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Strange that science, which in the old days seemed harmless, should have evolved into a nightmare that causes everyone to tremble.
--Albert Einstein

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
--Oscar Wilde

Take a circle, carress it -- it will become vicious.
--Eugène Ionesco

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
--Hermann Hesse

January 2008

Issue date: December 31, 2007 - January 1, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- 2008 Predictions - Swans
- Infamously Incredible Predictions For 2008 - Carol Warner Christen
- Message To Our Readers - Gilles d'Aymery
- Parting Words - Charles Marowitz
- Acrimonious Acronyms And The USA FUBAR - Jan Baughman
- Dodo Lives - Martin Murie
- Of Sunnis, Shi'ites, And Strauss - Michael Doliner
- The Insurgent Word: Surge - Gerard Donnelly Smith
- No Beauty Will Win The Beauty Contest - Philip Greenspan
- Five Films, Three Operas, And A Mystery Symphony In New York - Isidor Saslav
- On The Dinka Express - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Priapic And Libidinous - Humor by Marie Rennard
- Journey To The Sleep Doors: Sybilla - Poem by Guido Monte & Francesca Saieva

Issue date: January 14, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- The Zoology Of Pwogs And Pwogrevs - Gilles d'Aymery
- Spoiler Today, Rebel Tomorrow - Cartoon by Jan Baughman
- Buy Now And Lighten Up - Peter Byrne
- Clinton And Obama On Iran And Biofuels - Michael Doliner
- The Secret Ingredient Of Activism: Mutual Support - Philip Greenspan
- One Minute To Midnight - Martin Murie
- End The Empire: A Polemic - Michael Doliner
- The Insurgent Word: Fear - Gerard Donnelly Smith
- Lest We Overlook The Obvious - Carol Warner Christen
- Groucho, Chico, & Harpo - Charles Marowitz
- Porte - Poem by Guido Monte
- Blips #63 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery

Issue date: January 28, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- Eleven Shares Of Lockheed Martin - Jan Baughman
- Blips #64 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Opening Our Eyes: Reality Or Dream? - Carol Warner Christen
- Artificial Bramble: Segregation And Subjugation - Part I - Gilles d'Aymery
- Who Else Is Afraid Of Michael Moore? - Peter Byrne
- Cast Of Characters - Charles Marowitz
- Five Minutes To Midnight, Part Two - Martin Murie
- The Crime Novels Of Patricia Highsmith - Louis Proyect
- Robert Brustein's Millennial Stages - Book Review by Charles Marowitz
- Journey To The Sleep Doors n.3: The Golden Bough - Poem by Guido Monte & Francesca Saieva
- To My Brother - Poem by Carol Warner Christen
- Letters to the Editor

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February 2008

Issue date: February 11, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- Simone de Beauvoir One Hundred Years After Her Birth - Karen Moller
- The Unfinished Business Of Simone de Beauvoir - Marie Rennard
- Simone de Beauvoir: The Mother Of Us All - Gilles d'Aymery
- Not Shutting Up For A Second: Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) - Peter Byrne
- Simone de Beauvoir's The Coming of Age - Book Review by Louis Proyect
- Snared In The Devil's Stocking - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- The Other Light - Carol Warner Christen
- Pristine - Martin Murie
- Obamania: Curb Your Enthusiasm - Charles Marowitz
- Journey To The Sleep Doors n. 4: Foglie - Poem by Guido Monte & Francesca Saieva
- Blips #65 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Letters to the Editor

Issue date: February 25, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- A Word About Philip Greenspan - Jan Baughman
- A Loving And Magnificent Human Being - Gilles d'Aymery
- Philip Greenspan on Swans
- One Final Corporative Capitalist Empire - Carol Warner Christen
- A Critical Assessment Of Corporations - Michael Doliner
- Poor And Pickled - Jan Baughman
- Second Sex - Martin Murie
- London Laughing - Peter Byrne
- Artistic Types - Poem by Charles Marowitz
- Katábasis - Poem by Guido Monte
- Blips #66 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Letters to the Editor

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March 2008

Issue date: March 10, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- Blips #67 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- The Increasing Economic Toll On The Masses - Jan Baughman
- A Quick Look At The Credit Crisis - Michael Doliner
- An Assessment Of The Eleventh Hour - Carol Warner Christen
- Leaders - Martin Murie
- Mass Petition Planned For Independence Referendum - Joe Middleton
- Seaside - Short Story by Peter Byrne
- Anthony Slide's New York City Vaudeville - Book Review by Charles Marowitz
- Galway In Texas - Isidor Saslav
- Meadow Of The Mountains, The First 9/11 - Poem by John M. Marshall
- Journey... n.5: Sphinx - Poem by Guido Monte & Francesca Saieva
- Letters to the Editor

Issue date: March 24, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- Five Years And Still Drinking The Kool-Aid - Jan Baughman
- Is Our Planet Earth A Chessboard? - Carol Warner Christen
- Streets, Doors, Offices - Martin Murie
- Entertaining Hullabaloo - Gilles d'Aymery
- Low Crimes & Misdemeanors - Charles Marowitz
- Kate Holden's In My Skin - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Jackie Mason: Return Of The Superjew - Charles Marowitz
- Xolela Mangcu's To The Brink - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Smelly Step To The Last Door - Poem by Marie Rennard
- ...Temps Nouveaux - Poem by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor

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April 2008

Issue date: April 7, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- The No-State Solution - Michael Doliner
- Power, Profits, Propaganda Unbound - Carol Warner Christen
- Blips #68 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Murder - Martin Murie
- Heiner Müller's Hamlet Machine - Theater Review by Charles Marowitz
- Dunstan Prial's The Producer: John Hammond and the Soul of American Music - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- My Mother, My Teeth - Humor by Jan Baughman
- Dialogue - Poem by Guido Monte & Francesca Saieva
- Omnium-Gatherum - Poem by Marie Rennard
- Letters to the Editor

Issue date: April 21, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- Different Gods - Aaron Karmin
- It's Not Over Until The States Sing - Carol Warner Christen
- Nightmare Political Scenario - Joel S. Hirschhorn
- Blips #69 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Polar Bear Stand-Off - Martin Murie
- I Shop, You Shop, Why Won't She Shop? - Humor by Peter Byrne
- Work Done - Humorous Poem by Charles Marowitz
- Bill Bryson's Shakespeare: The World As Stage - Book Review by Charles Marowitz
- Journey... n.6: Words Through A Deep Night - Poem by Guido Monte & Francesca Saieva
- Letters to the Editor

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May 2008

Issue date: May 5, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- Obama's Jeremiads And Wright's Right Rhetoric - Gilles d'Aymery
- The African-American Religious Experience: Theology & Practice - Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.
- How Many Connections Does It Take? - Carol Warner Christen
- Delusions - Richard Macintosh (Sept. 2003)
- Wolf - Martin Murie
- May Day, M'Aidez - Jan Baughman
- Censorship And The Yugoslav Civil Wars - Michael Pravica
- The Real French Warm Their Hearts - Peter Byrne
- ...And Now For A Short Commercial Break - Charles Marowitz
- Jay Greenberg: A Korngold For Our Times - Isidor Saslav
- Oltre (Beyond) - Poem by Guido Monte & Francesca Saieva

Issue date: May 19, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- Changing The Middle East Course - Cartoon by Jan Baughman
- Meeting Ralph Nader & Matt Gonzalez - Gilles d'Aymery
- May 11, 2008: Pictures - Gilles d'Aymery & Jan Baughman
- Judging The Candidates - Charles Marowitz
- Hearts And Minds - Martin Murie
- Human All Too Human - Michael Doliner
- Down To Earth At Home - Carol Warner Christen
- The False Twins: Art Shay And Nelson Algren - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Pictures At Another Exhibition - Isidor Saslav
- Atman - Poem by Guido Monte
- Blips #70 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Politics Of Fear And Politics Of Hope - Rick Rozoff (Oct. 2000)
- Letters to the Editor

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June 2008

Issue date: June 2, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- How To Help The Nader-Gonzalez '08 Campaign - Gilles d'Aymery & Jan Baughman

- The Democratic Convention -- Chicago 1968 - Art Shay
- Art Shay's Traces Of A Bygone America - Karen Moller
- Big Dumpling's Shock And Awe: Mayor Daley's Chicago - Peter Byrne
- The Chicago Conspiracy - Irving Wardle
- Expats' Chicago: London, 1968 - Charles Marowitz
- Whatever Became Of What's-His-Name, The Radical? - Louis Proyect
- Three Memories of Chicago 1968 - Michael Doliner
- My Mere View Of The Year 1968 - Carol Warner Christen
- Norman Mailer, A Noncombatant At The Siege - Peter Byrne
- Fragments Of 1968 - Pier Paolo Pasolini (translation by Guido Monte)
- Exercises In Nostalgia -- 1968 - Gilles d'Aymery
- Then, Now, And Tomorrow - Martin Murie

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July 2008

Issue date: July 14, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- Chicago's Gay Parade And Related Gay Memories - Art Shay
- Next Target Of The IMF: You, Me, And The United States Of America - Carol Warner Christen
- Had Enough? - Lee Iacocca
- What's Your Breaking Point? - Gilles d'Aymery
- Fringes - Martin Murie
- Free The EPA - Cartoon by Jan Baughman
- The Soros Media "Empire": The Power of Philanthropy to Engineer Consent - Michael Barker
- US Exploitation Of The World - Book Review by Charles Marowitz
- Raging Silence: Charles Marowitz's Silent Partners - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- A Hell Of Heaven And Vice Versa Revelations - Short Play by Karen Ritenour
- Haiku Number Two - Poem by Guido Monte
- Thirty Seconds Echo - Poem by Marie Rennard
- The Circus - Poem by R. Scott Porter
- Letters to the Editor

Issue date: July 28, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- An Interview With Jürgen Vsych - Jan Baughman
- Desert Fox Meets Wolf Counselor - Book Review by Jan Baughman
- Waging Democracy On China: Human Rights and an Endowment for Democracy - Michael Barker
- The Sands Of Time Grinding Again Exceedingly Fine - Carol Warner Christen
- A Wreath For Jo Stafford - Charles Marowitz
- Delta Dreaming - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Crisi (Crisis) - Poem by Guido Monte
- Myrn Dreckinbridge Meets Bob Crumbo - Humor by Peter Byrne
- Break Down - Michael Doliner
- Outlandish Sail - Poem by Marie Rennard
- Blips #71 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Letters to the Editor

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August 2008

Issue date: August 11, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- Devolution: The New Terrible "Norm" - Carol Warner Christen
- Blips #72 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Patrolling The Fringes - Martin Murie
- Misplaced Blame Undermines Democracy - Joel S. Hirschhorn
- Message To Friends And Supporters - Ralph Nader
- The Gray Lady's Muzzle - Gilles d'Aymery
- Ralph Nader: An Unreasonable Man - Film Review by Charles Marowitz
- Zen Rides Again - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Mondana Commedia n.3: Paradiso (World Comedy n.3: Paradise) - Poem by Guido Monte
- A Heavenly Satire: Satan Repents - Short Play by Karen Ritenour
- Song Of The Gone - Polesy by Marie Rennard
- Orange Blossoms - Poem by R. Scott Porter
- Letters to the Editor

Issue date: August 25, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- The Situation In Georgia As I See It - Michael Doliner
- The Project For A New American Humanitarianism - Michael Barker
- Representation Without Taxation - Jan Baughman
- Could I Support Obama Instead Of Nader? - Gilles d'Aymery
- Expediency Creates Entropy Within The Human Environment - Carol Warner Christen
- Fusing Brecht & Bentley - Charles Marowitz
- Eric & Bert - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Mondana Commedia n.1: Inferno (World Comedy n.1: Hell) - Poem by Guido Monte
- James Salter's A Sport and a Pastime - Book Review by Michael Doliner
- Madness - Poem by R. Scott Porter
- Letters to the Editor

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September 2008

Issue date: September 8, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- Ode To Peace And Life (Introduction to Terzani's book) - Gilles d'Aymery
- LETTERS AGAINST THE WAR - Book by Tiziano Terzani
- Torture For Fun And Uncle Sam - Book & Film Review by Peter Byrne
- We Will Decide! - Transcript of a speech by Ralph Nader
- Behind The Curtain Of Ron Paul's Disciples - Gilles d'Aymery
- Denver Braying - Martin Murie
- Neo-Progressives Sell Out To Democrats - Joel S. Hirschhorn
- Well-Known "Evils" We Never Seem To Learn - Carol Warner Christen
- The Fall Of Meyerhold - Charles Marowitz
- Nature And Man - Poem by R. Scott Porter
- Letters to the Editor

Issue date: September 22, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- Blips #73 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- A Disintegrating Nation Being Boiled Slowly Alive - Carol Warner Christen
- Low Life - Martin Murie
- The Government We Deserve - R. Scott Porter
- Ice Cream For Diversity - Jan Baughman
- Red Inside, Green Outside: Our Great Loss - Louis Proyect
- En Passant - Charles Marowitz
- Jesse James: The Myth And The Man - Louis Proyect
- Rare Medium - Art Shay
- In Search Of Djinns - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Mondana Commedia n.2: Purgatorio (World Comedy n.2: Purgatory) - Poem by Guido Monte & Alison Phipps
- Miswedding - Polesy by Marie Rennard
- Letters to the Editor

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October 2008

Issue date: October 6, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- Blips #74 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- John McCain: Freud To The Rescue - Charles Marowitz
- Fate - Ted Dace
- What Parable Is This? The Old Woman Said - Carol Warner Christen
- Imperial Media Manipulators Assistance - Michael Barker
- American Wars On Herself And Others - R. Scott Porter
- Carlton Jackson's Child of the Sit-Downs - Book Review by Louis Proyect
- Up From Mississippi - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- A Slow Shutter On Art Shay - Raju Peddada
- Mondana Commedia n.4: Limbo (World Comedy n.4: Limbo) - Poem by Guido Monte & Alison Phipps
- Black - Poem by Michael Eddins
- Letters to the Editor

Issue date: October 20, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- Blips #75 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- 2008 US Elections: Recommendations - Swans Editors
- Confessions Of A Naderite - Jan Baughman
- The New York Times "Reports" On The National Endowment For Democracy - Michael Barker
- Sarah Palin's Dodo - Martin Murie
- Mimic Man - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- The Letters Of Noel Coward - Book Review by Charles Marowitz
- Acquired Taste: Seeing Beyond The Obvious - Raju Peddada
- American Economy Predicaments - Walter Trkla
- Willpower - R. Scott Porter
- Methane Is Poisonous - Carol Warner Christen
- Mondana Commedia n.5: Fine (World Comedy n.5: The End) - Poem by Guido Monte & Alison Phipps
- Head Up! - Polesy by Marie Rennard
- Letters to the Editor

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November 2008

Issue date: November 3, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- The Philanthropic Roots Of Corporate Environmentalism - Michael Barker
- Threatened But Not Protected - Cartoon by Jan Baughman
- The Alleged Relevance Of Human Rights For The US Economic Crisis - Aleksandar Jokic
- What Is Authority? - Michael Doliner
- The Charade Is Finally Over - Gilles d'Aymery
- The First Hundred Days - Charles Marowitz
- R.I.P. Louis "Studs" Terkel - 1912-2008 - Peter Byrne
- Travels In Morocco: Our Brands are our Goodwill Ambassadors - Raju Peddada
- A Slow Burn - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- The Middle Ground - R. Scott Porter
- Mondana Commedia n.6: Bayta (Home) - Poem by Guido Monte & Alison Phipps
- Letters to the Editor

Issue date: November 17, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- Blips #76 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- The Early Days Of The Nation Magazine - Louis Proyect
- Co-opting Intellectual Aggressors: The "Progressive" Face of the CIA - Michael Barker
- What We Accomplished Together - Ralph Nader
- Today And Tomorrow - Martin Murie
- Bollywood Bungles - Raju Peddada
- He Is Turkey - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- The Alchemy of Theatre - Book Review by Charles Marowitz
- Fil Rouge (Omnitude) - Poem by Guido Monte & Alison Phipps
- The Light - Poem by R. Scott Porter
- Letters to the Editor

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December 2008

Issue date: December 1, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- Society's Moral Hazard - Jan Baughman
- E Pluribus Unum - Charles Marowitz
- Remaining Silent About Obama - Gilles d'Aymery
- Progressive Social Change In The "Ivory Tower"? - Michael Barker
- Nature - Martin Murie
- Death Singing - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Quantum Of Solace - Film Review by Charles Marowitz
- Vie Mystérieuse - Poem by Guido Monte
- The Mad Is Standing On The Roof... - Poem by Marie Rennard
- Without You - Poem by Michael Eddins
- Population Control - R. Scott Porter
- Letters to the Editor

Issue date: December 15, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- Bad Dream Of The Year - Peter Byrne
- Auto Eroticism - Art Shay
- 2008: Emerging From The Smoke - Jan Baughman
- Two Lizards - Martin Murie
- Ghana: A Review Of 2008 - Femi Akomolafe
- Looking Backward To Ahead - Charles Marowitz
- 2008 In A Nutshell - Gilles d'Aymery
- Why Third Way Politics Refuses To Die - Louis Proyect
- What Next? - Michael Doliner
- Noam Chomsky And The Power Of Letters - Michael Barker
- Future World - Poem by Guido Monte
- 2008, Privilege vs. Competence - R. Scott Porter
- Letters to the Editor

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