SONG/VIDEO: Jackson Browne's 'Casino Nation'
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- Written by Fran Lucientes
The controlling image of Jackson Browne's dark anti-militarist song "Casino Nation," written as the Bush administration embarked on its so-called "War on Terror," is "the way the hammer shapes the hand." -- "Casino Nation" appeared on Browne's 2002 album, "The Naked Ride Home." -- Andrew Thomas calls his video tribute to the song an "animated editorial." -- With striking and cleverly presented images, he illustrates the themes of the song, whose lyrics are posted below the YouTube version.[1,2] -- The video also appears on Jackson Browne's web site....
GRAPHIC ART: The miniature earth
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- Written by Hank Berger and Jay Ruskin
If the world consisted of 100 people... only three would have an internet connection....
TRANSLATION: 'Humanity's last chance' (Camus in 1945)
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- Written by Mark Jensen
The famous essay retranslated here, written sixty-one years ago this month but still timely, was published by Albert Camus on August 8, 1945, a day after news was received of the destruction of Hiroshima by an atomic bomb. -- In it, Camus seems to foresee the rise of doctrines like those of the neoconservatives who dominate U.S. foreign policy in the administration of George W. Bush. -- He warns: “But we refuse to draw from such grave news anything other than the determination to plead even more energetically for a real international society, in which . . . war, a scourge that has become definitive through human intelligence alone, will not depend on the appetites or doctrines of this or that State.” -- Camus concludes: “Faced with the terrifying prospects that are opening up before humanity, we see even more clearly than before that peace is the only fight worth engaging in. This isn’t a plea any more, but an order that has to rise up from peoples to governments, the order to choose once and for all between hell and reason.” ...