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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
--Socrates
The novelist is neither historian nor prophet: he is an explorer of evidence.
--Milan Kundera
Whenever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
--Heinrich Heine
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
--Ray Bradbury
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
--George Orwell
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all of our lives.
--Albert Einstein
La logique mène à tout, à condition d'en sortir!
--Alphonse Allais
Eppur se muove.
--Galileo
What is known, I strip away.
--Walt Whitman
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January 2012
Issue date: January 2, 2012. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- 2012 Predictions - SWANS
- Blips #120 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- The Endless Reality Of The Imperfect Now - Manuel García, Jr.
- Eugenic Propaganda, Old And New - Part II - Michael Barker
- Victims Of Democracy - Charles Marowitz
- David Harvey At Large - Book Reviews by Paul Buhle
- Dispossession Set In Stone - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- End Times - Jan Baughman
- Christopher Hitchens, Coyote, Or Saint Paul? - Manuel García, Jr.
- The New Definition Of Hope! - Raju Peddada
- Miracles - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: January 16, 2012. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Blips #121 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Beggaring Student Life - Manuel García, Jr.
- On Konrad Lorenz - Part I - Michael Barker
- Haunted By Racism - Book Review by Jonah Raskin
- Paul Buhle's Robin Hood - Book Review by Gilles d'Aymery
- Journalists Mourned And Bemoaned - Peter Byrne
- Artaud at Rodez - Charles Marowitz
- The Book: A Palimpsest Of Many Tales - Raju Peddada
- A Little "Soucie" And A Lot Of Joy - Jan Baughman
- Dors Petit Homme, Dors Petit Frère - Gilles d'Aymery (Nov. 2009)
- Creature - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: January 30, 2012. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- What About The Children? - Jan Baughman
- Capitalistic Language & The Non-Profit World - Glenn Reed
- Peddling The Ideal Of Free Markets - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
- Bayesian Bargains: Jail, Shopping, Debt, And Voting - Manuel García, Jr.
- On Konrad Lorenz - Part II - Michael Barker
- Blips #122 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Naples: Greeks, Romans, And Hitmen - Book Reviews by Peter Byrne
- History: Sired By Literary Nomads (Part I of II) - Raju Peddada
- Lucie - Nouvelle par Christian Cottard (FR)
- Mary Anning (1799-1847) - Hugh Torrens, traduit par Marie Rennard (FR)
- Claudio Magris, écrivain de frontière contre l'indifférence - Francesca Saieva (FR)
- Chagrin - Poème par Simone Alié-Daram (FR)
- Reach For The Book - Poetry by Ricardo E. Gonsalves
- Thoughts before sleeping n.2 - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
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February 2012
Issue date: February 13, 2012. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Martin Murie (1925-2012) - Gilles d'Aymery
- Voting For Ron Paul Is Stupid For Leftists - Manuel García, Jr.
- The Life And Controversies Of Henry Fairfield Osborn - Part I - Michael Barker
- The Other Side Of Ryszard Kapuściński - Book Reviews by Peter Byrne
- Jack London In Black And White - Jonah Raskin
- Working With Havel - Charles Marowitz
- History: Sired By Literary Nomads (Part II of II) - Raju Peddada
- The Enchanted Island At The Met - Isidor Saslav
- Travellers "sans bagages" - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte & Marie Rennard
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: February 27, 2012. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- The Economic Function Of Energy - Manuel García, Jr.
- Blips #123 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Exiting The "Lesser Evil" Trap - Michael DeLang
- The Richland Inter-Faith Right-To-Life Trust - Manuel García, Jr.
- The Life And Controversies Of Henry Fairfield Osborn - Part II - Michael Barker
- Loving France To Death - Book Reviews by Peter Byrne
- The Boarding Pass - Raju Peddada
- Poetic Blending, To A New Dérèglement: Guido Monte - Francesca Saieva
- R.I.P. Barney Rosset (1922-2012) - Peter Byrne
- Nulla dies sine linea n.1 (No day without a line n.1) - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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March 2012
Issue date: March 12, 2012. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Violence: A Short Personal And Political History - Jonah Raskin
- Poisoning The Children - Jan Baughman
- The Righteous And The Heathens Of Climate And Capitalism - Manuel García, Jr.
- Blips #124 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Imperial Eugenics In Kenya - Part I - Michael Barker
- The Anatomy of Poverty - Book Review by Raju Peddada
- Stereotyping In Naples - Part II - Peter Byrne
- Stereotyping In Naples - Part I - Peter Byrne
- Keith Jarrett In San Francisco - Gilles d'Aymery (2006)
- Notes along a day - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: March 26, 2012. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Attacking Iran Will Save The World - Manuel García, Jr.
- KONY 2012 - Michael Barker
- Imperial Eugenics In Kenya - Part II - Michael Barker
- From The Beatniks In The 1960s To Today's Fundamentalists - Karen Moller
- Great Moments In Procreation - Jan Baughman
- Direct Democracy v. The US Supreme Court - Glenn Reed
- Why Do They Hate Me? - Short Story by Peter Byrne
- Getting Stanislavsky Wrong - Charles Marowitz
- 2012, année fatale - Marie Rennard (FR)
- Un monde amer - Nouvelle par Christian Cottard (FR)
- Névrose - Poème par Simone Alié-Daram (FR)
- A Vanished Dream - Poetry by Raju Peddada
- Wind gemidos - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte & Claudine Giovannoni
- Letters to the Editor
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April 2012
Issue date: April 9, 2012. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Renewal - Manuel García, Jr.
- A Sexual Revolution, But For Whom? (Part I of II) - Michael Barker
- The Mirror Test - Short Story by Peter Byrne
- Comedy Gems From Hal Roach Studios - Film Review by Gregory Elich
- Wisconsin Past And Future - Book Review by Gilles d'Aymery
- Who Killed Che? - Book Review by Paul Buhle
- A Literary History - Poetry by Peter Byrne
- Time Machine - Poetry by John M. Marshall
- Pasolini - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: April 23, 2012. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Castro And The Kennedy Image After The Checkmate - Manuel García, Jr.
- Harnessing People Power: Co-Option at Work in America Today - Edmund Berger
- A Sexual Revolution, But For Whom? (Part II of II) - Michael Barker
- Dumbest Academic Terms In Popular Vernacular - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
- A Lance For Humanity - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- The Magic Mountain: Thomas Mann's Monumental Quest (Part I) - Raju Peddada
- French Spectacle - Gilles d'Aymery
- Cher Peuple Français: Reject the Security State, and Vote for Jean-Luc Mélenchon - Aleksandar Jokic
- The Birds of Ophion - Poetry by John M. Marshall
- Nulla dies sine linea n.2 - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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May 2012
Issue date: May 7, 2012. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Why Don't Americans Rise Up? - Manuel García, Jr.
- How I Spent Earth Day 2012 - Jan Baughman
- The Help For The Wherewithal - Jonah Raskin
- Emma Goldman's Sexological Obsession - Michael Barker
- A Graphic Reminder Of Japanese-American Internment - Book Review by Paul Buhle
- On Guard - Monologue by Peter Byrne
- The Magic Mountain: Thomas Mann's Humanistic Enterprise (Part II) - Raju Peddada
- Exit Sarkozy, Enter Hollande - Gilles d'Aymery
- Caca - Marie Rennard (FR)
- Les ders des ders... - Christian Cottard (FR)
- Acrostiches - Poème par Simone Alié-Daram (FR)
- Martha Metre - Poetry by John M. Marshall
- To an unknown god - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: May 21, 2012. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Blips #125 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Harnessing People Power Continued: The 99% Spring and the "Professional Left" - Edmund Berger
- Foundations For Empire: An Interview With Inderjeet Parmar - Michael Barker
- Walking New York - Jonah Raskin
- Between Tradition and Postmodernism On The Bosphorus - Book Review by Fabio De Propris
- Society's Dead Look Into A Killing - Peter Byrne
- The Magic Mountain: Thomas Mann's gift of beauty (Part III) - Raju Peddada
- Sarajevo Market, 1987 - Poetry by Glenn Reed
- Labyrinth - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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June 2012
Issue date: June 4, 2012. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Growing Ideology And Dwindling Harvests - Jan Baughman
- Returning Home To An Altered Vermont - Glenn Reed
- France: Change Is Now? - Gilles d'Aymery
- H.P. Lovecraft's Alien Legacy - Michael Barker
- Freud's Dogs - Peter Byrne
- Honey And Pepper, A Cat Tale - Manuel García, Jr.
- Acting Out - Charles Marowitz
- A Man Who Influenced The Influencers - Raju Peddada
- Ward n.6: A new poetic version of Chekhov's famous tale - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: June 18, 2012. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- French Political Vaudeville - Gilles d'Aymery
- Why Republicans Crashed The US Economy - Manuel García, Jr.
- Next In Line? - Cartoon by Jan Baughman
- The Roots Of Theosophy - Michael Barker
- Aliens To Autonomy: Gauging Deleuze And Guattari's "Ridiculousness" - Edmund Berger
- Picking Up The Pieces - Book Review by Jonah Raskin
- How To Read Marcel Proust - Raju Peddada
- Tremor - Short Story by Peter Byrne
- Florence Foster Jenkins Lives Again - Isidor Saslav
- The Red Street - Poetry by John M. Marshall
- Last words of Ulysses - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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July 2012
Issue date: July 2, 2012. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Blips #126 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- The Rules Of The Game USA - Manuel García, Jr.
- (R)evolutionary Health Care Reform - Cartoon by Jan Baughman
- Vacation For An Operation - Bo Keeley
- The Roots Of Theosophy (Part II) - Michael Barker
- The Unending (C.L.R. James) Saga - Book Review by Paul Buhle
- Our Spring Is Extinguished - Raju Peddada
- Screen Distractions: Old Story - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
- The Boy Wonder Peter Brook Is 87 - Peter Byrne
- Infinite Blending Dream - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte & Claudine Giovannoni
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: July 16, 2012. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Without Unions We Are Screwed, So Change Is Needed - Glenn Reed
- For A More Banal Presidency - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
- The Digital Potlatch That Needs Defending - Edmund Berger
- Blips #127 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- The Muscle Of The Heart - Fabio De Propris & Peter Byrne
- Stats And The Iquitos Girls - Bo Keeley
- The Alluring Time Capsule - Raju Peddada
- The Undark Continent - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Léonce - Poème par Simone Alié-Daram (FR)
- Propos interrompus - Marie Rennard (FR)
- Pour un monde sans frontières - Claudio Magris Interviewé par Francesca Saieva (FR)
- non accettazione - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: July 30, 2012. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
A Special Issue On Books, Music, And Films
- Introduction To This Special Summer Edition - Gilles d'Aymery
- Summertime Escapes - Jan Baughman
- My Delights - Peter Byrne
- My Summer 2012 Picks - Gregory Elich
- Read, Watch, And Listen - Gilles d'Aymery
- My Favorites - Fabio De Propris
- My 2012 Summer Postcard - Guido Monte
- Mes recommandations - Christian Cottard (FR)
- My Favorite Classics - Manuel García, Jr.
- My Selections - Michael Barker
- Recommendations For Your Summer Entertainment - Edmund Berger
- Suggestions For Summer Enjoyment - Glenn Reed
- My Offerings For Your Pleasure - Isidor Saslav
- Choices For The Summer Lolling - Raju Peddada
- Mind Food And Epicuriosities - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
- Letters to the Editor
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August 2012
Issue date: August 13, 2012. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
This issue is the same as that of July 30, 2012.
Issue date: August 27, 2012. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Gore Vidal: A Niggling Hero For Lean Times - Peter Byrne
- The Passing Of A Muckraker - Gilles d'Aymery
- Is This America Or Some Third World Country? - Karen Moller
- Questioning Vandana Shiva - Michael Barker
- Jan Kott's Still Alive - Book Review by Charles Marowitz
- Truth And Revolution - Book Review by Paul Buhle
- Kurt Weill's Last Opera - Isidor Saslav
- The Three Thousand Mile Gallery - Part I - Travelogue by Raju Peddada
- Summer Travels - Travelogue by Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
- The Maid Among The Heather - Poetry by John M. Marshall
- Hineinhorchen - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte & Silvia Dello Russo
- Letters to the Editor
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September 2012
Issue date: September 10, 2012. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Why The Republican Convention Was All Fluff - Manuel García, Jr.
- Conservative Antinomies For The Ages - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
- Blips #128 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Postmodern Gandhians And Hindu Nationalism - Part I - Michael Barker
- The Sunset Of Empire: Memories Of Manchester, England - Jonah Raskin
- Big Foot And Benedict Arnold Crossing Paths In Whitehall, New York - Glenn Reed
- Big City Blues - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Florence Shay, 1922-2012 - Raju Peddada
- Summer Operas -- From Lully To Chabrier - Isidor Saslav
- Our River Toys With The Missouri - Part II - Travelogue by Raju Peddada
- The Vision Of Delphica - Poetry by John M. Marshall
- don't forget (mi moratseq) - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: September 24, 2012. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Democratic Despair Votes - Manuel García, Jr.
- Too Big To Fail, Or A Bunch Of Failures? - Jan Baughman
- Puzzling And Stale Media Colloquialisms - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
- Blips #129 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Postmodern Gandhians And Hindu Nationalism - Part II - Michael Barker
- Eloquent And Bloody Murder - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Remembering Lenny Bruce - Charles Marowitz
- The Man Who Would Not Be King - Isidor Saslav
- From The Grasslands To The Badlands - Part III - Travelogue by Raju Peddada
- War - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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October 2012
Issue date: October 8, 2012. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Voting Illusions And Reality 2012 - Manuel García, Jr.
- Blips #130 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Fascism and Anthroposophy - Part I - Michael Barker
- The Limbo Of The Long Weekend - Glenn Reed
- Feminism Made A Man Out Of Me - Jonah Raskin
- Eric J. Hobsbawm, 1917-2012 - Obit by Peter Byrne
- Words Have Meanings: Antonio Tabucchi, 1943-2012 - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- King Roger At Santa Fe - Isidor Saslav
- Journaling The Journeys - Travelogue by Raju Peddada
- Blinders - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: October 22, 2012. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- 2012 Election Oblivion - Gilles d'Aymery
- The Esoteric J. Robert Oppenheimer - Manuel García, Jr.
- Fascism and Anthroposophy - Part II - Michael Barker
- Why Are We In Vietnam? Iraq, Afghanistan, Et Cetera - Peter Byrne
- Blips #131 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- The Seed Of Psychedelia In The 1960s - Book Review by Paul Buhle
- Maometto II At The Santa Fe Opera - Isidor Saslav
- Random Conversation #1 - Raju Peddada
- French Cacophony - Gilles d'Aymery
- Un enterrement - Poème par Simone Alié-Daram (FR)
- Dandelion - Poetry by John M. Marshall
- Log-book: poetic way n.1 - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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November 2012
Issue date: November 5, 2012. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Sitting Out This Election Year - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
Special Issue on the New Age Movement
- Asian Philosophies And The "New Age" - Manuel García, Jr.
- Mildred I Presume? - Glenn Reed
- Of Atlantis And Aliens - Jason Colavito
- New Age Geriatrics - Cartoon by Jan Baughman
- New Age Flying Objects - Michael Barker
- Sir George Trevelyan's Life Of Magic - Michael Barker
- Findhorn's Angels - Michael Barker
- Paul Hawken's Spiritual Business - Michael Barker
- Sounding Off Between New Age And Counterculture: Norman Mailer - Peter Byrne
- Old New Age - Gilles d'Aymery
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: November 19, 2012. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Blue, Red & Blue Again - Glenn Reed
- Real Democracy Requires Political Competition - Joel S. Hirschhorn
- Some Thoughts On The US Election - David Jordan
- Post Election Thought - Peter Byrne
- Election 2012: Equality Outvotes Privilege - Manuel García, Jr.
- 2012 US Election: A Pretty Good Morning After - Jan Baughman
- Good Lord The US Election Is Over - Gilles d'Aymery
- Post Election: Obama, Work And Pay - Fabio De Propris
- No Idea(ology), And Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest - Michael Barker
- Saint-Saëns At Bard - Isidor Saslav
- Edward Lear Of The Disappearing Nose - Peter Byrne
- Ashes To Ashes, Dust To Dust - Raju Peddada
- ornella and tato - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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December 2012
Issue date: December 3, 2012. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- The Greatest Generation - Jan Baughman
- Left Conservatives Under Right Progressives - Manuel García, Jr.
- Cirque De France - Gilles d'Aymery
- Anniversary of the Seattle WTO Protests - Glenn Reed
- An Interview with Peter Staudenmaier - Michael Barker
- The Forgotten War - Book Review by Paul Buhle
- New York On The Rebound - Jonah Raskin
- Going, Going, Gone: Jeffrey Eugenides's Detroit - Peter Byrne
- Report from Canada's Shaw Festival -- 2012 - Isidor Saslav
- Killing Fields Of Love - Poem by Raju Peddada
- Hades - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte & Claudine Giovannoni
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: December 17, 2012. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
A Special Issue: Perspectives on 2012
- Introduction To Swans 2012 Perspectives - Gilles d'Aymery
- 2012's Forgotten Story - Jan Baughman
- Winter Reflections, 2012 - Manuel García, Jr.
- 2012: Has The Free Fall Already Begun? - Glenn Reed
- 2012 Japan: Radioactivity Risk, Territorial Dispute, And Rush Of eBooks - Kazue Daikoku
- France 2012 - Marie Rennard
- Humanity Versus Capitalism - Michael Barker
- Reflections on 2012 - Paul Buhle
- Macbeth And The Military-Industrial Complex - Jonah Raskin
- 2012: A Wishful, Wistful Year Of What Has Not Been Done - Fabio De Propris
- Uncomfortable Obits Of 2012 - Peter Byrne
- 2012 Year End Report - Isidor Saslav
- The Struggle For Sanity - Raju Peddada
- Random Thoughts About 2012 - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
- And... War and Peace 2012 - Guido Monte & his students
- Ah Yes, 2012 - Gilles d'Aymery
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: December 31, 2012. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- 2013 Predictions - SWANS
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