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NYCartist on "Claude Lévi-Strauss at 100: echo of the future "

NYCartist — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:05:23 +0000

Yes, Letat's comment is satire and really good. I could stretch it to absurd by reminding folks of the advert "You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's" (rye bread). (Lenny Bruce was my favorite "comedian".)

Tony Curzon Price on "Claude Lévi-Strauss at 100: echo of the future "

Tony Curzon Price — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:20:18 +0000

it has to be recognised that there is nothing like a pair of Levi's for a spot of bricolage

tony

tia66m on "Claude Lévi-Strauss at 100: echo of the future "

tia66m — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:30:36 +0000

hahaha. This is the funniest series of comments ever!!!

Canny: Nadejda Letat was clearly being facetious in response to willment1973's comment, who may or may not have been trying to be funny too.

Poor Claude L-S. Even in death, the infamous 501s continue to haunt him.

Michael. on "1989: moment, legacy, future "

Michael. — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:08:57 +0000

How sad it is reading sophist rhetoric of the events of 1989.

The truth is, all that happened was a rotten-to-the-core totalitarian system inevitably failed in the manner forecast by many in the decade after the Bolshevik Revolution - prime amongst them, Leon Trotsky.

Now that system is gone the eternal dispute is still there. No amount of Western capitalist propaganda can change it. Capitalism is also a rotten-to-the-core system that will inevitably fail. How many more depressions and slumps are required before the zeitgeist reaches a mature understanding of this reality?

The only question is whether the minority perpetrators of capitalism will stand aside peacefully as history catches up with them too.

Rukki Odds on "Poland: the politics of history "

Rukki Odds — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:35:41 +0000

I am from Poland and I was a witness of these all events. However I was only a child in 80'sbut I remember how I was been wondering of tanks on streets.

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canny on "Claude Lévi-Strauss at 100: echo of the future "

canny — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:05:23 +0000

Nadejda Letat: I think that you are merging Claude Lévi-Strauss the
French anthropologist with Levi Strauss (1829 –1902), the American
German-Jewish immigrant who founded Levi Strauss & Co, the first
company to manufacture blue jeans.

JFox on "Claude Lévi-Strauss at 100: echo of the future "

JFox — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:41:16 +0000

I am not an anthroplogist and can't offer anything to the debate on Lévi-Strauss's contribution to the discipline. However, his wonderful "Tristes Tropiques" strikes me as a masterpiece - beautifully written, enlightening, and full of fascinating insights into common elements of our shared humanity. It is among the very few books to which I return repeatedly and with gratitude.

Sivakumar Chelliah on "Uses of genocide: Kenya, Georgia, Israel, Sri Lanka"

Sivakumar Chelliah — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:05:46 +0000

The UN and EVERY rights group has repeatedly told us that in Sri Lanka the Tamil Tigers held 300,000 people as a human shield, and even shot at them whilst they fled.

Neutral news media reported that Sri Lanka paused it's offensive numerous times to allow civilians to flee. There is even video of Sri Lankan soldiers on loud speakers ushering people out of the conflict zone.

So unlike the people of Gaza, Sri Lanka did not attack an entire population to get at the combatants. In Sri Lanka it was the combatants that held people as a human shield.

Clearly not genocide and not comparable under any circumstances.

My gripe with people flaunting the word is that it shows lack of respect to the word and reduces it's value. Millions perished in genocides. We must reserve the word cautiously or it will turn into "just another word."

If you think no one is acting on the accusations of genocide now, that's the main reason. It's impossible to prove allegations if everyone is flaunting the word.

We must all call out and expose those who falsely claim genocide.

The following is an interesting read:
http://www.mackenzieinstitute.com/2009/genocide-talk020609.htm

david3210 on "Uses of genocide: Kenya, Georgia, Israel, Sri Lanka"

david3210 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:19:03 +0000

Some time ago I was hoping and believing that there will be no more genocides in the world, like in the armenian genocide in 1915, but it is a reality that world has not matured or learned from it as genocides are still happening, it is so unbelievable that these accure again and again, why are world leaders still not stopping the mass murders efficiently, learn from the past already!

Jill Bates on "What is education for?"

Jill Bates — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:35:59 +0000

How amazing to see Bassnett criticizing the system which she has helped to develop as a Pro Vice Chancellor over a period of ten years. Amnesia or denial? Ask any academic at Warwick, and they will tell you the truth.

NYCartist on "AfPak-Iraq: wrong war, right path"

NYCartist — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:13:20 +0000

The real debate is why is the US military and NATO in Afghanistan? Why is the US in Iraq, occupying it? How many dead civilians does it take to say, "Oops. Let's leave."?

How many ways do the people in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Iraq have to show that they'd prefer to not be occupied by foreign troops? To quote the singing group SpearHead, "you can bomb the world to pieces, but you can't bomb the world to peace".

As a US citizen, older, who protested the Vietnam War, I protest spending lives and money on wars/invasions. It is costing me and the other US taxpayers $1TRILLION dollars a year to be funding the military in Afghanistan and Iraq. (Source:

www.democracynow.org today's show, available online in video and transcript, free, independent media.) Have you noticed we don't have anything vaguely resembling your NHS?

Schnides on "Afghanistan: peacekeeping without peace "

Schnides — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:07:03 +0000

"...Security organisations clear the terrain while the UN can focus on organising elections, state-building and delivery of humanitarian and development assistance." What, exactly, are "security organisations," outside of the big ones already there? And how do you pull this off, if, as the authors aver: "The greater the number of US and Nato troops in Afghanistan, the larger the resentment, resistance and violence." An increased role for the UN, absent an adequate "security organization"(the U.S. Army?), will result in more loss of life for UN personnel, as we saw today in Kabul.

Not logged in on "Preah Vihear: the Thai-Cambodia temple dispute"

Not logged in — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:19:05 +0000

The disputed area adjacent to Preah Vihear was well within the Cambodian territory in accordance to France and Siam treaty in 1907.
If Thailand really understands the nature of treaty and respects it like in any other western countries (such as its big brother, the United States), once you sign a contract (or treaty) you honor and adhere to it until both parties mutually decide to do away with it.
In the last decade in the United States, many people lose their houses and life long savings because they were involved in an investment they did not fully understand. Because of the contract they signed, they had no choice but bite the bullet and still go on with their lives.

The treaty in 1907 between France and Siam was by no means a treaty by force the way Thailand would like to portrait it. The disputed area adjacent to Preah Vihear is only 4.6 square kilometers and it is part of Cambodia per the treaty.

To suggest the area to become a free zone is utterly wrong without any merits. Since Thailand always stress on peaceful means to resolve the dispute, it should honor the treaty and stop bickering on it . Given the fact that the vast majority of Thailand was part of the Khmer Empire until a few centuries ago, recognizing the 4.6 km2 as rightfully part of Cambodia is a very good deal to Thailand. It will not only promote peace but also prosperity and harmony between the two peoples.