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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
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Gilles d'Aymery
Not A Grand Cru - 12/16
ADIZ Through The Looking Glass - 12/2
Leftists, Saudi Arabia, & Syria - 11/18
Libyan Mayhem: An Assessment - 11/4
Turmoil In The Greater Middle East - 10/21
Parsing The Anti-al-Assad Propaganda - 10/7
Asma and Bashar al-Assad - 09/23
Blips #139 - 09/9
Blips #138 - 08/26
Blips #137 - 08/12
Privacy And Actuality In The Digital World - 07/29
Blips #136 - 07/15
Pauline And Percy - 07/1
Privacy And Digitalism - 06/17
The Non-Drumbeaters And Non-Axe-Grinders - 06/3
Establishment Journalism - 05/20
Blips #135 - 05/6
Blips #134 - 04/22
Blips #133 - 03/25
Blips #132 - 03/11
The One And Only Isidor Saslav - 02/11
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Michael Barker
Socialist Inspiration - 12/16
WWF's Special Founders - 12/2
Who Was Laurens Van Der Post? - 11/18
The Austerity Of Charity - 11/4
Who Was Laurens Van Der Post? - Part I of II - 10/21
Juicy Cancer Revelations: The POM Queen's Secrets - 10/7
Kinsey-Sex And The Rockefeller Foundation (Part II of II) - 09/23
Kinsey-Sex And The Rockefeller Foundation (Part I of II) - 09/9
Alternative Medicine? Vitamin Crusaders For Cancer And More (Part III of III) - 08/26
Cancerous-Celebrity-Charity - 08/12
Alternative Medicine? Lobbying For Nonsense (Part II of III) - 07/29
Alternative Medicine? Homeopathy On Trial (Part I of III) - 07/15
Beyond The Macrobiotic Faithful (Part III of III) - 06/17
The Mystical Genius of Ervin Laszlo (Part II of II) - 06/3
The Mystical Genius of Ervin Laszlo (Part I of II) - 05/20
The Macrobiotic Faithful - Part II - 05/6
The Macrobiotic Faithful - Part I - 04/22
Feminism and Jung: An Interview With Cynthia Eller - 04/8
Carl Jung's Selective Consciousness - Part II - 04/8
Carl Jung's Selective Consciousness - Part I - 03/25
Rudolf Steiner And The Organic Movement - 03/11
Muck And Mystery Unearthed! (Part II of II) - 01/28
Muck And Mystery Unearthed! (Part I of II) - 01/14
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Jan E. Baughman
2013: Distractions And The Hubris Of Power - 12/16
Thankful That It's Over - 12/2
Keep Your Eyes On The Prize, Mr. President - 09/9
An Uncomma Life - 06/17
Lost - 05/20
Child's [Gun] Play - 04/22
Let 'Em Eat Horse - 03/11
A Humble Farewell - 01/11
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Paul Buhle
A Year Of Revelations - 12/16
Of Champions And Martyrs - 11/18
Joe Sacco's Great War Panorama - 10/21
The Big Feminist But - 09/9
Copperhead - 06/3
Incarceration Illustrated - 05/6
Radical Yiddish! - 04/8
In The Path Of Walter Mosley - 03/25
Ferlinghetti Triumphs Again! - 03/11
Ethelbert Miller's Fifth Inning - 01/28
The Pan-African Revolt: A History Within A History - 01/14
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Peter Byrne
A Year Of Bitter Laughter And Loathing - 12/16
The Death Of A Bookman, André Schiffrin 1935-2013 - 12/16
A Note On Doris Lessing, 1919-2013 - 12/2
Whistling In The Graveyard - 11/18
The Queen's Poet - 11/4
Alice Munro's Nobel Prize For Literature - 10/21
The Widow Reardon and Captain Tomorrow - 10/7
Guilty Satire - 09/23
Seamus Heaney, Poet, 1939-2013 - 09/9
Mama Mine - 09/9
Breakfast Menu - 08/26
Name Of The Father - 08/12
Dave Eggers's Not-So-Ugly American - 07/29
Finding True North In The Crosswinds Of Crisis - 07/15
Fishing - 07/1
George Saunders's Satire For Soft Hearts - 06/17
Sofia And The Bulgaria Of Ivan Vazov - 06/3
Hugging Naples In Far America - 05/20
Everybody's Berlin - 05/6
Our Germans - 05/6
Taliban Hearts And Flowers - 04/22
Ricky Reckon Dines Out - 04/8
Patrick Keiller's Look-and-Think Films - 03/25
Nobody Home - 03/11
Artists Don't Die - 02/11
Flat On My Back In Memory Lane - 01/28
The Piper Of Hamlet's Rap - 01/14
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David Francis
Where Is Home - 11/18
The Phone Friend - 11/4
Who's Taking Care Of Her Own? - 10/21
Manhattan Tanka - 10/7
The Bar TV - 09/23
Awkwardness In Man - 09/9
Cloudland - 08/26
November 2009, USA - 08/12
Unfinished - 07/29
Satire '99 - 07/15
Heinrich Boll - 07/1
Illinois - 06/17
The Sea Is Peaceful - 06/3
An Allegory - 05/20
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Manuel García, Jr.
A Personal Look Back From 2013 - 12/16
Fifty-Year Look Back 1963-2013 - Part II - 12/2
Fifty-Year Look Back 1963-2013 - Part I - 11/18
No Regrets On Libya - 11/4
Black Gold, Maximum Entropy - 10/21
The Promise Of Remembered Soundtracks - 10/7
Chemical Defanging Of The Syrian Civil War Begins - 09/23
Overtones Of Awareness - 09/9
The Volcano Behind Oakland - 08/12
Why Is Global Warming Stagnating? - 07/29
Summing Up J. Robert Oppenheimer - 07/15
Tony Judt, Edward Snowden, And "The Excluded" - 07/1
Open Your Heart To Compassion - 04/22
Student Debt or Freedom? - 04/8
Eating And Mindful Metabolic Management - 03/25
Sympathetic Vibrations: Recollections Of Isidor Saslav - 02/11
Changing Climate For Unchanging People - 01/28
Explaining Chinese Forced Labor To An American Child - 01/14
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Guido Monte & Friends
War again 2013 - 12/16
Bible - 12/2
For the 87 Immigrants Who Died in Niger - 11/18
War and children - 11/4
Fragments with Adele - 10/21
Fragments from silence, n.2 - 10/7
For a bicycle - 09/23
question-answer - 09/9
Fragments from silence - 08/26
Sfogo/Rant - 08/12
By the Strait of Sicily - 07/29
little pieces of papers, again - 07/15
Om Ah Hum - 07/1
Luigi's geranium - 06/17
Prayer - 06/3
Pages of books - 05/20
as if a dream - 05/6
To Tonino Guerra - 04/22
log-book: poetic way n.2 - 04/8
Suicide in Trapani - 03/25
The child inside the luggage - 03/11
To Isidor Saslav - 01/11
foglietti n.3 - 01/28
poet, poetry - 01/14
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Raju Peddada
The Exit For Schism - Part III - 10/7
The Exit For Exploration - Part II - 09/23
Why Are Men So Insecure? - Part II - 09/9
Why Are Men So Insecure? - Part I - 08/26
The Exit Of Evocation - 278B for Kitchener-Waterloo - Part I - 08/12
Wasting of Wonder - A painful recollection - Part II - 07/29
Wandering In Wonder - Memories of a boyhood - Part I - 07/15
The Meteors! - 07/1
Monkey Business! - 06/17
Religious Slaughter & Rotten News! - 06/3
The Meat Piracy's Rat Gourmet! - 05/20
Hector Abad's Memoir: Oblivion - 05/6
So, You Like Your Shark Fin Soup, Eh?! - 04/22
Why Meat Stinks! - Part III - 04/8
Meat: The Taste of Sin - Part II - 03/25
Meat: The Celebration Of Murder - Part I - 03/11
The Lady From Chincholi - 01/28
Rampant Infidelity: Predilections for 2013 - 01/14
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Jonah Raskin
A Life And A Death In A California Town - 12/16
French Travelogue Conclusion: Happy In Bordeaux - 12/2
France Travelogue VI: 1789 And All That - 12/2
Cold In Colmar — And Mythic, Too - 12/2
On the Road In Rural France - 12/2
Paris II: A Night In The 19th District - 12/2
Paris I: Memories & Laughter - 11/18
Mock Review Of An Inflated Memoir - 11/18
Next Stop: France - 11/4
Interview with Novelist Beverly Gologorsky - 11/4
Storm City: Ten Prayerful Poems - 04/8
My Isidor Saslav - 02/11
Guns Make Me Crazy - 01/14
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Glenn Reed
2013 Brings To Mind A T.S. Eliot Poem - 12/16
Token Thoughts From A Game Of Monopoly - 12/2
Having What It Takes For The "New" Economy - 10/7
The Quiet Of The Mountain Trail - 09/23
So Fuzzy's Dead... - 08/26
The Town Commons Still Represents The Spirit Of A Common Good - 07/29
The Unexpected Lessons In Life Continue To Guide - 07/15
"Liberty And Justice For All" If You Run In The Right Circles - 06/17
Blindly Creating "The Wrong Place At The Wrong Time" - 06/3
No Tips, Please, In The New Economy - 05/20
Boom And Bust In North Dakota - 05/6
Species Comebacks Illustrate That Mother Earth Can Recover - 04/8
The Gestalt Of Coal Trains, Pipelines, Climate Change & Golfing As Usual - 03/25
Isidor Saslav And The Strings That Connect Us All - 02/11
Idle No More Is A Movement With Heart - 01/28
Newtown Tragedy Just One Sign Of The US Systemic Child Abuse - 01/14
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Isidor Saslav
Dr. Isidor Saslav - b. March 18, 1938; d. January 26, 2013 - 01/11
Pipe Dreams Come To East Texas
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SWANS
Swans: 2014 Predictions - 12/30
Randolph Bourne: The State (1918) - 08/26
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In memoriam
Philip Greenspan (1926-2008)
Richard Macintosh (1933-2005)
Martin Murie (1925-2012)
Isidor Saslav (1938-2013)
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Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
2013 And Its Delusions Of Progress - 12/16
The Two Fiefdoms Of Higher Education - 12/2
Education, Academia, The Job Market - 11/4
The Gospel And Flawed Etymology Of "Social Media" - 10/21
Stop Talking Around Tragedy - 07/29
The Extinct Life Of The Mind - 07/1
The Adjunct Professor Conundrum And The Affordable Care Act - 06/17
Disposing Of The Digital Humanities
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Other Columnists
Karen Moller: The New Mullahs In The Publishing World - 08/12
Karen Moller: The 55th Venice Biennale Of Art - 07/1
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Occasional Contributors
Kazue Daikoku: A Review Of 2013 In Japan - 12/16
Michael DeLang: Seeking A Moral Calculus - 03/25
Gregory Elich: National Security - 11/18
Claudine Giovannoni: Pages of books - 05/20
William T. Hathaway: Higher Consciousness - 10/7
Joel S. Hirschhorn: The Greatest Nation Fantasy: Replace U.S. With Scandinavia - 08/26
Bo Keeley: How To Avoid Company Atherosclerosis - 07/1
John M. Marshall: Rain - 08/26
John M. Marshall: Three Lives Converged - 07/29
John M. Marshall: Sky Pencil
John M. Marshall: Diamonds
Fabio De Propris: No Miracles In Sant'Anna - 03/11
Walter Trkla: Health Care Is A Human Right Not A Privilege - 11/4
Adele Ward: Fragments with Adele - 10/21
Adele Ward: Om Ah Hum - 07/1
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