Great bit of poetry by german writer Bertold Brecht. For those of you who would like to read the orginal German version please find it at the end of the post.
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The Solution
by Bertold Brecht
After the uprising of the 17th June
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the [...]
Last week the two Azerbaijan bloggers we blogged about, were convicted for hooliganism. Despite international pressure they were sentenced to an outrageous two and two and a half years in jail. (Go here for an excellent link list with various reactions and here if you want to take action.)
The verdict fits the impression that the Azerbaijan regime [...]
Antônio Vicente Mendes Maciel (1830 – 1897), or Antônio Conselheiro (Anthony the Counselor) as he was called, led a turbulent life. He was born from a family of cattle breeders in the Brazilian Northeast and educated by his grandfather, who was a local teacher. He married and settled down but after his wife betrayed him, [...]
The trial around the kidnapping of the Egyptian imam Abu Omar has been concluded. See for a short update my post on Filip Spagnoli’s blog here.
Modern ethics has given us many theories on what is right and what is wrong. A crucial distinction between two major groups of these theories is based on the role of consequences in the theory. Where one group of theories focuses on the consequences of an action to determine whether this action is right or [...]
Gibburt is growing and because it is, we are slowly adding things to the site. Up to this point we never thought it necessary to have a point of contact outside of the normal commenting options. Nevertheless we received some requests from readers who would like contact us directly. So we have opened a Gibburt [...]
Health care is both a complex and an emotional topic. On the one hand one life is all we have and as such it should be protected and nurtured but on the other hand each one of us is responsible for his own life, both in terms of rights and of consequences.
In this light I [...]
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