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3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
No one cares about Wikileaks whistleblower
On Sunday the US Assistant Secretary of State, Philip J. Crowley, resigned after publicly criticising the prison conditions under which US soldier Bradley Manning is being kept, who has been accused of passing on many of the secret documents which were later published by Wikileaks. Hardly anyone is taking an interest in Manning's fate, the left-liberal daily El País fears: "While Wikileaks boss Julian Assange is arousing all intellectual passions and getting involved in other, more worldly passions, the true hero is rotting away in a high-security prison cell. ... While it is difficult to ignore the threat of extradition and imprisonment which Assange faces and not take sides, only a few people are bringing Manning's situation to the attention of the public: a support committee, a Facebook page to gather funding for his legal costs, and the pacifist website antiwar.com, according to which this 'courageous and idealistic young man' has woken up the people of North America. And perhaps some other peoples too."
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More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Social movements, » Justice, » U.S., » Global
Bullfighting is not art
The debate about bullfighting has reignited in Spain. A strong civic initiative in the autonomous region of Catalonia is pushing for the practice to be banned, while the region of Madrid considers bullfighting an art and wants to protect it as part of the country's cultural heritage. Painter Nicole Muchnik looks at the difference between art and fighting in the left-liberal daily El País: "It's easy to find a few thousand or more definitions of art in any language, but the mystery remains unsolved. Nonetheless we can use a simple reflection as our basis: art is not reality. It is a glance we take at reality. The result, whether a picture, a piece of writing or a piece of music, is a representation of reality filtered through the perception of the artist. Bullfighting, on the other hand, is reality. The spectacle is not the representation of death but death itself."
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More from the press review on the subject » Stage, » Cultural Policy, » Social movements, » Spain
Nicole Muchnik on the strategy of compassion
The author and painter Nicole Muchnik offers a reflection on the position of victims in current society drawing on a book by Caroline Eliacheff and Daniel Soulez Larivière called 'Le temps des victimes' ('The era of victims'). "Mixing politics with compassion is a risky business. It is the exploitation of popular emotion after the 9/11 terrorist attacks that led the citizens of the United States to support the invasion of Iraq. The inextricable situation of the Middle East also depends on a constantly fuelled emotional situation, a victimisation revived by all the attacks perpetrated by both sides and that are perpetuated from one generation to another. A political force born of emotions does not set itself rational goals. This is why it can be extremely damaging for society. And it does not serve the purpose that should belong to all associations of victims: the reconstruction of the individual, of the intimate."
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