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As we put this edition together, US legislators are behind closed doors compromising away the economy and the well being of the majority of its citizens in favor of the elite. Once again, the threat of a looming crisis is being used to implement an agenda -- recall 9/11 and the freedoms we forfeited in the name of "security"? And yet, on what will the elite enrich themselves after they've completely bankrupted the people? Whether the leaders that are perpetuating this self-destructing spiral are clueless or malevolent is a question that Gilles d'Aymery poses in Part I of his analysis on the ongoing financial and economic crisis. Our leaders would be well advised to scrutinize his shocking assessment. Meanwhile, another shocker is the source of funding behind the Stanford Prison Experiment, which Michael Barker reveals in Part III on his series examining this manufactured abusive prison environment whose impact reverberates to this day.
Reaching for the book, Louis Proyect's experience with schizophrenia in loved ones gives him an appreciation for Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia: a Father and Son's Story, which illuminates one of society's most intractable and least understood public health problems. Peter Byrne continues to read Michel Houellebecq -- his reviews make you wonder why, but for the joy of the critique, and critique he does well. Next, Karen Moller gives us a heartrending preview of her upcoming novel, Forbidden Play.
For a bit of humor, consider Charles Marowitz's insightful interview with Barack Obama and the legend he is defining as we speak. In the poetry corner, we feature Raju Peddada and a collection of multilingual thoughts that Guido Monte jots on little pieces of paper. We return to Gilles d'Aymery and his Blips on the far right's call for the destruction of the other and the lunatics that respond; the Project on Government Secrecy and the Obama administration's silencing of whistleblowers; to his sensational birthday followed by an equally joyful visit from brother Femi Akomolafe, and more. Your letters on Isidor Saslav, overconsumption, conservation, and debt and spending round out this issue. All that, and the legislators have yet to emerge with a plan...
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Gilles d'Aymery: Clueless Or Malevolent "Leaders"? - Part I - The Financial Crisis
In Part I of this analysis of the global financial crisis, we learn that it is not a crisis of liquidity, but one of solvency; and the real solution remains off limit in the corridors of power. More...
Michael Barker: Challenging The Stanford Prison Experiment (Part III of III)
Part III of a three-part series on the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the best known psychology experiments ever undertaken. More...
Louis Proyect: Henry's Demons: A Review
Louis Proyect's experience with schizophrenia in loved ones gives him an appreciation for the book he reviews, Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia: a Father and Son's Story, which illuminates one of society's most intractable public health problems and makes an enormous contribution to our knowledge of this little-understood disease. More...
Peter Byrne: Off The Map
A review of La carte et le territoire, whose author Michel Houellebecq was winner of the 2010 Prix Goncourt; amusing and easier to bear than the flashy French celebrity Bernard-Henri Lévy. More...
Karen Moller: A Taste Of Mortality In A Pocket Of Pain
An excerpt of Karen Moller's Forbidden Play, a novel to be published in the fall of 2011. More...
Charles Marowitz: Exclusive Interview With President Obama
Charles Marowitz imagines interviewing President Barack Obama on his rhetoric that substitutes for action. More...
Raju Peddada: My Devolution
A poetic tribute to the power of the lush pink flesh. More...
Guido Monte: on little pieces of paper
A multilingual translation of thoughts that Guido Monte sometimes writes on the road or at school, on little pieces of papers, and then he puts them in his pockets, or in a drawer... More...
Gilles d'Aymery: Blips #114
A few selected issues that landed on the Editor's desk, from the far right's call for the destruction of the other and the lunatics that respond; the Project on Government Secrecy, the Obama administration's silencing of whistleblowers, and the latest victim of the injustice system, Thomas Andrews Drake; to this Editor's sensational birthday followed by an equally joyful visit from brother Femi Akomolafe, and more. More...
Fan mail for Isidor Saslav's "Chaconne, Anyone?"; old thinking that more is cheaper, in response to Gilles d'Aymery's Blips on the price of propane; and a counterpoint with new thinking on conservation. More...
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