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Live Reading / Man-made Disaster / Poetry / Theater

October 15, 2015

The Gulf in Luxembourg

Auteur : Pierre Joris Musique : Composers: Gene Coleman, Chris Jonas & Gabriel Jackson. Choir Director: Jeff Mack Avec : with Pierre Joris and The Duke’s Singers Une production : Théâtre National du Luxembourg...

Gulf Disaster / Man-made Disaster

April 21, 2015

In Memoriam Gulf BP Disaster 5 Years Ago

WORD SWARM APRIL 20 2010 joint military operation Iraqi American forces killed two senior al-Qaeda leaders Abu Ayyub al-Masri, and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi News broke explosion at 11 p.m. EST on BP’s Deepwater Horizon...

Climate Change / Man-made Disaster / Oceans / Uncategorized

March 26, 2015

Gulf Stream in Trouble

Press Release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 03/24/2015 Atlantic Ocean overturning found to slow down already today The Atlantic overturning is one of Earth’s most important heat transport systems, pumping warm...

Iran / Israel / Man-made Disaster

March 7, 2015

Uri Avnery on “The Speech”

March 7, 2015 SUDDENLY IT reminded me of something. I was watching The Speech by Binyamin Netanyahu before the Congress of the United States. Row upon row of men in suits (and the occasional...

Human rights / Man-made Disaster / Politics

November 17, 2014

Ayotzinapa’s Uncomfortable Dead [1]

by Charlotte María Sáenz via: Other Worlds 11 xi 14 Vivos se los llevaron y vivos los queremos. “Alive, they were taken, and alive we want them back,” became the national and international public’s...

Man-made Disaster

October 17, 2014

The Political Economy of Ebola

Via: Retort, this Leigh Phillips piece from the Jacobin of 13 August 2014 is very clear on why the Ebola situation is stuck where it is today. Phillips is a science writer and EU affairs...

Climate Change / Man-made Disaster

October 15, 2014

Predicting extreme floods in the Andes mountains

Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 10/14/2014 New forecasting method: Predicting extreme floods in the Andes mountains Predicting floods following extreme rainfall in the central Andes is enabled by a...

Man-made Disaster / Obituaries

September 1, 2014

Remembering a Pigeon

via Retort & Iain Boal: To: Retort From: GS [Geoffrey Sea sends us this dispatch from Ohio on the centenary of the extinction of the passenger pigeon. Martha was reputedly the ‘endling’, the last...

Gaza Strip / Israel / Man-made Disaster / Palestinian people

August 8, 2014

Welcome Home Villagers: A window into the minds of the Occupiers (“The most moral army in the world”)

The following comes via Tom Clarks’ blog — which you all should check out: he has been posting regularly on Gaza. Palestinians returning home find Israeli troops left faeces and venomous graffiti Ahmed Owedat also found soldiers...

Gaza Strip / Human rights / Israel / Man-made Disaster / Palestine / Poetry / Translation / Uncategorized

August 2, 2014

The Many Lives of a Political Poem: From Hebrew, to Arabic, to Another Life in Hebrew

via the always excellent Arab Literature (in English): BY MLYNXQUALEY on AUGUST 2, 2014 • ( 0 ) Over at The Paris Review, poet and translator Peter Cole writes about the ironic new life that Benjamin Netanyahu has given to Hayim Nahman...