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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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Simone Alié-Daram
Un enterrement (FR) - 10/22
Léonce (FR) - 07/16
Acrostiches (FR) - 05/7
Névrose (FR) - 03/26
Chagrin (FR) - 01/30
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Gilles d'Aymery
Ah Yes, 2012 - 12/17
Introduction To Swans 2012 Perspectives - 12/17
Cirque De France - 12/3
Good Lord The US Election Is Over - 11/19
Old New Age - 11/5
French Cacophony - 10/22
Blips #131 - 10/22
2012 Election Oblivion - 10/22
Blips #130 - 10/8
Blips #129 - 09/24
Blips #128 - 09/10
The Passing Of A Muckraker - 08/27
Introduction To This Special Summer Edition - 07/30
Read, Watch, And Listen - 07/30
Blips #127 - 07/16
Blips #126 - 07/2
French Political Vaudeville - 06/18
France: Change Is Now? - 06/4
Blips #125 - 05/21
Exit Sarkozy, Enter Hollande - 05/7
French Spectacle - 04/23
Wisconsin Past And Future - 04/9
Blips #124 - 03/12
Blips #123 - 02/27
Martin Murie (1925-2012) - 02/13
Blips #122 - 01/30
Blips #121 - 01/16
Paul Buhle's Robin Hood - 01/16
Blips #120 - 01/2
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Michael Barker
Humanity Versus Capitalism - 12/17
An Interview with Peter Staudenmaier - 12/3
No Idea(ology), And Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest - 11/19
Paul Hawken's Spiritual Business - 11/5
Findhorn's Angels - 11/5
Sir George Trevelyan's Life Of Magic - 11/5
New Age Flying Objects - 11/5
Fascism and Anthroposophy - Part II - 10/22
Fascism and Anthroposophy - Part I - 10/8
Postmodern Gandhians And Hindu Nationalism - Part II - 09/24
Postmodern Gandhians And Hindu Nationalism - Part I - 09/10
Questioning Vandana Shiva - 08/27
My Selections - 07/30
The Roots Of Theosophy (Part II) - 07/2
The Roots Of Theosophy - 06/18
H.P. Lovecraft's Alien Legacy - 06/4
Foundations For Empire: An Interview With Inderjeet Parmar - 05/21
Emma Goldman's Sexological Obsession - 05/7
A Sexual Revolution, But For Whom? - Part II - 04/23
A Sexual Revolution, But For Whom? - Part I - 04/9
KONY 2012 - 03/26
Imperial Eugenics In Kenya - Part II - 03/26
Imperial Eugenics In Kenya - Part I - 03/12
The Life And Controversies Of Henry Fairfield Osborn - Part II - 02/27
The Life And Controversies Of Henry Fairfield Osborn - Part I - 02/13
On Konrad Lorenz - Part II - 01/30
On Konrad Lorenz - Part I - 01/16
Eugenic Propaganda, Old And New - Part II - 01/2
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Jan E. Baughman
2012's Forgotten Story - 12/17
The Greatest Generation - 12/3
2012 US Election: A Pretty Good Morning After - 11/19
New Age Geriatrics - 11/5
Too Big To Fail, Or A Bunch Of Failures? - 09/24
Summertime Escapes - 07/30
Next In Line? - 06/18
Growing Ideology And Dwindling Harvests - 06/4
How I Spent Earth Day 2012 - 05/7
Great Moments In Procreation - 03/26
Poisoning The Children - 03/12
What About The Children? - 01/30
A Little "Soucie" And A Lot Of Joy - 01/16
End Times - 01/2
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Paul Buhle
Reflections on 2012 - 12/17
The Forgotten War - 12/3
The Seed Of Psychedelia In The 1960s - 10/22
Truth And Revolution - 08/27
The Unending (C.L.R. James) Saga - 07/2
A Graphic Reminder Of Japanese-American Internment - 05/7
Who Killed Che? - 04/9
David Harvey At Large - 01/2
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Peter Byrne
Uncomfortable Obits Of 2012 - 12/17
Going, Going, Gone: Jeffrey Eugenides's Detroit - 12/3
Post Election Thought - 11/19
Edward Lear Of The Disappearing Nose - 11/19
Sounding Off Between New Age And Counterculture: Norman Mailer - 11/5
Why Are We In Vietnam? Iraq, Afghanistan, Et Cetera - 10/22
Words Have Meanings: Antonio Tabucchi, 1943-2012 - 10/8
Eric J. Hobsbawm, 1917-2012 - 10/8
Eloquent And Bloody Murder - 09/24
Big City Blues - 09/10
Gore Vidal: A Niggling Hero For Lean Times - 08/27
My Delights - 07/30
The Undark Continent - 07/16
The Boy Wonder Peter Brook Is 87 - 07/2
Tremor - 06/18
Freud's Dogs - 06/4
Society's Dead Look Into A Killing - 05/21
On Guard - 05/7
A Lance For Humanity - 04/23
A Literary History - 04/9
The Mirror Test - 04/9
Why Do They Hate Me? - 03/26
Stereotyping In Naples - Part II - 03/12
Stereotyping In Naples - Part I - 03/12
R.I.P. Barney Rosset (1922-2012) - 02/27
Loving France To Death - 02/27
The Other Side Of Ryszard Kapuściński - 02/13
Naples: Greeks, Romans, And Hitmen - 01/30
Journalists Mourned And Bemoaned - 01/16
Dispossession Set In Stone - 01/2
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Christian Cottard
Mes recommandations (FR) - 07/30
Les ders des ders... (FR) - 05/7
Un monde amer (FR) - 03/26
Lucie (FR) - 01/30
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Manuel García, Jr.
Winter Reflections, 2012 - 12/17
Left Conservatives Under Right Progressives - 12/3
Election 2012: Equality Outvotes Privilege - 11/19
Asian Philosophies And The "New Age" - 11/5
The Esoteric J. Robert Oppenheimer - 10/22
Voting Illusions And Reality 2012 - 10/8
Democratic Despair Votes - 09/24
Why The Republican Convention Was All Fluff - 09/10
My Favorite Classics - 07/30
The Rules Of The Game USA - 07/2
Why Republicans Crashed The US Economy - 06/18
Honey And Pepper, A Cat Tale - 06/4
Why Don't Americans Rise Up? - 05/7
Castro And The Kennedy Image After The Checkmate - 04/23
Renewal - 04/9
Attacking Iran Will Save The World - 03/26
The Righteous And The Heathens Of Climate And Capitalism - 03/12
The Richland Inter-Faith Right-To-Life Trust - 02/27
The Economic Function Of Energy - 02/27
Voting For Ron Paul Is Stupid For Leftists - 02/13
Bayesian Bargains: Jail, Shopping, Debt, And Voting - 01/30
Beggaring Student Life - 01/16
The Endless Reality Of The Imperfect Now - 01/2
Christopher Hitchens, Coyote, Or Saint Paul? - 01/2
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Charles Marowitz
Remembering Lenny Bruce - 09/24
Jan Kott's Still Alive - 08/27
Acting Out - 06/4
Getting Stanislavsky Wrong - 03/26
Working With Havel - 02/13
Artaud at Rodez - 01/16
Victims Of Democracy - 01/2
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Guido Monte & Friends
And... War and Peace 2012 - 12/17
Hades - 12/3
ornella and tato - 11/19
Log-book: poetic way n.1 - 10/22
Blinders - 10/8
War - 09/24
don't forget (mi moratseq) - 09/10
Hineinhorchen - 08/27
My 2012 Summer Postcard - 07/30
non accettazione - 07/16
Infinite Blending Dream - 07/2
Last words of Ulysses - 06/18
Ward n.6: A new poetic version of Chekhov's famous tale - 06/4
Labyrinth - 05/21
To an unknown god - 05/7
Nulla dies sine linea n.2 - 04/23
Pasolini - 04/9
Wind gemidos - 03/26
Notes along a day - 03/12
Nulla dies sine linea n.1 (No day without a line n.1) - 02/27
Travellers "sans bagages" - 02/13
Thoughts before sleeping n.2 - 01/30
Creature - 01/16
Miracles - 01/2
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Raju Peddada
The Struggle For Sanity - 12/17
Killing Fields Of Love - 12/3
Ashes To Ashes, Dust To Dust - 11/19
Random Conversation #1 - 10/22
Journaling The Journeys - 10/8
From The Grasslands To The Badlands - Part III - 09/24
Florence Shay, 1922-2012 - 09/10
Our River Toys With The Missouri - Part II - 09/10
The Three Thousand Mile Gallery - Part I - 08/27
Choices For The Summer Lolling - 07/30
The Alluring Time Capsule - 07/16
Our Spring Is Extinguished - 07/2
How To Read Marcel Proust - 06/18
A Man Who Influenced The Influencers - 06/4
The Magic Mountain: Thomas Mann's gift of beauty (Part III) - 05/21
The Magic Mountain: Thomas Mann's Humanistic Enterprise (Part II) - 05/7
The Magic Mountain: Thomas Mann's Monumental Quest (Part I) - 04/23
A Vanished Dream - 03/26
The Anatomy of Poverty - 03/12
The Boarding Pass - 02/27
History: Sired By Literary Nomads (Part II of II) - 02/13
History: Sired By Literary Nomads (Part I of II) - 01/30
The Book: A Palimpsest Of Many Tales - 01/16
The New Definition Of Hope! - 01/2
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Fabio De Propris
2012: A Wishful, Wistful Year Of What Has Not Been Done - 12/17
Post Election: Obama, Work And Pay - 11/19
My Favorites - 07/30
The Muscle Of The Heart - 07/16
Between Tradition and Postmodernism On The Bosphorus - 05/21
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Jonah Raskin
Macbeth And The Military-Industrial Complex - 12/17
New York On The Rebound - 12/3
Feminism Made A Man Out Of Me - 10/8
The Sunset Of Empire: Memories Of Manchester, England - 09/10
Picking Up The Pieces - 06/18
Walking New York - 05/21
The Help For The Wherewithal - 05/7
Violence: A Short Personal And Political History - 03/12
Jack London In Black And White - 02/13
Haunted By Racism - 01/16
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Marie Rennard
France 2012 - 12/17
Propos interrompus (FR) - 07/16
Caca (FR) - 05/7
2012, année fatale (FR) - 03/26
Mary Anning (1799-1847) (FR) - 01/30
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Isidor Saslav
2012 Year End Report - 12/17
Report from Canada's Shaw Festival -- 2012 - 12/3
Saint-Saëns At Bard - 11/19
Maometto II At The Santa Fe Opera - 10/22
King Roger At Santa Fe - 10/8
The Man Who Would Not Be King - 09/24
Summer Operas -- From Lully To Chabrier - 09/10
Kurt Weill's Last Opera - 08/27
My Offerings For Your Pleasure - 07/30
Florence Foster Jenkins Lives Again - 06/18
The Enchanted Island At The Met - 02/13
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SWANS
Swans: 2013 Predictions - 12/31
Swans: 2012 Predictions - 01/2
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In memoriam
Philip Greenspan (1926-2008)
Richard Macintosh (1933-2005)
Martin Murie (1925-2012)
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Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
Random Thoughts About 2012 - 12/17
Sitting Out This Election Year - 11/5
Puzzling And Stale Media Colloquialisms - 09/24
Conservative Antinomies For The Ages - 09/10
Summer Travels - 08/27
Mind Food And Epicuriosities - 07/30
For A More Banal Presidency - 07/16
Screen Distractions: Old Story - 07/2
Dumbest Academic Terms In Popular Vernacular - 04/23
Peddling The Ideal Of Free Markets - 01/30
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Other Columnists
Bo Keeley: Stats And The Iquitos Girls - 07/16
Bo Keeley: Vacation For An Operation - 07/2
Karen Moller: Is This America Or Some Third World Country? - 08/27
Karen Moller: From The Beatniks In The 1960s To Today's Fundamentalists - 03/26
Glenn Reed: 2012: Has The Free Fall Already Begun? - 12/17
Glenn Reed: Anniversary of the Seattle WTO Protests - 12/3
Glenn Reed: Blue, Red & Blue Again - 11/19
Glenn Reed: Mildred I Presume? - 11/5
Glenn Reed: The Limbo Of The Long Weekend - 10/8
Glenn Reed: Big Foot And Benedict Arnold Crossing Paths In Whitehall, New York - 09/10
Glenn Reed: Suggestions For Summer Enjoyment - 07/30
Glenn Reed: Without Unions We Are Screwed, So Change Is Needed - 07/16
Glenn Reed: Returning Home To An Altered Vermont - 06/4
Glenn Reed: Sarajevo Market, 1987 - 05/21
Glenn Reed: Direct Democracy v. The US Supreme Court - 03/26
Glenn Reed: Capitalistic Language & The Non-Profit World - 01/30
Francesca Saieva: Pour un monde sans frontières (FR) - 07/16
Francesca Saieva: Poetic Blending, To A New Dérèglement: Guido Monte - 02/27
Francesca Saieva: Claudio Magris, écrivain de frontière contre l'indifférence (FR) - 01/30
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Occasional Contributors
Edmund Berger: Recommendations For Your Summer Entertainment - 07/30
Edmund Berger: The Digital Potlatch That Needs Defending - 07/16
Edmund Berger: Aliens To Autonomy: Gauging Deleuze And Guattari's "Ridiculousness" - 06/18
Edmund Berger: Harnessing People Power Continued: The 99% Spring and the "Professional Left" - 05/21
Edmund Berger: Harnessing People Power: Co-Option at Work in America Today - 04/23
Jason Colavito: Of Atlantis And Aliens - 11/5
Kazue Daikoku: 2012 Japan: Radioactivity Risk, Territorial Dispute, And Rush Of eBooks - 12/17
Michael DeLang: Exiting The "Lesser Evil" Trap - 02/27
Silvia Dello Russo: Hineinhorchen - 08/27
Gregogy Elich: My Summer 2012 Picks - 07/30
Gregogy Elich: Comedy Gems From Hal Roach Studios - 04/9
Claudine Giovannoni: Hades - 12/3
Claudine Giovannoni: Infinite Blending Dream - 07/2
Claudine Giovannoni: Wind gemidos - 03/26
Ricardo E. Gonsalves: Reach For The Book - 01/30
Joel S. Hirschhorn: Real Democracy Requires Political Competition - 11/19
Aleksandar Jokic: Cher Peuple Français: Reject the Security State, and Vote for Jean-Luc Mélenchon - 04/23
David Jordan: Some Thoughts On The US Election - 11/19
John M. Marshall: Dandelion - 10/22
John M. Marshall: The Vision Of Delphica - 09/10
John M. Marshall: The Maid Among The Heather - 08/27
John M. Marshall: The Red Street - 06/18
John M. Marshall: Martha Metre - 05/7
John M. Marshall: The Birds of Ophion - 04/23
John M. Marshall: Time Machine - 04/9
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