Hrag Vartanian

French intellectual heavyweight Bernard-Henri Lévy is a vocal supporter of human rights and this year he has been passionately supporting legislation that will recognize the Armenian Genocide and condemn historical revisionism.
This video is from a Paris meeting where in front of a wide-range of French luminaries and organizations he spoke about the need to prevent [...]

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Veken and I made it out for the rainy Oct. 27 Anti-War Protest that converged on Broadway just north of Union Square and continued downtown to Foley Square, near City Hall.
The event, which takes place in 10 cities across America, is called FALL OUT AGAINST THE WAR and is composed of a coalition of groups [...]

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Today is Blog Action Day…learn more.
If I had to pick my 5 favorite enviro-themed art works, they would be:

Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” (1970);
Kim Holleman’s “Fiji Falls” (2005);
Andy Goldsworthy “Yellow elm leaves laid over a rock low water” (1991);
Robert Smithson’s “Island of Broken Glass” (unrealized, 1969)–an interesting write-up about this work is in this encyclopedia entry: [...]

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The New York Times op-ed columnist Paul Krugman pointed something out today that gives us food for thought:
Mark Crispin Miller, the author of “The Bush Dyslexicon,” once made a striking observation: all of the famous Bush malapropisms — “I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family,” and so on [...]

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