Destroyed buildings dominate an eastern Aleppo neighborhood as pro-government troops advanced toward the area on Monday: photo by George Ourfalian/Agence France-Presse, 5 December 2016

Mohammed Hilwani, he's one of my brave friends who's staying in #Alshaar neighborhood and don't leave it It's totally emptied from Civilians: image via Ahmad Alkhatib @AhmadAlkhtiib, 5 December 2016

#Russian advisers and high ranks join tr #Assad Army in the operations in east #Aleppo: image via Ahmad Alkhatib @AhmadAlkhtiib, 5 December 2016

#Syrian Thieves Army In #Aleppo, the new neighborhood is been liberated in East Aleppo #standwithaleppo: image via Ahmad Alkhatib @AhmadAlkhtiib, 5 December 2016

Latest from #Aleppo: 47 Civilians Died Today in Aleppo, 115 injured, Over than 150 air strike and Barrel bombs on Residential neighborhoods: image via Ahmad Alkhatib @AhmadAlkhtiib, 5 December 2016

This man is not selling anything, He just cary one of his loved ones died in East #Aleppo Please #standwithaleppo and #Save_Aleppo: image via Ahmad Alkhatib @AhmadAlkhtiib, 4 December 2016

#AlQatirji neighborhood in East #Aleppo Picture taken by #Baseem_Ayoubi: image via Ahmad Alkhatib @AhmadAlkhtiib, 5 December 2016

#AlQatirjineighborhood in East #Aleppo Picture taken by #Baseem_Ayoubi: image via Ahmad Alkhatib @AhmadAlkhtiib, 5 December 2016

Cafe Moskau. Leuchtreklame Café Moskau, Karl-Marx Allee 34, 10178 Berlin: photo by F. Linkerhand, 6 April 2016

Westkreuz Berlin-Westkreuz, Am Messedamm/Halenseestrasse 28, 14057 Berlin: photo by F. Linkerhand, 3 April 2016

OP-Zentrum. Klinikum der Universitat München-Campus Grosshadern, Marchioninistrasse 15, 81377 München: photo by F. Linkerhand, 22 November 2014

Workers stand outside a construction site at the end of their shift in Beijing, China: photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters, 6 December 2016

Activists from the Lebanese NGO Abaad (Dimensions), a resource centre for gender equality, dressed as brides and wearing injury patches hold a protest in downtown Beirut on December 6, 2016, against article 522 in the Lebanese penal code. The article shields rapists from prosecution on the condition that they marry their victim, a phenomenon that is still practised in the country, especially among conservative families whose chief aim is to preserve the family's so-called "honour." / AFP PHOTO / PATRICK BAZPATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty Images

Activists from the Lebanese NGO Abaad (Dimensions), a resource centre for gender equality protest in downtown Beirut against article 522 in the Lebanese penal code. The article shields rapists from prosecution on the condition that they marry their victim, a phenomenon that is still practised in the country, especially among conservative families whose chief aim is to preserve the family’s so-called “honour.”: photo by Patrick Baz/AFP, 6 December 2016

Suspected Islamic State (IS) and Taliban militants are brought before media during a press conference in Jalalabad on December 6, 2016. Afghan National Directorate Security (NDS) forces arrested three suspected Islamic State (IS) fighters and eight Taliban insurgents during an operation in different part of Jalalabad city, officials said. / AFP PHOTO / NOORULLAH SHIRZADANOORULLAH SHIRZADA/AFP/Getty Images

Suspected Islamic State (IS) and Taliban militants are brought before media during a press conference in Jalalabad: photo by Noorullah Shirzadan/AFP, 5 December 2016

In this picture taken on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, an Iranian man flips on the sands while enjoying his weekend in the Mesr desert about 305 miles (500 kilometers) southeast of the capital Tehran, Iran. Deserts make up parts of Iran which have recently become tourist destination for young Iranians looking for a break on their weekend. The increase in tourists to the desert has stimulated economic growth in the area. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

An Iranian man flips on the sands while in the Mesr desert about 305 miles southeast of the capital Tehran, Iran: photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP, 5 December 2016

Iraqi soldiers are seen in a tractor from a Humvee while coming back from the frontline in the Al-Intisar district in Mosul, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 5, 2016. Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, is the last major Islamic State extremist urban bastion in the country. Iraqi troops have advanced cautiously to avoid civilian casualties. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

Iraqi soldiers are seen in a tractor from a Humvee while coming back from the frontline in the Al-Intisar district in Mosul, Iraq: photo by Manu Brabo/AP, 5 December 2016

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Metal sign blowing in the wind, Dovon, North Dakota: photo by John Vachon, October 1940 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

Starkweather, North Dakota: photo by John Vachon, October 1940 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

Grain elevator on large farm in Red River Valley, Cass County,, North Dakota: photo by John Vachon, October 1940 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

Fargo, North Dakota: photo by John Vachon, October 1940 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Grand Forks, North Dakota: photo by John Vachon, October 1940 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

Grand Forks, North Dakota: photo by John Vachon, October 1940 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

Liz Pope sending off the Iraan Braves to their postseason football game. She was killed in a bus crash after the Braves won their quarterfinal: photo by Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times, 5 December 2016

Cars continue to pour into camp. #NoDAPL: image via Ruth Hopkins @RuthHHopkins, 5 December 2016

Oceti Sakowin Camp last night. Photo by #N1. #NoDAPL: image via Ruth Hopkins @RuthHHopkins, 5 December 2016

Much to still be uncertain about in fight against DAPL, but 1 thing that is certain is Water Protectors will fight til DAPL is dead #noDAPL: image via Joseph Brusky @JosephBrusky, 5 December 2016 Minnesota, USA

View last night as military vets streamed into Oceti Sakowin throughout day from around nation to do battle with the black snake. #noDAPL: image via Overpass Light Brigade @OLBLightBrigade, 5 December 2016 Minnesota, USA

Victory! Water protectors celebrate U.S. Army Corp of Engineers denial of a permit for DAPL to pass underneath Lake Oahe #noDAPL: image via Overpass Light Brigade @OLBLightBrigade, 5 December 2016 North Dakota, USA

Fireworks over camp #NoDAPL: image via Ruth Hopkins @RuthHHopkins, 4 December 2016

Sunrise in North Dakota: image via Julia Carrie Wong @juliacarriew, 5 December 2016

It's snowing: image via Julia Carrie Wong @juliacarriew, 5 December 2016

Steve Hunt, a longshoreman from Vancouver, has been smoking 400+ pounds of meat a day at Standing Rock: image via Julia Carrie Wong @juliacarriew, 5 December 2016

An Indian child holds a puppy as he sits on a road divider in #NewDelhi: image via Sajjad Hussain @sajjadkmr, 5 December 2016

The sun rises behind skyscrapers amidst the clouds on a foggy morning in Dubai on December 5, 2016.

The sun rises behind skyscrapers amidst the clouds on a foggy morning in Dubai on Monday: photo by Rene Slama/AFP, 5 December 2016

William Wordsworth: Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

Earth hath not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;
Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! The very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 (31 July 1802), from Poems in Two Volumes, 1807

People cross Westminster Bridge as dusk falls behind the Houses of Parliament on a clear evening in central London: photo by Toby Melville/Reuters, 5 December 2016

TOM CLARK

Tuesday, 6 December 2016

Doing Battle with the Black Snake

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