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Being Pro-Israel can be Progressive!

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 involved in discussions...

Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year(s): Bradley Manning/Julian Assange/Daniel Ellsberg!

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 put on that is Private...

Cairo Dec. 17, 2011 – ??????? ?????? ???????

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 civile… Voilà! Moi, ça...

Christopher Hitchens: 1949-2011

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 Sidney...

Der Spiegel – Budapest: Europe’s Capital of Anti-Semitism

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) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...

Beyond Despair by Aharon Appelfeld

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...

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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus