by Pier Marton | Jul 22, 2013 | Afri, Asia, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, Food, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Ideas, Media, Native, Now, Politics, Quotes, Racism, US, Women, Youth
The fundamental conclusion I’ve reached after 79 years and a lot of work is that life is lottery. I don’t buy this argument that people are self-made; our opportunities are presented to us – how we resolve them, how we exploit them, how we respond to...
by Pier Marton | May 12, 2013 | Afri, Death, Highlights, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Idées, Music, Politics, Popular, Racism
The talented Cyril Effala dies in Yaoundé at the age of 35 from typhoid fever. More songs (Le laboureur, Nuits Perdues, Ashuka Ngongoli, Saint Pierre) are available on this MySpace page. May someone produce a compilation CD! Thanks to my friend Jay Lou, I have one...
by Pier Marton | May 4, 2013 | Afri, Art, Asia, Highlights, Hispanic, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Music, Politics, Popular, Quotes, Sound, Travel
The multi-talented world hero, musician & ethnomusicologist. If you are not living on the edge, you’re taking too much room. B.B. He used to quote Sun Ra: The planet is asleep, and it’s the fault of musicians who are not true to themselves. [Ed.: I...
by Pier Marton | Apr 20, 2013 | Asia, Death, Doc, Highlights, History, Human Rights, Ideas, KeyFilm, Politics, Spectacle, US, Wars
2014 Oscar Nominated and BAFTA Best Documentary Winner “If we are to transform Indonesia into the democracy it claims to be, citizens must recognize the terror and repression on which our contemporary history has been built. No film, or any other work of art for that...
by Pier Marton | Dec 23, 2012 | Human Rights, Ideas, Podcasts(E), Politics, Quotes, Sci/Nat, Wars
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell Face To Face (a Russell interview at age 90) http://youtu.be/OziPcicgmbw http://youtu.be/TedtMmUq8ig...
by Pier Marton | Dec 11, 2012 | History, Ideas, Jewish, Middle-East, Women
from Haaretz published 10.12.12 Jewish anti-Zionist academic insists Israeli occupation is un-Jewish by Carlo Strenger Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism, by Judith Butler. Columbia University Press, 256 pages, $28 Judith Butler has rightly been...