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Je préfère une seule fraise sauvage à tous les lauriers du monde
--Max Ernst

• Bernie Madoff And The Establishment - Gilles d'Aymery - Jan. 09
• Society's Moral Hazard - Jan Baughman - Dec. 08
• E Pluribus Unum - Charles Marowitz - Dec. 08
• Remaining Silent About Obama - Gilles d'Aymery - Dec. 08
• Progressive Social Change In The "Ivory Tower"? - Michael Barker - Dec. 08
• The Early Days Of The Nation Magazine - Louis Proyect - Nov. 08
• Co-opting Intellectual Aggressors: The "Progressive" Face of the CIA - Michael Barker - Nov. 08
• The Philanthropic Roots Of Corporate Environmentalism - Michael Barker - Nov. 08
• Threatened But Not Protected - Jan Baughman - Nov. 08
• What Is Authority? - Michael Doliner - Nov. 08
• The Alleged Relevance Of Human Rights For The US Economic Crisis - Aleksandar Jokic - Nov. 08
• The New York Times "Reports" On The National Endowment For Democracy - Michael Barker - Oct. 08
• Fate - Ted Dace - Oct. 08
• Imperial Media Manipulators Assistance - Michael Barker - Oct. 08
• What Parable Is This? The Old Woman Said - Carol Warner Christen - Oct. 08
• En Passant - Charles Marowitz - Sept. 08
• The Situation In Georgia As I See It - Michael Doliner - Aug. 08
• The Project For A New American Humanitarianism - Michael Barker - Aug. 08
• Waging Democracy On China: Human Rights and an Endowment for Democracy - Michael Barker - July 08
• The Soros Media "Empire": The Power of Philanthropy to Engineer Consent - Michael Barker - July 08
• Theft: Our National Pastime - Carol Warner Christen - June 08
• Forgive Us Our Debts - Charles Pearson - June 08
• The Insatiable Quest For "Cheap" Energy - Michael Pravica - June 08
• My Bailout - Michael Doliner - June 08
• Spoils Of War - Charles Marowitz - June 08
• My Mere View Of The Year 1968 - Carol Warner Christen - June 08
• Whatever Became Of What's-His-Name, The Radical? - Louis Proyect - June 08
• Exercises In Nostalgia -- 1968 - Gilles d'Aymery - June 08
• Human All Too Human - Michael Doliner - May 08
• Down To Earth At Home - Carol Warner Christen - May 08
• May Day, M'Aidez - Jan Baughman - May 08
• How Many Connections Does It Take? - Carol Warner Christen - May 08
• It's Not Over Until The States Sing - Carol Warner Christen - Apr. 08
• Nightmare Political Scenario - Joel S. Hirschhorn - Apr. 08
• Power, Profits, Propaganda Unbound - Carol Warner Christen - Apr. 08
• Blips #68 - Gilles d'Aymery - Apr., 08
• Is Our Planet Earth A Chessboard? - Carol Warner Christen - March 08
• An Assessment Of The Eleventh Hour - Carol Warner Christen - March 08
• One Final Corporative Capitalist Empire - Carol Warner Christen - Feb. 08
• A Critical Assessment Of Corporations - Michael Doliner - Feb. 08
• The Other Light - Carol Warner Christen - Feb. 08
• Opening Our Eyes: Reality Or Dream? - Carol Warner Christen - Jan. 08
• Artificial Bramble: Segregation And Subjugation - Part I - Gilles d'Aymery - Jan. 08
• Who Else Is Afraid Of Michael Moore? - Peter Byrne - Jan. 08
• The Insurgent Word: Fear - Gerard Donnelly Smith - Jan. 08
• End The Empire: A Polemic - Michael Doliner - Jan. 08
• Dodo Lives - Martin Murie - Jan. 08
• Acrimonious Acronyms And The USA FUBAR - Jan Baughman - Jan. 08
• Of Sunnis, Shi'ites, And Strauss - Michael Doliner - Jan. 08
• Language Shapes Reality - Gerard Donnelly Smith - Dec. 07
• Where Are The Open Unprejudiced Minds? - Philip Greenspan - Dec. 07
• How Do They Sleep At Night? - Charles H. Pearson - Dec. 07
• Master Recipe - Carol Warner Christen - Dec. 07
• Whither Green Utopias: Journey To The Past Or Visions Of Future? - Arnab Roy Chowdhury - Nov. 07
• Praying For Some Sanity - Jan Baughman - Nov. 07
• The Inexorable March Into Iran - Gilles d'Aymery - Nov. 07
• We Hold These Truths - Michael Doliner - Nov. 07
• The Insurgent Word: Waterboarding - Gerard Donnelly Smith - Nov. 07
• Torture Is An Abomination To Humankind - Carol Warner Christen - Nov. 07
• The New Obscenities - Charles Marowitz - Oct. 07
• Après Bush! Le Déluge? - Philip Greenspan - Oct. 07
• Lying Is Free Speech? - Gerard Donnelly Smith - Oct. 07
• Lonesome Outsiders - Martin Murie - Oct. 07
• Emerging Markets For Investing In Human Misery - Jan Baughman - Oct. 07
• Is It About Why They Hate Us Or About Why We Hate Them? - Carol Warner Christen - Oct. 07
• The Bollinger Effect: Smear And War - Gilles d'Aymery - Oct. 07
• The Ideological Struggle Of The 21st Century - Jan Baughman - Oct. 07
• Keeping Hope On Life Support - Jan Baughman - Aug. 07
• Check Your Sources - Gilles d'Aymery - Aug. 07
• The Senior Senator From West Virginia - Gilles d'Aymery - Aug. 07
• Human Generational Nonsense - Carol Warner Christen - Aug. 07
• The Establishment's Tocsin - Gilles d'Aymery - July 07
• Choice Of Evils - Charles Marowitz - July 07
• The Insurgent Word: Fragments - Gerard Donnelly Smith - June 07
• A Rudderless, Co-opted Antiwar "Movement" - Gilles d'Aymery - June 07
• The Founding Fathers' Fraud - Philip Greenspan - June 07
• Tangled Web Of Life Or Worse - Carol Warner Christen - June 07
• The Greening Of The Peace Movement - Eli Beckerman - June 07
• Has Mankind Become Inhumanly Serious? - Carol Warner Christen - June 07
• In Praise Of Anger - Charles Marowitz - May 07
• Contrasts - Carol Warner Christen - May 07
• On Choosing A Way Of Life - Michael DeLang - May 07
• Open Letter To Mr. Paul Faber, City Councilman - Boris Vian - May 07
• The Fourth World - Charles Marowitz - May 07
• Thoughts 001 - Carol Warner Christen - May 07
• A Tragic Week In The Culture Of Life - Jan Baughman - April 07
• Homemade Politics - Carol Warner Christen - April 07
• Lies And Other Untruths - Milo Clark - April 07
• Questioning Forty Years Of Optimism - Gilles d'Aymery - April 07
• How Did This Happen? - Carol Warner Christen - April 07
• Seymour Hersh, A Closet Swans Scanner? - Milo Clark - April 07
• Devices And Things - Martin Murie - March 07
• Whose Free Will? - Carol Warner Christen - March 07
• Overdue Correction, Not Excessive. . . - Milo Clark - March 07
• The First Conscious Thought And Its Implications - Carol Warner Christen - Feb. 07
• PRChina: Quandary Wrapped In Very Ripe Baloney - Milo Clark - Feb. 07
• The Insurgent Word: Loyalty (Continued) (Loyalty to Corporation and Consumption) - Gerard Donnelly Smith - Feb. 07
• Two Views: Reasonable/Rational and Neocon/Born Again - Milo Clark - Feb. 07
• The Insurgent Word: Zhōng ("Loyalty") - Gerard Donnelly Smith - Jan. 07
• The 5^th Estate - Bruce Patterson - Jan. 07
• The "New" Way Forward - Jan Baughman - Jan. 07
• The Breakdown of Nations - Milo Clark - Jan. 07
• Fear, Distraction, Hypnosis, And The National Attention Span - Carol Warner Christen - Jan. 07
• Oil, The Elites, And The Commons - Gilles d'Aymery - Jan. 07
• When And How Might It End? - Philip Greenspan - Jan. 07
• Implosions 2007? - Milo Clark - Jan. 07
• The Soldiers Among Us - Jan Baughman - Jan. 07
• Failure And Truth - Michael DeLang - Jan. 07
• Empire And Glory - Martin Murie - Jan. 07
• A Good Start - Bruce Patterson - Jan. 07
• What Happens To The Decent Kids Who Enlist - Philip Greenspan - Jan. 07
• The Insurgent Word: Education - Gerard Donnelly Smith - Jan. 07
• The Middle Scenario - Milo Clark - Dec. 06
• A Complex Education For Misery - Philip Greenspan - Dec. 06
• The Grind - Bruce Patterson - Nov. 06
• No Longer Looking For Good Hands - Troy Headrick - Nov. 06
• The Unbanality Of Genocidalism - Aleksandar Jokic - Nov. 06
• Afghanistan: Who, What, Where, When, And Why? - Milo Clark - Nov. 06
• Fourth Generation Warfare And The Limits Of Empire - Robert Wrubel - Oct. 06
• Diplomacy - Milo Clark - Oct. 06
• Dead Earnest - Charles Marowitz - Oct. 06
• The Insurgent Word: Survival - Gerard Donnelly Smith - Oct. 06
• State Of Nature, II - Martin Murie - Oct. 06
• The Classroom And The Class Struggle - Louis Proyect - Sept. 06
• Road Kill - Martin Murie - Sept. 06
• "In Light Of This New Environment" - Gerard Donnelly Smith - Sept. 06
• The Importance Of Remembering Things Past - Martin Murie - Sept. 06
• The Insurgent Word: Incursion - Gerard Donnelly Smith - Sept. 06
• Ecstasy Of Blindness - Gilles d'Aymery - Sept. 06
• Blowback From Shock And Awe - Philip Greenspan - Sept. 06
• September 11, Nineteen Eighty-Four - Jan Baughman - Sept. 06
• The More I Learn, The Less I Know - Milo Clark - Aug. 06
• Shame - Milo Clark - Aug. 06
• Who Wins, Who Loses - Philip Greenspan - Aug. 06
• A Brief Report On My Brush With Tony Blair - Jan Baughman - Aug. 06
• Other Ponds - Milo Clark - July 06
• A Day In The Life - Michael Doliner - July 06
• The Insurgent Word: Apocalypse - Gerard Donnelly Smith - July 06
• Peter Handke And The Watch Dogs Of War - Diana Johnstone - June 06
• The Report On Ward Churchill - Tom Mayer - June 06
• Three Faces Of Ostracism - Gilles d'Aymery - June 06
• The Insurgent Word: Freedom - Gerard Donnelly Smith - June 06
• The Telecommunications Act Of 1996 - Seth Sandronsky - June 06
• Oh, Gawd! - Milo Clark - June 06
• Red Desert - Martin Murie - June 06
• The Last Petal - Michael Doliner - May 06
• Can The Status Be Un-Quo'ed? - Philip Greenspan - May 06
• Climate: Weather Compounded - Milo Clark - May 06
• The Peter Handke Controversy - Gilles d'Aymery - May 06
• Imperialism And Plagiarism - Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan - May 06
• The Insurgent Word: Signs - Gerard Donnelly Smith - April 06
• Judas Gospel: A Major Revisionary Approach To Easter? - George Beres - April 06
• Paris: Center Of Anti-Corporate Globalization Today - Raymond Garcia - April 06
• Creative Destruction: From Iraq To Iran - Gilles d'Aymery - April 06
• Dispossession - Milo Clark - April 06
• Herrenvolk And Untermenschen Now And Then - Seth Sandronsky - April 06
• Who's The Enemy? - Philip Greenspan - March 06
• Totalitarianism Then And Now - Michel Doliner - March 06
• The Insurgent Word: Information Environment - Gerard Donnelly Smith - March 06
• Repeating Disaster - Deck Deckert - March 06
• Rhetoric And Reality: Democracy And Hypocrisy - Philip Greenspan - March 06
• Naqshbandi And Kohr - Milo Clark - March 06
• Charles Porter: The Loss Of A Great Oregonian - George Beres - March 06
• Eternal War - Deck Deckert - Feb. 06
• Distortions Of Casualties: American Wounded, And Dead, From Iraq - Don L. Durivan - Feb. 06
• Science Fiction . . . Altered Or Alternative Reality - Milo Clark - Feb. 06
• This Is A Man's World - Jan Baughman - Jan. 06
• What Is Science Fiction? - Milo Clark - Jan. 06
• What If I Got It Wrong? - Milo Clark - Jan. 06
• À Votre Santé - Jan Baughman - Jan. 06
• The Shamefulness Of That Shamelessness - Michael Doliner - Jan. 06
• Holding Breath - Milo Clark - Jan. 06
• The Bottom Line On Two Wars - Philip Greenspan - Jan. 06
• I'm Shocked, Shocked - Deck Deckert - Nov. 05
• Better Dead Than... - Philip Greenspan - Nov. 05
• Why We Should Never Go To War - Robert Wrubel - Nov. 05
• Iran And US Foreign Policy Designs - Ardeshir Ommani - Nov. 05
• Debunking Bob Woodward - Louis Proyect - Nov. 05
• Re-Reading Wittgenstein To Grok Now - Milo Clark - Nov. 05
• Cold Porridge, The Morning After - Robert Wrubel - Nov. 05
• The Politics Of No Choice - William T. Hathaway - Nov. 05
• Impeachment Is Just Another Word, For Nothing Left To Lose - Deck Deckert - Nov. 05
• When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Go To Asia - Jan Baughman - Nov. 05
• Property, Privilege, And Oil - Milo Clark - Nov. 05
• Democracy, Let's Bring It Here - Philip Greenspan - Nov. 05
• The Tenor Of Our Times - William T. Hathaway - Nov. 05
• Krugman Feels Administration Is Nearing A Train Wreck - George Beres - Nov. 05
• The Insurgent Word: Piss Off - Gerard Donnelly Smith - Nov. 05
• Katrina, Iraq, And The Absence Of Values - Audra Himes - Oct. 05
• New Orleans: The Pain From A Hyena's Bite - Stevan Konstantinović - Oct. 05
• Moral Suasion Or Racism At Work - Milo Clark - Oct. 05
• The Insurgent Word: Genocide - Gerard Donnelly Smith - Oct. 05
• American Character - Gerard Donnelly Smith - Sept. 05
• Neo-Liberal Vs. Socialist Hurricanes - Gilles d'Aymery - Sept. 05
• The Leader Of The Opposition - Charles Marowitz - Sept. 05
• Too Much Tolerance By Americans Could Feed Fascism - George Beres - Sept. 05
• Katrina: A Missed uh Messed Opportunity For Bush - Philip Greenspan - Sept. 05
• Lines - Linda Eve Diamond - Sept. 05
• The Katrina Anomaly - Milo Clark - Aug. 05
• The Insurgent Word: Suicide - Gerard Donnelly Smith - Aug. 05
• The Declining Sole Superpower - Philip Greenspan - Aug. 05
• Torture - Milo Clark - Aug. 05
• "Terrorism" And "Security" - Michael Doliner - Aug. 05
• A New Kind of Warfare - Philip Greenspan - Aug. 05
• New Actuality In The Old Set? - Milo Clark - Aug. 05
• Blowback From The A-Bombs - Philip Greenspan - Aug. 05
• Imperial Revolutions - Michael Brooks - July 05
• Defining The Enemy - Charles Marowitz - July 05
• Prelude To A Military Disengagement - Philip Greenspan - July 05
• A Teacher to Emulate: Richard Macintosh (1933-2005) - Gilles d'Aymery - June 05
• My Friend, Richard - Alma A. Hromic - June 05
• Richard And Me - Deck Deckert - June 05
• Spinning Out Of Control: US Transgressions In The News - Jan Baughman - May 05
• Penetrating The Closed Mind With The Truth - Philip Greenspan - May 05
• "Un-American" Questions - Richard Macintosh - May 05
• American Diktat, Russian Polls: The Presidential Press Conference - Jan Baughman - May 05
• Mommy, Is Aunt Sally In The Rice Puffs? - Don Fitz - May 05
• Making Meaning - Richard Macintosh - April 05
• Another Day In The Life - Jan Baughman - April 05
• Genetic Or Cultural? - Milo Clark - April 05
• Courage IV - Richard Macintosh - April 05
• The Nature Of Democracy - Michael Doliner - April 05
• Of Margaret Mitchell, Blind Willie McTell, Wonder Bread, New York City Real Estate, And The Road To Proto-Fascism - Phil Rockstroh - April 05
• The Unlearned Lesson Of Joseph K. - Anna Kuros - March. 05
• A Marine Son's Story - Nicholas DeVincenzo - March 05
• Spring In Mind - Milo Clark - March 05
• Scores for Wars: Where Have Wars Taken The U.S.? - Philip Greenspan - March 05
• Puzzlement - Walter Laqueur Four - Milo Clark - March 05
• The Insurgent Word: "Persona Non Grata" - Gerard Donnelly Smith - March 05
• The Open Society Revisited - Michael DeLong - March 05
• Side Effects Of Perverted Brains - Philip Greenspan - March 05
• Profiling, Torture & Knowledge - Francis Raven - March 05
• Never Underestimate The Power Of Fear - Milo Clark - March. 05
• A Comparison Of Three Wartime Leaders - Philip Greenspan - Feb. 05
• Learning From The Classics - Charles Marowitz - Feb. 05
• New Boots In The Quagmire - Michael Doliner - Feb. 05
• Freedom And Democracy On The March - Gilles d'Aymery - Feb. 05
• Implosion Time? - Milo Clark - Feb. 05
• Musings On Natural Disasters - Charles Marowitz - Feb. 05
• Terrorism Upgraded To Normality - Walter Laqueur Two - Milo Clark - Jan. 05
• The Upside Down - Walter Laqueur One - Milo Clark - Jan. 05
• The Insurgent Word: Bring It On? - Gerard Donnelly Smith - Jan. 05
• God And Country - Manuel García, Jr. - Jan. 05
• Tsunami Relief: A Study In Hypocrisy - Joe Davison - Jan. 05
• Morality, Reason and Reichs - Milo Clark - Jan. 05
• 2004: Diary Of A Man In Despair - Michael Doliner - Dec. 04
• On Attendance Of A Funeral In The Rural South: Empire, Jesus, And The Death Gene - Phil Rockstroh - Nov. 04
• Beginning Of The End Or End Of The Beginning? - Milo Clark - Aug. 04
• Rot - Richard Macintosh - June 04
• The Bankruptcy Of Progress: The Challenge Of Today - Milo Clark - June 04
• Liturgies Of Hate And Longing: The Uneasy Soul Of Contemporary Conservatism - Phil Rockstroh - April 04
• Patterns Which Do Not Connect - Milo Clark - Feb. 04
• The Language of Evasion - Steven Yoder - Jan. 04
• Julien Benda: The Failure of Imagination and Thought - Gilles d'Aymery - March 03
• Typology Of Ignorance - Milo Clark - Jan. 03
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Or Is It Dystopia? - Gilles d'Aymery - May 02
• Peace, an Illusion of Power - Milo Clark - Jan. 02
• Propaganda: Then and Now - Gilles d'Aymery - Nov. 01
• Differences That Make Differences. . . Patterns Which Connect - Milo Clark - Oct. 02
• The Imperial Conservation Crusade - Gilles d'Aymery - Feb. 01
• Introduction to "Vietnam: A Retrospective" - Gilles d'Aymery - May 00
• Let 'em Eat Cake (Part I) - Gilles d'Aymery - Sept. 1999
• And what else aren't we being told? - Milo Clark - Jan. 1997
• Do as I say... - Gilles d'Aymery - May 1996
• Adam Smith is on Our Side - Milo Clark - May 1996