David Baldinger - Cartoonist & Photographer

A Message From Ares in Havana: The Yves Laroche Gallery placed in Montreal It is commercializing a work of the internationally well-known Cuban artist Arístides Hernández Guerrero (ARES) violating his author rights and signed by another person “ARIEL?”. “Imagine” was created by Ares in the year 2002 as an acrylic on canvas painting of 1 m x 75 cms for an exhibition organized in the city of Cuneo in Italy. In Cuba several collections of T-shirts were made from a photo of this work and in the year 2005 a series of silk screens and many other impressions in different supports. Click on image for larger view Now this gallery offering the above mentioned image signed by a supposed author named “Ariel”? Contacted the gallery by the Cuban author they said that this work was sold to them by a Spanish "artist" but they contribute neither information of contact of him or his personal information. It will be possible that such a shameless this fraud happening in the city of...

The great Cuban cartoonist Tomy’s cartoon concerning the Organization Of American States vote to readmit Cuba as a member. Technorati Tags: Cuba , Tomy , OAS , Orgaization Of American States

RAFAEL Correa, president of Ecuador, currently visiting Honduras, stated the day before the OAS meeting: "I believe that the OAS has lost its raison d’être, maybe it never had a raison d’être." The news, circulated by ANSA, adds that Correa "prophesized ‘the demise’ of that organization given the many errors it has committed." He affirmed "that the countries of the American continent, given their geographic conditions, cannot all be put ‘in the same basket.’ And for that reason Ecuador proposed some months back the creation of the Organization of Latin American States. “It is not possible for the region’s problems to be discussed in Washington; let us construct something of our own, without countries alien to our culture, our values, and obviously including countries that were inexplicably separated from the inter-American system, and I am referring to the concrete case of Cuba… that was a tremendous shame and demonstrates the double standar...

In the last week, two of our most senior generals with command of our forces in Iraq and Afghanistan have said they oppose the use of torture or so-called "enhanced" interrogation techniques.  These same generals also confirm that the use of these techniques has damaged our international reputation while producing no actionable intelligence. General David Petraeus – the figure lauded by conservatives and the person chosen by Bush and Cheney to sell the surge to Congress – said the following to Fox News in regards to criticisms of President Obama for taking “enhanced interrogation techniques” off the table: Gen. Petraeus: "Well, actually what I would ask is, 'Does that not take away from our enemies a tool which again have beaten us around the head and shoulders in the court of public opinion?' When we have taken steps that have violated the Geneva Conventions we rightly have been criticized , so as we move forward I think it's important to again live ou...

Technorati Tags: michael moore , GM , General Motors , Economy June 1, 2009 I write this on the morning of the end of the once-mighty General Motors. By high noon, the President of the United States will have made it official: General Motors, as we know it, has been totaled. As I sit here in GM's birthplace, Flint, Michigan, I am surrounded by friends and family who are filled with anxiety about what will happen to them and to the town. Forty percent of the homes and businesses in the city have been abandoned. Imagine what it would be like if you lived in a city where almost every other house is empty. What would be your state of mind?   It is with sad irony that the company which invented "planned obsolescence" -- the decision to build cars that would fall apart after a few years so that the customer would then have to buy a new one -- has now made itself obsolete. It refused to build automobiles that the public wanted, cars that got great gas mileage, were as ...