July 16, 2011
Bansky‘s Gorilla in a Pink Mask before it was covered in emulsion. Photograph: SWNS.com On the face of it, it was understandable that Saeed Ahmed should want to paint over the scruffy side wall of his new Muslim cultural centre in Bristol. Quite apart from the stained ventilation unit, it was covered in graffiti. [...]
Tags: Banksy, Bansky, Bristol, Graffiti, Jaroslav Bánský, Muslim, Saeed Ahmed, Subcultures
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July 3, 2011
Humans are natural-born storytellers, so lying is in our blood. Ian Leslie considers how this comes out in our art … Special to MORE INTELLIGENT LIFE Shortly before his death, Marlon Brando was working on a series of instructional videos about acting, to be called “Lying for a Living”. On the surviving footage, Brando [...]
Tags: Antonio Damasio, Confabulation, Mark Twain, Marlon Brando, Morris Moscovitch, Oscar Wilde, Rolling Stone, Sean Penn
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June 27, 2011
Aung San Suu Kyi‘s idea of freedom offers a radical message for the west The Burmese heroine’s Reith lectures expose our patronising attitudes to Buddhism, and injects fresh meaning into a concept we have abused Share reddit this Comments (81) Madeleine Bunting guardian.co.uk, Sunday 26 June 2011 21.00 BST Article history On the wall by [...]
Tags: Anna Akhmatova, Aung San Suu Kyi, BBC, Buddhism, Burma, Isaiah Berlin, List of Reith Lectures, Myanmar, Nobel Peace Prize, The Guardian
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June 22, 2011
US journalist Jose Antonio Vargas: I’m an illegal alien In the New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winner Jose Antonio Vargas reveals his true status. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images One of America’s top journalists has admitted he is an undocumented alien. In a startling first person piece in the New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winner Jose Antonio [...]
Tags: Dream Act, Illegal immigration, Jose Antonio Vargas, New York Times, Pulitzer Prize, United States, Washington DC, Washington Post
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June 6, 2011
This photo taken on September 8, 2009 shows Indian booker prize-winning author and anti-globalisation activist Arundhati Roy ahead of the ‘International Literature Festival Berlin 2009′ in Berlin. Arundhati Roy: ‘They are trying to keep me destabilised. Anybody who says anything is in danger’ The Booker prize-winning novelist on her political activism in India, why she [...]
Tags: Arundhati Roy, God of Small Things, India, Kashmir, Man Booker Prize, Maoism, The Guardian, V. S. Naipaul
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June 5, 2011
The Libyan artists driving Gaddafi to the wall In cities that have fallen to the rebels, such as Benghazi, the beleaguered leader is the subject of taunts and derision, the visual outpouring of pent-up hatred Share87 Comments (11) Rory Mulholland The Observer, Sunday 5 June 2011 Article history End of his reign? Muammar Gaddafi [...]
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Benghazi, Dracula, Flag of the United States, Libya, Libyan, Mediterranean Sea, Misurata, Muammar al-Gaddafi, NATO, Rebellion, The Observer, Tripoli
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May 31, 2011
Russia arrests suspected Politkovskaya killer Rustam Makhmudov is the suspected assassin of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was shot dead in 2006. Last Modified: 31 May 2011 15:02 Politkovskaya was well known for her opposition to the Chechen conflict and criticism of Vladimir Putin [AFP] Russia has arrested Rustam Makhmudov, the suspected assassin of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was [...]
Tags: Anna Politkovskaya, Chechnya, Federal Security Service, Moscow, Novaya Gazeta, RIA Novosti, Russia, Vladimir Putin
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May 20, 2011
Central to the position in Palestine is the presence of a fully armed and nuclear capable country that is seeking to simply take and to keep taking what belongs to other people. The first taking was then the land was simply handed to them without any regard to the justice of doing that. Regardless of how much [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Boycott Divestment and Sanctions, Human rights, Israel, Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Jewish people, Jews, middle east, Nazism, Omar Barghouti, Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, Palestinian people, United States, Zionism
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May 19, 2011
Trigger happy murderers in NATO are basically the new cancer on the block in the Middle East. These European invading barbarians know nothing but killing as far as the troops are concerned. Fresh from glory of several thousand years in the killing fields of Europe by air land and sea these new SS Regiments havea true obedience [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Bundeswehr, Hamid Karzai, middle east, NATO, Protest, Takhar Province, Taloqan
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May 18, 2011
Australia: Iran ‘not rogue state‘ Secret US cables reveal Australia sees Iran’s nuclear programme as a ‘deterrent’. Last Modified: 13 Dec 2010 05:49 GMT Australian fears are revealed in the latest WikiLeaks cables [AFP] Leaked US cables show that Australia sees the Iranian nuclear programme as a “deterrent,” a sharply contrary view to that of most Western [...]
Tags: Iran, Israel, middle east, Nuclear program of Iran, Sydney Morning Herald, United States, United States diplomatic cables leak, WikiLeaks
Posted in Ahmadinejad, anti zion protests, Arab Jews, Arab Spring, Art and general issues, Asia Times, Assange, Australia, Australia and support it gives to Afghan war crimes, Australia Politics, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Australian presence is the the Rudd dream | No Comments »
May 17, 2011
Subscribe to FFF Email Update Subscribe to Freedom Daily DONATE TO FFF Hornberger’s Blog Monday, May 16, 2010 Hornberger’s Blog Index Information about RSS REMINDER: The Jacob Hornberger Show every Saturday at 7-8 pm EST. Listen and watch live on the Internet: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-future-of-freedom-foundation America’s Post-9/11 Turn toward Dictatorship by Jacob G. Hornberger Among the most potent [...]
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May 13, 2011
Bob Dylan posts web message about China shows Singer claims authorities did not censor setlist for China concerts Share14 Comments (17) Caspar Llewellyn Smith guardian.co.uk, Friday 13 May 2011 19.12 BST Article history Bob Dylan performing in China in April 2011. Photograph: AP Confounding seasoned Bob Dylan fans, the 69-year old song and dance man has posted [...]
Tags: Allen Ginsberg, BobDylan, Che Guevara, Government of the People's Republic of China, Jack Kerouac, Joan Baez, Maureen Dowd, New York Times
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May 8, 2011
An email from Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky University of Leeds (UCU) – Blog, November 30, 2009 I had a startling experience a few weeks ago. I travelled to Mexico City for talks at the National University, an enormous and very impressive institution with high standards of achievement and scholarship. Entrance is selective, but the university [...]
Tags: California, Higher education, Mexico, Mexico City, Noam Chomsky, Osama bin Laden, San Francisco, United State, University of California Los Angeles, University of Leeds
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March 31, 2011
For art’s sake – and ours The anti-cuts case can’t be just the elitism of the arts’ intrinsic value, nor their social utility, but both Share11 Comments (66) David Edgar guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 30 March 2011 22.00 BST Article history Related http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=16152 Three years ago at the Young Vic theatre 500 arts people dragged the then [...]
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March 27, 2011
What follows is a very interesting Guardian article. At the end there is a link to some very interesting pieces of art. It is well worthwhile looking at. Pakistan’s contemporary artists respond to strife Exhibition at Karachi’s Mohatta Palace documents in art Pakistan’s modern political, economic and religious conflicts In pictures: The Rising Tide exhibition Share52 Declan [...]
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Chomsky- a brief matter
An email from Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky University of Leeds (UCU) – Blog, November 30, 2009 I had a startling experience a few weeks ago. I travelled to Mexico City for talks at the National University, an enormous and very impressive institution with high standards of achievement and scholarship. Entrance is selective, but the university [...]
Tags: California, Higher education, Mexico, Mexico City, Noam Chomsky, Osama bin Laden, San Francisco, United State, University of California Los Angeles, University of Leeds
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