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To the old, the new is usually bad news.
--Eric Hoffer

 

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

 

Sometimes one can reach happiness that can only be found when one is 20 year-old, without possessing anything.
--Paul Nizan

 

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

Authors
Femi Akomolafe Simone Alié-Daram Gilles d'Aymery Michael Barker
Jan Baughman Peter Byrne Michael Doliner Jeffery Klaehn
Graham Lea Charles Marowitz Guido Monte Martin Murie
Raju Peddada Louis Proyect Marie Rennard Isidor Saslav
Art Shay Steve Shay Swans in memoriam
Other Columnists Occasional Contributors    

 

Femi Akomolafe

The Descent Of The Vultures - 12/28
Obama: Were We All Naïve? - 12/14
Mo Ibrahim Africa Leadership Award - 11/30
Ghana's Ministers In Trotro - 11/16
Hypocrisy As Way Of Life! - 11/2
Understanding Amerikkka - 10/19
Yar'adua Fiddles While Nigeria Burns - 10/5
Africa And The International Criminal Court Of [In]justice - 09/21
The Logic Of Corruption - 09/7
Oh, Shut Up, Mrs. Clinton! - 08/24
Professor Henry Gates Got His Comeuppance - 08/10
Ghana Politics: It's Our Turn To Eat - 08/10
The Fountain Of Knowledge: Nigerian Election Fraud, Charms, and Amulets - 07/27
Welcome Emperor Obama - 07/27
Brother Obama's Visit To Ghana: The Nigerian Perspectives - 07/13
Ghana: The Audacity Of Looting - Update - 05/18
Rebranding Nigeria: An Exercise In Futility - 05/4
Nigeria: The Plane Truth - 04/20
Feeling Sorry For Nigerian Scammers - 04/6
Zimbabwe: Constructive Engagement - 03/23
Ghana: The Audacity Of Looting - 03/9
Cry Palestine - 02/23
Understanding Nigeria - 02/9
Bush's Last Hurrah - 01/26
Ghana Elections: Good News Is No News - 01/12

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Simone Alié-Daram

Bilan Matin/Morning Appraisal - 12/14
Histoire d'une pathologie : Le syndrome de Lasthénie de Ferjol - 10/19
Réflexions sur la démocratie - 07/27
Jour d'élection - 06/29
Les sursauts gamma (Gamma Ray Burst) ou la fin des étoiles - 06/1
Dodecasyllabe traffic - 05/4
Le Marché - 04/6

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Gilles d'Aymery

Blips #93 - 12/28
The First Obama Year - 12/14
Blips #92 - 11/30
Dors Petit Homme, Dors Petit Frère: Priam (May 1999 - November 2009) - 11/16
Succumbing To PayPal - 11/2
Contrast - 10/19
Blips #91 - 10/5
Iran: War Madness - 10/5
Blips #90 - 09/21
Health Care Here And There - 09/21
Blips #89 - 09/7
Eurasian Spectacle And Reality - 08/24
Blips #88 - 08/10
Blips #87 - 06/29
American Sick Care Vs. Wellness - 06/15
What Are You Doing? - 05/18
Blips #86 - 05/4
Blips #85 - 04/20
Introduction To The French Corner - 04/6
The Dirty Little Financial Secret - 04/6
Blips #84 - 04/6
A New Zephyr Breezes Over The Worldwide Prairie - 03/23
Blips #83 - 03/23
Blips #82 - 03/9
Blips #81 - 02/23
Blips #80 - 02/23
Blips #79 - 02/9
Blips #78 - 01/26
Walking Away From Israel Made Easier - 01/12
In Defense Of George W. - 01/12
Blips #77 - 01/12
Bernie Madoff And The Establishment - 01/1

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Michael Barker

The Religious Right And World Vision's "Charitable" Evangelism - 12/28
Failure Of Progressive Thought - 12/14
The Russell Sage Foundation And The Manufacture Of Reform - 11/30
Howard Zinn And The Co-option Of Social Change - 11/16
Nancy Nye And Humanitarian Capitalism (For Palestine) - 11/16
George Monbiot And The Persistence Of The Population Myth - 11/2
Laurance Rockefeller And Capitalist Conservation - 10/19
The CIA, Drugs, And An Australian Killer Cop - 10/5
Anti-Nuclear Philanthropy And The US Peace Movement - 09/21
Combating [Some] Slavery - 09/7
Liberal Foundations And Anti-Racism Activism - 08/24
Environmental Populationism, A Dangerous Obsession - 08/10
Subverting Civil Society 101: Managing The Masses - 07/27
Counter-Discourses And Female Circumcision - 07/27
Nonviolence International And Imperialism - 07/13
Female Circumcision And The Tahirih Justice Center - 07/13
Buying The Environment To Save Capitalism - 06/29
Dreams Of Social Responsibility: Rio Tinto, Capitalism, and Indigenous Rights - 06/15
Greenwashing Eden: The Uses And Abuses Of Biodiversity - 06/1
General Electric: War Corporation, Liberal Hangout, Or Both? - 05/18
Sustainable Population - 05/4
Imperial Crusaders For Global Governance - 04/20
Who Wants A One World Government? - 04/6
Blame The Media - 03/23
Global Media Managers - 03/9
Hollywood's Corporate Conservation Collaborators - 02/23
Engineering Human Rights In The Israel-Palestine Conflict - 02/9
When Environmentalists Legitimize Plunder - 01/26
Jane Goodall's Elite Monkey Business - 01/12

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Jan E. Baughman

The Ideological Struggle Continues - 12/28
2009: It Was What It Was - 12/14
(R)evolutionary Health Care Reform - 09/21
Death By Socialism - 08/24
Health Care Profits Of Doom - 06/29
Card-Carrying Campers - 06/15
Polarizing Global Warming Politics - 05/18
Roger, My Chevy, And Me - 04/20
National Priorities In The Economic And Digital Divide - 02/9
The Legacy Of W. - 01/26
No Laurels To Rest On - 01/1

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Peter Byrne

A Private Feminine Eye - 12/28
Year End Closet Sweep Out - 12/14
Never On Time: Robert Frank And The Americans - 11/30
How Granta Got Lost On The Way to Chicago - 11/16
Wandering: NYC, Chicago, Albany - 11/2
Talespinning Sarajevo-Chicago - 10/19
The Poet Who Would Not Be Expelled From History - 10/5
Only Read The Small Print - 09/21
Studs Reloaded - 09/7
Counting The Dead In London - 08/24
No Red Carpet To Sulfur City - 08/10
Curtainless In Sulfur City - 08/10
Justice At Sea - 07/27
Egypt In The Mirror - 07/13
Gender Bent And Bleeding - 06/29
Captain Algren At The Tiller - 06/15
Costa-Gavras And The Z-To-Amen Of Political Cinema - 06/1
Turkey On Trial - 05/18
Bulgaria Unter Alles - 05/4
Singing Along With Marowitz - 04/20
I Am Che Guevara - 04/6
GBS: The Future Of A Rebel - 03/23
My Istanbul - 03/9
Le Clézio: Noble Is As Nobel Does - 02/23
To Kill Or Not - 02/9
Congo Round And Round - 01/26
Money In The Picture: London Art - 01/12
On Stage Chicago - 01/1

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Michael Doliner

The Official Policies - 12/14
The First Time As Tragedy - 11/16
Orwell's Epiphany - 11/2
How Kafka Became So Kafkaesque - 08/24
Iran, The U.S., And Demonstrations - 07/13
My Good Neighbor Policy - 06/1
Guys Tried On For Size - 05/18
Feral Reserve: My Solution To The Financial Crisis - 03/23
The Clever Child - 01/26

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Jeffery Klaehn

Notes From The Edge - 12/14
Our Lips Are Barely Touching - 11/30
Regret - 11/16
We'll See Each Other Again - 11/2
Dimensions Of Power - 10/19
Red, Red Roses - 10/5
Your Beauty Washes Over Me Like Rain - 09/21
All My Life I've Dream(p)t Of You - 09/7
So In Love - 08/24

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Graham Lea

Some Lines In Favour Of A Troupe Of Buffalo Flying Over The White House Singing Pastoral Songs - 12/14
The Redeeming Merit Of The French Toussaint Holiday - 11/16
Le Patrimoine: French Symbolism, and the Triumph of Patriotism over Nationalism - 10/19
French Cheese: A Cultural Metaphor? - 09/21
Le Tour De France -- Part Two: So were the Riders all Heroes? - 08/24
Le Tour De France -- Part One: The Avant-Tour - 07/27
Transhumance And The Estive: A Revival Of Pastoralism - 07/13
FRENCH BREAD: The Baguette Versus Pain de Campagne - 06/15
La Vie d'autrefois - 05/18
Obama Does Europe - 04/20

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Charles Marowitz

Asta Nielsen & Hamlet's Gender-Benders - 12/28
Angry Men - Beligerent Women - 12/14
Shakespeare Refertilized - 11/30
Geddeth Smith's Walter Hampden - 11/30
Private World, Public Words - 11/16
"Comes The Revolution?" - 11/2
Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story - 10/19
Coleridge: Journey Through Heaven And Hell - 10/5
Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, & Co. - 09/21
Smart Or Stupid? - 09/7
"Yes We Can" -- But We Won't! - 08/24
Singin' In The Rain - 08/10
Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno - 07/27
The Dreaded S Word - 07/13
Sonnet For Seniors - 06/29
The Neglected Walter Donaldson - 06/15
Angels & Demons - 06/1
The History Lesson - 05/18
Trivia Triumphant - 05/4
Breaking News - 05/4
Depression Redux - 04/20
Frost/Nixon - 04/6
Probing GBS - 03/23
The Bum's Rush - 03/9
William Saroyan's Where The Bones Go - 03/9
Cyrano Eternal - 02/23
Obama's Gordian Knot - 02/9
Remembering Paul Scofield - 01/26
The Devil's Brigade - 01/12
Harold Pinter: 1930 - 2008 - 01/1
Exclusive Interview With Prince Hamlet - 01/1

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Guido Monte & Friends

Überhaupt schlüßig Polyhedron - 12/28
Levi 1943 In Front Of Our 2009 - 12/14
Dream (Fragment) - 11/16
Bough And Leaves - 11/2
Beginning - 10/19
Unknown - 09/21
Chaos - 09/7
Mystery Of The Universe - 08/24
Haiku n.4 - 08/10
Haiku n.3 - 07/27
Haiku n.2 - 07/13
Paradox - 06/29
Ultima - 06/15
Selva Oscura - 05/18
Melting Pot (Unending) - 05/4
Today n.2 - 04/20
Linguistic Blending And Multilingual Education: Innovative Ways - 04/6
Poverty - Far - 03/23
War n.4 (The End) - 03/9
War n.3: Bones - 02/23
War n.2 - 02/9
War n.1: Walking On Thin Ice - 01/26
Tempo Invisibile (Invisible Time) - 01/12
Ausländer - 01/1

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Martin Murie

Climate Change - 12/28
2010, The Make-Or-Break Year - 12/14
The Return Of The Dodo - 11/30
What Have We Learned? - 11/2
Health Care Is A Human Right; Warfare Is A Human Wrong - 10/19
Climbing, Work, Activism - 10/5
What To Do? - 09/21
Hei Ram (Oh God!) - 09/7
Opportunity - 08/24
From Quetta With A Computer - 08/10
Letter From Florence - 07/27
Peshawar - 07/13
Murder From Above - 06/29
The Great Chasm - 06/15
Empires Always Die - 06/1
Greenwashing - 05/18
Reaping Bodies And Hatred - 05/4
Optimism - 04/20
Power To The Planet's Peoples! - 04/6
Welcome To The Digital Zephyr - 03/23
Tejon Rancho - 02/23
The Jaguar Scandal - 02/9
The Bell Tolls - 01/26
Top Predators - 01/1

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Raju Peddada

A 2009 Year-End Rant - 12/14
The Monuments Of Civilization: Petra - 11/16
The Monuments Of Civilization: Analysis Of Classics - 11/2
We Are A Fat Country! - 10/5
All Our Rough Rides - 09/7
Is The NFL Losing Its Game? - 08/24
The Conversion To Intolerance - 07/27
Trip To Nowhere - 07/13
The Sputtering Volume: The irreversible fade of pop music - 06/15
The Innate Nature Of War - 06/1
What Does It Mean To Be Sexy? - 05/18
Solace In Their Innocence - 05/4
The Queen Of Kukatpally - 04/20
Take It With A Grin Of Salt - 04/6
With My Father, To Where Eagles Dare - 03/23
Reviewing The Reviewers - 03/9
The Deconstruction Of That Sunday Morning On Madison - 02/23
What Is Luxury? - 02/9
Convalescing Kings - 01/12
Indelible India! - 01/1

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Louis Proyect

The Winter Of Liberal Discontent - 12/14
Jonah Raskin's The Mythology of Imperialism - 11/16
Michael Yates's In and Out of the Working Class - 10/19
Are We In A Post-Racial America? - 06/1
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh's When Skateboards Will Be Free - 05/4
A Guide To G. B. Shaw On Home Video - 03/23
Richard Seymour's The Liberal Defence Of Murder - 02/23

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Marie Rennard

French 2009 Vintage - 12/14
He's Gone - 11/30
Liberté de la Presse, la nécessaire piqûre de rappel - 11/30
Transports - 10/19
Adultère - 09/21
Polésie de canard - 09/21
Libéralisme et Solidarité : Quand le système faut - 08/24
Alice - 07/27
To Moreau, Tomorrow... - 07/13
Douce France, doux pays de mon enfance... - 06/29
Crossed Etymologies - 06/15
Ange Gardien - 06/1
How To Build Up A Paradise - 05/18
Le nœud de l'intrigue - 05/4
Vérification - 04/6
No Way To Leave - 03/9
The Day I Die... - 02/9
Stolen Lives - 01/12
Statistically Reckoned Predictions For 2009 - 01/1

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Isidor Saslav

Josef Gingold Turns 100 - 12/28
The Great Meyerbeer-Mendelssohn Mystery - 09/7
Shaw In Chicago Again - 08/10
How I found Shaw - 03/23
Conductors' Guild Convention In New York 2009 - 02/9
The Jewish Role In History Re-evaluated - 01/26
How Many World Premieres Can A Musical Work Receive? - 01/12

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Art Shay

King Of What World? - 12/28
My Atomic Talking Watch - 11/30
My Medicare Diverticulosis Metamorphosis - 11/2
Kookaburra Bird Shit - 09/21
Sick Glourious Basterds - 09/7
Snapshot Of A Strange (Love?) Before His Time - 08/24
On Burrowed Time - 08/10
My Camera Outpaces My Books In Royalties - 05/4
Giftless Amateurs Bug Shaw And Shay - 03/23
The State Of The State Of Elanoys: Waiting For Blago - 03/9
The Real World of Deerfield And The Coming Depression - 02/9
Waiting For Pinter's Funeral - 01/1
Prophecy - 01/1

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Steve Shay

2009 And "Mooving" Ahead - 12/14
Pet Project - 11/30
"Web Design" - 11/2
Old Macho And The Sea - 10/5

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SWANS

Swans: 2010 Predictions - 12/28
Barbey d'Aurevilly: L'échanson - 10/19
Plaidoyer de la comtesse d'Arcira - 09/21
Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon: Discours sur le style - 08/24
Joachim Du Bellay: Heureux qui comme Ulysse... - 07/27
Charles Trenet: Douce France - 06/29
Victor Hugo: la civilisation de la spoliation - 06/1
Guy de Maupassant: La chanson du Rayon de Lune - 06/1
George Sand: A madame Maurice Dupin - 05/4
Karl Marx et Friedrich Engels: Manifeste du Parti Communiste - 05/4
Charles Fourier: Tableau analytique du cocuage - 04/6
André Malraux: Du fond de la nuit - 04/6
Swans: 2009 Predictions - 01/1

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In memoriam

Philip Greenspan (1926-2008)
Richard Macintosh (1933-2005)

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Other Columnists

Marie-Laetitia Gambié: Hypnodiagnostic - 10/19
Marie-Laetitia Gambié: Droit et Laïcité - 07/27
Marie-Laetitia Gambié: La maison du ruisseau - 06/29

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Occasional Contributors

Paul Buhle: Richard Quinney's Field Notes - 01/12
Michael DeLang: The Moses Fallacy - 11/16
Silvia dello Russo: Überhaupt schlüßig Polyhedron - 12/09
Don L. Durivan: A Fundraising Appeal - 11/30
Don L. Durivan: The Pakistan Swat Peace Accord: Its Failure And Implications - 08/10
Michael Eddins: Beautiful Stranger - 08/10
Michael Eddins: Redemption - 07/27
Michael Eddins: Alone - 01/12
Irène Grätz: Liberté d'expression: limites, contraintes et possibilités - 09/21
Joel S. Hirschhorn: Palin IQ Test - 07/13
Joel S. Hirschhorn: Learning From Latvia - 01/26
Patrice Houzeau: Douze brefs lunaires et d'autres lieux - 08/24
Aleksandar Jokic: Michael Walzer's Sense Of Proportionality - 01/26
Jeff Meyerhoff: The Poverty Of Slumdog Millionaire - 01/26
Charles Pearson: Rival Jingoists - 11/2
Charles Pearson: Babies, Arms Fairs, And Voices Of Reason - 08/10
Charles Pearson: Marx With Music, Perhaps? - 02/23
Alison Phipps: Conversazioni: Fortress Europe - 06/1
Garry Potter: New Orleans And Katrina: Past Prediction, Future Dystopia - 10/5
Xavier Robert: Gaïa et ses prophètes - 08/24
Steven Salaita: Cornel West And The Ethics Of Faithful Equivocation - 04/20
Jay Tripathi: Kashmir And AFSPA - 11/30
Jay Tripathi: Soul Dead - 11/2
Walter Trkla: In The Cellist Of Sarajevo Is Fiction A License To Lie? - 11/16
Jim Tull: What We Think Is What We Get - 06/15
Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.: Weakness, Ineptitude, And Folly: Scientistic Sensationalism and Corporatized Clichés of University Game Day Television Ads - 10/19
Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.: Observations Of The Body And American Culture From The Buffet Line - 06/15

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Swans - ISSN: 1554-4915
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Created: December 18, 2008
Last Updated: December 28, 2009