by Pier Marton | Dec 25, 2011 | Antisemitism, Cam, Death, Ego, France, Highlights, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Idées, Jewish, Judaism, Juif, KeyText, Middle-East, Native, Now, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Time, Wars, Women
Recently an apparently well-known British blogger featured on Democracy Now! was denouncing some British politicians for being “Pro-Israel” and from my progressive perspective I was shocked. I shouldn’t have been… Too many times I have been...
by Pier Marton | Dec 19, 2011 | Asia, Death, History, Human Rights, Media, Middle-East, Politics, Quotes, Racism, Site, Travel, Wars
From Daniel Ellsberg on Democracy Now: The Time magazine cover gives protester, an anonymous protester, as “Person of the Year,” but it is possible to put a face and a name to that picture of “Person of the Year.” And the American face I would...
by Pier Marton | Dec 18, 2011 | Death, Doc, France, Human Rights, Middle-East, Politics, Wars
D’une amie au Caire, écrit ce Dimanche: Les tirs ont repris ce matin, je les entends de chez moi, + de 450 blessés, disparus et morts se comptent plus ! Plus personne ne comprend ce qu’il se passe, ça dégénère et ça peut virer sous peu en guerre...
by Pier Marton | Dec 16, 2011 | Books, Death, Human Rights, Humor, Jewish, Middle-East, Mystery, Politics, Quotes, Racism, Sci/Nat, Spectacle, Wars, Women
His take on Nietzsche’s “Whatever doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.” Oh, really? Take the case of the philosopher to whom that line is usually attributed, Friedrich Nietzsche, who lost his mind to what was probably syphilis. Or America’s homegrown philosopher...
by Pier Marton | Dec 13, 2011 | Antisemitism, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Juif, Magyar, Native, Politics, Racism, Roma, Shoah, Time, Wars
Budapest Experiences A New Wave of Hate by Erich Follath (lessons never learned) EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...
by Pier Marton | Dec 13, 2011 | Books, Care, Death, History, Jewish, Juif, Middle-East, Mystery, Poet, Politics, Quotes, Racism, Roma, Shoah, Time, Wars
From the opening of the Preface: The three lectures presented here took shape within me over the past years. They do not present an organized body of thought, but rather reflections and feelings grounded in the tribulations of a Holocaust childhood, wanderings and...