipe out' Palestinian village" GrayZone 10.11.2023
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/10/11/beheaded-israeli-babies-settler-wipe-out-palestinian/

"Maine officials say 18 people were killed and 13 injured in Lewiston 
mass shooting" Rachel Treisman and Emily Olson at NPR 10.26.2023 
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/26/1208749860/maine-mass-shooting-lewiston-death-toll

"The Health Ministry in Gaza releases the names of more than 7,000 
Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza, saying 'behind every 
number is a story of a person'." Al Jazeera 10.26.2023
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/10/26/israel-hamas-war-live-un-ceasefire-bid-fails-as-gaza-death-toll-soars

James Montgomery Flagg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Montgomery_Flagg

William Allen Rogers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Allen_Rogers

"America's Black & White Book: Why We Are At War" cartoons by William 
Allen Rogers, New York Herald 1917 
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/47484/47484-h/47484-h.htm

William Allen Rogers, "Another Case Of Wiping Hands On The American 
Flag", New York Herald, 1917 
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/47484/47484-h/47484-h.htm#Page_78

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Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
Mike's press kit: http://sinkers.org/stage/?page_id=2

Sunday, October 15, 2023

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Beheaded Baby"

As always, we run anarchist cartoonist Mike Flugennock completely unedited. YMMV. Mine does.


"Beheaded Baby"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3713

So, like any halfway-decent vile-ass racist early-stage war hysteria, 
the mouth-frothing claims of rape and baby-killing always get the most 
mileage — as always, all the way back to the goddamn Lusitania.

You can imagine my total lack of anything resembling surprise, of 
course, when the claims turned out to be total bullshit served up by 
some IDF lackey who'd already been involved in some skanky-ass shit in 
the settlements.

So, finally, the CNN "journalist" responsible issues a public apology 
— for being caught lying on the air, AGAIN... but not after the likes 
of Gropey Joe Biden, the New York Post, MSNBC, Fox News, Rupert 
Murdoch's rags, and everybody and their goddamn uncle have blasted it 
all over the goddamn world — and in the same fashion that US and 
Western media have always lied to promote their wars, whether it's the 
Tonkin Gulf, Kuwaiti Incubator Babies, Weapons Of Mass Destruction, 
Yellowcake Uranium, Russiagate, the Mariupol Theatre Bombing, the 
Uyghur Muslims, and now this horseshit.

Oh, and of course, our gal at CNN was "misled" — always, always, 
they've been "misled", like the Representatives and Senators who 
jumped aboard the Iraq War bandwagon back about 20 years ago, and had 
themselves a big ol' party, thinking they had an easy win until all 
their shit went sideways on 'em, and suddenly they were cryin' in the 
media about how they were "misled". They knew it was a metric 
shit-tonne of lies and bought into it anyway — then got their asses 
busted, and suddenly they were "misled", the cryin'-ass losers.

But, sure, I'M the one who's spreading "disinformation".

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"CNN journalist Sara Sidner issued a public apology after declaring 
that Palestinians beheaded babies & children on live TV", MintPress 
posts on Facebook, 10.14.2023 
https://www.facebook.com/MintpressNews/posts/pfbid02NZoRdeg8rkWBpFDv61tAMq8A8C7pFu59rsUCj9xV6bThggCuE2Bt5C27QHzzUVPsl?notif_id=1697289460670509&notif_t=notify_me_page&ref=notif

"Propaganda Blitz: How Mainstream Media Is Pushing Fake Palestine 
Stories", Alan MacLeod at MintPress News, 10.13.2023 
https://www.mintpressnews.com/propaganda-blitz-how-mainstream-media-is-pushing-fake-palestine-stories/285992/

"White House walks back Biden's claim he saw children beheaded by 
Hamas", Al Jazeera 10.12.2023 
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/12/white-house-walks-back-bidens-claim-he-saw-children-beheaded-by-hamas

"LA Times retracts allegations of rape & concludes 'such reports have 
not been substantiated'..." Muhammad Shehada, @muhammadshehad2 on 
Twitter, 10.10.2023 
https://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1711802752869740715

"China detaining millions of Uyghurs? Serious problems with claims by 
US-backed NGO and far-right researcher 'led by God' against Beijing" 
Ajit Singh and Max Blumenthal at The Grayzone, 12.21.2019 
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/21/china-detaining-millions-uyghurs-problems-claims-us-ngo-researcher/

"Was bombing of Mariupol theater staged by Ukrainian Azov extremists 
to trigger NATO intervention?" Max Blumenthal at The Grayzone, 
03.18.2022 
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/18/bombing-mariupol-theater-ukrainian-azov-nato-intervention/

"WHO Hired the PR Firm Behind the Kuwaiti Incubator Babies Lie?" Kevin 
McCauley at Anti-Empire, 07.28.2020 
https://anti-empire.com/who-hired-the-pr-firm-behind-the-kuwaiti-incubator-babies-lie/

"Public Relationships: Hill & Knowlton, Robert Gray, and the CIA", 
Covert Action Quarterly, Spring 1993 
http://mediafilter.org/caq/Hill%26Knowlton.html


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Sunday, October 08, 2023

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Keep 'Em Flying" (in solidarity)

From DC's anarchist cartoonist (and I run the cartoons and commentary as I get them from Mike, whether or not I agree with him)

"Keep 'Em Flying" (in solidarity)
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3708

In the words of the immortal John Cleese, my nipples exploded with 
delight to hear that Palestine was punching the bullies back, and in 
such spectacularly and totally boss fashion.

And in totally standard fashion, Israeli state mouthpieces are 
screeching about how this is their Nineleven™, how Hamas came for 
their babies — pretty much the usual response... never fails — when 
you punch the bully back, the little punk runs crying to the 
principal. Meanwhile, at MSNBC, some clown who sounded like he was 
still in college mentioned how this conflict has been going on "since 
time immemorial". Shame I couldn't pull Junior aside to remind him 
that the Nakba occurred in 1948, within the memories of many people 
still living, and that 1948 is not "time immemorial" (before I smacked 
the living shit out of him).

I can't pretend I'm not enjoying this, but I don't know which part of 
it I'm enjoying more — the idea that the resistance fighters would 
paraglide in, or watching one media babbler after another shitting 
themselves on the air over the fact that ZOMG THEY'RE USING 
PARAGLIDERS, THE BASTARDS.

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"Hamas surprise attack out of Gaza stuns Israel and leaves hundreds 
dead in fighting, retaliation", Associated Press, 10.07.2023 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/palestinian-militants-launch-dozens-rockets-035044600.html

"Moment Hamas fighters seen paragliding across Israel border before 
deadly attack", Rachel Hagan in the London Daily Mirror, 10.07.2023 
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/moment-hamas-fighters-seen-paragliding-31129872

"Hamas Fighters Descend On Israel Using Hang Gliders; Israelis Begin 
'Operation Iron Swords'", Hindustan Times 10.07.2023 
https://www.hindustantimes.com/videos/world-news/hamas-fighters-descend-on-israel-using-hang-gliders-israelis-begin-operation-iron-swords-101696683691372.html

"This is our 9/11, Hamas went for babies, grandmothers: Israel Defense 
Forces", Poulomi Ghosh at the Hindustan Times, 10.08.2023 
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/this-is-our-9-11-hamas-went-for-babies-grandmothers-israel-defense-forces-101696779526755.html

"What is the Nakba? Day of catastrophe for Palestinians, explained", 
Middle East Eye, 05.09.2019 
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/what-is-nakba-palestine-israel-conflict-explained-1948
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Monday, October 02, 2023

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "O, Kanada (or, Hunka Hunka Burnin' Fascism)"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist -

"O, Kanada (or, Hunka Hunka Burnin' Fascism)"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3704

Between the unanimous standing O's in the Canadian Parliament for 
former Waffen SS thug Yaroslav Hunka, Trudeau's weak-ass mea culpas 
and their tippety-top general still refusing to apologize for 
applauding the sonofabitch and doubling down on the "fuck you", I 
gotta say — I can't pretend I'm not enjoying this. The vaunted Western 
World showed us its whole entire pasty, pimply, naked ass that day, 
and if you still #StandWithUkraine after THIS, then I don't know what 
else to show you indoctrinated losers.

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"Nazigate: Canada's top general won't apologize for applauding 
Ukrainian Waffen-SS vet", Wyatt Reed at The Grayzone, 09.28.2023 
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/09/28/nazigate-canadas-general-ukrainian-waffen-ss/

"Canada's honoring of Nazi vet exposes Ottawa's longstanding Ukraine 
policy", Max Blumenthal at The Grayzone, 09.26.2023 
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/09/26/canadas-ukrainian-nazi-ottawas-policy/

Justin Trudeau's horrid-ass mealy-mouthed apology, as reported by 
"Kanekoa The Great" on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1706391596869226981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1706391596869226981%7Ctwgr%5E562ac13dbd3570cd2f580a336a870b0b53e8398f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthegrayzone.com%2F2023%2F09%2F26%2Fcanadas-ukrainian-nazi-ottawas-policy%2F
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Friday, September 08, 2023

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité"

"Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3699

Holy crap, but Monseiur Macron and Le Uncle Sam sure have taken a 
crème brulée pasting in the past month, huh? Between France being 
chased out of Niger, one of Obama's old buds being bounced out of 
Gabon, ex-French colonies all over Africa ditching the CFA Franc like 
it was radioactive... I can't pretend I'm not enjoying the former 
French Africa rolling out the guillotines for Macron, I'll tell ya' 
that for free.

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"Mapped: Visualizing the True Size of Africa", Jeff Desjardins at 
Visual Capitalist, 02.19.2020 
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/map-true-size-of-africa/

"Africa's CFA franc — colonial relic or stabilizing force?" Clarissa 
Herrmann | Jean-Michel Bos at DW TV, 05.27.2019 
https://www.dw.com/en/africas-cfa-franc-colonial-relic-or-stabilizing-force/a-48908889

"Françafrique lives on", Silja Fröhlich at DW TV, 08.03.2020 
https://www.dw.com/en/africa-and-france-an-unfulfilled-dream-of-independence/a-54418511

"French Neo-Colonialism in Africa is Falling: What's Behind the Anger 
on the Streets?" Eugene Puryear and Rania Khalek at Breakthrough News, 
09.01.2023 
https://breakthroughnews.org/french-neo-colonialism-in-africa-is-falling-whats-behind-the-anger-on-the-streets/

"Coup in Gabon: Franc Zone Continues to Crumble", Orinoco Tribune, 
08.31.2023 
https://orinocotribune.com/coup-in-gabon-franc-zone-continues-to-crumble/

"From Chi-Town bagman to ECOWAS chairman: meet the former money 
launderer leading the push to invade Niger", Alexander Rubenstein and 
Kit Klarenberg at The Grayzone, 08.05.2023 
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/08/05/bagman-ecowas-chairman-invade-niger/

"'Obama's man in Africa' under house arrest as popular coup rocks 
Gabon", Max Blumenthal at The Grayzone, 08.31.2023 
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/08/31/obamas-africa-arrest-coup-gabon/

"Crème brûlée" at Wikipedia 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A8me_br%C3%BBl%C3%A9e

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Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Heard Ya' Missed Me, So I'm Back"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist ...


"Heard Ya' Missed Me, So I'm Back"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3694

Yep, I heard Americans were kinda missing being in quarantine and out 
of work with no safety net; friends, family and neighbors getting sick 
and dying, science denialists going apeshit, government and media 
blaming China for everything, so here I am — back again, Amerika, 
right when you're trying to stir up a world war and 
inflation'n'austerity are crushing the shit out of you, and your 
influence is cratering and you've just been made a global fool of and 
you're cruising for comeuppance, yeah — heard ya' missed me, so I'm 
back to fuck your shit up, Amerika.


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"COVID hospitalizations double amid worsening US pandemic surge", 
Benjamin Mateus at World Socialist Web Site , 08.23.2023 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/08/24/levt-a24.html

"US intelligence agencies admit Ukrainian offensive will fail", Andre 
Damon at World Socialist Web Site, 08.18.2023 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/08/19/fpfu-a19.html

"As Ukrainian offensive collapses, US demands more frontal assaults", 
Andre Damon at World Socalist Web Site, 08.24.2023 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/08/25/fsut-a25.html

"Big Brave Western Proxy Warriors Keep Whining That Ukrainian Troops 
Are Cowards", Caitlin Johnstone 08.19.2023 
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/big-brave-western-proxy-warriors

"New Witch Hunt Demonizes Peace with China", Brian Becker at 
Breakthrough News 08.10.2023 
https://breakthroughnews.org/new-witch-hunt-demonizes-peace-with-china-with-vijay-prashad-and-manolo-de-los-santos/

"US Congress plots to save dollar dominance amid global 
de-dollarization rebellion", Ben Norton at Geopolitical Economy 
Report, 06.20.2023 
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/06/20/us-congress-dollar-dominance-hearing/

"Canada: Complaining about gas prices only helps Putin and China", Ben 
Norton at Geopolitical Economy Report, 05.16.2022 
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/05/16/canada-gas-prices-putin-china-chrystia-freeland/

"Covid Variant Worries Officials; Mutated Virus Evades Defenses", 
Washington Post 08.26.2023 
http://sinkers.org/posters/heardyamissedme/wapoA1_Aug2623_newcovidvariant.jpg


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Monday, August 21, 2023

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "No Comment"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist -

"No Comment"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3678

So, to recap: Apparently due to power utility malfeasance, wildfires 
break out on the island of Maui, State of Hawaii. Many Hawaiians die 
and are still dying, from all reports. Catching up with President 
Gropey Joe in Drunken College Dipshit Central — aka Rehoboth, Delaware 
— reporters asked El Presidente about the Maui situation, to which he 
replied "no comment" and clambered on into his Presidential Escalade.

It may be unlikely to guess the final death toll in Maui, but it'll be 
easy enough to guess the total death count from the $200m in refills 
for their fancy truck-mounted rocket launchers to keep up their 
ongoing, Ukrainian meat-grinding "Duck Soup" Offensive.

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"Over 1,000 people still missing as Maui fire death toll, and social 
anger, continue to rise", Jacob Greene at World Socialist Web Site, 
08.16.2023 https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/08/17/avcz-a17.html

Hundreds likely dead in Maui wildfire due to criminal negligence of 
the capitalist ruling class - World Socialist Web Site
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/08/14/jzjg-a14.html

Biden went four days without talking about the Maui fires, and 
Republicans say that's proof he's not addressing the devastation
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-maui-fires-rcna99895

Hawaii Democrat says Biden's 'no comment' on wildfires 'shocking'- 'I 
would expect more' | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hawaii-democrat-says-bidens-no-comment-wildfires-shocking-i-expect-more

Biden responds to devastating Maui fire death toll- "No comment" - 
World Socialist Web Site
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/08/15/rlmw-a15.html

"US Experts Slowly Admitting Ukraine Can't Win, Hope for Stalemate", 
Ian DeMartino at Sputnik International 07.28.2023
https://sputnikglobe.com/20230728/us-experts-slowly-admitting-ukraine-cant-win-hope-for-stalemate-1112202801.html

US to send $200 million in military aid to Ukraine | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-war-aid-pentagon-d1a0539f329adff669759bd00279bb4b

Top 100 | Defense News, News about defense programs, business, and technology
https://people.defensenews.com/top-100/

"Any comment on the rising death toll in Maui?"
BIDEN: "No. No comment."
—Breaking911 on Twitter, 08.14.2023
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1691110455677173760

See also: "Finishing the Job" cartoon by Mike Flugennock 05.12.2023 
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3635
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Thursday, August 10, 2023

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "EU Flag, Revised"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist...

Latest'n'Greatest: "EU Flag, Revised"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3673

A recent report by Rania Khalek at Breakthrough News got me inspired 
to find out just how much each of the tanks cost which were smeared by 
Russia in Zelensky's recent "Duck Soup" Offensive — and subsequently 
redesign the European Union flag.

Whooaaa... that much, huh? So, just how much of the value of your 
average European's labor was stolen from them to build a bunch of 
these bad boys to arm up gangs of Nazi hillbillies? How much more of 
their healthcare and other social programs will they be giving up in 
order to #StandWithUkraine?

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"Is the US Proxy War in Ukraine Making Europe Poorer?", Rania Khalek 
at Breakthrough News, 07.21.2023
https://breakthroughnews.org/is-the-us-proxy-war-in-ukraine-making-europe-poorer-with-tarik-cyril-amar/

"Ukraine's neoliberalism on steroids, Europe's economic suicide", 
Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson and Mick Dunford at Geopolitical Economy 
Report, 05.15.2023 
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/05/15/ukraine-neoliberalism-europe-economic-suicide/

"How Many Tanks Has Ukraine Lost?" Oleg Burunov at Sputnik 
International, 07.30.2023 
https://sputnikglobe.com/20230730/how-many-tanks-has-ukraine-lost--1112263333.html

"US Experts Slowly Admitting Ukraine Can't Win, Hope for Stalemate", 
Ian DeMartino at Sputnik International, 07.26.2023 
https://sputnikglobe.com/20230728/us-experts-slowly-admitting-ukraine-cant-win-hope-for-stalemate-1112202801.html

"Leopard 2 German Main Battle Tank", Wikipedia 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_2

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Sunday, July 30, 2023

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "A Strong Primary Challenge"


From DC's anarchist cartoonist

"A Strong Primary Challenge"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3666

Well, kiddies, for those of you following the little Democracy™ game, 
it's no secret that DNC voters are about as enthusiastic over Joe 
Biden next year as they'd be over having to eat glass. So, for all 
those desperate Dems who can't seem to bust out of the electoral 
prison, the idea of a primary challenge sounds made of awesome.

So, who do they get — a fresh, bold progressive insurgent in the 
Bernie Sanders mold? Nahh, hell no, man — they get a xenophobic 
antivax Kennedy spawn and a bougie self-help guru who's the "spiritual 
adviser" to Oprah. OPRAH, f'crissake. Hell, man, if that's not a prime 
qualification for the White House, I'd like to know what is.

Hello, Second Trump Administration.

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"Marianne Williamson to run for president again to 'help repair 
America'", The Guardian 02.27.2023 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/27/marianne-williamson-2024-white-house-race

"Marianne Williamson formally launches likely long-shot Democratic 
primary challenge to Biden", Shania Shelton at CNN, 03.04.2023 
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/04/politics/marianne-williamson-democrat-president-biden-2024/index.html

"Anti-Vax RFK Jr. Says Media Treats Him Worse Than Trump", Peter Wade 
at Rolling Stone, 07.25.2023 
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/rfk-jr-media-worse-than-trump-1234793849/

"How Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Became the Anti-vaxxer Icon of America's 
Nightmares", Keziah Weir at Vanity Fair, 05.13.2021 
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/05/how-robert-f-kennedy-jr-became-anti-vaxxer-icon-nightmare

"Anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr. challenging Biden in 2024", Michelle L. 
Price at the Associated Press, 04.05.2023 
https://apnews.com/article/robert-kennedy-jr-presidential-campaign-9fb5ed5c8e1fd31d2a4458d44b086593

"Robert Kennedy Jr's racist, antisemitic and xenophobic views go back 
decades, report says", David Smith in The Guardian, 07.19.2023 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/19/robert-kennedy-jr-racist-antisemitic-xenophobic-views
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