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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 2013
Issue date: January 14, 2013. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Newtown Tragedy Just One Sign Of The US Systemic Child Abuse - Glenn Reed
- Guns Make Me Crazy - Jonah Raskin
- Explaining Chinese Forced Labor To An American Child - Manuel García, Jr.
- Rampant Infidelity: Predilections for 2013 - Raju Peddada
- Muck And Mystery Unearthed! (Part I of II) - Michael Barker
- Pipe Dreams Come To East Texas - Isidor Saslav
- The Pan-African Revolt: A History Within A History - Book Review by Paul Buhle
- The Piper Of Hamlet's Rap - Short Story by Peter Byrne
- Diamonds - Poem by John M. Marshall
- poet, poetry - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: January 28, 2013. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Idle No More Is A Movement With Heart - Glenn Reed
- Changing Climate For Unchanging People - Manuel García, Jr.
- Muck And Mystery Unearthed! (Part II of II) - Michael Barker
- Disposing Of The Digital Humanities - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
- Ethelbert Miller's Fifth Inning - Book Review by Paul Buhle
- Flat On My Back In Memory Lane - Peter Byrne
- The Lady From Chincholi - Raju Peddada
- Sky Pencil - Poem by John M. Marshall
- foglietti n.3 - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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February 2013
Issue date: February 11, 2013. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
This is a special issue dedicated to our beloved Isidor Saslav who recently died.
- Dr. Isidor Saslav - b. March 18, 1938; d. January 26, 2013 - Isidor Saslav
- A Humble Farewell - Jan Baughman
- My Isidor Saslav - Jonah Raskin
- Artists Don't Die - Peter Byrne
- The One And Only Isidor Saslav - Gilles d'Aymery
- Isidor Saslav And The Strings That Connect Us All - Glenn Reed
- Sympathetic Vibrations: Recollections Of Isidor Saslav - Manuel García, Jr.
- To Isidor Saslav - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
We also icluded some of Isidor Saslav's work in this special issue. And you can peruse all of his work for Swans on his personal page at http://www.swans.com/contrib/saslav.html
Issue date: February 25, 2013. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
In homage to Isidor Saslav we've kept the issue of February 11 on the front page for another two weeks. May we all remember him.
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March 2013
Issue date: March 11, 2013. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Rudolf Steiner And The Organic Movement - Michael Barker
- Let 'Em Eat Horse - Jan Baughman
- Meat: The Celebration Of Murder - Part I - Raju Peddada
- No Miracles In Sant'Anna - Fabio De Propris
- Ferlinghetti Triumphs Again! - Book Review by Paul Buhle
- Nobody Home - Peter Byrne
- The child inside the luggage - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Blips #132 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: March 25, 2013. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Seeking A Moral Calculus - Michael DeLang
- The Gestalt Of Coal Trains, Pipelines, Climate Change & Golfing As Usual - Glenn Reed
- Meat: The Taste of Sin - Part II - Raju Peddada
- Eating And Mindful Metabolic Management - Manuel García, Jr.
- Carl Jung's Selective Consciousness - Part I - Michael Barker
- Blips #133 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- In The Path Of Walter Mosley - Book Review by Paul Buhle
- Patrick Keiller's Look-and-Think Films - Peter Byrne
- Suicide in Trapani - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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April 2013
Issue date: April 8, 2013. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Species Comebacks Illustrate That Mother Earth Can Recover - Glenn Reed
- Why Meat Stinks! - Part III - Raju Peddada
- Student Debt or Freedom? - Manuel García, Jr.
- Carl Jung's Selective Consciousness - Part II - Michael Barker
- Feminism and Jung: An Interview With Cynthia Eller - Michael Barker
- Radical Yiddish! - Book Review by Paul Buhle
- Ricky Reckon Dines Out - Short Stroy by Peter Byrne
- Storm City: Ten Prayerful Poems - Poetry by Jonah Raskin
- log-book: poetic way n.2 - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: April 22, 2013. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Blips #134 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Open Your Heart To Compassion - Manuel García, Jr.
- Child's [Gun] Play - Jan Baughman
- The Macrobiotic Faithful - Part I - Michael Barker
- So, You Like Your Shark Fin Soup, Eh?! - Raju Peddada
- Taliban Hearts And Flowers - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Concerts And An Opera In New York - Isidor Saslav (March 12, 2007)
- To Tonino Guerra - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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May 2013
Issue date: May 6, 2013. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Boom And Bust In North Dakota - Glenn Reed
- Incarceration Illustrated - Book Review by Paul Buhle
- The Macrobiotic Faithful - Part II - Michael Barker
- Blips #135 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Everybody's Berlin - Peter Byrne
- Our Germans - Peter Byrne
- Hector Abad's Memoir: Oblivion - Raju Peddada
- as if a dream - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: May 20, 2013. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- No Tips, Please, In The New Economy - Glenn Reed
- Lost - Jan Baughman
- The Mystical Genius of Ervin Laszlo (Part I of II) - Michael Barker
- Establishment Journalism - Gilles d'Aymery
- Hugging Naples In Far America - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- The Meat Piracy's Rat Gourmet! - Raju Peddada
- An Allegory - Poetry by David Francis
- Pages of books - Multilingual Poetry by Claudine Giovannoni & Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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June 2013
Issue date: June 3, 2013. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Sofia And The Bulgaria Of Ivan Vazov - Peter Byrne
- Copperhead - Paul Buhle & Dave Wagner
- The Non-Drumbeaters And Non-Axe-Grinders - Gilles d'Aymery
- Blindly Creating "The Wrong Place At The Wrong Time" - Glenn Reed
- The Mystical Genius of Ervin Laszlo (Part II of II) - Michael Barker
- Religious Slaughter & Rotten News! - Raju Peddada
- The Sea Is Peaceful - Poetry by David Francis
- Prayer - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: June 17, 2013. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- "Liberty And Justice For All" If You Run In The Right Circles - Glenn Reed
- The Adjunct Professor Conundrum And The Affordable Care Act - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
- Beyond The Macrobiotic Faithful (Part III of III) - Michael Barker
- An Uncomma Life - Jan Baughman
- Privacy And Digitalism - Gilles d'Aymery
- George Saunders's Satire For Soft Hearts - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Monkey Business! - Raju Peddada
- Illinois - Poetry by David Francis
- Luigi's geranium - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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July 2013
Issue date: July 1, 2013. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Tony Judt, Edward Snowden, And "The Excluded" - Manuel García, Jr.
- The Extinct Life Of The Mind - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
- How To Avoid Company Atherosclerosis - Bo Keeley
- Pauline And Percy - Book Review by Gilles d'Aymery
- The Meteors! - Raju Peddada
- The 55th Venice Biennale Of Art - Karen Moller
- Fishing - Short Story by Peter Byrne
- Heinrich Boll - Poetry by David Francis
- Om Ah Hum - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte & Adele Ward
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: July 15, 2013. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Summing Up J. Robert Oppenheimer - Manuel García, Jr.
- The Unexpected Lessons In Life Continue To Guide - Glenn Reed
- Wandering In Wonder - Memories of a boyhood - Part I - Raju Peddada
- Alternative Medicine? Homeopathy On Trial (Part I of III) - Michael Barker
- Finding True North In The Crosswinds Of Crisis - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Blips #136 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Satire '99 - Poetry by David Francis
- little pieces of papers, again - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: July 29, 2013. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Stop Talking Around Tragedy - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
- Privacy And Actuality In The Digital World - Gilles d'Aymery
- Why Is Global Warming Stagnating? - Manuel García, Jr.
- Alternative Medicine? Lobbying For Nonsense (Part II of III) - Michael Barker
- The Town Commons Still Represents The Spirit Of A Common Good - Glenn Reed
- Wasting of Wonder - A painful recollection - Part II - Raju Peddada
- Dave Eggers's Not-So-Ugly American - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Unfinished - Poetry by David Francis
- Three Lives Converged - Poetry by John M. Marshall
- By the Strait of Sicily - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
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August 2013
Issue date: August 12, 2013. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Blips #137 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- The New Mullahs In The Publishing World - Karen Moller
- The Volcano Behind Oakland - Manuel García, Jr.
- Cancerous-Celebrity-Charity - Michael Barker
- The Exit Of Evocation - 278B for Kitchener-Waterloo - Part I - Raju Peddada
- Name Of The Father - Short Story by Peter Byrne
- November 2009, USA - Poetry by David Francis
- Sfogo/Rant - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: August 26, 2013. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Blips #138 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- The Greatest Nation Fantasy: Replace U.S. With Scandinavia - Joel S. Hirschhorn
- So Fuzzy's Dead... - Glenn Reed
- The State (1918) - Essay by Randolph Bourne
- Alternative Medicine? Vitamin Crusaders For Cancer And More (Part III of III) - Michael Barker
- Breakfast Menu - Peter Byrne
- Why Are Men So Insecure? - Part I - Raju Peddada
- Rain - Poetry by John M. Marshall
- Cloudland - Poetry by David Francis
- Fragments from silence - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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September 2013
Issue date: September 9, 2013. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Blips #139 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Keep Your Eyes On The Prize, Mr. President - Jan Baughman
- Overtones Of Awareness - Manuel García, Jr.
- Kinsey-Sex And The Rockefeller Foundation (Part I of II) - Michael Barker
- Why Are Men So Insecure? - Part II - Raju Peddada
- The Big Feminist But - Book Review by Paul Buhle
- Mama Mine - Short Story by Peter Byrne
- Seamus Heaney, Poet, 1939-2013 - Peter Byrne
- Awkwardness In Man - Poetry by David Francis
- question-answer - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: September 23, 2013. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Asma and Bashar al-Assad - Gilles d'Aymery
- Chemical Defanging Of The Syrian Civil War Begins - Manuel García, Jr.
- The Quiet Of The Mountain Trail - Glenn Reed
- The Exit For Exploration - Part II - Raju Peddada
- Kinsey-Sex And The Rockefeller Foundation (Part II of II) - Michael Barker
- Guilty Satire - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- The Bar TV - Poetry by David Francis
- For a bicycle - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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October 2013
Issue date: October 7, 2013. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Juicy Cancer Revelations: The POM Queen's Secrets - Michael Barker
- Having What It Takes For The "New" Economy - Glenn Reed
- The Promise Of Remembered Soundtracks - Manuel García, Jr.
- Parsing The Anti-al-Assad Propaganda - Gilles d'Aymery
- Higher Consciousness - Book Excerpt by William T. Hathaway
- The Widow Reardon and Captain Tomorrow - Short Stories by Peter Byrne
- The Exit For Schism - Part III - Raju Peddada
- Manhattan Tanka - Poetry by David Francis
- Fragments from silence, n.2 - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: October 21, 2013. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Turmoil In The Greater Middle East - Gilles d'Aymery
- Black Gold, Maximum Entropy - Manuel García, Jr.
- Who Was Laurens Van Der Post? - Part I of II - Michael Barker
- The Gospel And Flawed Etymology Of "Social Media" - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
- Alice Munro's Nobel Prize For Literature - Peter Byrne
- Joe Sacco's Great War Panorama - Book Review by Paul Buhle
- Who's Taking Care Of Her Own? - Poetry by David Francis
- Fragments with Adele - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte & Adele Ward
- Letters to the Editor
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November 2013
Issue date: November 4, 2013. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Libyan Mayhem: An Assessment - Gilles d'Aymery
- No Regrets On Libya - Manuel García, Jr.
- Health Care Is A Human Right Not A Privilege - Walter Trkla
- Education, Academia, The Job Market - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
- The Austerity Of Charity - Michael Barker
- Interview with Novelist Beverly Gologorsky - Jonah Raskin
- The Queen's Poet - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Next Stop: France - Travelogue by Jonah Raskin
- The Phone Friend - Poetry by David Francis
- War and children - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: November 18, 2013. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Fifty-Year Look Back 1963-2013 - Part I - Manuel García, Jr.
- Who Was Laurens Van Der Post? - Part II of II - Michael Barker
- Leftists, Saudi Arabia, & Syria - Gilles d'Aymery
- National Security - Film Review by Gregory Elich
- Of Champions And Martyrs - Book Review by Paul Buhle
- Mock Review Of An Inflated Memoir - Book Review by Jonah Raskin
- Whistling In The Graveyard - Travelogue by Peter Byrne
- Paris I: Memories & Laughter - Travelogue by Jonah Raskin
- Where Is Home - Poetry by David Francis
- For the 87 Immigrants Who Died in Niger - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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December 2013
Issue date: December 2, 2013. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Fifty-Year Look Back 1963-2013 - Part II - Manuel García, Jr.
- Token Thoughts From A Game Of Monopoly - Glenn Reed
- The Two Fiefdoms Of Higher Education - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
- Thankful That It's Over - Jan Baughman
- ADIZ Through The Looking Glass - Gilles d'Aymery
- WWF's Special Founders - Michael Barker
- A Note On Doris Lessing, 1919-2013 - Peter Byrne
- Paris II: A Night In The 19th District - Travelogue by Jonah Raskin
- On the Road In Rural France - Travelogue by Jonah Raskin
- Cold In Colmar — And Mythic, Too - Travelogue by Jonah Raskin
- France Travelogue VI: 1789 And All That - Travelogue by Jonah Raskin
- French Travelogue Conclusion: Happy In Bordeaux - Travelogue by Jonah Raskin
- Bible - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
Issue date: December 16, 2013. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
A Special Issue: Perspectives on 2013
- The Death Of A Bookman, André Schiffrin 1935-2013 - (In Memoriam) Peter Byrne
- 2013 Brings To Mind A T.S. Eliot Poem - Glenn Reed
- A Year Of Bitter Laughter And Loathing - Peter Byrne
- War again 2013 - Guido Monte & His Students
- Not A Grand Cru - Gilles d'Aymery
- 2013: Distractions And The Hubris Of Power - Jan Baughman
- A Review Of 2013 In Japan - Kazue Daikoku
- 2013 And Its Delusions Of Progress - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
- A Year Of Revelations - Paul Buhle
- Socialist Inspiration - Michael Barker
- A Life And A Death In A California Town - Jonah Raskin
- A Personal Look Back From 2013 - Manuel García, Jr.
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: December 30, 2013. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- 2014 Predictions - SWANS
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