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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
--Socrates
The novelist is neither historian nor prophet: he is an explorer of evidence.
--Milan Kundera
Whenever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
--Heinrich Heine
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
--Ray Bradbury
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
--George Orwell
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
La logique mène à tout, à condition d'en sortir!
--Alphonse Allais
Eppur se muove.
--Galileo
What is known, I strip away.
--Walt Whitman
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January 2011
Issue date: January 17, 2011. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Beating Swords Into Ploughshares - Femi Akomolafe
- Blips #102 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Exposing Kosovo's Mafia State - Gregory Elich
- The Second Coming - Charles Marowitz
- SciFi And The Disguised Left Of The Cold War Days - Book Review by Paul Buhle
- R U Rah-Rah? - Theatre Review by Cliff Conner
- The N-word - Short Story by Peter Byrne
- "Celebration" In Los Angeles - Music Review by Isidor Saslav
- Testigos son las estrellas (lament of a prisoner n.3) - Multilingual Poetry by Claudine Giovannoni & Guido Monte
- WTF Is Contextual Spelling? - Poetry by Maxwell Clark
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: January 31, 2011. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Blips #103 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- The State Of Delusion - Gilles d'Aymery
- H.L. Mencken And The Cult Of Incivility - Jonah Raskin
- Rhymes With Pints: Reince Priebus to the Rescue - Cartoon by Jan Baughman
- The First Sexual Revolution And Its Discontents - Michael Barker
- Mickey Mouse Independent Nations - Femi Akomolafe
- Puccini's Female California Orpheus - Music Review by Isidor Saslav
- Granta Or The Stuttering Corpse - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Shelley The Efflorescent - Maxwell Clark
- atharva veda (time of dreams) - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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February 2011
Issue date: February 14, 2011. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Blips #104 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Promoting The Real Spirit of America - Michael Barker
- Score One For Climate Change - Cartoon by Jan Baughman
- Nigeria National Assembly: Jumbo Pay For Little Work - Femi Akomolafe
- Roy Blount Jr.'s Hail, Hail, Euphoria! - Book Review by Charles Marowitz
- Young, Spanish Speaking, And Following The Crowd - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Dirty Teaching - Marie Rennard
- The Journey "Beyond": Archetypal Meanings for Today's Men - Francesca Saieva
- Four Theses On Marx's "Method Of Political Economy" - Maxwell Clark
- bible alphabet - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: February 28, 2011. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Watson And Wisconsin - Jan Baughman
- Blips #105 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- The Velvet Slipper And The Military-Peace Nonprofit Complex - Michael Barker
- Ghana MPs Clamor For Higher Pay! - Femi Akomolafe
- I'm Beginning To Think Like Them - Bo Keeley
- Jonathan Franzen's Great American Doorstop - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Jessica Preserved - Short Story by Fabio De Propris
- Nixon In China In Longview - Music Review by Isidor Saslav
- The Vanished Mr. Olbermann - Charles Marowitz
- The Tempest Of Capital - Maxwell Clark
- Tamah (Darkness) - Multilingual Poetry by Claudine Giovannoni & Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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March 2011
Issue date: March 14, 2011. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Taking Obama's Measure - Book Review by Louis Proyect
- Blips #106 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Blinded By People Power: Stephen Zunes on the Ousting of Dictators - Michael Barker
- Reflections On The Tunisian Revolution And Other Arising Matters - Femi Akomolafe
- Comes The Revolution - Charles Marowitz
- Stalking Utopia In Barcelona - Travelogue by Peter Byrne
- Soccer Feet: The World From The Grassy Pitch - Fabio De Propris
- Charles Bernstein's All The Whiskey In Heaven - Maxwell Clark
- Short Guide To Writing And Self-Editing - Bo Keeley
- "Song Of Injury And Insult" - Translation by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: March 28, 2011. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Blips #107 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Energy And The Tsunami - Edward ("Paddy") Apling
- The Unspoken Lesson From The Japan Disaster - Joel S. Hirschhorn
- Reporting On Egyptian Workers: Solidarity in the Name of Capitalism - Michael Barker
- Socialism In America - Michael DeLang
- The Culvert - Short Story by Peter Byrne
- A Repository of Magnificence: Stendhal's The Red and The Black - Raju Peddada
- The Murderous Care Of Our Philosopher-Kings - Maxwell Clark
- Bladder Cross-Training In A Michigan Garage - Bo Keeley
- Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) - Charles Marowitz
- Intelligence - Marie Rennard (FR)
- Le malheur, le vrai - Nouvelle par Christian Cottard (FR)
- Italo Calvino: la légèreté du monde et l'engagement civil - Francesca Saieva (FR)
- Penseur des rues - Poème par Simone Alié-Daram (FR)
- One Day, Any Day - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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April 2011
Issue date: April 11, 2011. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Blips #108 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- People Power Leashed: Kurt Schock on the Ousting of Dictators - Michael Barker
- A Marxist Approach To Problems Of the Aging - Louis Proyect
- Berlusconi's Reality Show Goes Sour Off Screen - Fabio De Propris
- Looking Back At The Battle Of Algiers - Film Review by Louis Proyect
- India Nine Times Over - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- The Lessons Of Yugoslavia - Book Review by Louis Proyect
- Celebrating Shaw's Chicago Century - Isidor Saslav
- Variations On A Midsummer Night's Dream - Charles Marowitz
- A Repository of Magnificence: Stendhal's The Red and The Black - Part II - Raju Peddada
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: April 25, 2011. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- London Reading - Peter Byrne
- Nothing Is Sacred: Hunter S. Thompson, Gonzo Journalist - Jonah Raskin
- Getting The Story - Peter Gorman
- Blips #109 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Post-Dictatorship [Red White And] Blues Brings Low-Intensity Warfare To The Philippines - Michael Barker
- The Attack On Libya: A Commentary - Femi Akomolafe
- Watershed: What I Thought After The Day March 11 - Kazue Daikoku
- The Drip Versus The Tsunami: Which One in Reality is Drowning us? - Raju Peddada
- Ursula K. Le Guin's The Wild Girls - Book Review by Paul Buhle
- Voyage vers d'infinies patries dans un seul livre: Claudio Magris - Francesca Saieva (FR)
- Voiles - Poème par Simone Alié-Daram (FR)
- Confusione-Confusión-Verwirrung - Multilingual Poetry by Claudine Giovannoni & Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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May 2011
Issue date: May 9, 2011. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Blips #110 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Tea Party Envy - Jan Baughman
- The Reality Of American Supremacy In Hollywood - Michael Barker
- The Question Of Edward Said: Mongrel Intellectual - Jonah Raskin
- Raise Your Weapons: An Interview with Mickey Z - Gregory Elich
- The End Or The Beginnings Of A Novelist - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Eric G. Wilson's My Business Is To Create: Blake's Infinite Writing - Book Review by Charles Marowitz
- Rescued By The Rescued - Raju Peddada
- Pensieri - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: May 23, 2011. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Blips #111 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- The American Hijacking Of The Philippines' "People-Power" Struggle - Michael Barker
- Are We A Morally Dumb Nation? A Reply to my Critic - Aleksandar Jokic
- Nonstandard Tales From The Real Europe - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- April Concerts And Operas In London - Isidor Saslav
- Our Classless Aquarium - Peter Byrne
- Killing Osama, Again! - Femi Akomolafe
- An Engine That Lifted Our Spirits! Part I - Raju Peddada
- A Night In Delhi - Short Story by Bashir Sakhawarz
- Casino Bear - Poetry by Martin Murie
- Promised Land - Multilingual Poetry by Claudine Giovannoni & Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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June 2011
Issue date: June 6, 2011. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- The Rebellion Against The Book: College Students 2011 - Jonah Raskin
- Blinded By Jim Crow - Michael Barker
- Paul D. Ryan: Stealth Randian? - Gilles d'Aymery
- Important Message From The Anderson Valley Health Center - AVHC
- A House Divided - Charles Marowitz
- Srebrenica, Mon Amour: An Ostracized Narrative - Gilles d'Aymery (July 2005)
- Michael Lebowitz's The Socialist Alternative - Book Review by Louis Proyect
- Matera's Buried Heart - Travelogue by Peter Byrne
- On Party And National Interests - Femi Akomolafe
- An Engine That Lifted Our Spirits! Part II - Raju Peddada
- La calvinienne histoire d'un "terrestre" en ville: Marcovaldo - Francesca Saieva (FR)
- Dans la salle de bains - Poème par Simone Alié-Daram (FR)
- On a death-boat - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: June 20, 2011. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Blips #112 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- The State Of Education In America: A Teacher's Perspective - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
- Capitalising On Nonviolence - Michael Barker
- The (Narrative) Crimes Of Ian Buruma - Aleksandar Jokic
- Bobby Fischer - Book/Film Review by Louis Proyect
- Operation Gentle Zeus - Peter Byrne
- Operation Iraqi Freedom - Jan Baughman
- The Wellspring Of Orhan Pamuk - Fabio De Propris
- Remembering John Cage - Karen Moller
- A Parent and Teacher Conference Part I - Raju Peddada
- Bitterly - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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July 2011
Issue date: July 4, 2011. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- The Economy Is Not Coming Back: Part I: A Short History of the Maelstrom - Gilles d'Aymery (Sept. 2010)
- The Economy Is Not Coming Back: Part II: The Reasons it Won't - Gilles d'Aymery (Oct. 2010)
- The Economy Is Not Coming Back: Part III: The Reasons it Shouln't - Gilles d'Aymery (Nov. 2010)
- Challenging The Stanford Prison Experiment (Part I of III) - Michael Barker
- Kim Scipes's AFL-CIO's Secret War - Book Review by Paul Buhle
- The Big Schmooze Mail Call - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Help Wanted: A rural struggle with The New York Times delivery - Jan Baughman
- The House That Man Built - Jana Hill
- Midnight In Paris - Film Review by Charles Marowitz
- Surprising Europe - Film Review by Femi Akomolafe
- A Parent and Teacher Conference Part II - Raju Peddada
- Non Dit - Nouvelle par Marie Rennard (FR)
- Deux jours entre autres... - Nouvelle par Christian Cottard (FR)
- Un mot à toutes les sauces : La résilience - Simone Alié-Daram (FR)
- Fliegen Ohne Flügel - Multilingual Poetry by Claudine Giovannoni & Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: July 18, 2011. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Blips #113 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- A Response to Stanley Fish's "Triumph of the Humanities" - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
- Speech On The Environment: Chicago, February 28, 1970 - Georges Pompidou
- Challenging The Stanford Prison Experiment (Part II of III) - Michael Barker
- A Novel Of Atoms And Small Minds - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Coming Home - Book Excerpt by William T. Hathaway
- Who Owns Papa's Land? - Femi Akomolafe
- "Chaconne, Anyone?" Arnold Steinhardt Performs In Indianapolis - Isidor Saslav
- The Mystical Genius Of Kabir - Raju Peddada
- fragment of hugo (from l'homme qui rit) - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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August 2011
Issue date: August 1, 2011. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Clueless Or Malevolent "Leaders"? - Part I - The Financial Crisis - Gilles d'Aymery
- Challenging The Stanford Prison Experiment (Part III of III) - Michael Barker
- Henry's Demons: A Review - Book Review by Louis Proyect
- Off The Map - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- A Taste Of Mortality In A Pocket Of Pain - Book Excerpt by Karen Moller
- Exclusive Interview With President Obama - Charles Marowitz
- My Devolution - Poetry by Raju Peddada
- on little pieces of paper - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Blips #114 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: August 15, 2011. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Blips #115 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Jon Snow's Big Society: (Part I of II) - Michael Barker
- Afghanistan 1972 - Bashir Sakhawarz
- Austerity No, Joie De Vivre Oui - Jonah Raskin
- I Want My NYT: Rural Delivery, from the Sublime to the Ridiculous - Jan Baughman
- The Great Satan - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
- Exonerating Kazan - Charles Marowitz
- Death of the "Fat Bastard" - Peter Byrne
- People And Their Personal Vibrators - Raju Peddada
- Carribean Union (Walcott n.1) - Multilingual Poetry by Claudine Giovannoni & Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: August 29, 2011. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- You Are Here - Fabio De Propris
- Jon Snow's Big Society: (Part II of II) - Michael Barker
- Resistance Or Tyranny - Interview by Michael Barker
- Palestinian Statehood – Kalaam Faadi - Lynda Burstein Brayer
- Yiddishkeit: Fun Dor Tsu Dor - Book Review by Gilles d'Aymery
- Hamam - Short Story by Bashir Sakhawarz
- The Man They Called Baldy - Raju Peddada
- A Ballad For Baha Mousa - Poetry by Peter Byrne
- Creative hints: vade mecum - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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September 2011
Issue date: September 12, 2011. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Ten Years Of Forgetting - Cartoon by Jan Baughman
- I Saw It On The News - Michael DeLang
- Clueless Or Malevolent "Leaders"? - Part II - The Economic Crisis - Gilles d'Aymery
- Sarcasm And The Class War - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- AFL-CIO: Solidarity Or Sabotage? - Interview by Michael Barker
- Requiem For An Iconic School - Isidor Saslav
- Are We Drowning In Think Tanks? - Raju Peddada
- Nigeria: End Of African-Centered Foreign Policy - Femi Akmolafe
- Aux origines de Providence - Marie Rennard (FR)
- Leurs deux prénoms - Nouvelle par Christian Cottard (FR)
- Calvino et le sentier d'un enfant anti-héros - Francesca Saieva (FR)
- Chronos - Poème par Simone Alié-Daram (FR)
- Walcott n.2 - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: September 26, 2011. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Blips #116 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- The Best Of Times, The Worst Of Times - Jan Baughman
- The Co-optation Of Critical Thinking - Jonah Raskin
- The Invisible Planners: Part I of II - Michael Barker
- Blind And Improvident - (october 2002) - Gilles d'Aymery
- Alan Lomax: An Ear For Folk - Peter Byrne
- Shakespearean Scraps - Charles Marowitz
- What Do We Do When It Rains? - Poem by Raju Peddada
- Cascade Mountain Fights Back - Poem by William T. Hathaway
- Island water (Walcott n.3) - Multilingual Poetry by Claudine Giovannoni & Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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October 2011
Issue date: October 10, 2011. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- From Arab Spring To American Fall - Jan Baughman
- Growing Indignation - Gilles d'Aymery
- The Invisible Planners: Part II of II - Michael Barker
- Do Protests Make A Difference? - (october 2007) - Philip Greenspan
- Humanity Hanging On In Mumbai - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History - Book Review by Paul Buhle
- Criticizing The Critics - Charles Marowitz
- The Recycling Of Malignance - Raju Peddada
- Of School Uniforms And Other Jazz - Femi Akmolafe
- Usual Apocalypse of a TV Technician (unfinished) - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: October 24, 2011. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- The First Amendment Redux - Jonah Raskin
- It Was Before My Time - Michael DeLang
- Awful Reasons Why Obama Could Get Reelected - Joel S. Hirschhorn
- William Vogt And Malthusian Conservation - Michael Barker
- Ongoing Violence - Gilles d'Aymery
- Storytelling And Social Action: Italian Teacher-Writers - Fabio De Propris
- Shortcuts To Comfort: James M. Cain - Peter Byrne
- The Forgotten Auteur: Buster Keaton: The Genius of his Films - Part I - Raju Peddada
- To Alda Merini - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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November 2011
Issue date: November 7, 2011. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Political Belief And Self Image: Aron, OWS, And Libya - Manuel García, Jr.
- The Original Population Bomb - Part I - Michael Barker
- From Social Contract To Occupy Wall Street - Manuel García, Jr.
- Blips #117 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Class Struggle On The Baseball Diamond - Books Review by Gregory Elich
- Crime Does Not Pay - Book Review by Paul Buhle
- Bedtime Story - Dialogue by Peter Byrne
- The Forgotten Auteur: Buster Keaton: The Genius of his Films - Part II - Raju Peddada
- Claude Monet et Giverny - Georges Clemenceau (FR)
- Petite ballade - Poème par Simone Alié-Daram (FR)
- Gestion bénévole des copropriétés - Marie Rennard (FR)
- Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others - Femi Akmolafe
- Tartar Legend - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: November 21, 2011. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- A National Students' Recovery Bank - Manuel García, Jr.
- Occupiers Against Wall Street Meet Veterans Against The War - Jan Baughman
- Occupy America: Striking Images - Jonah Raskin
- Looters And Consumers - Peter Byrne
- The Original Population Bomb - Part II - Michael Barker
- Sport And Scandal: The Failing American University - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
- Nigeria: Siasia As A Metaphor - Femi Akomolafe
- Blips #118 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- The Michael Walzer Affair - Book Excerpt by Aleksandar Jokic & Milan Brdar
- Come Fly Away - Charles Marowitz
- Why Does The Front Engine Have Three lights? - Raju Peddada
- Ariel - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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December 2011
Issue date: December 5, 2011. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Blips #119 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- What Next For OWS, Politics? - Manuel García, Jr.
- Eugenic Propaganda, Old And New - Part I - Michael Barker
- Love Letter To Mary Jane - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Football: Seeing From Cultural Aspects - Kazue Daikoku
- Les deux ailes envolées d'Allain Leprest - Christian Cottard (FR)
- Actualités en 6-12 - Poème par Simone Alié-Daram (FR)
- Avant que d'être vieille - Poème par Gabrielle Capirone (FR)
- Publies et sois maudit - Richard Beard, traduit par Marie Rennard (FR)
- The Stoop Of The 21st Century - Poetry by Raju Peddada
- Sputnik - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte & Silvia Dello Russo
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: December 19, 2011. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
A Special Issue: Perspectives on 2011
- Introduction To Swans 2011 Perspectives - Gilles d'Aymery
- A Stormy Year - Jan Baughman
- A Writer's 2011 - Peter Byrne
- A Personal Kaleidoscope Of Events In 2011 - Manuel García, Jr.
- Peripheral Vision And Blind Spots - Raju Peddada
- The Words Of 2011 - Fabio De Propris
- American Democracy's Faults And Fixes More Visible - Joel S. Hirschhorn
- Not Enough Yet - Michael DeLang
- Living With Radioactive Contamination - Kazue Daikoku
- The Year Of Barren Economics And TechnoSaints - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
- France 2011 - Marie Rennard
- Quite The Year - Paul Buhle
- Richard Branson's Year - Michael Barker
- A Few Thoughts And Two Books - Isidor Saslav
- A Year Of Living Lawlessly - Aleksandar Jokic & Tiphaine Dickson
- What A Year! - Femi Akomolafe
- Inside/Outside The Whale: Goodbye to Academia, at Least for Now - Jonah Raskin
- We All Are Migrants - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte & his students
- Atherosclerosis - Gilles d'Aymery
- Letters to the Editor
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