until now, i only knew some beautiful movies of mohsen makhmalbaf (thanks to viennale film festival). via scripting news, i now found out that he is an ambitious writer and political activist, too: "limbs of no body – world's indifference to the afghan tragedy".
war is a record label. it shouldn't be anything else.
khilafah.com: "a us military intelligence source revealed details of an internal intelligence memo that points to the israeli mossad intelligence service having links to the world trade center and pentagon attacks".
optimistic view: we will watch the united states not bombing afghanistan to ashes.
pessimistic view: we will watch afghanistan being bombed to ashes just as we watched the towers collapsing.
either way we will only watch.
up to now, i heard none of those big world leaders say that one simple word, not even in context: peace.
btw. the alphabetical listing of all translations of the universal declaration of human rights.
has anyone noticed that there are only males talking on tv now? the warlord and the peacefool.
a group of 15 students from linz, austria, stuck in new york city is desperately calling for help...
slavoj zizek: "the ridicule of america attacking afghanistan cannot but strike the eye: if the greatest power in the world will destroy one of the poorest countries in which peasant barely survive on barren hills, will this not be the ultimate case of the impotent acting out?"
just remembered another quote: fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity. wonder who might have coined that...
a good friend sent the following quote to me:
"we have 50% of the world's wealth, but only 6.3% of its population [...] our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity [...] we should cease to talk about vague and [...] unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards and democratization. the day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts". – george kennan, main architect of u.s. foreign policy following world war ii, 1948.
the quote can be found in several sources, e.g. in the articles learning from history by greg coleridge and "'crackpot realism' and u.s. imperial hegemonism in europe" by joseph gerson, american friends service committee.
the afsc launched a no more victims campaign.