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After months of research, analysis, and months of writing on why the economy is not coming back, among other distractions, Gilles d'Aymery is returning to his Blips in true form, covering everything from inguinal hernias to plantar fasciitis; a missing dog, a stolen article, and Alexander Cockburn's lost marbles; to a positive learning experience with photographer Edward Burtynsky and his friend Marcus Schubert, and more. Regarding those months of research and the stolen article, the (anonymous) folks at peakoil.com stole Part III of Gilles's series, deleting half of the title, the first paragraph, the footnotes, and of course, his name. Oil may not yet have peaked, but for some, ethics certainly have, particularly given the anonymity of the Internet. More on this topic another time...
For today, Michael Barker presents Part 3 of his series on the history of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, including the CIA's and philanthropic organizations' control over the black movement. Michael DeLang offers a unique approach for US citizens to counter the increasing influence of corporations on politics. Much in the news is the WikiLeaks Web site, and while Francis Shor believes it is providing valuable and otherwise suppressed information from the war on Iraq, the documents do not give an Iraqi perspective on the atrocities -- for that, one has to look to other sources. For his part, Charles Marowitz could live without the social networking Web sites that demean language and devalue the very notion of friends. And speaking of devaluation, Charles Pearson examines the eurozone and the neoliberal attack on democracy and the working classes in the EU, and Michael Doliner considers the limitations on physics given its proponents' greatest fear.
The culture corner is bursting with creativity, from film noir enthusiast Jonah Raskin's anticipation of the upcoming movie The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo; Peter Byrne's examination of the unstable afterlife and metamorphosis of artist Paul Gauguin; Fabio De Propris's look at the world-wide embrace of American pop culture, which lives on even while the country's clout diminishes at home and abroad; and le coin français, with offerings from Marie Rennard, Christian Cottard, Simone Alié-Daram, and Alfred Jarry. We conclude with the poetry of Guido Monte and Maxwell Clark, and as always, your letters.
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Gilles d'Aymery: Blips #101
A few selected issues that landed on the distracted Editor's desk, from inguinal hernias to plantar fasciitis; a missing dog, a stolen article, and Alexander Cockburn's lost marbles; to a positive learning experience with photographer Edward Burtynsky and his friend Marcus Schubert, and more. More...
Michael Barker: Elite Philanthropy, SNCC, And The Civil Rights Movement (Part III of III)
Part III of a three-part review of the history of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. More...
Michael DeLang: Reforming Broadcast Media
The author presents a unique approach for US citizens to counter the increasing influence of corporations on politics. More...
Francis Shor: WikiLeaks' Limited Vision
While WikiLeaks is providing valuable and otherwise suppressed information on the actualities on the ground in the war on Iraq, it does not give an Iraqi perspective on the atrocities -- for that, one has to look to other sources such as Baghdad Burning. More...
Charles Marowitz: Facebook Follies
How social networking increases the impersonal under the guise of the personal. More...
Charles Pearson: Europe: A Union Of Capital
Neoliberal attack on democracy and the working classes in the EU and resistance to it. More...
Michael Doliner: Scientific World Pictures
On scientific world pictures and the incoherent formulations that slip by in the realm of physics. More...
Jonah Raskin: Stieg Larsson's Dark Vision & Hollywood
A sucker for film noir, Raskin is waiting on the edge of his seat for the release of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. More...
Peter Byrne: The Tumultuous Afterlife Of Paul Gauguin
Peter Byrne considers the unstable afterlife and metamorphosis of artist Paul Gauguin, whose volatile posthumous life is far from over. More...
Fabio De Propris: Love Me Tender (Far From Walhalla)
Fabio De Propris considers the world-wide embrace of American pop culture, which will keep the music going in cyberspace even while the country's clout, along with that of the West, diminishes at home and abroad. More...
Marie Rennard: Un auteur, un livre, Richard Beard
La littérature anglaise d'hier à aujourd'hui. More...
Christian Cottard: Quatre saisons
Quatre saisons, et si peu d'une. More...
Simone Alié-Daram: Petit sonnet d'hiver
Un soleil qui ensorcelle la blanche lumière de la neige. More...
Alfred Jarry: La Femme Esclave
Une vue de la condition féminine. More...
Guido Monte: lament of a prisoner, part II
Guido Monte continues his description of an imaginary prisoner's lament -- a metaphor of our usual life. More...
Maxwell Clark: Digi-Greenland Of The Heart
A rhodomontade, a dithyramb, a reverie... More...
On Gilles d'Aymery's excellent three-part series on the US economy, a defense of CO2 emissions, plastics, and the American way of life, and an Eritrean reaches out to the American public and thinkers like those at Swans, considering Gregory Elich's Zimbabwe Under Siege. More...
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