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Tag Archives: George Grosz
famine : gnawing persistence
Is there more to famine than lack of food? In the search for food, humanity has gone to astonishing lengths and recorded some stunning success. Yet still, hunger is always at the door, even in an era like hours, people … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged George Grosz, Irish potato famine, Parson Malthus, Sir Robert Peel
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big bang and it came upon us
The nature of evil, the mechanical moving parts that make up villainy.The question is always posed, so that the question reveals the answer: if humanity collectively does want evil, then why does it exist? The short answer is that goodness … Continue reading
so romantic: but NIMBY
Something American about it. That snappy walk, The way the gum is chewed. There is no end to the American ingenuity of shaping public opinion. Its post-Imperialism. There is always this incorporation of the “other” within a narrative that serves … Continue reading
jailbird love songs
All the arguments for de-legitimizing Israel are fair game. Not for the supposed and ostensible reasons we usually hear, excessive violence, and racism for example, but because the country is totally inept, and for its own security and those of … Continue reading
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Tagged Ami Popper, Amos Oz, Ben Dror Yemini, Bob Dylan, bob dylan world gone wrong, Franz Kafka, George Grosz, Gideon Levy Haaretz, Lyonel Feininger, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Matthias Grunewald, Max Brod, MK Shlomo Benizri, Moshe Katsav, Ray Caesar art, Ron Myberg, shimon peres, Steven Plaut
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cut off your tree to spite your earth
Cut off your tree. We are often told in the Palestinian rhetoric how the olive tree is the food of spirituality connected to the soil, all in a distinct and sanctified relation to the above. Allah’s benign and not so … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged B'Tselem, Benny Katzover, CAMERA, David Grisman, David Ha'ivri, Ernst Kirchner, George Grosz, James Baldwin, Jerry Garcia, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Olive Trees Settler violence Israel, Orange Blossom Special, Otto Mueller, Shomron Settlers Council, Vassar Clements, Yisrael Medad
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cops on the beat
There is a certain plausible logic to expanding and exaggerating the implications and threats of radical Islam. The tragedy of 9-11 is being milked dry the way some have ingeniously invoked the holocaust to justify and serve as pretext certain … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlie Ben-Naim, Corey Robin, doug saunders globe and mail, Fill the Void Rama Burshtein, George Grosz, Hannah Arendt, Hannah Arendt Israel, Jessica Tisch, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mordechai Dzikansky, Nathan Newman, Ray Kelley NYPD commissioner, Sam Huntington, Thorstein Veblen, wayne kopping
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kick sand in their faces
Synthetic credit. Trading a black box. Small is beautiful? Hardly when it comes to banking. In light of JP Morgan’s announced “surprise $2Billion profit bust; soaked and also synthetic red ink, people are naturally worried about contagion and another bank … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Aronson, Bruno Iskill, David Teniers, david teniers the younger, David Tenniers, Donald Trump, Eric Fischl, George Grosz, jamie dimon, joseph heath rebel sell, Joseph Schumpeter, JP Morgan bank, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Carney Bank of Canada, Mike Mayo CLSA, Mitt Romney 2012, volcker rule, Walter Benjamin, will hay ask a policeman
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radical chic: return of the ekosians
Truth to power. A kind of truth to power. Neo-Nazi? Patriot? Freedom fighter? Misguided genius? Eccentric gadfly and publicity hound? Clearly inscrutable, but all part of the mystery of radical Jewish culture, the people, the remnant of the remnant as … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Dershowitz, Art Spiegelman, art spiegelman maus, Arthur Butz, children of holocaust survivors, david ridgen, Elie Wiesel, Eva Fogelman, fara kaplan, George Grosz, Gideon Levy, Israel Shamir, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Beckmann, Natasha Mozgovaya, nicolas rossier, Norman Finkelstein, Steven Plaut, Thomas Klocek, Tom Segev
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redemption through damascus gate
Society of the Spectacle. A game. In part, an attempt to gain social acceptance in an environment hostile towards Jews or can it be attributable to an infantile effort to correct a haunting victim status through self-blame, the kinds of … Continue reading
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Tagged Allan Dershowitz, benny morris, De Paul University Norman Finkelstein, George Grosz, Guy Debord, Israel Shamir, Jeff Halper ICAHD, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Beckmann, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Otto Dix, Ruthie Blum, Salvoj Zizek, Steven Plaut, Yair Lapid
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