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

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

Take a circle, carress it -- it will become vicious.
--Eugène Ionesco

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
--Hermann Hesse

January 2008

Issue date: December 31, 2007 - January 1, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- 2007 Predictions - Swans
- Infamously Incredible Predictions For 2008 - Carol Warner Christen
- Message To Our Readers - Gilles d'Aymery
- Parting Words - Charles Marowitz
- Acrimonious Acronyms And The USA FUBAR - Jan Baughman
- Dodo Lives - Martin Murie
- Of Sunnis, Shi'ites, And Strauss - Michael Doliner
- The Insurgent Word: Surge - Gerard Donnelly Smith
- No Beauty Will Win The Beauty Contest - Philip Greenspan
- Five Films, Three Operas, And A Mystery Symphony In New York - Isidor Saslav
- On The Dinka Express - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Priapic And Libidinous - Humor by Marie Rennard
- Journey To The Sleep Doors: Sybilla - Poem by Guido Monte & Francesca Saieva

Issue date: January 14, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- The Zoology Of Pwogs And Pwogrevs - Gilles d'Aymery
- Spoiler Today, Rebel Tomorrow - Cartoon by Jan Baughman
- Buy Now And Lighten Up - Peter Byrne
- Clinton And Obama On Iran And Biofuels - Michael Doliner
- The Secret Ingredient Of Activism: Mutual Support - Philip Greenspan
- One Minute To Midnight - Martin Murie
- End The Empire: A Polemic - Michael Doliner
- The Insurgent Word: Fear - Gerard Donnelly Smith
- Lest We Overlook The Obvious - Carol Warner Christen
- Groucho, Chico, & Harpo - Charles Marowitz
- Porte - Poem by Guido Monte
- Blips #63 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery

Issue date: January 28, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- Eleven Shares Of Lockheed Martin - Jan Baughman
- Blips #64 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Opening Our Eyes: Reality Or Dream? - Carol Warner Christen
- Artificial Bramble: Segregation And Subjugation - Part I - Gilles d'Aymery
- Who Else Is Afraid Of Michael Moore? - Peter Byrne
- Cast Of Characters - Charles Marowitz
- Five Minutes To Midnight, Part Two - Martin Murie
- The Crime Novels Of Patricia Highsmith - Louis Proyect
- Robert Brustein's Millennial Stages - Book Review by Charles Marowitz
- Journey To The Sleep Doors n.3: The Golden Bough - Poem by Guido Monte & Francesca Saieva
- To My Brother - Poem by Carol Warner Christen
- Letters to the Editor

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February 2008

Issue date: February 11, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- Simone de Beauvoir One Hundred Years After Her Birth - Karen Moller
- The Unfinished Business Of Simone de Beauvoir - Marie Rennard
- Simone de Beauvoir: The Mother Of Us All - Gilles d'Aymery
- Not Shutting Up For A Second: Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) - Peter Byrne
- Simone de Beauvoir's The Coming of Age - Book Review by Louis Proyect
- Snared In The Devil's Stocking - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- The Other Light - Carol Warner Christen
- Pristine - Martin Murie
- Obamania: Curb Your Enthusiasm - Charles Marowitz
- Journey To The Sleep Doors n. 4: Foglie - Poem by Guido Monte & Francesca Saieva
- Blips #65 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Letters to the Editor

Issue date: February 25, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- A Word About Philip Greenspan - Jan Baughman
- A Loving And Magnificent Human Being - Gilles d'Aymery
- Philip Greenspan on Swans
- One Final Corporative Capitalist Empire - Carol Warner Christen
- A Critical Assessment Of Corporations - Michael Doliner
- Poor And Pickled - Jan Baughman
- Second Sex - Martin Murie
- London Laughing - Peter Byrne
- Artistic Types - Poem by Charles Marowitz
- Katábasis - Poem by Guido Monte
- Blips #66 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Letters to the Editor

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March 2008

Issue date: March 10, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- Blips #67 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- The Increasing Economic Toll On The Masses - Jan Baughman
- A Quick Look At The Credit Crisis - Michael Doliner
- An Assessment Of The Eleventh Hour - Carol Warner Christen
- Leaders - Martin Murie
- Mass Petition Planned For Independence Referendum - Joe Middleton
- Seaside - Short Story by Peter Byrne
- Anthony Slide's New York City Vaudeville - Book Review by Charles Marowitz
- Galway In Texas - Isidor Saslav
- Meadow Of The Mountains, The First 9/11 - Poem by John M. Marshall
- Journey... n.5: Sphinx - Poem by Guido Monte & Francesca Saieva
- Letters to the Editor

Issue date: March 24, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- Five Years And Still Drinking The Kool-Aid - Jan Baughman
- Is Our Planet Earth A Chessboard? - Carol Warner Christen
- Streets, Doors, Offices - Martin Murie
- Entertaining Hullabaloo - Gilles d'Aymery
- Low Crimes & Misdemeanors - Charles Marowitz
- Kate Holden's In My Skin - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Jackie Mason: Return Of The Superjew - Charles Marowitz
- Xolela Mangcu's To The Brink - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Smelly Step To The Last Door - Poem by Marie Rennard
- ...Temps Nouveaux - Poem by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor

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April 2008

Issue date: April 7, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- The No-State Solution - Michael Doliner
- Power, Profits, Propaganda Unbound - Carol Warner Christen
- Blips #68 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Murder - Martin Murie
- Heiner Müller's Hamlet Machine - Theater Review by Charles Marowitz
- Dunstan Prial's The Producer: John Hammond and the Soul of American Music - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- My Mother, My Teeth - Humor by Jan Baughman
- Dialogue - Poem by Guido Monte & Francesca Saieva
- Omnium-Gatherum - Poem by Marie Rennard
- Letters to the Editor

Issue date: April 21, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- Different Gods - Aaron Karmin
- It's Not Over Until The States Sing - Carol Warner Christen
- Nightmare Political Scenario - Joel S. Hirschhorn
- Blips #69 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Polar Bear Stand-Off - Martin Murie
- I Shop, You Shop, Why Won't She Shop? - Humor by Peter Byrne
- Work Done - Humorous Poem by Charles Marowitz
- Bill Bryson's Shakespeare: The World As Stage - Book Review by Charles Marowitz
- Journey... n.6: Words Through A Deep Night - Poem by Guido Monte & Francesca Saieva
- Letters to the Editor

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May 2008

Issue date: May 5, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- Obama's Jeremiads And Wright's Right Rhetoric - Gilles d'Aymery
- The African-American Religious Experience: Theology & Practice - Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.
- How Many Connections Does It Take? - Carol Warner Christen
- Delusions - Richard Macintosh (Sept. 2003)
- Wolf - Martin Murie
- May Day, M'Aidez - Jan Baughman
- Censorship And The Yugoslav Civil Wars - Michael Pravica
- The Real French Warm Their Hearts - Peter Byrne
- ...And Now For A Short Commercial Break - Charles Marowitz
- Jay Greenberg: A Korngold For Our Times - Isidor Saslav
- Oltre (Beyond) - Poem by Guido Monte & Francesca Saieva

Issue date: May 19, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- Changing The Middle East Course - Cartoon by Jan Baughman
- Meeting Ralph Nader & Matt Gonzalez - Gilles d'Aymery
- May 11, 2008: Pictures - Gilles d'Aymery & Jan Baughman
- Judging The Candidates - Charles Marowitz
- Hearts And Minds - Martin Murie
- Human All Too Human - Michael Doliner
- Down To Earth At Home - Carol Warner Christen
- The False Twins: Art Shay And Nelson Algren - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Pictures At Another Exhibition - Isidor Saslav
- Atman - Poem by Guido Monte
- Blips #70 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Politics Of Fear And Politics Of Hope - Rick Rozoff (Oct. 2000)
- Letters to the Editor

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June 2008

Issue date: June 2, 2008. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.

- How To Help The Nader-Gonzalez '08 Campaign - Gilles d'Aymery & Jan Baughman

- The Democratic Convention -- Chicago 1968 - Art Shay
- Art Shay's Traces Of A Bygone America - Karen Moller
- Big Dumpling's Shock And Awe: Mayor Daley's Chicago - Peter Byrne
- The Chicago Conspiracy - Irving Wardle
- Expats' Chicago: London, 1968 - Charles Marowitz
- Whatever Became Of What's-His-Name, The Radical? - Louis Proyect
- Three Memories of Chicago 1968 - Michael Doliner
- My Mere View Of The Year 1968 - Carol Warner Christen
- Norman Mailer, A Noncombatant At The Siege - Peter Byrne
- Fragments Of 1968 - Pier Paolo Pasolini (translation by Guido Monte)
- Exercises In Nostalgia -- 1968 - Gilles d'Aymery
- Then, Now, And Tomorrow - Martin Murie

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November 2008

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December 2008

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