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"You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length."
--Karl Friederich Gauss

Authors
Gilles d'Aymery Jan Baughman Sabina Becker Eli Beckerman
Milo Clark Deck Deckert Gerard Donnelly Smith Gregory Elich
Philip Greenspan Edward Herman Alma Hromic Richard Macintosh
Scott Orlovsky Aleksandra Priestfield Louis Proyect Phil Rockstroh
Michael Stowell Swans Other Columnists Occasional Contributors

 

Jan E. Baughman

White House Polemics - 12/15
Campaign Financing - 12/1
Matt Gonzalez For Mayor Of San Francisco - 12/1
"Prescription Pot" - 10/6
A Supreme Being Supreme Court Appeal - 7/21
Lessons From Yugoslavia: Blueprint for War? - 5/26
Looking For A Leader In 2004 - 5/12
Operation Iraqi Freedom - 3/31
The Palette Of Fear - 3/3
At The Banquet Of Humanity - 2/17
National Sanctity Of Human Life Day: a Letter to the President - 1/20
Tax Relief for America's Workers - 1/6

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Sabina Becker

Offensive Prayer - 8/4
Powers Of A Poet's Body - 6/23
Accomplishments - 5/26
Djinn Rummy Over Baghdad - 5/12
Cuisine Américaine - 4/28
Different Drummers - 3/17
Shorthand, Written In A Scarf - 2/3

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Eli Beckerman

A Silent Wind - 12/15
Vision In 2004 - 10/6
The New Cowards In Congress - 7/21
T-Minus None - 6/9
Freedom Dollars: Last Frontier for the New Pioneers - 5/12
A Letter To Margaret Atwood - 4/14
Equality In Canaan - 3/17
A Heartbreaking Presidency Of Staggering Hypocrisy - 2/17
Onions And Mini-Onions - 1/6

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Milo Clark

Paradoxical System - 7/7
Perspectives And Perceptions. . . Again - 6/23
Reviewing, Refocusing And Recapitulating - 6/9
Maybe It Is Just Bush After All... - 5/12
Conscious Destruction Of A Human Construct - 4/28
What? Me worry? - 4/14
Decoyed Yet Again - 3/31
More On The Fourth Turning - 3/31
The Fourth Turning - 3/17
Adam Smith Is Still On Our Side - 3/3
Size Matters - 2/17
A Failure Of Understanding - 2/3
Typology Of Ignorance - 1/20
Future History: the Work of Robert A. Heinlein - 1/20
Actuality Is. . . - 1/6

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Gilles d'Aymery

Grand Guignol - 12/29
They Got Him - 12/15
The Silly Season Amidst Terminal Decay - 12/1
Michael Parenti's The Assassination of Julius Caesar - 11/17
Innocence Lost - 11/3
Thank You, Peter Camejo: Summary of his Platform - 10/6
Summer Computing Blues - 9/22
Disquieting Green Politics - 9/1
The American Caliphate: US Establishment Bipartisan Strategy - 8/18
Peter Camejo-Cynthia McKinney: A Green Presidential Ticket? - 7/21
Arundhati Roy's War Talk - 7/21
Kimberly Blaker's The Fundamentals of Extremism - 7/7
Deck and Fran - 6/23
Diana Johnstone And The Demise Of 'Yugoslavism' - 5/26
Seven Years And Going... - 5/12
Simplicity: The Absence of Complexity - 4/14
Julien Benda, The Failure of Imagination and Thought - 3/31
Daily Dose Of Anxiety, Fear And Aggression - 3/3
Accessories To Assassination - 2/17
Ovation Into A Holocaust - 2/3
A World Full Of Choking Pretzels - 1/20

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Deck Deckert

A Great Man - 11/3
More Is Less - 11/3
He Lied - 10/6
It's All Nader's Fault, And Other Fairy Tales - 9/1
The Media Gives Bush A Free Ride - 8/4
They Would Not Impeach Bush, Would They? - 7/21
They Impeach Presidents, Don't They? - 6/23
They Still Aren't Listening - 6/9
Embedding The Truth - 5/26
Landing A Campaign Visual - 5/12
They Kill Reporters, Don't They? - 4/28
The Tasteful War And Other Media Lies - 4/28
A Massacre By Any Other Name - 2/17
All The News We Choose To Print - 1/6

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Gerard Donnelly Smith

Custer Didn't Have To Die: If He'd Only Had A Cell Phone! - 12/15
Three Allegories And A Gospel Song - 11/17
Lies, Lies, Lies - 11/3
The Word Economy Of Political Discourse - 10/20
Environmental Suicide or Economic Survival - 9/22
No More Posse Comitatus - 7/7
Liberation Theory: Precedent for a New Millennium of Bloodshed - 6/9
My Appearances - 5/26
Self- [de] termination - 4/28
Use Of Nuclear Weapons As A Crime Against Humanity - 3/31
Geronimo's Skull - 3/31

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Gregory Elich

We Have The Right To Live - 5/26
Can You Spot The War Crime? - 5/12
Imperial Enterprise: War Mongers Run Amuck - 3/17
PLI SELON PLI  A Modern Masterpiece - 2/17

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Philip Greenspan

How Elites Employ Governments To Justify Their Crimes - 10/20
Super Deluxe Rip-Offs By The Most Distinguished - 10/6
Where Are the Democracies? - 9/22
A Genocide Museum For The U.S. - 9/1
Broken Promises Of World War II - 8/18
The Irrational Fear Of A Violent Death - 8/4
Whether The Superpower Forecast Is Stall And Fall - 7/21
Founding Father's Formula Fulfilled - 7/7
Historical Amnesia Perverts Comparisons - 6/23
An Awful Lawful World: Who Wins, Who Loses - 5/26
Curing The Pro-War Pandemic - 5/12
Keep Protesting - 4/28
Will The Favorite Go The Distance? - 4/14
Revolutionary Historical Phenomena Unfold - 3/31
Some Thoughts About Lying - 3/17
Making the World Safe for Oilgarchy - 3/3
The Evolution Of Slavery - 2/17
An Unjust Justice System - 2/3
Dividends From A Patriotic Investment - 1/20
From Kings To Corps: Futile-ism To Crapitalism - 1/6

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Edward Herman

The Cruise Missile Left, Part 4 - 9/1
Diana Johnstone On The Balkan Wars - 5/26
From Vietnam To Iraq - 4/28
Using The "UN Process" To Help Organize A Massacre - 2/17
Deux génocides parallèles et liés entre eux : l'Irak et la Palestine (in French) - 2/3
Parallel And Linked Genocides: Iraq And Palestine - 1/20

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Alma A. Hromic

The Five Questions — And An Answer - 9/22
Cancelled, Because Of Budget Cuts - 9/22
I Want To Go Home - 7/7
The Having of Children - 6/23
Seasons Of Life And Oil - 6/9
A Moving Carol - 5/12
War Sestina - 4/14
The Birds - 1/20
Spam Glorious Spam - 1/6

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Richard Macintosh

Journalists And Pretenders - 12/15
Tea Leaves - 12/1
A Moment Of Truth- 11/17
Virtue In The Margin - 11/3
Recognition - 10/20
Doubt And Essential Lies - 10/6
Delusions - 9/22
Mean - 9/1
The Tweedle Brothers - 8/18
Pumpkin Pine - 8/4
Smoke, Mirrors And Red Herrings - 7/21
Perception - 7/7
The Circus - 6/23
The Time's Plague - 6/9
Courage And Cowardice - 5/26
The New America - 5/12
Morons And Madness - 4/28
Hidden Hearts And Blood-Flecked Minds - 4/14
Heresy! - 4/14
A Geopolitical Tsunami - 3/17

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Scott Orlovsky

Music Of The Sun - 12/15
Ethics And Priorities: Perspectives On Justice - 12/1
Nauseous - 11/3
It's The Arnold Show - 10/6
Talking To Myself Out In Right Field - 9/22
Till what end? - 9/1
Perspectives - 8/18
Hypocrisy And Oxymoron - 8/4
The Future Of Education - 7/21
Seeing Through It All - 7/7
Please Listen - 6/23
Quantum Jump - 6/9
I Believe - Scott Orlovsky - 5/12
Art Influences Life Influences Art... - 4/28
They're Building A Pipeline - 4/14
How To Understand Language And Ideology? - 3/31
Memorylemming - 3/17

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Aleksandra Priestfield

"Don't Get It Dirty" - 11/17
It Was A Good Day To Die - 11/3
Making War Out Of Nothing At All - 5/26

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Louis Proyect

Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah - 12/1
Haroldo Dilla And The Cuban Revolution - 11/17
B. Traven's The Jungle Novels - 10/20
Eric Ambler's A Coffin For Dimitrios - 8/4
Compay Segundo And Benny Carter - 7/21
John Sanford's The People From Heaven - 6/9
Diana Johnstone's Fools' Crusade - 5/26
The Cuba Petitions - 4/28
Naguib Mahfouz, "Midaq Alley" - 4/14
Nikolai Bukharin, "How it All Began" - 2/3

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Phil Rockstroh

On Approaching The Medusa Of Mass Media - 12/15
Of Meds And Mendacity - 12/1
The Tales We Tell: Everyone Has Their Reason - 11/17
Work Is Easy -- The Art Of Accomplished Leisure Is Hard - 11/3
Excerpts From A Love Letter To My Enemy - 10/20
Dumb As Dirt - 10/6
Gods, Ghosts, And Superstitions - 9/22
The United States Of Entropy - 9/1
Blitzkrieg Of Bullshit: A Fable - 8/18
Freedom and Imagination - 8/4
A Son's Soliloquy - 7/21
Muck And Mire - 7/7
Nobody - 6/23
Bouquet Of Corn Dogs - 6/9
He Who Damns A Lie Will Have To Answer To Me - 5/12

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Michael W. Stowell

Homeless - 12/1
Guard Pigs In Palestine - 11/17
Time Cycles Through Eternity - 10/20
The Green Folks - 10/6
Acid Reign - 9/22
What Will You Do? - 8/18
Impotent Bananas - 8/4
The Mud - 5/12
Taxman - 4/14
Free-Style - 3/3
Look Deep Beyond Civilization - 2/17
Granma And Granpa - 2/3
A Pigskin Post-Game Postulation - 2/3
The Magical Mystery Tour - 1/20
Demonstration - 1/20
The World According To My Bicycle - 1/6

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SWANS

LVII - e. e. cummings - 12/15
Letters to a Young Poet (Letter Seven) - Rainer Maria Rilke - 11/3
Letters to a Young Poet (Letter Six) - Rainer Maria Rilke - 8/18
Moncada's 50th Anniversary Speech - Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz - 8/4
Letters to a Young Poet (Letter Five) - Rainer Maria Rilke - 6/23
Letters to a Young Poet (Letter Four) - Rainer Maria Rilke - 5/12
Excerpt from The Treason of the Intellectuals - Julien Benda - 3/31
Excerpt from Victims of Groupthink - Irving L. Janis - 3/3
Remarks to the Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement - Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz - 3/3
Letters to a Young Poet (Letter Three) - Rainer Maria Rilke - 2/17
i sing of Olaf glad and big - e. e. cummings - 2/17
"Bureaucratic Homicide" And American Power - Swans - 2/3
Letters to a Young Poet (Letter Two) - Rainer Maria Rilke - 2/3
2003 Predictions - 1/1

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Other Columnists

Manuel García, Jr.:  Hermit Crabs and Maître d's: Arrogance in Physics - 12/1
Manuel García, Jr.:  A Chinese-American Muslim Under Detention - 11/3
Manuel García, Jr.:  Guantánamo USA - 11/3
Manuel García, Jr.:  Waking The Dead, Redeeming The Living - 10/20
Manuel García, Jr.:  What The U.S. Wants From China - 10/6
Manuel García, Jr.:  US Insane Nuclear Policy: Letter to my Senator - 9/22
Manuel García, Jr.:  America's Nuclear Weapons Labs: The Reality Beneath The Headlines - 7/7
Vanessa Raney:  To Save A Man - 12/15
Vanessa Raney:  The Question Of Turnaround - 12/1
Vanessa Raney:  Disassociating Patriarchy From Maleness - 11/17
Vanessa Raney:  The Word Of Choice - 11/3
Vanessa Raney:  What It Means To Be Human: Race And Choice - 10/20
Vanessa Raney:  One Voice Strong - 10/6
Vanessa Raney:  Step Back - 8/18
Vanessa Raney:  To Stay Myself Blind - 7/21

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Occasional Contributors

Abdul Latif Aeppli:  Being A Muslim Since 9/11 - 9/22
Scott Albers:  Amy Chua's World on Fire - 12/15
Baffour Ankomah:  Nujoma - 'No Fourth Term For Me' - 11/17
Baffour Ankomah:  Dr. Livingstone, I Presume? - 9/1
Baffour Ankomah:  Mugabe: 'No remote control ever again' - 9/1
Baffour Ankomah:  Did We All Do A Clare Short? - 5/12
Baffour Ankomah:  Zimbabwe: The Spark - 3/31
Baffour Ankomah:  Zimbabwe: "A Conservative Government Would Never Have Done That" - 3/31
Baffour Ankomah:  Zimbabwe: "The Land Has Come Back" - 3/31
Baffour Ankomah:  Zimbabwe: What Future For Morgan? - 3/17
Tanweer Akram:  Additional Resources on Iraq - 12/1
Tanweer Akram:  Iraq's Economic Problems - 3/3
Tim Bellows:  Action, Reaction - 9/22
Kimberly Blaker:  Your Body . . . Is Not Your Body - 7/21
Kimberly Blaker:  Pledge And Prayer Amendment Threatens Religious Freedom - 5/12
Barrett Brown:  Would You Vote For This Deity? - 4/14
Charles Buffalo:  Why? - 9/22
R. Paul Craig:  The Aborigines - 10/6
Jim Craven:  Taboo Questions - 8/4
Jim Craven:  Deadly/ Contrived Syllogisms - 3/17
Jim Craven:  Tautological Hubris - 3/17
Michael Doliner:  The Structural Disaster in Iraq - 6/23
William Funke:  Bush Economic "Plan" (giggle, snort) - 1/20
John Bart Gerald:  Responding To A Criminal War - 4/28
John Bart Gerald:  to all those lost 2/13/91 4:30 a.m. - 1/20
Kahnupad Haider:  The Lost America Of Love - 4/14
Kahnupad Haider:  The fractal empire@usa.com - 3/17
Kahnupad Haider:  War Sonata II - 3/3
Richard Hine:  Can't See The World For The Trees - 6/9
Diana Johnstone:  French Common Sense And The Furia Friedmania - 10/20
Diana Johnstone:  FOOLS' CRUSADE: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions - 5/26
Anthony Judge:  Introduction To Future Challenge of Faith-based Governance - 9/1
Anthony Judge:  Being There - 3/3
Haider A. Khan:  The Political Economy Of Oil And The War Against Terrorism - 3/3
Konstantin Kilibarda:  Selective Recognition and the Dismantling of SFR Yugoslavia - 5/26
Konstantin Kilibarda:  Distortions about Yugoslavia's Disintegration - 3/17
Konstantin Kilibarda:  US Script For Yugoslavia's Privatization - 3/17
Mac Lawrence:  War: The Lure, the Madness, the Way Through - 4/28
Mac Lawrence:  Looking For Answers At Columbine - 2/3
Seymour Melman:  In The Grip Of A Permanent War Economy - 3/17
Michael Parenti:  Tyrannicide or Treason? - 11/17
Michael Parenti:  Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth - 7/7
Lou Paulsen:  The Real Movement And The Media Movement: A Touch Of Lerneritis - 2/17
John Ryan:  For Jews The Real Worry Should Be Sharon Not Arafat - 11/3
Nikhil Shah:  North Korea And International Law - 5/12
Kim R. Stafford:  Learning From Strangers - 10/6

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URL: http://www.swans.com/library/a2003.html
Created: December 24, 2002
Last Updated: December 30, 2003