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You never change the existing reality by fighting it. Instead, create a new model that makes the old one obsolete.
--Buckminster Fuller
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
--Oscar Wilde
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
--Alexis de Tocqueville
I am broke, say I. Welcome to the club, says he.
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Gilles d'Aymery
A Battered America - 12/17
Blips #62 - 12/3
A Much Admired Human Being - 12/3
Blips #61 - 11/19
The Inexorable March Into Iran - 11/5
Remembering Rene Stark - 10/22
Blips #60 - 10/22
The Bollinger Effect: Smear And War - 10/8
Is The USA Heading For Third World Status? - 9/24
Blips #59 - 9/10
Check Your Sources - 8/27
Blips #58 - 8/27
Blips #57 - 8/27
Bruce Anderson's Latest Roar - 8/13
The Senior Senator From West Virginia - 8/13
Blips #56 - 8/13
The Establishment's Tocsin - 7/30
Blips #55 - 7/16
The Essential Significance Of Ralph Nader - 7/16
Blips #54 - 7/16
Blips #53 - 7/2
A Rudderless, Co-opted Antiwar "Movement" - 6/18
Blips #52 - 6/18
Welcome Back To Reality, Cindy - 6/4
International Ignominy - 5/21
Blips #51 - 5/7
Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) - Bijou (1989-2007) - 4/23
Blips #50 - 4/23
Questioning Forty Years Of Optimism - 4/9
Heck Of A Job, Uncle Sam - 3/26
There Are No Right Wars - 3/26
Blips #49 - 3/26
Deceitful Solutions To America's Energy Dependence - 3/12
Blips #48 - 3/12
Lubricating Our Megamachines - 2/12
Blips #47 - 2/12
Introduction to Energy Resources And Our Future - 1/29
Oil, The Elites, And The Commons - 01/15
Blips #46 - 01/1
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Jan E. Baughman
2007: Disconnected In The Age Of Technology - 12/17
Praying For Some Sanity - 11/19
Emerging Markets For Investing In Human Misery - 10/22
The Ideological Struggle Of The 21st Century - 10/8
The Politics And Propaganda Of Ethanol - 9/10
Keeping Hope On Life Support - 8/27
Surveillance Creep - 7/16
Global Warming Gag Orders - 7/2
Mandate 2006 - 6/4
A Tragic Week In The Culture Of Life - 4/23
American Ingenuity And The Immigration Problem - 4/9
Operation Iraqi Freedom - 3/26
An Appeal To Antiwar Advocates To Fight The Right Battle - 3/12
Every Vote Counts - 2/26
The "New" Way Forward - 1/29
The Soldiers Among Us - 01/1
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Peter Byrne
What Myrtle Said And Read In 2007 - 12/17
Ideologies - 12/3
Cormac McCarthy's The Road - 11/19
The Devil You Don't Want To Know - 11/19
The Alarming Exclusion Of Charles Marowitz - 11/5
Beakspeak - 11/5
Small Stuff - 10/22
Going To Bed With An Elephant - 10/8
A Couple Of Sampling Errors - 10/8
On Edge In Middle-Class Heaven - 9/24
Quality Time In The Rose Garden - 9/24
A Dream Deferred - 9/10
Preemptive Retreat - 9/10
A Pinch Of Black Salt - 8/27
Don't Bite The Dog Please - 8/27
A Saint And Her Senator - 8/13
This Land Is His Land - 7/30
Hail To The Chief Nose - 7/16
Trying Prime Times - 7/2
Walking The Dog - 6/18
New Art And Imperialism In Dublin - 6/18
The Uncertain Heart of Utopia - 6/4
A Long Look Behind The Mirror - 5/21
How Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr. Became Gorino - 5/7
Whistling Home From Auschwitz - 4/23
A Long Ago Summer That Never Was - 4/9
Stage Struck In London And Dublin - 3/26
Murdering Immigration in Holland - 3/12
Peter Brook's Sober Magic In Milan And The Dower Of Giorgio Strehler - 2/26
Another Chekhov Worth Meeting - 2/12
Pimps and Ponces at War - 2/12
The Old Man Of Corfu - 1/29
Visitors Out Of Season - 01/15
The Turkish Man Mountain - 01/1
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Carol Warner Christen
Who, What, And Why Was 2007? - 12/17
Master Recipe - 12/3
Back To Feudalism - 11/19
Torture Is An Abomination To Humankind - 11/5
Is It About Why They Hate Us Or About Why We Hate Them? - 10/22
Phases Projected - 10/8
"The Curse Of Ignorance:" Endless Centuries Of War - 9/24
Mea Culpa - 9/10
Is Life A Set Of Infundibula? - 8/27
Human Generational Nonsense - 8/13
The Past Explains The Present - 7/30
Current Game: The Constitution 0 -- The Elites 1 (won) - 7/16
No System Can Measure Itself - 7/2
Tangled Web Of Life Or Worse - 6/18
Has Mankind Become Inhumanly Serious? - 6/4
Contrasts - 5/21
Thoughts 001 - 5/7
Homemade Politics - 4/23
How Did This Happen? - 4/9
The Royal We And The Royal My - 3/26
Whose Free Will? - 3/12
The First Conscious Thought And Its Implications - 2/26
A Mess Of Potage - 2/12
Fear, Distraction, Hypnosis, And The National Attention Span - 1/29
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Milo Clark
Hedge Funds - 5/21
Lies And Other Untruths - 4/23
Seymour Hersh, A Closet Swans Scanner? - 4/9
Overdue Correction, Not Excessive. . . - 3/12
PRChina: Quandary Wrapped In Very Ripe Baloney - 2/26
Two Views: Reasonable/Rational and Neocon/Born Again - 2/12
The Breakdown of Nations - 1/29
Implosions 2007? - 01/15
2007 - 01/1
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Michael DeLang
On Choosing A Way Of Life - 5/21
On Obligation In A Participatory Democracy - 2/12
Failure And Truth - 01/1
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Michael Doliner
We Hold These Truths - 11/5
An Early Warning - 8/13
Iraq Now As I See It - 7/30
Joseph Roth's What I Saw - 7/2
Making Sense - 5/7
Oil and War - 2/12
As Time Goes By - 01/15
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Philip Greenspan
The USA Of 2007: A Sinking Ship Of State - 12/17
Where Are The Open Unprejudiced Minds? - 12/3
The Home Court Advantage - 11/19
Will Hollywood Films Ride To The Rescue? - 11/5
Après Bush! Le Déluge? - 10/22
Do Protests Make A Difference? - 10/8
The Immigration Problem - 9/24
Who Are Your Enemies? - 9/10
Is This Not Genocide? - 8/27
Fiddling During The Conflagration - 8/13
Treason -- Often An Essential Business Practice - 7/30
Condemn That Contemptible Constitution - 7/16
The Education Route To Con Hearts And Minds - 7/2
The Founding Fathers' Fraud - 6/18
The Politicians Cannot Prevent An Unsatisfactory End - 6/4
Locate A Lecture: Look, Listen, Learn - 5/21
Report From A Chávez Fan Club - 5/7
Suspicious Scenarios + Logical Explanations = Nuts - 4/23
A Cornucopia Of Reality Via The Video - 4/9
No Excuse For Inaction - 3/26
Consent Of The Governed - 3/12
The Impossible Takes . . . - 2/26
Beware Of Those Desperate Hawks - 2/12
Another Neocon Disaster Awaits - 1/29
When And How Might It End? - 01/15
What Happens To The Decent Kids Who Enlist - 01/1
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Charles Marowitz
From Travesty To Tragedy - 12/17
Down On Nature - 12/3
Wilfrid Sheed's The House That George Built - 12/3
Sexual Equality - 11/19
The Fire Next Time - 11/5
The New Obscenities - 10/22
Politicolingo & The Vanishing Art Of Rhetoric - 10/8
You Say "Obama" -- I Say "OSAMA" - 9/24
Send Off The Clowns - 9/10
Gulag For Critics - 8/27
Remembering Joe Orton - 8/13
Choice Of Evils - 7/30
Morpheus In The Underworld - 7/16
Who Was Michael Chekhov? - 7/16
Sick Minds & Sick Bodies - 7/2
Adam Sisman's The Friendship: Wordsworth & Coleridge - 6/18
Stefan Kanfer's Stardust Lost - 6/4
In Praise Of Anger - 5/21
A Neglected Critic - 5/7
The Fourth World - 5/7
Exit Strategy For George W. Bush - 4/23
Ancient Grease - 4/9
Schizoid Comedy & Stephen Colbert - 3/26
Streetcar Derailed In Denmark - 3/12
Anna Nicole Smith & Celebrityitis - 2/26
"The Producers" In Denmark - 2/12
Dynastic Legends - 1/29
Jared Brown's Moss Hart: A Prince Of The Theatre - 01/15
My New Year's Resolutions - 01/15
Do You Know The Way To San José? - 01/1
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Guido Monte & Friends
World Tragedy 2007 - 12/17
Journey To The Sleep Doors n.1: Daedalus - 12/3
Shir Hashirim (Part III, the end) - 11/19
Shir Hashirim (Part II) - 11/5
Shir Hashirim (Part I) - 10/22
Haiku - 10/8
Sentence - 9/24
Incertitude/Soledad (Doubt/Solitude) - 9/10
Polyhedron n. 8: History Two - 8/27
Polyhedron n. 7: World Useless Slaughter - 7/30
Polyhedron n.5: World History - 7/16
Polyhedron n.2: El Ahora - 7/2
Polyhedron n.3: Moenia Mundi - 6/18
Mémoire - Oubli (Memory - Oblivion) - 6/4
Pont Suspendu (Suspension Bridge) - 5/21
Os Esquecidos Do Mundo - 5/7
Kuenda beyond n.4: voice of silence - 4/23
Maecho, filisika (Echoes, rundown) - 4/9
Ulysses: Kuenda beyond n.2 - 3/26
written on my sanbenito - 3/12
Siku Next Za Future (present future) - 2/26
Satori - 2/12
Voices n.2:muraika munjereri - 1/29
medianoche - 01/1
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Martin Murie
Looking Back At The Antiwar Movement - 12/17
Saving The Earth Is Not About Harmony - 12/3
Habitats - 11/19
Crazy Woman Creek - 11/5
Lonesome Outsiders - 10/22
Notes From Cheyenne - 10/8
Learning Mammals - 9/10
Gold - 8/27
On Foot In Plattsburgh - 8/13
War And The Constitution - 7/30
Deciders - 7/16
The Vote - 7/2
Artifacts - 6/18
Walking And Talking - 6/4
War Against Wolves - 5/21
A Walk In The Iliad - 5/7
Simplicity - 4/23
Devices And Things - 3/26
Al Gore At The Oscars - 3/12
People - 2/26
Attitude - 2/12
Call Of The Wild - 1/29
Durito - 01/15
Empire And Glory - 01/1
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Marie Rennard
Unauthorized Considerations Of A Housewife About Things She'd Better Not Feel Concerned With - 11/5
Halloween Skeletons On The Rocks - 10/22
Memory Of A Day With A Beloved Stranger (To S.) - 10/8
A Cross-Legged Night And Les Arbres De Tom - 9/10
Guardian Angel - 8/27
Wrecked - 7/2
Sundays In Hope - 6/18
Holy The One - 6/4
We Were Girls - 5/21
A Paolo Conte - 4/9
Paradero Ltd. - 3/26
Beyond The Line - 3/12
Capnomancy - 2/26
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Isidor Saslav
Remembering Mstislav Rostropovich - 5/7
More Revivals Of Seldom Heard Operas In New York - 5/7
The Day Of The 'Cello - 4/9
Concerts And An Opera In New York - 3/12
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Gerard Donnelly Smith
The Meltdown - 12/17
Language Shapes Reality - 12/3
The Insurgent Word: Waterboarding - 11/5
The Third Law of Thermodynamics (for Cara) - 11/5
Lying Is Free Speech? - 10/22
The Ugliest Americans - 9/24
The Second Law of Thermodynamics (for Cara) - 9/24
The Chilling Effect: The Fairness Doctrine - 8/13
The First Law Of Thermodynamics (for Cara) - 7/30
Defending The Constitution - 7/2
The Insurgent Word: Fragments - 6/18
The Fragmentation Of The Left, Part II - 5/21
The Fragmentation Of The Left - 5/7
The Litany Of W - 4/23
This House Of Pain - 3/26
The Documentary As Propaganda: An Inconvenient Truth - 3/12
The Insurgent Word: Loyalty (Continued) (Loyalty to Corporation and Consumption) - 2/26
The Insurgent Word: Zhōng ("Loyalty") - 1/29
The Fall Of Saddam Hussein - 01/15
The Insurgent Word: Education - 01/1
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SWANS
Dann Gibt Es Nur Eins! - Wolfgang Borchert - 11/19
Open Letter To Mr. Paul Faber, City Councilman - Boris Vian - 5/21
I'll Die from a Cancer of the Spine - Boris Vian - 5/21
Music Sheet Of Le Déserteur - Boris Vian and Harold B. Berg - 5/21
Energy Dossier: Energy Resources And Our Future - Admiral Hyman G. Rickover - 01/29
2007 Predictions - 01/1
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Other Columnists
Eli Beckerman: 2007: The Great Unraveling Begins - 12/17
Eli Beckerman: The Greening Of The Peace Movement - 6/4
Eli Beckerman: An Open Letter To Cindy Sheehan - 2/26
Joel S. Hirschhorn: Democracy Versus Stability - 11/19
Joel S. Hirschhorn: Irresponsible Americans - 10/8
Karen Moller: On The Fiftieth Anniversary Of On the Road - 10/8
Karen Moller: From Innocent Rebellion To Militant Feminism - 01/15
Louis Proyect: The Nation Magazine And The 2008 Presidential Elections - 12/17
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Occasional Contributors
Senator Robert C. Byrd: Dog Fighting - 7/30
Arnab Roy Chowdhury: Whither Green Utopias: Journey To The Past Or Visions Of Future? - 11/19
Ted Dace: The Experiment Requires That You Continue - 9/10
William T. Hathaway: Then There's Only One Choice! - 11/19
William T. Hathaway: Islamorada - 2/12
Troy Headrick: A Freak Speaks - 2/12
Mohammed Ben Jelloun: Les Revendications Démocratiques Du Hezbollah - 1/29
Mohammed Ben Jelloun: Hezbollah's Democratic Demands - 01/15
Aleksandar Jokic: The Real Solution For Kosovo - 6/4
Aaron Karmin: Progress - 4/9
Arthur Lieb: Remembering Mstislav Rostropovich - 5/7
Joe Middleton: Unity Of The Scottish Independence Movement - 01/15
Dimitri Oram: Attacking The ICTY And The ICJ - 6/4
Dimitri Oram: Samantha Power's A Problem from Hell - 2/26
Bruce Patterson: The 5th Estate - 1/29
Bruce Patterson: A Good Start - 01/1
Charles H. Pearson: How Do They Sleep At Night? - 12/3
Francesca Saieva: Linguistic Blending - 8/13
Fran Shor: Bridges, Walls, And Gated Communities - 4/23
Robert Wrubel: The Good Shepherd - 1/29
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