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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
--Tennessee Williams

 

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

 

Sometimes one can reach happiness that can only be found when one is 20 year-old, without possessing anything.
--Paul Nizan

 

It was like a pebble of salt and it dissolved.
--Arab Proverb

Authors
Gilles d'Aymery Michael Barker Jan Baughman Peter Byrne
Carol Warner Christen Michael Doliner Philip Greenspan Charles Marowitz
Guido Monte Martin Murie Louis Proyect Marie Rennard
Isidor Saslav Swans Other Columnists Occasional Contributors

 

Gilles d'Aymery

2008 In A Nutshell - 12/15
Remaining Silent About Obama - 12/1
Blips #76 - 11/17
The Charade Is Finally Over - 11/3
Blips #75 - 10/20
Blips #74 - 10/6
Blips #73 - 09/22
Ode To Peace And Life (Introduction to Tiziano Terzani's book) - 09/8
Behind The Curtain Of Ron Paul's Disciples - 09/8
Could I Support Obama Instead Of Nader? - 08/25
Blips #72 - 08/11
The Gray Lady's Muzzle - 08/11
Blips #71 - 07/28
What's Your Breaking Point? - 07/14
Want To Waste Your Vote? - 06/30
Bring Back Patrick Fitzgerald: Serve Mr. Bush to Justice - 06/16
Exercises In Nostalgia -- 1968 - 06/2
Meeting Ralph Nader & Matt Gonzalez - 05/19
Blips #70 - 05/19
Obama's Jeremiads And Wright's Right Rhetoric - 05/5
Blips #69 - 04/21
Blips #68 - 04/7
Entertaining Hullabaloo - 03/24
Blips #67 - 03/10
A Loving And Magnificent Human Being - 02/25
Blips #66 - 02/25
Simone de Beauvoir: The Mother Of Us All - 02/11
Blips #65 - 02/11
Artificial Bramble: Segregation And Subjugation - Part I - 01/28
Blips #64 - 01/28
The Zoology Of Pwogs And Pwogrevs - 01/14
Blips #63 - 01/14
Message To Our Readers - 01/1

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Michael Barker

Noam Chomsky And The Power Of Letters - 12/15
Progressive Social Change In The "Ivory Tower"? - 12/1
Co-opting Intellectual Aggressors: The "Progressive" Face of the CIA - 11/17
The Philanthropic Roots Of Corporate Environmentalism - 11/3
The New York Times "Reports" On The National Endowment For Democracy - 10/20
Imperial Media Manipulators Assistance - 10/6
The Project For A New American Humanitarianism - 08/25
Waging Democracy On China: Human Rights and an Endowment for Democracy - 07/28
The Soros Media "Empire": The Power of Philanthropy to Engineer Consent - 07/14
Sharp Reflection Warranted: Nonviolence in the Service of Imperialism - 06/30

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Jan E. Baughman

2008: Emerging From The Smoke - 12/15
Society's Moral Hazard - 12/1
Threatened But Not Protected - 11/3
Confessions Of A Naderite - 10/20
Ice Cream For Diversity - 09/22
Representation Without Taxation - 08/25
Desert Fox Meets Wolf Counselor - 07/28
An Interview With Jürgen Vsych - 07/28
Free The EPA - 07/14
Who's Party Are We Spoiling? - 06/16
Changing The Middle East Course - 05/19
May Day, M'Aidez - 05/5
My Mother, My Teeth - 04/7
Five Years And Still Drinking The Kool-Aid - 03/24
The Increasing Economic Toll On The Masses - 03/10
A Word About Philip Greenspan - 02/25
Poor And Pickled - 02/25
Eleven Shares Of Lockheed Martin - 01/28
Spoiler Today, Rebel Tomorrow - 01/14
Acrimonious Acronyms And The USA FUBAR - 01/1

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Peter Byrne

Bad Dream Of The Year - 12/15
Death Singing - 12/1
He Is Turkey - 11/17
R.I.P. Louis "Studs" Terkel - 1912-2008 - 11/3
A Slow Burn - 11/3
Mimic Man - 10/20
Up From Mississippi - 10/6
In Search Of Djinns - 09/22
Torture For Fun And Uncle Sam - 09/8
Eric & Bert - 08/25
Zen Rides Again - 08/11
Myrn Dreckinbridge Meets Bob Crumbo - 07/28
Delta Dreaming - 07/28
Raging Silence: Charles Marowitz's Silent Partners - 07/14
PR Man For The Black Kings - 06/30
9/11 In The Swamp - 06/16
Norman Mailer, A Noncombatant At The Siege - 06/2
Big Dumpling's Shock And Awe: Mayor Daley's Chicago - 06/2
The False Twins: Art Shay And Nelson Algren - 05/19
The Real French Warm Their Hearts - 05/5
I Shop, You Shop, Why Won't She Shop? - 04/21
Dunstan Prial's The Producer: John Hammond and the Soul of American Music - 04/7
Kate Holden's In My Skin - 03/24
Xolela Mangcu's To The Brink - 03/24
Seaside - 03/10
London Laughing - 02/25
Snared In The Devil's Stocking - 02/11
Not Shutting Up For A Second: Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) - 02/11
Who Else Is Afraid Of Michael Moore? - 01/28
Buy Now And Lighten Up - 01/14
On The Dinka Express - 01/1

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Carol Warner Christen

Methane Is Poisonous - 10/20
What Parable Is This? The Old Woman Said - 10/6
A Disintegrating Nation Being Boiled Slowly Alive - 09/22
Well-Known "Evils" We Never Seem To Learn - 09/8
Expediency Creates Entropy Within The Human Environment - 08/25
Devolution: The New Terrible "Norm" - 08/11
The Sands Of Time Grinding Again Exceedingly Fine - 07/28
Next Target Of The IMF: You, Me, And The United States Of America - 07/14
Theft: Our National Pastime - 06/30
Who Is Like God? - 06/16
My Mere View Of The Year 1968 - 06/2
Down To Earth At Home - 05/19
How Many Connections Does It Take? - 05/5
It's Not Over Until The States Sing - 04/21
Power, Profits, Propaganda Unbound - 04/7
Is Our Planet Earth A Chessboard? - 03/24
An Assessment Of The Eleventh Hour - 03/10
One Final Corporative Capitalist Empire - 02/25
The Other Light - 02/11
To My Brother - 01/28
Opening Our Eyes: Reality Or Dream? - 01/28
Lest We Overlook The Obvious - 01/14
Infamously Incredible Predictions For 2008 - 01/1

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Michael Doliner

What Next? - 12/15
What Is Authority? - 11/3
The Situation In Georgia As I See It - 08/25
James Salter's A Sport and a Pastime - 08/25
Break Down - 07/28
My Bailout - 06/30
Three Memories of Chicago 1968 - 06/2
Human All Too Human - 05/19
The No-State Solution - 04/7
A Quick Look At The Credit Crisis - 03/10
A Critical Assessment Of Corporations - 02/25
Clinton And Obama On Iran And Biofuels - 01/14
End The Empire: A Polemic - 01/14
Of Sunnis, Shi'ites, And Strauss - 01/1

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Philip Greenspan (1926-2008)

Philip Greenspan on Swans
The Secret Ingredient Of Activism: Mutual Support - 01/14
No Beauty Will Win The Beauty Contest - 01/1

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Charles Marowitz

Looking Backward To Ahead - 12/15
E Pluribus Unum - 12/1
Quantum Of Solace - 12/1
The Alchemy of Theatre - 11/17
The First Hundred Days - 11/3
The Letters Of Noel Coward - 10/20
John McCain: Freud To The Rescue - 10/6
En Passant - 09/22
The Fall Of Meyerhold - 09/8
Fusing Brecht & Bentley - 08/25
Ralph Nader: An Unreasonable Man - 08/11
A Wreath For Jo Stafford - 07/28
US Exploitation Of The World - 07/14
George Carlin: 1937-2008 - 06/30
High & Low Comedy On Broadway - 06/30
Spoils Of War - 06/16
Expats' Chicago: London, 1968 - 06/2
Judging The Candidates - 05/19
...And Now For A Short Commercial Break - 05/5
Work Done - 04/21
Bill Bryson's Shakespeare: The World As Stage - 04/21
Heiner Müller's Hamlet Machine - 04/7
Low Crimes & Misdemeanors - 03/24
Jackie Mason: Return Of The Superjew - 03/24
Anthony Slide's New York City Vaudeville - 03/10
Artistic Types - 02/25
Obamania: Curb Your Enthusiasm - 02/11
Cast Of Characters - 01/28
Robert Brustein's Millennial Stages - 01/28
Groucho, Chico, & Harpo - 01/14
Parting Words - 01/1

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Guido Monte & Friends

Future World - 12/15
Vie Mystérieuse - 12/1
Fil Rouge (Omnitude) - 11/17
Mondana Commedia n.6: Bayta (Home) - 11/3
Mondana Commedia n.5: Fine (World Comedy n.5: The End) - 10/20
Mondana Commedia n.4: Limbo (World Comedy n.4: Limbo) - 10/6
Mondana Commedia n.2: Purgatorio (World Comedy n.2: Purgatory) - 09/22
Mondana Commedia n.1: Inferno (World Comedy n.1: Hell) - 08/25
Mondana Commedia n.3: Paradiso (World Comedy n.3: Paradise) - 08/11
Crisi (Crisis) - 07/28
Haiku Number Two - 07/14
Ramo d'Oro - 06/30
Today - 06/16
Atman - 05/19
Oltre (Beyond) - 05/5
Journey... n.6: Words Through A Deep Night - 04/21
Dialogue - 04/7
...Temps Nouveaux - 03/24
Journey... n.5: Sphinx - 03/10
Katábasis - 02/25
Journey To The Sleep Doors n. 4: Foglie - 02/11
Journey To The Sleep Doors n.3: The Golden Bough - 01/28
Porte - 01/14
Journey To The Sleep Doors: Sybilla - 01/1

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Martin Murie

Two Lizards - 12/15
Nature - 12/1
Today And Tomorrow - 11/17
Sarah Palin's Dodo - 10/20
Low Life - 09/22
Denver Braying - 09/8
Patrolling The Fringes - 08/11
Fringes - 07/14
Wolves And Us - 06/16
Then, Now, And Tomorrow - 06/2
Hearts And Minds - 05/19
Wolf - 05/5
Polar Bear Stand-Off - 04/21
Murder - 04/7
Streets, Doors, Offices - 03/24
Leaders - 03/10
Second Sex - 02/25
Pristine - 02/11
Five Minutes To Midnight, Part Two - 01/28
One Minute To Midnight - 01/14
Dodo Lives - 01/1

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Louis Proyect

Why Third Way Politics Refuses To Die - 12/15
The Early Days Of The Nation Magazine - 11/17
Carlton Jackson's Child of the Sit-Downs - 10/6
Red Inside, Green Outside: Our Great Loss - Peter Camejo (1939-2008) - 09/22
Jesse James: The Myth And The Man - 09/22
Tim Russert In Retrospect - 06/16
Whatever Became Of What's-His-Name, The Radical? - 06/2
Simone de Beauvoir's The Coming of Age - 02/11
The Crime Novels Of Patricia Highsmith - 01/28

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Marie Rennard

The Mad Is Standing On The Roof... - 12/1
Head Up! - 10/20
Miswedding - 09/22
Song Of The Gone - 08/11
Outlandish Sail - 07/28
Thirty Seconds Echo - 07/14
Omnium-Gatherum - 04/7
Smelly Step To The Last Door - 03/24
The Unfinished Business Of Simone de Beauvoir - 02/11
Priapic And Libidinous - 01/1

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Isidor Saslav

Pictures At Another Exhibition - 05/19
Jay Greenberg: A Korngold For Our Times - 05/5
Galway In Texas - 03/10
Five Films, Three Operas, And A Mystery Symphony In New York - 01/1

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SWANS

Swans: 2008 US Elections: Recommendations - 10/20
Tiziano Terzani: LETTERS AGAINST THE WAR - 09/8
Lee Iacocca: Had Enough? (Book Excerpt) - 07/14
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Fragments Of 1968 (translation by Guido Monte) - 06/2
Swans: How To Help The Nader-Gonzalez '08 Campaign - 06/2
Swans: 2008 Predictions - 01/1

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Other Columnists

Karen Moller: Art Shay's Traces Of A Bygone America - 06/2
Karen Moller: Simone de Beauvoir One Hundred Years After Her Birth - 02/11
R. Scott Porter: 2008, Privilege vs. Competence - 12/15
R. Scott Porter: Population Control - 12/1
R. Scott Porter: The Light - 11/17
R. Scott Porter: The Middle Ground - 11/3
R. Scott Porter: Willpower - 10/20
R. Scott Porter: American Wars On Herself And Others - 10/6
R. Scott Porter: The Government We Deserve - 09/22
R. Scott Porter: Nature And Man - 09/8
R. Scott Porter: Madness - 08/25
R. Scott Porter: Orange Blossoms - 08/11
R. Scott Porter: The Circus - 07/14
Art Shay: Auto Eroticism - 12/15
Art Shay: Rare Medium - 09/22
Art Shay: Chicago's Gay Parade And Related Gay Memories - 07/14
Art Shay: Shooting Szell In Cleveland - 06/30
Art Shay: The Democratic Convention -- Chicago 1968 - 06/2

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Occasional Contributors

Femi Akomolafe: Ghana: A Review Of 2008 - 12/15
Ted Dace: Fate - 10/6
Michael Eddins: Without You - 12/1
Michael Eddins: Black - 10/6
Michael Eddins: Nature - 06/16
Joel S. Hirschhorn: Neo-Progressives Sell Out To Democrats - 09/8
Joel S. Hirschhorn: Misplaced Blame Undermines Democracy - 08/11
Joel S. Hirschhorn: Fighting Resistance To Voting for Ralph Nader - 06/16
Joel S. Hirschhorn: Nightmare Political Scenario - 04/21
Aleksandar Jokic: The Alleged Relevance Of Human Rights For The US Economic Crisis - 11/3
Aaron Karmin: Different Gods - 04/21
Xolela Mangcu: Harold Washington: A Mainstream Radical Against The Machine - 06/16
John M. Marshall: Meadow Of The Mountains, The First 9/11 - 03/10
Joe Middleton: Mass Petition Planned For Independence Referendum - 03/10
Ralph Nader: What We Accomplished Together - 11/17
Ralph Nader: We Will Decide! - 09/8
Ralph Nader: Message To Friends And Supporters - 08/11
Charles Pearson: Forgive Us Our Debts - 06/30
Raju Peddada: Bollywood Bungles - 11/17
Raju Peddada: Travels In Morocco: Our Brands are our Goodwill Ambassadors - 11/3
Raju Peddada: Acquired Taste: Seeing Beyond The Obvious - 10/20
Raju Peddada: A Slow Shutter On Art Shay - 10/6
Michael Pravica: The Insatiable Quest For "Cheap" Energy - 06/30
Michael Pravica: Censorship And The Yugoslav Civil Wars - 05/5
Karen Ritenour: A Heavenly Satire: Satan Repents - 08/11
Karen Ritenour: A Hell Of Heaven And Vice Versa Revelations - 07/14
Gerard Donnelly Smith: The Insurgent Word: Fear - 01/14
Gerard Donnelly Smith: The Insurgent Word: Surge - 01/1
Walter Trkla: American Economy Predicaments - 10/20
Irving Wardle: The Chicago Conspiracy - 06/2
Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.: The African-American Religious Experience: Theology & Practice - 05/5

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Swans - ISSN: 1554-4915
URL: http://www.swans.com/library/a2008.html
Created: December 20, 2007
Last Updated: December 15, 2008