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INTERVIEW: Gerd Ludemann says New Testament scholars should 'keep fundamentalism in check' |
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Written by Hank Berger
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Sunday, 17 July 2005 |
"The Spirit of Things" is a regular program of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, focusing on "contemporary values and beliefs as expressed through ritual, art, music, and sacred texts." -- This transcript of an interview conducted by Rachael Kohn with Gerd Ludemann of the University of Gottingen in Germany was broadcast on Apr. 4, 2004.... |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 17 July 2005 )
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AMERICAN CREED IN SONG: Amos Lee's 'Keep It Loose, Keep It Tight' and Springsteen's 'Pink Cadillac' |
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Written by Hank Berger
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Friday, 15 July 2005 |
Jocelyn Cesari, professor of Islamic Studies at Harvard University, says: "Muslim immigrants in the U.S. are well-educated and even after 9/11 they showed more trust in American society. There is still an American dream and Muslims are partaking in it." -- Here are two deeply democratic expressions of the American creed: Amos Lee's "Keep It Loose, Keep It Tight" (2005) [1] and Bruce Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac" (1998).[2] -- The key point being, in Amos Lee's words, "We all need a place where we can go/and feel over the rainbow," or in Bruce Springsteen's, "Feeling out of sight." -- Amos Lee is still optimistic: "I think we got a chance to make it right." ... |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 15 July 2005 )
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TRANSLATION: MC Solaar's 'Sauvez le monde' (‘Save the World’) |
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Written by Mark Jensen
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Thursday, 07 July 2005 |
MC Solaar is, to quote Wikipedia as of Jul. 7, 2005, "the stage name of Francophone hip hop artist Claude M'Barali (born March 5, 1969). By far the most internationally popular French rapper, he was born in Senegal to parents from Chad. The family moved to Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, just outside Paris, when Solaar was six months old. . . . As a rapper MC Solaar is known for the complexity and poetry of his songs, which have little of the violence usually associated with rap music and rely instead on word play, lyricism, and philosophical inquiry." -- The song below, entitled “Sauvez le monde” (‘Save the World’) is from MC Sollar's 2003 album, "Mach 6." -- I have occasionally taken liberties with the text; the original follows the translation (I have changed the line “Et le monde devint pénombre par fondue enchaînée,” which makes no sense, to “Et le monde devint pénombre par fondu enchaîné,” with a play on words with “par fonds dûs enchaîné”).... |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 08 July 2005 )
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POEM: Brian Turner's 'A Soldier's Arabic' |
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Written by Fran Lucientes
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Wednesday, 27 April 2005 |
This poem by Brian Turner, who is known to writing circles in the Pacific Northwest, was featured in the Voices in Wartime newsletter on Apr. 26. -- Turner earned an MFA in Creative Writing (poetry) from the University of Oregon and then served in the U.S. Army for seven years. -- He was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1999-2000 with the 10th Mountain Division, and was an infantry team leader in Iraq for a year beginning November 2003, and served with the Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. -- He left Iraq in October 2004 and came off active duty on April 1, 2005. -- He has published poetry in several literary reviews, and a volume of his poems entitled Here, Bullet will be published by Alice James Books in November 2005. -- Here, Bullet was recently named the winner of the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award.... |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 27 April 2005 )
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QUOTATION: Aldous Huxley on how we use language to suppress and distort war's realities |
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Written by Hank Berger
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Saturday, 01 January 2005 |
In this passage from a well-known and often reprinted essay written in the 1930s, Aldous Huxley analyzes the ways in which people use language to help them tolerate what would be intolerable if its full reality were confronted: modern war. -- The "information operations" of contemporary military organizations far surpass those of Huxley's day, but the principles involved remain, for the most part, the same.... |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 01 January 2005 )
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SONG: John Fogerty's 'Déjà Vu (All Over Again)' annotated |
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Written by Mark Jensen
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Sunday, 17 October 2004 |
John Fogerty's song "Déjà Vu (All Over Again)" seems likely to be one of the most enduring antiwar songs of our time.[1] It can be heard free of charge at the web site below. -- Extensive notes on the song follow.[2] ... |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 26 January 2005 )
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I.F. Stone on the joy of losing |
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Written by Abe DeJamminen
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Thursday, 23 September 2004 |
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Some of I.F. Stone's advice to activists: Most struggles worth pursuing bring more defeats than victories, but those defeats are part of a process. "You mustn't feel like a martyr. You've got to enjoy it." ... |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 23 September 2004 )
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DOCUMENT: The Declaration of Independence |
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Written by Henry Adams
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Friday, 02 July 2004 |
On June 11, 1776, the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia,
entrusted John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert R. Livingston,
and Roger Sherman with the drafting of a resolution declaring independence. --
Jefferson wrote the first draft. This was revised by Adams, Franklin, and
Jefferson, and sent to Congress, where the final draft was unanimously adopted
on July 4, 1776, more fully justifying a resolution of independence that
Congress had adopted on July 2. -- The Declaration of Independence has been
called the most important of all American historical documents, yet its
principles are so radical that it has no status in a court of law and advocacy
of its fundamental doctrines can, since the passage of the Alien Registration
Act of 1940 (the 'Smith Act' -- still on the
books, though its application was restricted in scope by Supreme Court rulings
in the 1950s and 1960s), get a person in serious trouble in the United States of
America.... |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 02 July 2004 )
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SONG: 'It Is One,' by Jackson Browne |
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Written by Hank Berger
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Monday, 21 June 2004 |
Jackson Browne wrote this anthem in 1996.... |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 21 June 2004 )
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QUOTATION: Abraham Lincoln on a day when 'corporations have been enthroned' |
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Written by Fred Moreau
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Thursday, 17 June 2004 |
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An interesting quote (and inquiry into its authenticity). -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter written in 1864, supposedly foresaw that the American Republic might be undone by "enthroned" corporations as "the money power of the country" tried to "prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." -- ADDENDUM (Jan. 12, 2006): Snopes, the urban legend web site, however, examines the authenticity of this quotation and concludes that it is "spurious." ... |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 12 January 2006 )
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QUOTATION: The arrest |
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Written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Sunday, 23 May 2004 |
Now that it has become apparent that under the rubric of the "war on terrorism" the U.S. is becoming that which it deplored -- an empire aiming at world domination -- and running an elaborate worldwide gulag of detention centers, prisons, and camps, including, the New York Times revealed a week ago, secret facilities so covert that even the president of the United States doesn't know (and doesn't want to know) where they are or what is done there, and that all kinds of human rights abuses, up to and including murder, are frequent there, it is interesting to reread the opening passage of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, about the moment of arrest.... |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 23 May 2004 )
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