more letters – recent and historic

A letter from Chomsky and others on the recent events in the Middle East (July 19, 2006) which has been published in Le Monde last week ..

a Letter to Palestinian and Lebanese filmmakers from Israeli filmmakers published on electronic intifada (again via Newsgrist) – more information for reference of the mentioned Arab Filmfestival can …

just redirecting

newsgrist has a bigger section titled ‘Letters from Lebanon’ ... for img link and bigger size go here

silence is betrayal

I was searching for a while a text titled ‘Silence is betrayal’ across which I came already some time ago, but could not find it in english. The text published on medico.de is written by M.Zimmermann who demands for intellectual voices in times of crises – what he meant back then by that was …

mindless repetition of paranoid patterns

An article published today on washingtonpost.com titled ‘

update and upcoming

The July issue of Le monde diplomatique I mentioned a few posts below is online now … and still worth reading with its specific focus on Palestine and Lebanon.

A second reminder here goes for the also formerly mentioned Dictionary of War which with its second edition to take in Munich the next weekend.

the world sits silent aside …

.. and what one hears officially does not make it easy to find words of one’s own on what is happening between Lebanon, Palestine, Israel and its other neighbours these days … and it’s even harder to find some official lines which at least try to give some balance to that what is going …

ai campaign

The actual amnesty international campaign addresses in an interesting manner our daily/everyday perceptions: