Providing news and information while helping aspiring writers and journalists, http://thesop.org/index.php?bio=marbrook http://thesop.org 118 67 http://thesop.org/images/thesop_118x67.jpg Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:45:00 GMT A name plays an active lifelong role in shaping your life. And a cultures response to a name plays a similar role. http://thesop.org/story/opinion/2010/03/17/how-names-shape-our-lives.php http://thesop.org/story/opinion/2010/03/17/how-names-shape-our-lives.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:35:00 GMT Television advertising has become a sleaze bath: insurers telling us reassuringly how they intend to screw us, drug manufacturers telling us breathlessly how they intend to "fix" us. http://thesop.org/story/tvprograms/2010/03/16/is-the-culture-we-see-on-tv-one-that-we-can-trust.php http://thesop.org/story/tvprograms/2010/03/16/is-the-culture-we-see-on-tv-one-that-we-can-trust.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:57:00 GMT Republicans are partying heartily on the reluctance of most of us to call them racist. http://thesop.org/story/politics/2010/03/14/the-republicans-are-less-the-party-of-no-and-more-the-party-of-racism.php http://thesop.org/story/politics/2010/03/14/the-republicans-are-less-the-party-of-no-and-more-the-party-of-racism.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:11:00 GMT The United States has many enemies who are far less a problem to it than its Israeli friends. Vice President Joseph Biden went to Israel to revive the peace process. Israel greeted him by announcing construction of 1,600 more housing units in East Jerusalem, showing once again the intent to keep on grabbing land while complaining that the Arabs don't want peace. http://thesop.org/story/opinion/2010/03/11/once-more-israels-fundamentalists-call-the-shots-grabbing-more-land.php http://thesop.org/story/opinion/2010/03/11/once-more-israels-fundamentalists-call-the-shots-grabbing-more-land.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:56:00 GMT You could say that as far as the White House is concerned the war in Iraq has already been won, because the moneybags who supported Dick Cheney and George W. Bush have been stuffing the spoils of war into their carpetbags since Day One. http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2007/02/28/journalism-not-a-turn-key-business-hot-copy-18.php http://thesop.org/story/journalism/2007/02/28/journalism-not-a-turn-key-business-hot-copy-18.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Tue, 9 Mar 2010 01:45:00 GMT Many of Joan Siegels poems sound like the whispered confidences of angels, sound being the operative word. Most poems read " one way or another, but only the rare poem engages eye and ear simultaneously. http://thesop.org/story/poetry/2010/03/08/an-elegant-body-of-poems-in-which-ghosts-take-part-in-the-writing.php http://thesop.org/story/poetry/2010/03/08/an-elegant-body-of-poems-in-which-ghosts-take-part-in-the-writing.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Sat, 6 Mar 2010 19:03:00 GMT It is reckless to the verge of Islamophobia in the sense that the word Islam, the religion of more than a third of the worlds population, is callously imbedded in it. http://thesop.org/story/opinion/2010/03/06/what-is-wrong-with-this-new-york-post-picture.php http://thesop.org/story/opinion/2010/03/06/what-is-wrong-with-this-new-york-post-picture.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Tue, 2 Mar 2010 04:57:00 GMT The facts are never enough to describe a war. Nor are opinions. War is ultimately best described by poets, like Homer, like Brian Turner in his prize-winning book, Here, Bullet. We should imbed in combat units not journalists, but poets, artists, musicians "all better equipped to elevate human consciousness. http://thesop.org/story/poetry/2010/03/01/news-reports-cant-begin-to-describe-war-but-poets-can.php http://thesop.org/story/poetry/2010/03/01/news-reports-cant-begin-to-describe-war-but-poets-can.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Mon, 1 Mar 2010 19:19:00 GMT Why do Americans scapegoat government while giving our corporate kleptocracy a free pass? Why do we celebrate the outlaw Jesse James as a knight fighting predator banks and corporations while at the same time embracing the people who have devoured the middle class? http://thesop.org/story/opinion/2010/03/01/have-americans-forgotten-what-made-them-individualists.php http://thesop.org/story/opinion/2010/03/01/have-americans-forgotten-what-made-them-individualists.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:54:00 GMT There isn't a single nation or people in the Middle East that does not have a vital interest in what happens in Iran, and their views should all be taken into account. Iran has many old scores to settle. Israel is only one piece of a complicated puzzle. http://thesop.org/story/world/2010/02/22/an-iran-with-nukes-is-a-threat-to-arabs-and-turks-as-well-as-israel.php http://thesop.org/story/world/2010/02/22/an-iran-with-nukes-is-a-threat-to-arabs-and-turks-as-well-as-israel.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:15:00 GMT The television commentators covering the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, are giving us a laboratory demonstration of how to narrow audiences. http://thesop.org/story/opinion/2010/02/20/tv-commentators-do-a-poor-job-explaining-games-intricacies.php http://thesop.org/story/opinion/2010/02/20/tv-commentators-do-a-poor-job-explaining-games-intricacies.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:31:00 GMT This is the case with two superb 15th Century Florentine panel paintings at The Frick Collection in New York City. One of the beauties of The Frick is that, for all its elegance, it is just intimate and subdued enough to study such paintings thoughtfully. http://thesop.org/story/opinion/2010/02/16/paintings-offer-a-way-to-see-how-memory-changes.php http://thesop.org/story/opinion/2010/02/16/paintings-offer-a-way-to-see-how-memory-changes.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:15:00 GMT Each of us encounters somebody who knows just where our crazy buttons are and how to punch them, eliciting our most self-destructive impulses. http://thesop.org/story/opinion/2010/02/14/terrorism-is-about-crazy-buttons-and-getting-crazy-responses.php http://thesop.org/story/opinion/2010/02/14/terrorism-is-about-crazy-buttons-and-getting-crazy-responses.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:15:00 GMT The way terrorists win is to corner democracies into a siege mentality. Then the democracies exhaust their resources putting out terrorist fires that can be relit anywhere in the world. http://thesop.org/story/politics/2010/02/10/how-a-democracy-becomes-a-military-state.php http://thesop.org/story/politics/2010/02/10/how-a-democracy-becomes-a-military-state.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Thu, 4 Feb 2010 19:49:00 GMT Poet Djelloul Marbrook argues that television is a passive-aggressive medium that polarizes people, stirs up their anxieties, encourages exhibitionism, and commends violence as entertainment. http://thesop.org/story/opinion/2010/02/04/tv-is-playing-a-destructive-role-in-society.php http://thesop.org/story/opinion/2010/02/04/tv-is-playing-a-destructive-role-in-society.php dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor))