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coming to a scream near you
Another critique of this Oscar nominated propaganda films coming out of Israel, the Gatekeepers and Five Broken Cameras. Sarah Honig fires a broadside, in the main, accurate, but not entirely. The part of her article on Jewish appeasement, lack of … Continue reading
t.s. eliot: obsessed with meat
T.S. Eliot a reactionary? The charges of fascism were of course brought against Eliot, and also against Yeats, Lawrence, Pound, and Wyndham Lewis for that ,matter, part of the romantic tug towards purity and blood one can imagine, the kind … Continue reading
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
between the raindrops
Padding the wallet. Balzac – Behind every great fortune lies a crime. Behind every great fortune is a crime. Or perhaps a multiple series of crimes, a chain actions leading toward some altar of infinite power. The translation of Balzac’s original … Continue reading
repertory: islamophobia rewind
She makes a good point here, namely, stop bitching about the vulgarity of American culture vis a vis Islam and Arabs and make your own art or cultural product. Fight bad product with better, fight prejudice and lies with truth … Continue reading
beat the clock
In some measure, what John Lukacs is saying is that a good many people were wrong in their perceptions of what was occurring during World War II. But he is also saying more than that, something more interesting and more … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Szyk, Battle of Britain, Johan Huizinga, John Lukacs, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Monica Osborne, Oliver Wallace Music, Oliver Wallace Walt Disney, Otto Dix, Owen Chadwick, Rudolph Herzog, Second World War, Sigmund Freud
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guide to the perplexed: how to lose a war
Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan. What next? How much the academic think-merchants should share in the responsibility for these messy predicaments is not really quantifiable. But judging from what he read and see, the American government would have found a better guide … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Al Nusra Front, ambassador James Jeffrey, Andrew Tabler, Cardinal Spellman, Clausewitz, Damien Cave, David Crist The Twilight War, Edward Sorel, J.J. Graham Clausewitz, kirsten cale, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michael Eisenstadt, Moises Saman, Otto Dix, Syria Crisis Bashar Assad, Syria War, The Washington institute
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a plateful it is
The level of profoundness and incisiveness, let alone plain vanilla veracity is about at the same level as elementary school Scholastic Book Services paperbacks. Banal, slightly generic, and with lots of pablum serving drivel and spittle. Its the New York … Continue reading
the hidden look: looks within looks
In a way, Zionism is explainable in its zeal to create a “new jew” ; an act of nihilism to consign to the dust-bin of history the entire diasporic experience of jewish life pulverized by the atomic bomb of the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Abba Kovner, Alfred Rosenberg, Arthur Dinter, Arthur Koestler, eichmann trial, Felix Nussbaum, Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Singer, J.F. Blumenbach, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Martin Englander, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, rich cohen author, roman vishniac, roman vishniak, Theodor Lessing, Walter Benjamin, Wilhelm Reich
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