Tag Archives: Reza Deghati

prestige contruction: now renting and digging

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Dave

From an article by Tom Blackwell in the National Post, basically on the theme of governmental conspicuous waste in the Afghanistan nation building project. There was was no illusion that Canada was going to reinvent the wheel, their largesse simply … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Afghanistan mineral deposits, Afghanistan Protect Virtue and Prevent Vice, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Canadian aid Afghanistan, CIDA afghanistan, Guillermo Cervera photography, Hajigak iron deposit, Kilo Goldmines, Nipa Banerjee, Paul A. Brinkley, Reza Deghati, Tom Blackwell National Post | Leave a comment

lessons of munich

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Dave

Is there a “lesson of Munich?” Whatever it is, it was certainly misapplied by the Americans to Vietnam in the same way that the so-called appeasement of the Arab world is likely also a misapplication of Munich applied to a … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Ahmad Shah Massoud, Apghanistan War, appeasement of the Arab World, Barack Obama 2012, Barack Obama appeasement, Daladier France, Francisco Franco Spain, Gerda Taro, Hitler and Mussolini, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, iraq war, Joseph Stalin, Korean War, Lessons of Munich, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Reza Deghati, Robert Capa, Spanish Civil War, Vietnam War | Leave a comment

long winding road: cordoba to teheran

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Dave

What Maimonides penned in the Medieval period still has coherence today. It is not by wiping out our neighbors, ostensibly and tangibly hostile nations that we attain peace and freedom. To Maimonides is was by conquering ourselves that the peace … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Boyko Metodiev Borisov, Giulio Meotti, Hatikva6, Iranian Revolution, Israel Bulgaria bombing, Jacob Bender, James Cameron, Maimonides, Maimonides guide for the perplexed, Out of Cordoba Jacob Bender, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, Reza Deghati, Slavoj Zizek, UNESCO Maimonides | Leave a comment

what goes around

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Dave

Drones are certainly here; this kind of soft-ware based warfare of which the FLAME virus and Stuxnet were also manifestations of this information age off-shoot where industrial age economics is displaced to a backseat in favor of digital technologies and … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged . Jonas Savimbi, Amos Golan, Andrew Feinstein, Barry Roffman, David Teniers, david teniers the younger, Debbie Schlussel, Dr, Israel Arms sales, Israel arms sales Darfur, Leonid Minin, Lost Tribes of Israel, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Meir Dagan Mossad, MK Michael Ben Ari, Nick Cook, Nicolas Poussin, Reza Deghati, robert Mock | Leave a comment

fold up the tent: patriots with bonds in their pockets

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Dave

…As the U.S. miltary officially leaves Iraq, much of us are still puzzled by the phenomenon of this conflict which pits the social, the psychological and the economic in contradictory positions vis. a vis. conventional thinking. Can the conflict be … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged alex pareene, Andre Breton, Carl von Clausewitz, Chris Hitchens, christopher caudwell, David Frum, david turnley photography, Erich Maria Rilke, Jean Renoir, La Grande Illusion Jean Renoir, martin van creveld, Reza Deghati, Sam Huntington, Slavoj Zizek, steven metz, Susan Sontag, Thorstein Veblen, XTC Colin Moulding | Leave a comment

you get to keep the prize

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Dave

Canada has packed its bags, pulled up tent and left Afghanistan as of July 5th. The rhetoric of the mission, and its justification and rationalization is a perfect example for lawyers. We knew the mission was a lost cause, futile, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Amy Goodman, brian burke, canadian troops leave afghanistan, glyn berry death, Lt.- Col. Steve Miller, malalai joya, Margaret Wente, marwan muasher, michel-henri St-Louis, Noam Chomsky, plato gorgios, Reza Deghati, Rick Salutin, Ronald Reagan, Stephen Harper, warlord mullah naqib, WikiLeaks | Leave a comment

sweet black angels of history

Posted on May 21, 2011 by Art

Aldous Huxley spoke of a utopianism as we evolved into a type of post-human; our immutable human nature changing as the genetic re-write and reproductive revolution matures heralding an closure on the Darwin era. In the meanwhile, history has shown … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Aldous Huxley, Carl von Clausewitz, daniel pick, Francisco Goya, John Keegan, Marquis de Sade, martin van creveld, Max Beckmann, Michel Foucault, Otto Dix, raymond barglow, restrepo film, Reza Deghati, tim hetherington, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

fear of a children’s planet: the customer is kid

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Dave

Whats always fascinating, often in equal measure, is disturbing. This is particularly so with the use of children in advertising, in art, and in the broader context. At one end of this seamy world, is the Charlie Sheen archetype, that … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Alex Bogusky, American Apparel advertising, Charlie Sheen, Coca Cola, Dov Charney, Gottfried Helnwein, Herman Hesse, Johannes Nyholm, Jonathan Hobin, Leah McLaren, Nina maria Kleivan, Peter Simpson, Reza Deghati, Simon Houpt | 1 Comment

love says “be silent i will beguile him with the soul”

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Dave

The quote is from Rumi, the Persian mystical poet. Aine is the humanitarian association Reza has founded to provide “media development and cultural expression as a foundation of democracy”. He should know. Reza Deghati is an exile from Iran, that … Continue reading →