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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
--Tennessee Williams
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all of our lives
--Albert Einstein
Sometimes one can reach happiness that can only be found when one is 20 year-old, without possessing anything.
--Paul Nizan
It was like a pebble of salt and it dissolved.
--Arab Proverb
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Gilles d'Aymery
2008 In A Nutshell - 12/15
Remaining Silent About Obama - 12/1
Blips #76 - 11/17
The Charade Is Finally Over - 11/3
Blips #75 - 10/20
Blips #74 - 10/6
Blips #73 - 09/22
Ode To Peace And Life (Introduction to Tiziano Terzani's book) - 09/8
Behind The Curtain Of Ron Paul's Disciples - 09/8
Could I Support Obama Instead Of Nader? - 08/25
Blips #72 - 08/11
The Gray Lady's Muzzle - 08/11
Blips #71 - 07/28
What's Your Breaking Point? - 07/14
Want To Waste Your Vote? - 06/30
Bring Back Patrick Fitzgerald: Serve Mr. Bush to Justice - 06/16
Exercises In Nostalgia -- 1968 - 06/2
Meeting Ralph Nader & Matt Gonzalez - 05/19
Blips #70 - 05/19
Obama's Jeremiads And Wright's Right Rhetoric - 05/5
Blips #69 - 04/21
Blips #68 - 04/7
Entertaining Hullabaloo - 03/24
Blips #67 - 03/10
A Loving And Magnificent Human Being - 02/25
Blips #66 - 02/25
Simone de Beauvoir: The Mother Of Us All - 02/11
Blips #65 - 02/11
Artificial Bramble: Segregation And Subjugation - Part I - 01/28
Blips #64 - 01/28
The Zoology Of Pwogs And Pwogrevs - 01/14
Blips #63 - 01/14
Message To Our Readers - 01/1
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Michael Barker
Noam Chomsky And The Power Of Letters - 12/15
Progressive Social Change In The "Ivory Tower"? - 12/1
Co-opting Intellectual Aggressors: The "Progressive" Face of the CIA - 11/17
The Philanthropic Roots Of Corporate Environmentalism - 11/3
The New York Times "Reports" On The National Endowment For Democracy - 10/20
Imperial Media Manipulators Assistance - 10/6
The Project For A New American Humanitarianism - 08/25
Waging Democracy On China: Human Rights and an Endowment for Democracy - 07/28
The Soros Media "Empire": The Power of Philanthropy to Engineer Consent - 07/14
Sharp Reflection Warranted: Nonviolence in the Service of Imperialism - 06/30
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Jan E. Baughman
2008: Emerging From The Smoke - 12/15
Society's Moral Hazard - 12/1
Threatened But Not Protected - 11/3
Confessions Of A Naderite - 10/20
Ice Cream For Diversity - 09/22
Representation Without Taxation - 08/25
Desert Fox Meets Wolf Counselor - 07/28
An Interview With Jürgen Vsych - 07/28
Free The EPA - 07/14
Who's Party Are We Spoiling? - 06/16
Changing The Middle East Course - 05/19
May Day, M'Aidez - 05/5
My Mother, My Teeth - 04/7
Five Years And Still Drinking The Kool-Aid - 03/24
The Increasing Economic Toll On The Masses - 03/10
A Word About Philip Greenspan - 02/25
Poor And Pickled - 02/25
Eleven Shares Of Lockheed Martin - 01/28
Spoiler Today, Rebel Tomorrow - 01/14
Acrimonious Acronyms And The USA FUBAR - 01/1
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Peter Byrne
Bad Dream Of The Year - 12/15
Death Singing - 12/1
He Is Turkey - 11/17
R.I.P. Louis "Studs" Terkel - 1912-2008 - 11/3
A Slow Burn - 11/3
Mimic Man - 10/20
Up From Mississippi - 10/6
In Search Of Djinns - 09/22
Torture For Fun And Uncle Sam - 09/8
Eric & Bert - 08/25
Zen Rides Again - 08/11
Myrn Dreckinbridge Meets Bob Crumbo - 07/28
Delta Dreaming - 07/28
Raging Silence: Charles Marowitz's Silent Partners - 07/14
PR Man For The Black Kings - 06/30
9/11 In The Swamp - 06/16
Norman Mailer, A Noncombatant At The Siege - 06/2
Big Dumpling's Shock And Awe: Mayor Daley's Chicago - 06/2
The False Twins: Art Shay And Nelson Algren - 05/19
The Real French Warm Their Hearts - 05/5
I Shop, You Shop, Why Won't She Shop? - 04/21
Dunstan Prial's The Producer: John Hammond and the Soul of American Music - 04/7
Kate Holden's In My Skin - 03/24
Xolela Mangcu's To The Brink - 03/24
Seaside - 03/10
London Laughing - 02/25
Snared In The Devil's Stocking - 02/11
Not Shutting Up For A Second: Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) - 02/11
Who Else Is Afraid Of Michael Moore? - 01/28
Buy Now And Lighten Up - 01/14
On The Dinka Express - 01/1
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Carol Warner Christen
Methane Is Poisonous - 10/20
What Parable Is This? The Old Woman Said - 10/6
A Disintegrating Nation Being Boiled Slowly Alive - 09/22
Well-Known "Evils" We Never Seem To Learn - 09/8
Expediency Creates Entropy Within The Human Environment - 08/25
Devolution: The New Terrible "Norm" - 08/11
The Sands Of Time Grinding Again Exceedingly Fine - 07/28
Next Target Of The IMF: You, Me, And The United States Of America - 07/14
Theft: Our National Pastime - 06/30
Who Is Like God? - 06/16
My Mere View Of The Year 1968 - 06/2
Down To Earth At Home - 05/19
How Many Connections Does It Take? - 05/5
It's Not Over Until The States Sing - 04/21
Power, Profits, Propaganda Unbound - 04/7
Is Our Planet Earth A Chessboard? - 03/24
An Assessment Of The Eleventh Hour - 03/10
One Final Corporative Capitalist Empire - 02/25
The Other Light - 02/11
To My Brother - 01/28
Opening Our Eyes: Reality Or Dream? - 01/28
Lest We Overlook The Obvious - 01/14
Infamously Incredible Predictions For 2008 - 01/1
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Michael Doliner
What Next? - 12/15
What Is Authority? - 11/3
The Situation In Georgia As I See It - 08/25
James Salter's A Sport and a Pastime - 08/25
Break Down - 07/28
My Bailout - 06/30
Three Memories of Chicago 1968 - 06/2
Human All Too Human - 05/19
The No-State Solution - 04/7
A Quick Look At The Credit Crisis - 03/10
A Critical Assessment Of Corporations - 02/25
Clinton And Obama On Iran And Biofuels - 01/14
End The Empire: A Polemic - 01/14
Of Sunnis, Shi'ites, And Strauss - 01/1
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Philip Greenspan (1926-2008)
Philip Greenspan on Swans
The Secret Ingredient Of Activism: Mutual Support - 01/14
No Beauty Will Win The Beauty Contest - 01/1
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Charles Marowitz
Looking Backward To Ahead - 12/15
E Pluribus Unum - 12/1
Quantum Of Solace - 12/1
The Alchemy of Theatre - 11/17
The First Hundred Days - 11/3
The Letters Of Noel Coward - 10/20
John McCain: Freud To The Rescue - 10/6
En Passant - 09/22
The Fall Of Meyerhold - 09/8
Fusing Brecht & Bentley - 08/25
Ralph Nader: An Unreasonable Man - 08/11
A Wreath For Jo Stafford - 07/28
US Exploitation Of The World - 07/14
George Carlin: 1937-2008 - 06/30
High & Low Comedy On Broadway - 06/30
Spoils Of War - 06/16
Expats' Chicago: London, 1968 - 06/2
Judging The Candidates - 05/19
...And Now For A Short Commercial Break - 05/5
Work Done - 04/21
Bill Bryson's Shakespeare: The World As Stage - 04/21
Heiner Müller's Hamlet Machine - 04/7
Low Crimes & Misdemeanors - 03/24
Jackie Mason: Return Of The Superjew - 03/24
Anthony Slide's New York City Vaudeville - 03/10
Artistic Types - 02/25
Obamania: Curb Your Enthusiasm - 02/11
Cast Of Characters - 01/28
Robert Brustein's Millennial Stages - 01/28
Groucho, Chico, & Harpo - 01/14
Parting Words - 01/1
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Guido Monte & Friends
Future World - 12/15
Vie Mystérieuse - 12/1
Fil Rouge (Omnitude) - 11/17
Mondana Commedia n.6: Bayta (Home) - 11/3
Mondana Commedia n.5: Fine (World Comedy n.5: The End) - 10/20
Mondana Commedia n.4: Limbo (World Comedy n.4: Limbo) - 10/6
Mondana Commedia n.2: Purgatorio (World Comedy n.2: Purgatory) - 09/22
Mondana Commedia n.1: Inferno (World Comedy n.1: Hell) - 08/25
Mondana Commedia n.3: Paradiso (World Comedy n.3: Paradise) - 08/11
Crisi (Crisis) - 07/28
Haiku Number Two - 07/14
Ramo d'Oro - 06/30
Today - 06/16
Atman - 05/19
Oltre (Beyond) - 05/5
Journey... n.6: Words Through A Deep Night - 04/21
Dialogue - 04/7
...Temps Nouveaux - 03/24
Journey... n.5: Sphinx - 03/10
Katábasis - 02/25
Journey To The Sleep Doors n. 4: Foglie - 02/11
Journey To The Sleep Doors n.3: The Golden Bough - 01/28
Porte - 01/14
Journey To The Sleep Doors: Sybilla - 01/1
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Martin Murie
Two Lizards - 12/15
Nature - 12/1
Today And Tomorrow - 11/17
Sarah Palin's Dodo - 10/20
Low Life - 09/22
Denver Braying - 09/8
Patrolling The Fringes - 08/11
Fringes - 07/14
Wolves And Us - 06/16
Then, Now, And Tomorrow - 06/2
Hearts And Minds - 05/19
Wolf - 05/5
Polar Bear Stand-Off - 04/21
Murder - 04/7
Streets, Doors, Offices - 03/24
Leaders - 03/10
Second Sex - 02/25
Pristine - 02/11
Five Minutes To Midnight, Part Two - 01/28
One Minute To Midnight - 01/14
Dodo Lives - 01/1
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Louis Proyect
Why Third Way Politics Refuses To Die - 12/15
The Early Days Of The Nation Magazine - 11/17
Carlton Jackson's Child of the Sit-Downs - 10/6
Red Inside, Green Outside: Our Great Loss - Peter Camejo (1939-2008) - 09/22
Jesse James: The Myth And The Man - 09/22
Tim Russert In Retrospect - 06/16
Whatever Became Of What's-His-Name, The Radical? - 06/2
Simone de Beauvoir's The Coming of Age - 02/11
The Crime Novels Of Patricia Highsmith - 01/28
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Marie Rennard
The Mad Is Standing On The Roof... - 12/1
Head Up! - 10/20
Miswedding - 09/22
Song Of The Gone - 08/11
Outlandish Sail - 07/28
Thirty Seconds Echo - 07/14
Omnium-Gatherum - 04/7
Smelly Step To The Last Door - 03/24
The Unfinished Business Of Simone de Beauvoir - 02/11
Priapic And Libidinous - 01/1
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Isidor Saslav
Pictures At Another Exhibition - 05/19
Jay Greenberg: A Korngold For Our Times - 05/5
Galway In Texas - 03/10
Five Films, Three Operas, And A Mystery Symphony In New York - 01/1
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SWANS
Swans: 2008 US Elections: Recommendations - 10/20
Tiziano Terzani: LETTERS AGAINST THE WAR - 09/8
Lee Iacocca: Had Enough? (Book Excerpt) - 07/14
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Fragments Of 1968 (translation by Guido Monte) - 06/2
Swans: How To Help The Nader-Gonzalez '08 Campaign - 06/2
Swans: 2008 Predictions - 01/1
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Other Columnists
Karen Moller: Art Shay's Traces Of A Bygone America - 06/2
Karen Moller: Simone de Beauvoir One Hundred Years After Her Birth - 02/11
R. Scott Porter: 2008, Privilege vs. Competence - 12/15
R. Scott Porter: Population Control - 12/1
R. Scott Porter: The Light - 11/17
R. Scott Porter: The Middle Ground - 11/3
R. Scott Porter: Willpower - 10/20
R. Scott Porter: American Wars On Herself And Others - 10/6
R. Scott Porter: The Government We Deserve - 09/22
R. Scott Porter: Nature And Man - 09/8
R. Scott Porter: Madness - 08/25
R. Scott Porter: Orange Blossoms - 08/11
R. Scott Porter: The Circus - 07/14
Art Shay: Auto Eroticism - 12/15
Art Shay: Rare Medium - 09/22
Art Shay: Chicago's Gay Parade And Related Gay Memories - 07/14
Art Shay: Shooting Szell In Cleveland - 06/30
Art Shay: The Democratic Convention -- Chicago 1968 - 06/2
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Occasional Contributors
Femi Akomolafe: Ghana: A Review Of 2008 - 12/15
Ted Dace: Fate - 10/6
Michael Eddins: Without You - 12/1
Michael Eddins: Black - 10/6
Michael Eddins: Nature - 06/16
Joel S. Hirschhorn: Neo-Progressives Sell Out To Democrats - 09/8
Joel S. Hirschhorn: Misplaced Blame Undermines Democracy - 08/11
Joel S. Hirschhorn: Fighting Resistance To Voting for Ralph Nader - 06/16
Joel S. Hirschhorn: Nightmare Political Scenario - 04/21
Aleksandar Jokic: The Alleged Relevance Of Human Rights For The US Economic Crisis - 11/3
Aaron Karmin: Different Gods - 04/21
Xolela Mangcu: Harold Washington: A Mainstream Radical Against The Machine - 06/16
John M. Marshall: Meadow Of The Mountains, The First 9/11 - 03/10
Joe Middleton: Mass Petition Planned For Independence Referendum - 03/10
Ralph Nader: What We Accomplished Together - 11/17
Ralph Nader: We Will Decide! - 09/8
Ralph Nader: Message To Friends And Supporters - 08/11
Charles Pearson: Forgive Us Our Debts - 06/30
Raju Peddada: Bollywood Bungles - 11/17
Raju Peddada: Travels In Morocco: Our Brands are our Goodwill Ambassadors - 11/3
Raju Peddada: Acquired Taste: Seeing Beyond The Obvious - 10/20
Raju Peddada: A Slow Shutter On Art Shay - 10/6
Michael Pravica: The Insatiable Quest For "Cheap" Energy - 06/30
Michael Pravica: Censorship And The Yugoslav Civil Wars - 05/5
Karen Ritenour: A Heavenly Satire: Satan Repents - 08/11
Karen Ritenour: A Hell Of Heaven And Vice Versa Revelations - 07/14
Gerard Donnelly Smith: The Insurgent Word: Fear - 01/14
Gerard Donnelly Smith: The Insurgent Word: Surge - 01/1
Walter Trkla: American Economy Predicaments - 10/20
Irving Wardle: The Chicago Conspiracy - 06/2
Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.: The African-American Religious Experience: Theology & Practice - 05/5
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