by Pier Marton | Aug 15, 2013 | Afri, Asia, Books, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Middle-East, Now, Politics, Spectacle, US
Michael Walzer, the author of 27 book,ย is co-editor emeritus ofย From Haaretz (Please Subscribe!) Michael Walzer tells Haaretz || Blame the liberals for social inequality. An interview with the former co-editor of Dissent magazine on social democracy and the role Big...
by Pier Marton | Aug 13, 2013 | Asia, Death, Film, Highlights, History, Human Rights, Ideas, KeyFilm, Peace, Poet, Politics, Popular, Racism, Review, Spectacle, Time, Travel, US, Wars, Women, Youth
10 Questions to Joshua Oppenheimer at University of Indiana (March 2014) โ BAFTA 2014 winner & Oscar nominated โ โThis movie is not gonna leave you until the end of your days,โ says Werner Herzog, one of the producers. The filmmaker, Joshua Oppenheimer, was just...
by Pier Marton | Aug 1, 2013 | Asia, Books, Death, Eco, Highlights, Hispanic, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Idรฉes, Jewish, Middle-East, Native, Peace, Poet, Politics, Roma, Travel, US, Wars, Women, World, Youth
His blog: WorldService.org/Views From My Space. Over the years, the World Service Authority in Washington, DC, has issued over two million documents (world passports, IDโs, marriage licenses, etcโฆ ). They are available at World Government (202) 638-2662. In 2012,...
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 Iโve reached after 79 years and a lot of work is that life is lottery. I donโt buy this argument that people are self-made; our opportunities are presented to us โ how we resolve them, how we exploit them, how we respond to them are the...
by Pier Marton | Jul 17, 2013 | Afri, Death, Human Rights, Humor, Media, Music, Politics, Popular, Racism, Spectacle, US
John Oliverโs segment on The Daily Show was called: โWait: What? How could you possiblyโฆ Youโve got to be kidโฆ There is no wayโฆ I canโtโฆ Oh My Godโ โ and โAcquitted Development.โ Obama: โIt could have been me.โ Lester Chambers of the Chambers Brothers: A Slate article...
by Pier Marton | May 1, 2013 | Death, Humor, Media, Middle-East, Politics, Spectacle, Theater, US, Wars
โฆ to state in unison that they canโt do much more than smile and laughโฆ now that the NRA has once more won and that Guantanamo will remain indefinitely open. War relief, comic relief? What is on: the joke is ON, the show is ON, the spectacle goes ONโฆ and dissent is...