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We face neither East nor West. We face forward.
--Kwame Nkrumah
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
--John Ciardi
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
--Bertold Brecht
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
--George Bernard Shaw
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
--John Kenneth Galbraith
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
--Anatole France
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
--Karl Marx
In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
--Alexis de Tocqueville
Someone once said that life is not a bed of roses -- an Italian proverb, I hear. A fair assessment to say the least, except for the thorns that are very real and keep the bloody world churning.
--Gilles d'Aymery
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
--George Bernard Shaw
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Femi Akomolafe
What A Year! - 12/19
Nigeria: Siasia As A Metaphor - 11/21
Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others - 11/7
Of School Uniforms And Other Jazz - 10/10
Nigeria: End Of African-Centered Foreign Policy - 09/12
Who Owns Papa's Land? - 07/18
Surprising Europe - 07/4
On Party And National Interests - 06/6
Killing Osama, Again! - 05/23
The Attack On Libya: A Commentary - 04/25
Reflections On The Tunisian Revolution And Other Arising Matters - 03/14
Ghana MPs Clamor For Higher Pay! - 02/28
Nigeria National Assembly: Jumbo Pay For Little Work - 02/14
Mickey Mouse Independent Nations - 01/31
Beating Swords Into Ploughshares - 01/17
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Simone Alié-Daram
Actualités en 6-12 (FR) - 12/5
Petite ballade (FR) - 11/7
Chronos (FR) - 09/12
Un mot à toutes les sauces : La résilience (FR) - 07/4
Dans la salle de bains (FR) - 06/6
Voiles (FR) - 04/25
Penseur des rues (FR) - 03/28
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Gilles d'Aymery
Introduction To Swans 2011 Perspectives - 12/19
Atherosclerosis - 12/19
Blips #119 - 12/5
Blips #118 - 11/21
Blips #117 - 11/7
Ongoing Violence - 10/24
Growing Indignation - 10/10
Blips #116 - 09/26
Clueless Or Malevolent "Leaders"? - Part II - The Economic Crisis - 09/12
Yiddishkeit: Fun Dor Tsu Dor - 08/29
Blips #115 - 08/15
Blips #114 - 08/1
Clueless Or Malevolent "Leaders"? - Part I - The Financial Crisis - 08/1
Blips #113 - 07/18
Blips #112 - 06/20
Paul D. Ryan: Stealth Randian? - 06/6
Blips #111 - 05/23
Blips #110 - 05/9
Blips #109 - 04/25
Blips #108 - 04/11
Blips #107 - 03/28
Blips #106 - 03/14
Blips #105 - 02/28
Blips #104 - 02/14
Blips #103 - 01/31
The State Of Delusion - 01/31
Blips #102 - 01/17
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Michael Barker
Richard Branson's Year - 12/19
Eugenic Propaganda, Old And New - Part I - 12/5
The Original Population Bomb - Part II - 11/21
The Original Population Bomb - Part I - 11/7
William Vogt And Malthusian Conservation - 10/24
The Invisible Planners: Part II of II - 10/10
The Invisible Planners: Part I of II - 09/26
AFL-CIO: Solidarity Or Sabotage? - 09/12
Resistance Or Tyranny - 08/29
Jon Snow's Big Society: (Part II of II) - 08/29
Jon Snow's Big Society: (Part I of II) - 08/15
Challenging The Stanford Prison Experiment (Part III of III) - 08/1
Challenging The Stanford Prison Experiment (Part II of III) - 07/18
Challenging The Stanford Prison Experiment (Part I of III) - 07/4
Capitalising On Nonviolence - 06/20
Blinded By Jim Crow - 06/6
The American Hijacking Of The Philippines' "People-Power" Struggle - 05/23
The Reality Of American Supremacy In Hollywood - 05/9
Post-Dictatorship [Red White And] Blues Brings Low-Intensity Warfare To The Philippines - 04/25
People Power Leashed: Kurt Schock on the Ousting of Dictators - 04/11
Reporting On Egyptian Workers: Solidarity in the Name of Capitalism - 03/28
Blinded By People Power: Stephen Zunes on the Ousting of Dictators - 03/14
The Velvet Slipper And The Military-Peace Nonprofit Complex - 02/28
Promoting The Real Spirit of America - 02/14
The First Sexual Revolution And Its Discontents - 01/31
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Jan E. Baughman
A Stormy Year - 12/19
Occupiers Against Wall Street Meet Veterans Against The War - 11/21
From Arab Spring To American Fall - 10/10
The Best Of Times, The Worst Of Times - 09/26
Ten Years Of Forgetting - 09/12
I Want My NYT: Rural Delivery, from the Sublime to the Ridiculous - 08/15
Help Wanted: A rural struggle with The New York Times delivery - 07/4
Tea Party Envy - 05/9
Watson And Wisconsin - 02/28
Score One For Climate Change - 02/14
Rhymes With Pints: Reince Priebus to the Rescue - 01/31
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Paul Buhle
Quite The Year - 12/19
Crime Does Not Pay - 11/7
Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History - 10/10
Kim Scipes's AFL-CIO's Secret War - 07/4
Ursula K. Le Guin's The Wild Girls - 04/25
SciFi And The Disguised Left Of The Cold War Days - 01/17
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Peter Byrne
A Writer's 2011 - 12/19
Love Letter To Mary Jane - 12/5
Looters And Consumers - 11/21
Bedtime Story - 11/7
Shortcuts To Comfort: James M. Cain - 10/24
Humanity Hanging On In Mumbai - 10/10
Alan Lomax: An Ear For Folk - 09/26
Sarcasm And The Class War - 09/12
A Ballad For Baha Mousa - 08/29
Death of the "Fat Bastard" - 08/15
Off The Map - 08/1
A Novel Of Atoms And Small Minds - 07/18
The Big Schmooze Mail Call - 07/4
Operation Gentle Zeus - 06/20
Matera's Buried Heart - 06/6
Nonstandard Tales From The Real Europe - 05/23
Our Classless Aquarium - 05/23
The End Or The Beginnings Of A Novelist - 05/9
London Reading - 04/25
India Nine Times Over - 04/11
The Culvert - 03/28
Stalking Utopia In Barcelona - 03/14
Jonathan Franzen's Great American Doorstop - 02/28
Young, Spanish Speaking, And Following The Crowd - 02/14
Granta Or The Stuttering Corpse - 01/31
The N-word - 01/17
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Maxwell Clark
The Murderous Care Of Our Philosopher-Kings - 03/28
Charles Bernstein's All The Whiskey In Heaven - 03/14
The Tempest Of Capital - 02/28
Four Theses On Marx's "Method Of Political Economy" - 02/14
Shelley The Efflorescent - 01/31
WTF Is Contextual Spelling? - 01/17
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Christian Cottard
Les deux ailes envolées d'Allain Leprest (FR) - 12/5
Leurs deux prénoms (FR) - 09/12
Deux jours entre autres... (FR) - 07/4
Le malheur, le vrai (FR) - 03/28
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Manuel García, Jr.
A Personal Kaleidoscope Of Events In 2011 - 12/19
What Next For OWS, Politics? - 12/5
A National Students' Recovery Bank - 11/21
From Social Contract To Occupy Wall Street - 11/7
Political Belief And Self Image: Aron, OWS, And Libya - 11/7
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Charles Marowitz
Come Fly Away - 11/21
Criticizing The Critics - 10/10
Shakespearean Scraps - 09/26
Exonerating Kazan - 08/15
Exclusive Interview With President Obama - 08/1
Midnight In Paris - 07/4
A House Divided - 06/6
Eric G. Wilson's My Business Is To Create: Blake's Infinite Writing - 05/9
Variations On A Midsummer Night's Dream - 04/11
Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) - 03/28
Comes The Revolution - 03/14
The Vanished Mr. Olbermann - 02/28
Roy Blount Jr.'s Hail, Hail, Euphoria! - 02/14
The Second Coming - 01/17
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Guido Monte & Friends
We All Are Migrants - 12/19
Sputnik - 12/5
Ariel - 11/21
Tartar Legend - 11/7
To Alda Merini - 10/24
Usual Apocalypse of a TV Technician (unfinished) - 10/10
Island water (Walcott n.3) - 09/26
Walcott n.2 - 09/12
Creative hints: vade mecum - 08/29
Carribean Union (Walcott n.1) - 08/15
on little pieces of paper - 08/1
fragment of hugo (from l'homme qui rit) - 07/18
Fliegen Ohne Flügel - 07/4
Bitterly - 06/20
On a death-boat - 06/6
Promised Land - 05/23
Pensieri - 05/9
Confusione-Confusión-Verwirrung - 04/25
One Day, Any Day - 03/28
"Song Of Injury And Insult" - 03/14
Tamah (Darkness) - 02/28
bible alphabet - 02/14
atharva veda (time of dreams) - 01/31
Testigos son las estrellas (lament of a prisoner n.3) - 01/17
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Raju Peddada
Peripheral Vision And Blind Spots - 12/19
The Stoop Of The 21st Century - 12/5
Why Does The Front Engine Have Three lights? - 11/21
The Forgotten Auteur: Buster Keaton: The Genius of his Films - Part II - 11/7
The Forgotten Auteur: Buster Keaton: The Genius of his Films - Part I - 10/24
The Recycling Of Malignance - 10/10
What Do We Do When It Rains? - 09/26
Are We Drowning In Think Tanks? - 09/12
The Man They Called Baldy - 08/29
People And Their Personal Vibrators - 08/15
My Devolution - 08/1
The Mystical Genius Of Kabir - 07/18
A Parent and Teacher Conference Part II - 07/4
A Parent and Teacher Conference Part I - 06/20
An Engine That Lifted Our Spirits! Part II - 06/6
An Engine That Lifted Our Spirits! Part I - 05/23
Rescued By The Rescued - 05/9
The Drip Versus The Tsunami: Which One in Reality is Drowning us? - 04/25
A Repository of Magnificence: Stendhal's The Red and The Black - Part II - 04/11
A Repository of Magnificence: Stendhal's The Red and The Black - 03/28
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Fabio De Propris
The Words Of 2011 - 12/19
Storytelling And Social Action: Italian Teacher-Writers - 10/24
You Are Here - 08/29
The Wellspring Of Orhan Pamuk - 06/20
Berlusconi's Reality Show Goes Sour Off Screen - 04/11
Soccer Feet: The World From The Grassy Pitch - 03/14
Jessica Preserved - 02/28
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Louis Proyect
Henry's Demons: A Review - 08/1
Bobby Fischer - 06/20
Michael Lebowitz's The Socialist Alternative - 06/6
The Lessons Of Yugoslavia - 04/11
A Marxist Approach To Problems Of the Aging - 04/11
Looking Back At The Battle Of Algiers - 04/11
Taking Obama's Measure - 03/14
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Jonah Raskin
Inside/Outside The Whale: Goodbye to Academia, at Least for Now - 12/19
Occupy America: Striking Images - 11/21
The First Amendment Redux - 10/24
The Co-optation Of Critical Thinking - 09/26
Austerity No, Joie De Vivre Oui - 08/15
The Rebellion Against The Book: College Students 2011 - 06/6
The Question Of Edward Said: Mongrel Intellectual - 05/9
Nothing Is Sacred: Hunter S. Thompson, Gonzo Journalist - 04/25
H.L. Mencken And The Cult Of Incivility - 01/31
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Marie Rennard
France 2011 - 12/19
Publies et sois maudit (FR) - 12/5
Gestion bénévole des copropriétés (FR) - 11/7
Aux origines de Providence (FR) - 09/12
Non Dit (FR) - 07/4
Intelligence (FR) - 03/28
Dirty Teaching - 02/14
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Isidor Saslav
A Few Thoughts And Two Books - 12/19
Requiem For An Iconic School - 09/12
"Chaconne, Anyone?" Arnold Steinhardt Performs In Indianapolis - 07/18
April Concerts And Operas In London - 05/23
Celebrating Shaw's Chicago Century - 04/11
Nixon In China In Longview - 02/28
Puccini's Female California Orpheus - 01/31
"Celebration" In Los Angeles - 01/17
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SWANS
Georges Clemenceau: Claude Monet et Giverny (FR) - 11/7
Georges Pompidou: Speech On The Environment: Chicago, February 28, 1970 - 07/18
Swans: 2011 Predictions - 12/27/10
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In memoriam
Philip Greenspan (1926-2008)
Richard Macintosh (1933-2005)
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Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
The Year Of Barren Economics And TechnoSaints - 12/19
Sport And Scandal: The Failing American University - 11/21
The Great Satan - 08/15
A Response to Stanley Fish's "Triumph of the Humanities" - 07/18
The State Of Education In America: A Teacher's Perspective - 06/20
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Other Columnists
Claudine Giovannoni: Island water (Walcott n.3) - 09/26
Claudine Giovannoni: Carribean Union (Walcott n.1) - 08/15
Claudine Giovannoni: Fliegen Ohne Flügel - 07/4
Claudine Giovannoni: Promised Land - 05/23
Claudine Giovannoni: Confusione-Confusión-Verwirrung - 04/25
Claudine Giovannoni: Tamah (Darkness) - 02/28
Claudine Giovannoni: Testigos son las estrellas (lament of a prisoner n.3) - 01/17
Bo Keeley: Bladder Cross-Training In A Michigan Garage - 03/28
Bo Keeley: Short Guide To Writing And Self-Editing - 03/14
Bo Keeley: I'm Beginning To Think Like Them - 02/28
Francesca Saieva: Calvino et le sentier d'un enfant anti-héros (FR) - 09/12
Francesca Saieva: La calvinienne histoire d'un "terrestre" en ville: Marcovaldo (FR) - 06/6
Francesca Saieva: Voyage vers d'infinies patries dans un seul livre: Claudio Magris (FR) - 04/25
Francesca Saieva: Italo Calvino: la légèreté du monde et l'engagement civil (FR) - 03/28
Francesca Saieva: The Journey "Beyond": Archetypal Meanings for Today's Men - 02/14
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Occasional Contributors
Edward ("Paddy") Apling: Energy And The Tsunami - 03/28
AVHC: Important Message From The Anderson Valley Health Center - 06/6
Lynda Burstein Brayer: Palestinian Statehood – Kalaam Faadi - 08/29
Gabrielle Capirone: Avant que d'être vieille (FR) - 12/5
Cliff Conner: R U Rah-Rah? - 01/17
Kazue Daikoku: Living With Radioactive Contamination - 12/19
Kazue Daikoku: Football: Seeing From Cultural Aspects - 12/5
Kazue Daikoku: Watershed: What I Thought After The Day March 11 - 04/25
Michael DeLang: Not Enough Yet - 12/19
Michael DeLang: It Was Before My Time - 10/24
Michael DeLang: I Saw It On The News - 09/12
Michael DeLang: Socialism In America - 03/28
Gregory Elich: Class Struggle On The Baseball Diamond - 11/7
Gregory Elich: Raise Your Weapons: An Interview with Mickey Z - 05/9
Gregory Elich: Exposing Kosovo's Mafia State - 01/17
Peter Gorman: Getting The Story - 04/25
William T. Hathaway: Cascade Mountain Fights Back - 09/26
William T. Hathaway: Coming Home - 07/18
Jana Hill: The House That Man Built - 07/4
Joel S. Hirschhorn: American Democracy's Faults And Fixes More Visible - 12/19
Joel S. Hirschhorn: Awful Reasons Why Obama Could Get Reelected - 10/24
Joel S. Hirschhorn: The Unspoken Lesson From The Japan Disaster - 03/28
Aleksandar Jokic & Tiphaine Dickson: A Year Of Living Lawlessly - 12/19
Aleksandar Jokic & Milan Brdar: The Michael Walzer Affair - 11/21
Aleksandar Jokic: The (Narrative) Crimes Of Ian Buruma - 06/20
Aleksandar Jokic: Are We A Morally Dumb Nation? A Reply to my Critic - 05/23
Karen Moller: A Taste Of Mortality In A Pocket Of Pain - 08/1
Karen Moller: Remembering John Cage - 06/20
Martin Murie: Casino Bear - 05/23
Bashir Sakhawarz: Hamam - 08/29
Bashir Sakhawarz: Afghanistan 1972 - 08/15
Bashir Sakhawarz: A Night In Delhi - 05/23
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