by John Feffer | Feb 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
The GDR Museum in Berlin is actually two museums in one. And these two parts, both devoted to everyday life in the German Democratic Republic, subtly contradict one another. That might not have been the intention of the museum founders. But this tension actually...
by Beth Copeland | Feb 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
“Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.”-Shakespeare What do the howling hounds hear that we can’t?The moon sharpens its sword on the Earth’s stone.Palm trees on the shores of the Tigris stand sentinel,silently releasing sweet dioxide into...
by Jamaal May | Feb 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
Hold a pomegranate in your palm, imagine ways to split it, think of the breaking skin as shrapnel. Remember granada means pomegranate and granada means grenade because grenade takes its name from the fruit; identify war by what it takes away from fecund orchards....
by Fouad Pervez | Dec 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
Surely, I thought, the critically acclaimed Argo would be an intelligent film. Directed by noted progressive Ben Affleck, I had high hopes that the film would tackle complex subject matter in a responsible and nuanced way. But while well-intentioned, Argo failed to...
by Foreign Policy In Focus | Aug 8, 2012 | Uncategorized
Jon Stewart, the premier political satirist of his generation, is one of a kind. Or is he? In this survey of the Global Stewarts, Foreign Policy In Focus goes around the world to find the comics who would be Jon Stewart. It’s an interesting mix: a surgeon, a...
