Art and artists, Oberg PhotoGraphics, Travel notes

Meeting Sidney B. Felsen, Gemini G.E.L.

Sidney B. FelsenCo-founder of Gemini G.E.L. – Gemini Graphic Editions Limited – in 1966. It’s an artists’ workshop and publisher of fine-art limited edition prints and sculptures in LA. I’m very proud at having known Sydney Felsen, now 92 and still running the shop, since the early 1970s. I had a very good talk with him at Art Basel 2017. Here Sidney with daughter Suzanne, … Continue reading Meeting Sidney B. Felsen, Gemini G.E.L.

JO15 July, 201724 July, 2020Leave a comment

Ethics and values, EU, FN, ISIS, konfliktanalyse, Media criticism, Mellemøsten, Middle East, Militarism, Militarisme, NATO, Negotiations, Nonviolence, Peace, Peace illiteracy, Peace proposals, Terrorism and fearology, The West's decline, Travel notes, United Nations, United States, US empire, USA, Zeitgeist

Keep focus on Aleppo and global dimensions of Syria

TFF PressInfo # 405 Lund, Sweden – February 24, 2017Failed conflict analysis To analyse a conflict is as necessary as the diagnosis for the doctor: You either get to a solution/treatment or you don’t. If the diagnosis is deficient, you don’t. You instead risk killing the patient. And it’s deficient of you stare only at “evil” cells and blame the patient for a life … Continue reading Keep focus on Aleppo and global dimensions of Syria

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Media criticism, Middle East, Militarism, NATO, Russia, Syria, Terrorism and fearology, Travel notes, Turkey, U.S., United States, US empire, Videos, War on Terror

I wonder about Aleppo…

By Jan Oberg I shot this simple video out of the window on December 13, 2016. I wonder about Aleppo and say #keepfocusonaleppo © Jan Oberg 2016 Here in the Sheikh Najjar Industrial City outside Aleppo lived and worked 40,000 people. It had 50% of Syria’s industrial capacity. Today – after the occupation by Western-backed militants and terrorist groups – this is what is left. … Continue reading I wonder about Aleppo…

JO4 February, 201724 July, 20203 Comments

Ethics and values, Flygtninge, refugees, European crisis, International affairs, International law, ISIS, konfliktanalyse, Media criticism, Mediekritik, Mellemøsten, Middle East, Militarism, Militarisme, Photo narrative, Sanctions, Terrorism and fearology, Terrorisme & frygtologi, The West's decline, Travel notes, Turkey, U.S.

Faces of Aleppo

Fourth photo story from Aleppo: “Faces of Aleppo. Just out of 4,5 years of occupation hell” January 25, 2017 Unique photos from Eastern Aleppo in Syria when it was finally liberated on December 11-12, 2016. The people you see here have just come out to freedom from 4,5 years of the occupation by what can be called RIOTs – Rebels-Insurgents-Opposition-Terrorists – mostly the latter. And most … Continue reading Faces of Aleppo

JO26 January, 201724 July, 2020Leave a comment

Cultural matters, Development - world order, Eftertanker, Ethics and values, International affairs, International law, Iraq Wars, Kulturspørgsmål bredt, Mediekritik, Mellemøsten, Middle East, Militarism, Terrorism and fearology, Tidsånden, Travel notes, Zeitgeist

Who are the barbarians of our time?

When I watch this documentary, Iraq: Shattered Heritage, I cannot but ask myself: Who are the barbarians of our time? What is the mote and what is the beam in this world? Who tells Russia that “big countries shall not bully smaller countries”? Isn’t it time for the Western world to acknowledge its own dark sides and stop projecting them on everybody else? I am … Continue reading Who are the barbarians of our time?