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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

Authors
Simone Alié-Daram Gilles d'Aymery Michael Barker Jan Baughman
Paul Buhle Peter Byrne Christian Cottard Manuel García
Charles Marowitz Guido Monte Fabio De Propris Raju Peddada
Jonah Raskin Marie Rennard Isidor Saslav Swans
Harvey Whitney in memoriam Other Columnists Occasional Contributors
       

 

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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Swans - ISSN: 1554-4915
URL: http://www.swans.com/library/a2012.html
Created: December 25, 2011
Last Updated: December 17, 2012