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Authors
Gilles d'Aymery Jan Baughman George Beres Milo Clark
Joe Davison Deck Deckert Michael Doliner Manuel García
Philip Greenspan Edward S. Herman Richard Macintosh Charles Marowitz
Louis Proyect Phil Rockstroh Gerard Donnelly Smith John Steppling
Swans Other Columnists Occasional Contributors  

 

Gilles d'Aymery

2005: Navigating The Doldrums - 12/19
Michael Neumann's The Case Against Israel - 12/19
Blips #31 - 12/19
Blips #30 - 12/5
Blips #29 - 11/21
Blips #28 - 11/7
The American Experiment, Really? - 10/24
Blips #27 - 10/10
Samir Amin's The Liberal Virus - 10/10
Blips #26 - 09/26
Neo-Liberal Vs. Socialist Hurricanes - 09/26
Blips #25 - 09/12
The Noble Cause: Oil - 08/29
Blips #24 - 08/29
Balkans' Blind Spot: Questioning the Lemmings - 08/1
Blips #23 - 07/18
Srebrenica, Mon Amour: An Ostracized Narrative - 07/18
Blips #22 - 07/4
Fourth Of July Greetings, From an Iraqi Perspective - 07/4
Blips #21 - 06/20
A Teacher to Emulate: Richard Macintosh (1933-2005) - 06/20
Blips #20 - 06/6
Blips #19 - 05/23
Blips #18 - 05/9
Blips #17 - 04/25
Blips #16 - 04/11
Blips #15 - 03/28
Context And Accuracy - 03/28
Blips #14 - 03/14
Blips #13 - 02/28
Freedom And Democracy On The March - 02/28
Blips #12 - 02/14
Another Witch Hunt Story - 02/14
AVA Oregon!, RIP - 02/14
Blips #11 - 01/31
Blips #10 - 01/17
Blips #9 - 01/3
Things Evolve, But We Do Not "Change," Sorry... - 01/3

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Jan E. Baughman

2005: Annus Propagandus - 12/19
When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Go To Asia - 11/21
Theocracy. Hypocrisy. Plutocracy. - 10/24
Darwinism and Intelligent Economic Design - 08/29
Making Iraq The Central Front - 07/4
McLibel: Food For Thought And Inspiration For The Soul - 06/20
Funding A Rational Treatment For Obesity - 06/6
Spinning Out Of Control: US Transgressions In The News - 05/23
American Diktat, Russian Polls: The Presidential Press Conference - 05/9
Another Day In The Life - 04/11
Indecent Capitalism - 02/28
America's Health Is In Tainted Hands - 01/31
Livin' The American Dream - 01/3

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George Beres

Krugman Feels Administration Is Nearing A Train Wreck - 11/7
New Whistleblower Needed To Oust Bush Administration - 10/10
Too Much Tolerance By Americans Could Feed Fascism - 09/26
Impeachment Oregon Style - 09/12
Local Face Of Intimidation By Government Mind Control - 08/29
Quit Kidding Us, Professor: Journalism Is Not Public Relations - 08/1

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Milo Clark

2005: Pessimism Unleashed - 12/19
Soldier Dea - 12/5
Re-Reading Wittgenstein To Grok Now - 11/21
Property, Privilege, And Oil - 11/7
The Dark Side - 10/24
Moral Suasion Or Racism At Work - 10/10
Bede Griffiths 1906-1993: Making Statements Through Action - 09/26
The Katrina Anomaly - 09/12
Torture - 08/29
New Actuality In The Old Set? - 08/1
People Of The Lie - 07/18
Who Needs Sophisms? - 07/4
Old Set, Establishment And The Rest Of Us - 06/6
Charles Glass On Mosul - 05/23
John Lukacs's Democracy and Populism, Fear and Hatred - 05/9
Cholera: Again, Genetic Or Cultural? - 04/25
Genetic Or Cultural? - 04/11
Spring In Mind - 03/28
Puzzlement - Walter Laqueur Four - 03/28
Never Underestimate The Power Of Fear - 03/14
Fragile - 02/28
Implosion Time? - 02/14
Sha Sha Higby: An Appreciation - 02/14
Terrorism Upgraded To Normality - 01/31
The Upside Down - Walter Laqueur One - 01/31
Don Lee's Country of Origin - 01/17
Morality, Reason and Reichs - 01/3
Three Short 2005 Vignettes - 01/3

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Joe Davison

Resistance Is No Longer A Choice - 12/19
The Case For Scottish Independence - 11/7
Reflections On The G-8 - 07/18
A Plea To The US Antiwar Movement - 06/6
A Case Of Touch And Go - 05/23
Remembering James Connolly - 05/9
Days Of Decay In LA-LA Land - 04/25
Zimbabwe's Course - 04/11
Tsunami Relief: A Study In Hypocrisy - 01/17
A Parisian Con Game - 01/3

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Deck Deckert

I'm Shocked, Shocked - 12/5
Impeachment Is Just Another Word, For Nothing Left To Lose - 11/21
The Best Of Times - 10/24
Rally? What Rally? - 10/10
Words, Words, Words - 08/1
What if? - 07/18
Richard And Me - 06/20

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Michael Doliner

Soup Of The Evening, Beautiful Soup - 10/24
Shadia B. Drury's Leo Strauss and the American Right - 10/10
"Terrorism" And "Security" - 08/29
American Mental Health - 06/20
The Nature Of Democracy - 04/11
New Boots In The Quagmire - 02/28

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Manuel García, Jr.

The Pledge Of Solidarity - 01/31
God And Country - 01/17
Twenty News Stories To Appear In 2005 - 01/3

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Philip Greenspan

2005 And Its Possible Impact - 12/19
Better Dead Than... - 12/5
How Much Longer Will The War Last - 11/21
Democracy, Let's Bring It Here - 11/7
Crisis: Depravity Of The Leaders, Obedience Of The Citizens - 10/24
Katrina: A Missed uh Messed Opportunity For Bush - 09/26
The Declining Sole Superpower - 09/12
A New Kind of Warfare - 08/29
Blowback From The A-Bombs - 08/1
An Iconoclast's View How It All Works - 07/18
Prelude To A Military Disengagement - 07/4
Effective And Not So Effective Side Effects - 06/20
Have The Meanings Of Words Been Hijacked? - 06/6
Penetrating The Closed Mind With The Truth - 05/23
Will The Withering Shrub Recover? - 05/9
Deliberate Misstatements Of Anti-Semitism Are Counterproductive - 04/25
The Dream That Turned Into A Nightmare - 04/11
Scores for Wars: Where Have Wars Taken The U.S.? - 03/28
Side Effects Of Perverted Brains - 03/14
A Comparison Of Three Wartime Leaders - 02/28
Put "-ocracy" On The Proper Prefix - 02/14
Excessive Demands Will Exceed Capabilities - 01/31
Let's Hear It for the Lyricists - 01/3

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Edward S. Herman

Reflections On 2005 And The Future - 12/19

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Richard Macintosh (1933-2005)

Richard Macintosh on Swans
"Un-American" Questions - 05/9
Making Meaning - 04/25
Courage IV - 04/11
Neidermeyer Nation - 03/28

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Charles Marowitz

2005: A Look Back In Anger - 12/19
"CAPOTE": How Far Should We Go? - 12/5
Cinematizing Shakespeare - 11/21
I'd Walk A Million Miles For One Of Your Smiles - 11/7
U.S.: A Psychological Profile - 10/24
Piers Paul Read's Alec Guinness: The Authorized Biography - 10/10
The Leader Of The Opposition - 09/26
Lawrence Epstein's The Haunted Smile - 09/12
A Summons From God - 08/29
Paris Hilton: Spec Obit (2041) - 08/1
Defenders Of The Witch Hunt: R. & A. Radosh's Red Star Over Hollywood - 08/1
An Appreciation Of Christopher Fry: 1907-2005 - 07/18
Defining The Enemy - 07/4
Who Needs The Humbug? - 07/4
Brecht In Hollywood - 06/20
Peter Brook At Eighty - 06/6
Chris Matthews, The Interviewer As Mugger - 05/23
The Current State Of Theatre - 05/23
Wearing Two Hats: The Director Takes On The Critic - 05/9
Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World - 04/25
Huxley In Tinsel Town - 04/11
BTK And The Double Life - 03/28
English vs. American Theatre Criticism - 03/14
Vladimir Putin Writes To George W. Bush - 02/28
Antony Beevor's The Mystery Of Olga Chekhova - 02/28
Learning From The Classics - 02/28
A Death In The Family - 02/14
George Carlin: Apocalyptic Comedy - 02/14
Musings On Natural Disasters - 02/14
Shakespeare, Playwright Of The Diaspora? - 01/31
Working With Havel - 01/17
Philosopher, Heal Thyself - 01/3

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Louis Proyect

After The 2004 Elections - 12/19
Debunking Bob Woodward - 12/5
Do Workers Understand Their Class Interests? - 10/24
Bob Dylan's Chronicles Volume One - 10/10
Sylvia Weinstein's Fightback - 09/12
Fraying Friendship: Ronald Aronson's Camus and Sartre - 08/1
Who Needs Cold War Falsification? - 07/4
Saul Bellow In Retrospect - 06/6
Wobblies! - 04/11
Arthur Miller - 02/14
And We Call It The "Paper Of Record!" - 01/31

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Phil Rockstroh

Love, Work, And Death In An Age Of Carelessness - 05/23
Running On Fumes: A Journey To The End Of Empire - 05/9
Of UberCulture And The River - 04/25
Of Margaret Mitchell, Blind Willie McTell, Wonder Bread, New York City Real Estate, And The Road To Proto-Fascism - 04/11
Some Call It Freedom But It Smells Like Death - 03/28
An Outcast's Inappropriate Aria - 03/14
The Ghost In The Hologram (with Joe Bageant & John Steppling) - 02/28
It Makes The Unborn Baby Jesus Cry - 02/14
America Has Left The Building... (Conversation with John Steppling, Part II) - 01/31
America Has Left The Building... (Conversation with John Steppling) - 01/17

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Gerard Donnelly Smith

The Good Gardener - 12/19
The Insurgent Word: Evil - 12/5
The Insurgent Word: Piss Off - 11/7
To Hell In A Hand Basket - 10/24
The Insurgent Word: Genocide - 10/10
American Character - 09/26
The Insurgent Word: Suicide - 09/12
Suffering - 08/29
The Insurgent Word: Sedition - 07/18
Peaches - 07/4
The Insurgent Word: Impeachment - 06/20
Stalin's Dream State - 06/6
No Child Left Un-recruited - 05/23
La Muerte de Nadie - 05/9
Escape From The Petty Bourgeois Lifestyle - 04/25
Boycotting The Hegemony: Part Three, Bechtel II - 04/11
The ANWR Sing-Along - 03/28
Framing - 03/14
The Insurgent Word: "Persona Non Grata" - 03/14
Talking Points For Suppressing Revolution - 02/28
The Sacred And The Profane - 02/14
Boycotting The Hegemony: Part Two, Bechtel - 01/31
The Insurgent Word: Bring It On? - 01/17
The Dumb Prophet: An Allegory of Intelligence - 01/17
Boycotting the Hegemony -- Part One: Halliburton - 01/3

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John Steppling

What Have We Become? Not Better -- Zombie Nation - 10/24
Decline And Fall Of The Plastic Empire - 06/6
The Current State Of Theatre - 05/23
The Art And Politics Of Film - Part III - 04/25
The Art And Politics Of Film - Part II - 04/11
The Art And Politics Of Film - 03/28
The Ghost In The Hologram (with Joe Bageant &, Phil Rockstroh) - 02/28
Johnny Carson - 01/31
America Has Left The Building... (Conversation with Phil Rockstroh, Part II) - 01/31
America Has Left The Building... (Conversation with Phil Rockstroh) - 01/17

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SWANS

Letters to a Young Poet (Letter Ten) - 05/23
Letters to a Young Poet (Letter Nine) - 04/11
An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge - Ambrose Bierce - 03/14
On Liberty (book excerpt) - John Stuart Mill - 02/14
Le Chant des Partisans - Maurice Druon, Joseph Kessel & Anna Marly - 01/31
Instructive Quotations (on Israel-Palestine) - 01/17
2005 Predictions - Swans - 1/1

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Other Columnists

Audra Himes: The Corporate-Owned Ivory Tower: An Omen - 10/24
Audra Himes: Katrina, Iraq, And The Absence Of Values - 10/10
Alma Hromic: End Of Story - 11/21
Alma Hromic: To End The Program, Press Escape... - 10/10
Alma Hromic: My Friend, Richard - 06/20
Robert Wrubel: 2005: A Lamentable Year - 12/19
Robert Wrubel: Why We Should Never Go To War - 12/5
Robert Wrubel: Cold Porridge, The Morning After - 11/21
Robert Wrubel: Where Is The Left In The U.S.? - 10/24
Robert Wrubel: George Lakoff: Wishful Thinking For Democrats - 10/10
Robert Wrubel: Military Neo-Liberalism - 09/26
Robert Wrubel: James Joyce Attends The President's News Conference - 09/12
Robert Wrubel: Recipe For Change - 08/29

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Occasional Contributors

Joe Bageant: The Ghost In The Hologram - 02/28
Eli Beckerman: 2005: Earth Responds, Illusions Crumble, Vision Needed - 12/19
Michael Brooks: Living Simply, Simply Living - 08/1
Michael Brooks: Imperial Revolutions - 07/18
Mick Collins: Rwanda: The General's Story - 06/20
Michael DeLang: The Terms Of My Surrender... - 10/24
Michael DeLang: Open Letter to Howard Dean - 04/25
Michael DeLang: Facing Down The Demons - 03/28
Michael DeLang: The Open Society Revisited - 03/14
Nicholas DeVincenzo: A Marine Son's Story - 03/28
Linda Eve Diamond: Roasting Marshmallows - 12/5
Linda Eve Diamond: Lines - 09/26
Martin Epstein: The Current State Of Theatre - 05/23
Don Fitz: Mommy, Is Aunt Sally In The Rice Puffs? - 05/9
Ken Freeland: For Whom The Bell Tolls - 09/26
George Galloway: Statement - 05/23
Raymond Garcia: The United Corporate States of America - 10/24
Raymond Garcia: Live 8, Gleneagles, And The Fight Against African Poverty - 07/18
Ivan Gold: A Playwright's Guide To Life - 12/05
William T. Hathaway: The Politics Of No Choice - 11/21
William T. Hathaway: The Tenor Of Our Times - 11/7
Julio Huato: Workers, Socialists, And Democrats: Reflections On Strategy - 05/9
Tim Keane: Heading Home To Tavistock Square - 07/18
Stevan Konstantinović: New Orleans: The Pain From A Hyena's Bite - 10/10
Ardeshir Ommani: Iran And US Foreign Policy Designs - 12/5
Ardeshir Ommani: US Foreign Policy Toward Iran And Iran's Nuclear Program - 6/20
Richard Oxman: Spreading Democracy Instead Of Gonorrhea - 03/28
Richard Oxman: Bring Back Poindexter, Please! - 03/14
Dave Patterson: Canadian "Alternative" Media As Fifth Column? - 02/14
Francis Raven: Profiling, Torture & Knowledge - 03/14
Hani Faisal Saigh: America, My First Love...Once Upon A Time - 11/7
David Walsh: The Art And Politics Of Film - Part III - 04/25
David Walsh: The Art And Politics Of Film - Part II - 04/11
David Walsh: The Art And Politics Of Film - 03/28
Ian Werkheiser: The Draft - 02/14
Michael Yonchenko: Dancing With The Golden Bear - 11/7
Michael Yonchenko: Managed Care Is Neither - 09/26

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Created: December 21, 2004
Last Updated: December 22, 2005