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people who died

Misery loves company and there seems to be a lot of it to go around. As the historian John Luckacs once wrote, we don’t really solve problems, both social and personal, although there may be effort made; rather what happens … Continue reading

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feeding the shark

So long and thanks for all the fish. She claims the Shalit family was holding her story hostage for four years, and she deserves royalties. As Shalit was exchanged for prisoners, she should also figure into the exchange process. The … Continue reading

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outlaw culture: drawn to darkness

Drawn to darkness and obscurity, but with a tenacious grip onto the light. Pure forms existing, withstanding, even though they convey impressions of isolation and alienation. There is a heroism of the outlaw, a kind of aesthetic, a beauty of … Continue reading

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tiger’s leap into the past

Roland Barthes  once claimed  that a society produces images, splices of mythologies peddled,  as magical instruments to enforce a  social order.All nations have their founding mythologies, the necessary illusions that maintain the social hierarchy. In Israel, it was  conquering and … Continue reading

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on pain of death: the bonding process

The dangers of militarism.And its connection with the two other ” triplets of evil” named by Martin Luther King Jr. : racism and consumerism. GRACE LEE BOGGS: I’m sorry, but I think if we stick to those categories of race, … Continue reading

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greetings on this day

A remnant people trying to tailor a fine suit out of rags. The solitary wanderer in his brand name estate. The concept of Judaism rests as an affirmation of the Diaspora and a rejection, in principle of Zionism, which can … Continue reading

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the one after 193

Not something from the back of a cereal box. A real country. Or some neutered and coiffed Bantustan experiment with nifty uniforms and fan-far parades. Real borders and a real economy. Or a box within a box and the welfare … Continue reading

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