It’s always impressive what a fresh coat of paint can do to one’s spirits! After a long hiatus marked by progressive digital decay, robmaguire.com has been revamped. Wordpress is now my weapon of choice, having quickly fallen in love with it after taking my new job at the National Film Board of Canada’s CitizenShift ( [...]
While I will be updating this blog from time to time, my current online focus is Art Threat, an online journal of political art. It is the online component of überculture’s latest project, which should hopefully publish a print version of our political art magazine by year’s end. Please do visit, and leave [...]
The New Yorker has just published a revealing article by vetern investigative journalist Seymour Hersh highlighting the extent to which the US was aware of Israel’s war plans, and how the conflict was seen as a test run for a larger war with Iran. Given Israel’s failure to win the conlict, I wouldn’t [...]
Each week in the West Bank village of Bil’in, peacenik Palestinians, Israelis and international citizens gather to protest Israel’s ongoing occupation. Last Friday, August 11, the Israeli army entered the village and opened fire on the non-violent demonstration, shooting one demonstrator in the neck and head. According to reports, the demonstrator later had surgery to [...]
A young woman tries to keep cool while watches dancers in Montreal’s Old Port.
As a bead of sweat plummets from my nose to my space bar, I can only yearn for tomorrow when this heat wave shall cease and desist. While we’re truly uncomfortable here in Montreal, we’re by all accounts better off than [...]