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You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself. Tel me now, who among us is guilty and who is unguilty?
--Kahlil Gibran
La verdad tiene muy pocos amigos y los muy pocos amigos son suicidas.
--Antonio Porchia
Sie sang vom irdischen Jammertal, Von Freuden, die bald zerronnen, Vom Jenseits, wo die Seele schwelgt Verklärt in ew'gen Wonnen.
Sie sang das alte Entsagungslied, Das Eiapopeia vom Himmel, Womit man einlullt, wenn es greint, Das Volk, den großen Lümmel.
--Heinrich Heine
Elle chantait la vallée des larmes terrestres où toutes joies s'évanouissent, et l'au-delà, où l'âme transfigurée s'épanouit dans les béatitudes éternelles.
Elle chantait l'antique chant du renoncement, l'Eiapopeia du Ciel, avec lequel, quand il pleurniche, on berce le peuple, ce gros bêta.
--Heinrich Heine
She sang of this earthly vale of tears, Of pleasures that soon run dry; How the soul will feast on eternal joys —Transfigured in the sky.
She sang a heavenly lullaby, The song of renonciation By which the people, that giant clown, Is lulled from its lamentation.
--Heinrich Heine
What is known, I strip away.
--Walt Whitman
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Femi Akomolafe
Can The Chief Justice Spell ETHICAL? - 11/15
Nigeria's 2011 Elections: Logic-Defying Permutations - 11/1
The Inspector General Of Police And His Convoy - 10/18
On People's Migration - 10/4
Euro-Africa Relations: The End of Lecturing and Hectoring? - 09/20
Na Degree We Go Chop? (Can We Eat Degree?) - 09/6
The Cost Of Living Is Killing Me - 08/23
And The Parliamentarians Blink First - 08/9
Here We Go Again! - 07/26
Licensed To Rip Us Off - 07/12
Israel: A Bastard Behaving True To Form - 06/14
Goodbye, President Umoru Yar'Adua - 05/31
Nigeria: The Curse Of Reluctant Leaders - 05/17
For Nigerians Life Is April Fools' Day - 05/3
Happy Birthday, Ghana, But... - 04/19
In search Of Enemies - 04/5
Nigeria: Thank God Our President Is Back - 03/22
President "SEX MACHINE" Zuma's Virile Libido - 03/8
Crocodile Tears For Haiti - 02/22
Nigeria: A Nation In Custody - 02/8
War On Terror: Target Nigeria? - 01/25
Nigeria: Hip, Hip, Hurrah! - 01/11
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Simone Alié-Daram
Petit sonnet d'hiver - 11/29
Conseil à un rebelle - 09/6
Recette pour bien vivre - 08/9
Le principe de précaution : Entre utopie et entropie - 04/19
Le café - 03/22
France Edito - 02/22
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Gilles d'Aymery
2010 Stats In A Nutshell - 12/27
The Slow Agony Of Absurdistan - 12/13
Blips #101 - 11/29
The Economy Is Not Coming Back: Part III: The Reasons it Shouln't - 11/15
The Economy Is Not Coming Back: Part II: The Reasons it Won't - 10/18
Introduction To This Special Issue On Immigration - 10/4
The Economy Is Not Coming Back: Part I: A Short History of the Maelstrom - 09/20
Welcome To The Bright Future - 09/6
Sarko The American - 08/23
Destruction Accomplished - 08/9
The Miracle Of La Grande Boucle - 07/26
The Golden Ball: Thank You South Africa! - 07/12
Blips #100 - 05/17
There ARE Alternatives - 05/3
Blips #99 - 05/3
The Scourge Of Plagiarism And Scrubbing - 04/5
Blips #98 - 03/22
The Gray Lady And Copyright Insanities - 03/22
Blips #97 - 03/8
Blips #96 - 02/22
Blips #95 - 02/8
If You Want to Know the Truth - 02/8
Beginnings With No Known End - 01/25
Blips #94 - 01/11
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Michael Barker
Elite Philanthropy, SNCC, And The Civil Rights Movement (Part III of III) - 11/29
Elite Philanthropy, SNCC, And The Civil Rights Movement (Part II of III) - 11/15
Elite Philanthropy, SNCC, And The Civil Rights Movement (Part I of III) - 11/1
Jeffery Klaehn's The Political Economy Of Media And Power - 10/18
Anti-Immigration's Malthusian Knights In Green Armour - 10/4
An Interview With Thomas Patterson - 09/20
Greasing The Cogs Of Corporate Environmentalism - 09/6
Of Conflict And Misdirection - 08/23
Bill Clinton's Philanthropic Propaganda - 08/9
From Sharp To Lovins: Elite Reform as Progressive Social Change - 07/26
An Interview With Edward Berman - 07/12
An Interview With Mary Anna Colwell - 07/12
An Interview With Peter Seybold - 07/12
An Interview With Dennis Buss - 07/12
An Interview With Robert Arnove - 07/12
Interview With Jerry Gershenhorn - 06/28
Foundations And The Racial Politics Of Knowledge - 06/28
An Abrupt Interview With Mark Dowie - 06/14
In Honour Of Berel Rodal - 06/14
George Soros And South Africa's Elite Transition - 05/31
Imperialism And The Washington Office On Latin America - 05/17
The Mother Jones Conspiracy? - 05/3
Human Rights Watch Brings Neoliberalism To Africa - 05/3
Mother Jones And The Defence Of Liberal Elites - 04/19
Liberal Philanthropy And Social Change In South Africa - 04/5
Planned Parenthood For Capitalists - 03/22
Buying Freedom For Africa - 03/8
Corporate Social Responsibility As A Political Resource - 02/22
Caring For Haiti - 02/8
The Ford Foundation And The Co-option of Dissent - 01/25
Taking Strong Action For Capitalist-Led Environmental Destruction - 01/11
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Jan E. Baughman
No Pain, No Gain - 12/27
America 2010: Out/In - 12/13
Seeing Red With Post-Election Blues? - 11/15
We Exploit Our Troops - 11/1
We Are All Immigrants - 10/4
Political Disconnect And The Invisible Shackles - 08/23
Gulf War III - 06/28
A Canine Perspective On Humanity - 05/17
What's Left For Progressives? - 04/5
Passport Propaganda - 02/22
Check Your Underwear - 01/11
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Paul Buhle
The Personal And The Political - 10/18
William Appleman Williams Versus Reinhold Niebuhr - 07/26
The Original Conspiracy - 06/14
Ronald Cohen's Work and Sing - 05/31
Back Again! The Return Of World War 3 Illustrated - 04/19
Radical Comics - 03/22
Richard Quinney's A Lifetime Burning - 02/8
Kim Stanley Robinson's The Lucky Strike - 01/11
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Peter Byrne
The Year In Dissent - 12/13
The Tumultuous Afterlife Of Paul Gauguin - 11/29
Green Dogs On The Spianada - 11/15
Breathing Right In India: Part II, Auroville - 11/1
Breathing Right In India: Part I, Pondicherry - 11/1
A Happy Train Trip - 10/18
The Door That Won't Be Closed - 10/4
Roberto Bolaño's Poetic Justice - 09/20
When the Devil Lost His Manhood - 09/6
The Great Game Lost - 08/23
Cities Sunny And Tragic - 08/9
Doing India French - 07/26
India Ajog - 07/12
Atlantis In The Gulf - 06/28
India's Untouchables Find Their Tongue - 06/14
J.D.'s Long Shadow - 05/31
Excremental India - 05/17
Long Kesh And Environs - 05/3
Silence Please - 04/19
Not Forgetting The Armenians - 04/5
The Open Gate - 03/22
Orientalism In London - 03/8
Up The Revolutionary's - 02/22
Cameras On White Africa - 02/8
Holden's Misstep - 02/8
John Berger Unrepentant - 01/25
Eating Abroad - 01/11
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Maxwell Clark
Other Rhythms? A Contrarian View - 12/13
Digi-Greenland Of The Heart - 11/29
An Evening With Avital Ronell - 11/15
MASSIF: A Protocol For My Eulogy - 11/1
Charles Bernstein: Poet - 10/18
Territory, Identity, And Capital - 10/4
What Is Fascism? - 09/20
Andy Warhol: The Art Of The Commodity (5 Theses) - 09/6
The Phrenology Of Mind - 08/23
Harold Bloom On The Jewish Question - 05/31
U-utter SUBMISSION T-to SWANS (D-digislavographism) - 05/3
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Christian Cottard
Quatre saisons - 11/29
L'éprise de la bastide - 09/6
Avec toi - 08/9
L'accident - 05/17
L'amour c'est quand même un peu compliqué - 04/19
Comme... - 03/22
Page après page - 01/25
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Michael Doliner
Scientific World Pictures - 11/29
Thinking It Over - 11/15
After The Fall - 11/1
The New Man - 10/18
Scientific Theories And Experiments - 08/9
Phony Bastards - 07/26
Mathematics - 07/12
The Gang's All Here - 06/28
Time - 06/14
The Scientific World Picture - 05/31
An American Lament - 05/17
I'm Just So Piqued - 05/3
Reuven Kaminer On Hannah Arendt: A Response - 04/19
Eruption From The Id #1: Christopher Hitchens - 04/5
Collecting Stupidities: Alexander Cockburn - 04/5
A Short History Of Stupidity - Part 2 - 03/8
A Short History Of Stupidity - Part 1 - 02/8
The Contradictions Of Capitalism - 01/11
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Bo Keeley
Everyone Wins, Mexican Style: Americans Beware - 10/4
Everyone Wins, Mexican Style - 09/6
Laissez Faire And The Depression - 07/26
Amazon Walker - 06/28
Mexico Scrap - 06/14
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Graham Lea
French Literature And Jean Giono - 11/1
Migration: Opening Pandora's Box Reveals Much Evil, But Little Hope - 10/4
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Charles Marowitz
The Jig Is Up - 12/13
Facebook Follies - 11/29
Department Of Decriminalization - 11/15
Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw - 10/18
Becalmed In Carmel - 10/18
Dinner With Schmucks - 09/20
The Age Of Olivier - 09/6
Bill Press's Toxic Talk - 08/23
Obama Takes Off The Gloves - 08/9
Remembering Peter Barnes - 07/26
Langella In Close-Up - 07/12
Damian Kringas's Lenny Bruce: 13 Days In Sydney - 06/28
Legal Measures - 06/14
Acting Out - 05/31
Reconsidering Mencken - 05/17
John Gilbert: Last Of The Red Hot Lovers - 05/3
A House Divided - 04/19
Message For Twitterers - 04/5
The Pessimist's Rant - 03/22
James Cameron's Avatar - 03/8
T.S. Eliot: Un Objet Trouvé - 02/22
The Displaced Generation - 02/8
Salinger's Past and Future - 02/8
The Case Of The Missing Sherlock Holmes - 01/25
First We Read, Then We Write - 01/11
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Guido Monte & Friends
Terzani's words: year-end messages in a bottle - 12/13
lament of a prisoner, part II - 11/29
l'âme archétype (lament of a prisoner) - 11/15
La Fortezza (Fortess - Vision of a Prisoner) - 11/1
africa - 10/18
Boats Of Death From Africa - 10/4
àdhara: part II - 09/20
àdhara: part I - 09/6
ápokatástasis - 08/23
Lacrimae Rerum (tears of things) - 08/9
Babel, From The Beginning - 07/26
Impression - 07/12
Respiro (Breath) - 06/28
Fatigue - 06/14
Ins Leben (To The Life) - 05/31
Joyce - 05/17
Pavese and Bible, Blending of Translations - 04/19
Others - 04/5
Blurred Vision - 03/22
War (Paix Pace Peace Paz) - 03/8
stotra (song) - 02/22
Via Dimenticata - 02/8
The Last Haiku - 01/25
Stars - 01/11
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Fabio De Propris
The Fall Of The House Of Pompeii - 12/13
Love Me Tender (Far From Walhalla) - 11/29
Comparison - 11/15
Fantenomics - 10/18
Apricot - 10/4
On All Fours In Dog City - 09/20
Listen To The Dust Of Istanbul - 09/6
It's A Berlusconi World: Part II - 08/23
It's A Berlusconi World: Part I - 08/9
Metamorfosi Del Cavallo Di Troia - 07/12
Il Manifesto: On the Wrong Side and Kicking - 06/28
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Louis Proyect
The Autumn Of The Hegemon - 12/13
A History Of The Passport System - 10/4
Tony Judt: An Appreciation - 08/9
North Star: A Tribute to Peter Camejo - 07/12
Jamie James's The Snake Charmer - 05/31
The Collapse Of Jared Diamond - 04/19
A Lesser Impact, With a Market - 02/8
Leslie Evans's Outsider's Reveries - 01/25
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Marie Rennard
A Year Of Gallic Protests - 12/13
Un auteur, un livre, Richard Beard - 11/29
Whatever Blues - 11/1
Rainbow: The Colour Of France - 10/4
Elé-Gant ! - 09/6
Aphrodisiaque - 08/9
Cuban Heavens - 05/31
Fugit irreparabile... - 05/17
Ana - 05/17
Reliques - 04/19
It's A Nice Word, Comrade - 03/22
Hélix - 03/22
Identité Nationale, Vox Populi : Causons-zen ! - 02/22
Editorial - 01/25
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Isidor Saslav
Current Offerings At Some European Opera Houses - 08/23
Der Ferne Klang At Bard - 08/9
Ruminations On Rusalka, The Ring, Cyrano, And Shreker - Part III - 04/5
Ruminations On Rusalka, The Ring, Cyrano, And Shreker - Part II - 03/22
Ruminations On Rusalka, The Ring, Cyrano, And Shreker - Part I - 03/8
Lunch With Louis Auchincloss - 02/22
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Christine Spadaccini
Macaroni (In memory of Paolo S.) - 10/4
Collier de pluie - 08/9
Man Of Letters, Woman Of The Latter - 06/14
Pâtebook et Face à choux - 05/17
The (Sp)arrow - 04/5
La dame de la péniche aux camélias - 03/22
The Lily Suicides - 03/8
The Sundial - 02/22
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SWANS
Swans: 2011 Predictions - 12/27
Alfred Jarry: La Femme Esclave - 11/29
Charles Baudelaire: L'examen de minuit (Midnight Enquiry) - 08/23
Various Authors: Vignettes On J.D. Salinger - 02/8
Swans: 2010 Predictions - 12/28/09
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In memoriam
Philip Greenspan (1926-2008)
Richard Macintosh (1933-2005)
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Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
Political Amnesia - 12/13
American History As World History - 10/4
On The Fallacy Of Proclaiming Fallacies - 07/26
Techspeak And The Abuse Of Language - 06/28
The Current Knowledge Crisis - 04/19
The Jukebox Blues - 03/8
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Other Columnists
Jonah Raskin: The Sweetest Dream - 12/13
Jonah Raskin: Stieg Larsson's Dark Vision & Hollywood - 11/29
Jonah Raskin: Immigrants On My Mind - 10/4
Jonah Raskin: Crisis Of Identity In Europe: Observations and Reflections - 05/17
Jonah Raskin: Kerouac And Ginsberg - 05/3
Francis Schor: On The Road To Nowhere And Beyond - 12/13
Francis Schor: WikiLeaks' Limited Vision - 11/29
Francis Schor: Frick-Fracking Away, Or Frackicide - 11/15
Jean-Claude Seine: Justice sociale et Jean Ferrat - 04/19
Jean-Claude Seine: Le corps français traditionnel - 03/22
Jean-Claude Seine: Idiotitité Nationale - 02/22
Jean-Claude Seine: Le Grand Ordinaire de la classe ouvrière - 01/25
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Occasional Contributors
Milo Clark: Minimalism - 02/8
Michael DeLang: Reforming Broadcast Media - 11/29
Viviana Fiorentino: La Fortezza (Fortess - Vision of a Prisoner) - 11/1
Marie-Laetitia Gambié: Les chômeurs et les « working poor » - 01/25
Claudine Giovannoni: l'âme archétype (lament of a prisoner) - 11/15
Claudine Giovannoni: africa - 10/18
Claudine Giovannoni: Lacrimae Rerum (tears of things) - 08/9
Claudine Giovannoni: Respiro (Breath) - 06/28
William T. Hathaway: The Surge - 06/14
Joel S. Hirschhorn: Weak Reforms Are Worse Than No Reforms - 03/22
Ksavijer: Défiance d'entrée - 09/6
Karen Moller: Why So Much Disinterest In Italian Politics? - 08/9
Martin Murie: The Lynne Stewart Story - 03/22
Martin Murie: Barbara Ehrenreich's Dancing In The Streets - 03/8
Martin Murie: Protests And Organizing - 01/25
Charles Pearson: Europe: A Union Of Capital - 11/29
Charles Pearson: Outrage Needed - 04/19
Joan Roelofs: Golden Donors And Cultural Imperialism - 07/12
Francesca Saieva: Fragments of Intertextuality: Cosmopolitan Multilingualism of The Waste Land - 05/3
Art Shay: The Repair Chronicles - 07/26
Art Shay: Waiting For PayPal - 05/3
Art Shay: Two New Banana Republics: After France, the U.S. - 04/5
Art Shay: Collaboration - 03/22
Art Shay: Mutatis Mutandis - 02/8
Art Shay: Good Nudes From My Naughty World - 01/25
Art Shay: Hunting The Wild And Boring Banishees In Upper Michigan - 01/11
Steve Shay: "Is That Thing On?" - 05/31
Steve Shay: Court Of Hard Knox, With Apologies To G & S - 04/5
Steve Shay: Is Seattle Of Two Minds? Well, Yes And No - 02/8
Jim Travis: Domestic Insurgents - 11/15
Walter Trkla: Chauvinism In The Age Of Immigration - 10/4
Walter Trkla: Salinger, Zinn, and the Phonies - 02/8
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