Adio adieu auf wiedersehen goodbye
The Dead Brothers - Esclavo Triste
Bob Brozman - Dinah
"O problema com os nossos tempos é que o futuro não é o que costumava ser."
Paul Valéry

El derecho de vivir
poeta Ho Chi Minh,
que golpea de Vietnam
a toda la humanidad.
Ningun cañon borrara
el surco de tu arrozal.
El derecho de vivir en paz.
Indochina es el lugar
mas alla del ancho mar,
donde revientan la flor
con genocidio y napalm;
la luna es una explosion
que funde todo el clamor.
El derecho de vivir en paz.
Tio Ho, nuestra cancion
es fuego de puro amor,
es palomo palomar
olivo de olivar
es el canto universal
cadena que hara triunfar,
el derecho de vivir en paz.
(a musica está aqui ao lado, para os mais desatentos)
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug. 18 — Villagers danced in the streets and threw rice on Friday as the Lebanese Army’s soldiers reached the southern border with Israel for the first time in decades, and Hezbollah volunteers handed out grants of $12,000 — in stacks of American dollars — as part of its vigorous campaign to help families whose houses were destroyed over the past month.
Whatever the fate of its weapons, Hezbollah has already asserted itself across the south with aid ahead of international agencies. It took its program a step further on Friday, making good on a pledge of cash for displaced families. With more than 200,000 residents of the capital’s Shiite southern suburbs already back in the area, the group began giving out the grants of $12,000 — a huge sum in Lebanon, where an apartment big enough for a small family can be rented for $300 a month.
| Talking only to ourselves, artigo do Haaretz | ||||
I am trying to recall when I last saw Israeli leaders talking with Arab leaders about peace, and finding it hard to remember. In recent years, our compulsive tendency to talk to ourselves about an agreement with the Arabs has been strengthening, as though the real conflict in the Middle East were between the right and the left. The fruitless discussions between these two tired bodies have had two goals: to neutralize any possibility of change and to freeze the reality on the ground, for fear that any step toward peace will ignite a domestic war among the Jews. And if we are already fated to go to war, say our architects to themselves, it is better to have a war against the Arabs. It is torturous to think that had similar diplomatic energy been invested vis-a-vis Palestinian leaders, Lebanese leaders and Syrian leaders, perhaps everything would look different. Perhaps we would even be living in peace with them. | ||||
To a large extent both the slaughter in Gaza after the disengagement and the war in Lebanon prove the failure of the unilateral approach. How is it possible, asks every reasonable individual, that we pulled out of Lebanon and they are attacking us? How is it possible, asks every reasonable individual, that we pulled out of Gaza and they are still attacking us? Is it any wonder that the lack of gratitude on both these fronts has led many Israelis to the conclusion that hatred for Jews is imprinted in the Muslim genome and that the urge to go to war is imprinted in the Arab character? | ||||
"É que parece que é preciso alimentar - com o génio mediático que se reconhece aos palestianos, e falta, por exemplo, aos Tigres Tamil, até há dois anos os campeões absolutos e destacados no campeonato dos atentados suicidas - o terrorismo internacional contra as nações ditas Ocidentais, para, por exemplo, merecer a citação de um texto chato no Causa Nossa ou, quem sabe, se não for pedir muito, ver hasteada uma bandeirinha no Arrastão. "
A audição dos temas abaixo (e ao lado) apresentados vai ser incessante nos próximos meses, pelo menos aqui deste lado:







Well Frank settled down in the Valley
Pacto Germânico-Soviético de Brest-Litovsk, 1918

Acordos de Rapallo, 1920
For some WWI photos, clik here.