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platform of debate that
encourages different views
on the arts
and society.
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board and encourages
contributions that would not
be accepted easily
by so-called
mainstream media.
Links:
Yushan
Huang's blog
[in Chinese]
Women Make Waves
Film Festival
www.wmw.com.tw
Metaphon
record label
Timo
van Luijk
composer, musician,
sound artist
H8x12
Space for
Contemporary Art
Art exhibition
at the CAS
Munich
Oct. 2014
FEADAH
League of democratic,
anti-hegemonist writers
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Victoria Nuland Admits Washington Has Spent
$5
Billion
to
"Subvert Ukraine"
Zoltan Grossman
on the Extreme
Right's
Role on Maidan Square
and in the Civil War
The
Ukraine Crisis from
Russia’s
Perspective
U.S.-Russia
Bickering
May
Trigger
Nuclear
Fallout
"Wise Ukrainian leaders would [...]
opt for a policy of reconciliation
between the various parts of their
country." (H.A.Kissinger)
Galtung:
Ukraine.
The
Solution Is
A
Federation with
High
Autonomy
*
John
Pilger: In Ukraine,
the
US is Dragging Us
Towards
War with Russia
*
Henry
A. Kissinger, "How
the
Ukraine Crisis Ends" Washington Post, 03/05/2014
"In my life, I have seen four
wars begun with great enthusiasm
and public support, all of which
we did not know how to end
and from three of which we withdrew
unilaterally. [Vietnam, Iraq,
Afghanistan]
The test of policy is how it
ends,
not how it begins.
Far too often the Ukrainian
issue
is posed as a showdown:
whether Ukraine joins the East
or the West. But if Ukraine
is to survive and thrive, it
must
not be either side’s outpost
against the other — it should
function as a bridge
between them." (Henry A.
Kissinger, at age 90; do some
people grow wiser
in old age, or is it just his
old Macchiavellian realism?)
About 730,000 have left
Ukraine for Russia this year,
due to the war,
the United
Nations agency UNHCR in Geneve says
August 3, 2014:
NATO secretary Rasmussen
warns that a Russian incursion into Eastern Ukraine
to resolve the
humanitarian crisis in Donetzk
would
mean war
*
Noam
Chomsky
on Civilian Airliners
Downed, on Gaza, and
on How the West
Reacts
Zoltán Grossman,
New
US Bases
* * *
We
Went to War.
A Film by by
Michael
Grigsby
and Rebekah
Tolley
(“A masterpiece four
decades in the making...
We Went To War
is a meditation on
the very nature of war:
not just about Vietnam,
it is strikingly relevant
to any returning veterans,
no matter the conflict.
This film is [...]
slow and serene but
arrestingly powerful, it is
a perfect example of how
a film like this
should be made.”
– Documentary Filmmakers
Group (DFG))
* * *
Pavel Branko
www.pavel.branko.eu
www.lithos-jura.de
Li Portenlänger
Lithographie
Werkstatt
(Lithography
Workshop)
Eichstaett
write
an e-mail
to
Art in Society
13, 14, 15, 16, ...
Reflecting on
War and Peace
"White Doves at the Blue Mosque" by Peretz Partensky from San Francisco (Creative Commons Attribution -Share Alike 2.0 Generic license) |
Editorial An old friend of mine wrote me recently, mentioning in passing, as if it was a mere aside, that a cold wind is blowing from the East. |
A. Howard,The
Arts, Artists,
Crisis
and War. Looking Back in
Order
to Understand the Present...
Is Eastward Expansion of NATO
At the Root of A Major Crisis?
American
Geopolitical Strategy
in
Europe Since 1990
On NATO Eastward Expansion -
A Chronology of Developments
A
Leaked Conversation - Proof of A
"Regime
Change Strategy"?
[Full Text of Victoria Nuland Phone
Conversation,
in Englisch and German]
G. Moore, The
Demonstrations
on Kiev's Maidan Square - Indications
of a Democracy Movement?
Gregor Gysi (Left Party)
on
the Situation in Ukraine
Hans Olsen, A
Plane, Shot Down -
And
A Lottery
Olga Swanson, UNHCR
Confirms That
The Fighting in Eastern Ukraine
Has Already Resulted In A Major Refugee Crisis
J. Saunders, Words and Real Dangers
Martha Wols, Internal Problems and Outside Meddling. Where Will It Lead?
Olaf Kohl,Den
Frieden bloß erträumen?
Von der Verantwortung für
ein
friedliches Miteinander
War in Gaza, Iraq, Libya,
Yemen, Syria, Somalia,
Afghanistan, Pakistan...
César Valera Baeza, La
Paz
y
los horrores de la guerra
A. Zukofsky, Some Plain Talk on Gaza
Nora Lang, This
Is One World,
After
All
Hal Wolsey,The
Drone War
Is
Illegal
Ron Paul, Why Are We in Yemen?
J. Halloway, The Final Decade of
the Cold War: Soviet
- American
Confrontation
in Afghanistan
Is There Anything Like
"Humanising War"? Or
"Humanitarian War"?
J. Edmonds, Humaniser
la guerre?
Philanthropy, the Red Cross and
the "Humanizing" of Wars
Martha Golding,
"Humanitarian
Wars?"
[THE ARTICLE HAS NOT BEEN RECEIVED YET]
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*
Why War?
A Few Facts Regarding
American
Militarism
[The Military-Industrial Complex,
Conflicts & War]
Countries with the biggest
military
expenditures in 2013
Arnoldo Hammer,The
Causes of War
and the Attempt of Lloyd de Mause
to Identify Them
John Waterford,War as a
"Group-Delusional
Solution" to
Internal Problems of a Nation and
its Government?
Militarization versus
Democratization
Dan Horton,Can
History "Repeat Itself"?
The
Link Between Weakened Democratic
Rights of the People and Increased
Danger of War
Monique Hamburger,The Servants of
the People (Governments, Parliaments)
Have Been Arming
their "Security" Forces Against the People
for Decades Already
A. Boley, Demonstrations
Are Necessary,
And It's Our Democratic Right
To Take to the Streets
Jacob Hauser, Who Is The Enemy?
Juan Mendoza, El
Pueblo Unido
Historical Amnesia
Hirohima,
Nagasaki:
In Memory ... And Craving
A Future
Remembering
the Greek
War of Resistance
against NaziGermany & the Civil
War
British
and U.S. intervention in
Greek Politics (1945-1949)
The Pre-history
of the
Korean War
Seoul
Rejects Historical Probing
of The Massacres That Occured
During the Korean War
David Koo, Korea: A Different View
Kim Sowol, Die
Strasse
Anti-War Protests
Jeju
[Cheju] Islanders Say No
to the New Naval Base
Under Construction
Poems, A Short Story, etc.
Doug
Anderson, Poem
[there are witnesses]
Vier
Gedichte aus Korea
[von Pak Chong-hwa, Pak Tu-jin,
Kim
Chi-ha]
Ishikawa Takaboku, Soldiers / Soldaten
Urs Jaeggi, Non sfuggirai
Bob Dylan, Meister
des Kriegs
[A new translation of 'Masters
of War']
A.W., Deserters
and Wanderers /
Deserteure und Wanderer
Olivia McCain, The Separation
Ravi Shanker, Warm is the War
Sasidharan Cheruvattath, Poem
Chandramohan S., An
Open Letter
to a Game Theorist
Laura Solomon, Sky
Burial
Paintings, Photos, and
Sculptures, etc.
Jan Howard, Damn Dice
G.O., Sonic weapon (LRAD) test
Carla Voss, Authentic
Political Art
[Paintings
by Angelo Evelyn that reflect
threats of war,
also of war on nature]
Ma Jones, People's Art
Gregory Marsden, They
See So Well
* * *
Penn Kemp, Creative
Aging
This issue was edited by AW
* *
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