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

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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

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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

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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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jerusalem the olden, the golden and the stolen

Jerusalem Gangnam style.Horsey steps trotting through the paces. Even horses have to stop and sow oats occasionally. …. Something out of Ripley’s Believe it or rot: About a thousand  streets in East Jerusalem, if they can be identified between the … Continue reading

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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

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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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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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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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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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