taxi to the dark side
arte TV takes its 20th birthday to show a special program, which also includes re-airings of important films or series of the last years. Tonight the main program (will be repeated twice in november) was ‘Taxi to the Darkside‘ by Alex Gibney, a disturbing and important film, exploring the torture methods the world’s biggest democracy […] Read More
‘an eye for an eye ….’
.. but may be I’ll take two – hope you don’t mind …. …. that at least is the impression I got, when I finally had the chance to see Avi Mograbi’s documentary Z32. Nevertheless by the filmmaker’s doubts, which have been mixed into the film as questioning songs, it all together might – regarding […] Read Moreassociating: The angel of history
The following is Benjamin’s ninth thesis from the essay “Theses on the Philosophy of History”: A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one […] Read MoreD.I.Y. – Handbook for Change
As we speak about change today – why not take a look at the ‘Handbook for changing our World‘? ‘A Radical Guide to Ethical and Sustainable Living’ Climate change, resource wars, privatisation, the growing gap between rich and poor, politicians that don’t listen. Massive issues, but how can we make any difference? This book shows […] Read More
Jon Stewart’s Daily Show: ‘Strip Maul’ on Gaza
The Daily Show of the 6 January covered the Gaza assault: The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c Strip Maul *Requires flash player version 10 via ai and many others Read More
UN report on Gaza
A shocking UN report on Gaza has been published with today: A humanitarian and protection crisis unfolding (pdf via Spiegel online) Since the Israeli military operation “Cast lead†began on 27 December until 8 January (4:00PM), 758 Palestinians have been killed—approximately 42% of whom were women (60) and children (257) according to the Palestinian Ministry […] Read More
Molten Lead
Today’s issue of the taz (die tageszeitung) republishes an article by Uri Avnery, who analyzes from within Israel, how there was never a real ceasefire, how a cruel experiment of maximum endurance of misery was put on a whole population under the eyes and with the help of the whole world. He describes, how the […] Read MoreCité Soleil / City of the Sun
The winning photo for 2008 comes from 21-year-old Belgian photographer Alice Smeets, the youngest person ever to win the competition. The picture comes from a slum in Port au Prince called the “Cité Soleil,” or “City of the Sun.” (via spiegel / unicef link) Read MoreAmerica’s Change
Visualization of Obama’s Victory Speech >>> see source page .. and as it has been an historic event let’s also link to this visualization of Martin Wattenberg – the site History Wired, a visualization of a selection of objects from the Smithsonian Museum. (This was built in collaboration with Judy Gradwohl at the Smithsonian.) A […] Read More
assume the fetal position ….
Today I came across an article in in the german newspaper FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) which offers a read-worthy, though kind of bitter review on the heritage which the current president of the US will leave behind to all of us. As looking back and recounting the distortions caused over the years within the understanding […] Read More
Habermas explores the post-secularist society
In a recent article for the german Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, which luckily got translated by sightandsign.com, Habermas contemplates about religious developments and tendencies, the tradition of tolerance, multiculturalism and the notion of ‘post-secularism’: … what interests me in the present context is the question of whether a secularist devaluation of religion, if […] Read More