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KHARKIV, UKRAINE — In the trendy shisha bar in the center of Kharkiv where they’re taking a quick break from work, Valery Neyman and his co-worker look slightly out of place, even in post-invasion Ukraine: clad in full camouflage military attire and bulletproof vests, assault rifles resting against the wall.  “Work” for the pair is providing first response to a shelling: They secure the area after a missile or artillery shell hits the city to then remove shrapnel and any unexploded ordnance. Valery is expecting me and gets up to shake my hand. 

In a Corbett Report first, Norway-based artist Chris Reddy of reddymade.com conducts a "portrait interview" of James Corbett. But this is no ordinary portrait: Reddy focuses on the inner mental landscape of the subject to create a "bigger image" of the person. Enjoy.

– PERSPECTIVE –   “You should approach Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament — with faith…” —William Faulkner   The James Joyce masterpiece Ulysses — published in its maddening entirety in Paris, in February of 1922 — was no help to beer vendor Howard Hart one night at Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore.  

– PERSPECTIVE –   Before the term “role model,” there was Sidney Poitier. Growing up in the ‘50s, I watched a lot of black-and-white television. There were only a few Black faces on the screen in those days. There was Mantan Moreland, bug-eyed Rochester from The Jack Benny Program, Amos and Andy, Stepin Fetchit, and a sprinkling of other stereotypically Black performers.   

Making art has always been a refuge for me. Where I can clear my brain and lose myself in the art. I stutter, and when I was very young, drawing and painting was a safe space for me, a space where I didn’t have to converse with anybody and could just create.  

Combat Obscura is a documentary shot on the ground in Afghanistan at the height of the war. In this episode...

Benny Wills joins us today to share his conscious poetry and discuss his work spreading understanding, compassion and humanity through art.

[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2020-10-07_Benny_Wills.mp3"][/audio]Benny Wills joins us today to share his conscious poetry and discuss his work spreading understanding, compassion and humanity through art.

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In the second part of our discussion (following Combat Obscura), Henri, Keagan and I talked about the 1989 Oliver Stone classic Born on the 4th of July.  Based on the real life experiences of Ron Kovic, we charted the film's development in the late 70s and into the 80

In the second part of our discussion (following Combat Obscura), Henri, Keagan and I talked about the 1989 Oliver Stone...

In the second part of our discussion (following Combat Obscura), Henri, Keagan and I talked about the 1989 Oliver Stone...

Rana Ramlawi sculpts Palestinian tradition into sand.

Gaza artists make sculptures out of Israel’s weapons.

WhoWhatWhy features new artwork on the top of the front page each day to promote and illustrate the most important stories we publish. These “panoramas” are replaced every 24 hours. That’s a shame because a lot of work goes into them and they are true works of art. As part of our series reviewing WhoWhatWhy’s work this year, below are some of our favorite panoramas from 2018.

The latest release from the US Army's entertainment liaison office provokes many questions. Why did they refuse to support the movie Rampage? Why are the military pitching ideas to studio executives? Who is in charge of the Pentagon's operations in Hollywood?

Hasan Adwan spends hours creating models out of matches.

Palestinian artist reflects on Palestine’s spiritual and artistic heritage.

WhoWhatWhy features new artwork on the top of the front page each day to promote and illustrate the most important stories we publish. These “panoramas” are replaced every 24 hours. That’s a shame because a lot of work goes into them and they are true works of art. As part of our series reviewing WhoWhatWhy’s work this year, below are some of our favorite panorama’s from 2017.

[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/qfc036-lq.mp3"][/audio]Libya had 144 tons of gold in the vaults when NATO's humanitarian love bombs began raining down in 2011. So now that the company has been utterly destroyed and discarded like yesterday's newspaper, what happened to all that gold, anyway?

More care must be taken to preserve Palestine's heritage, says archaeology-inspired artist.

The world is not big enough for two asylum-seeking Palestinians.

Quand on veut se délivrer d'une insupportable pression, on a besoin de haschisch... dit Nietzsche qui usait et abusait de Wagner pour s'envoyer en l'air. Eh bien ! Moi j'ai besoin de Nietzsche et de Baudelaire parce que j'estime que la sagesse importe moins que l'ivresse. Car, sans l'ivresse, nous confesse Nietzsche, il n'y a point de sagesse possible. Il faut donc sauver toutes les espèces d'ivresses... qui ont une puissance d'art, qui font de l'art en puissance. Avant tout, dit Nietzsche l'ivresse de l'excitation sexuelle, la forme la plus ancienne et la plus primitive de l'ivresse.

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En philosophie, je crois au discernement des plus sages. En politique, je crois au gouvernement des plus forts. En droit, je crois au jugement des plus justes. En art, je crois au rayonnement des meilleurs... les vrais créateurs. Autant dire que je ne crois en personne... Parce qu'en philosophie, il n'y a que des amants de la sagesse mais point de sages... ce qui fait de toute philosophie une passion inutile et de toute sagesse un idéal hors de portée... inaccessible.

En politique, il n'y a que ce qu'il y a : des désirs et des forces qui s'affrontent. Parce que les uns désirent la force. Les autres forcent le désir. La pression est la même. L'oppression aussi. Et quelque soit le parti que l'on prend, on ne réduira ni l'une, ni l'autre. On ne fera que remplacer une oppression par une autre en subissant la pression de l'une et de l'autre. Jeu de positions et d'oppositions qui ne nous fournira jamais une véritable PROPOSITION. Comme si toute dialectique était stérile et toutes les petites guerres débiles et infantiles.

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Palestinian Museum is being built in the occupied West Bank but aims to reach beyond the Israeli-controlled borders.

Mohammed Al Hawajri, Raed Issa and Dina Matar on objects and memory, and home and resistance.

Voici l’esclavagiste ; voici son champ. Voici quelques centaines d’hommes, achetés au prix élevé. Voici une première journée de travail effectuée, à battre le blé ; les travailleurs, à l’unisson ; les gestes se répétant, pénibles. La chaleur tapante, certainement. Une dizaine d’heures harassantes. Les esclaves exigent quelques bienfaits: de quoi manger, de quoi boire, de quoi être propres. Comment pourraient-ils travailler autrement, s’ils ne sont point en forme ?