by Pier Marton | Aug 9, 2010 | Dance, Death, Film, Future Tech, Health, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Now, Politics, Sci/Nat, Spectacle, Wars
But leaving STL on Friday. Hurry! Another vital (the word of the day?) film by Participant Media. Here is their website. Opening 8/13/2010 Huntington Beach, CA: Century 20 – Bella Terra Orange, CA: Century Stadium 25 Theatre – Orange Rancho Mirage, CA:...
by Pier Marton | Aug 9, 2010 | Antisemitism, Human Rights, Jewish, Middle-East, Politics
Gideon Levy asks, as always, difficult but vital questions. Extreme views will have prevailed? As I quoted earlier Augustine of Hippo, “Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation”. No more bath water and no more baby. Here is a sort of rebuttal...
by Pier Marton | Aug 7, 2010 | Afri, Antisemitism, Asia, Books, France, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Judaism, KeyText, Middle-East, Racism, Roma, Spectacle, Women
“In this brave new century we shall miss the tolerant, the marginals: the edge people. My people.” And a quote from another text, as excerpted by Peter Fredlake of the USHMM – thank you: “The historian’s task is not to disrupt for the sake of it, but...
by Pier Marton | Aug 7, 2010 | Antisemitism, France, Health, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Middle-East
The New York Times: Tony Judt, Chronicler of History, Is Dead at 62 & The Guardian: Historian Tony Judt dies aged 62 & his latest articles for the NRB. EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...
by Pier Marton | Aug 6, 2010 | Human Rights, Politics, Racism
Karen Margolis’s Blog. EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...
by Pier Marton | Aug 6, 2010 | Asia, Care, Death, Future Tech, Health, Human Rights, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Wars
Because of ethnocentrism, the U.S. “trying out” the atomic bomb and killing in such a removed and indiscriminate manner could have only taken place onto a “non-white” country. Some of the testimonies. EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...