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We face neither East nor West. We face forward.
--Kwame Nkrumah

 

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
--John Ciardi

 

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
--Bertold Brecht

 

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
--George Bernard Shaw

 

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
--John Kenneth Galbraith

 

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
--Anatole France

 

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
--Karl Marx

 

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
--Alexis de Tocqueville

 

Someone once said that life is not a bed of roses -- an Italian proverb, I hear. A fair assessment to say the least, except for the thorns that are very real and keep the bloody world churning.
--Gilles d'Aymery

 

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
--George Bernard Shaw

Authors
Femi Akomolafe Simone Alié-Daram Gilles d'Aymery Michael Barker
Jan Baughman Paul Buhle Peter Byrne Maxwell Clark
Christian Cottard Manuel García Charles Marowitz Guido Monte
Fabio De Propris Raju Peddada Louis Proyect Jonah Raskin
Marie Rennard Isidor Saslav Swans Harvey Whitney
in memoriam Other Columnists Occasional Contributors  

 

Femi Akomolafe

What A Year! - 12/19
Nigeria: Siasia As A Metaphor - 11/21
Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others - 11/7
Of School Uniforms And Other Jazz - 10/10
Nigeria: End Of African-Centered Foreign Policy - 09/12
Who Owns Papa's Land? - 07/18
Surprising Europe - 07/4
On Party And National Interests - 06/6
Killing Osama, Again! - 05/23
The Attack On Libya: A Commentary - 04/25
Reflections On The Tunisian Revolution And Other Arising Matters - 03/14
Ghana MPs Clamor For Higher Pay! - 02/28
Nigeria National Assembly: Jumbo Pay For Little Work - 02/14
Mickey Mouse Independent Nations - 01/31
Beating Swords Into Ploughshares - 01/17

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Simone Alié-Daram

Actualités en 6-12 (FR) - 12/5
Petite ballade (FR) - 11/7
Chronos (FR) - 09/12
Un mot à toutes les sauces : La résilience (FR) - 07/4
Dans la salle de bains (FR) - 06/6
Voiles (FR) - 04/25
Penseur des rues (FR) - 03/28

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Gilles d'Aymery

Introduction To Swans 2011 Perspectives - 12/19
Atherosclerosis - 12/19
Blips #119 - 12/5
Blips #118 - 11/21
Blips #117 - 11/7
Ongoing Violence - 10/24
Growing Indignation - 10/10
Blips #116 - 09/26
Clueless Or Malevolent "Leaders"? - Part II - The Economic Crisis - 09/12
Yiddishkeit: Fun Dor Tsu Dor - 08/29
Blips #115 - 08/15
Blips #114 - 08/1
Clueless Or Malevolent "Leaders"? - Part I - The Financial Crisis - 08/1
Blips #113 - 07/18
Blips #112 - 06/20
Paul D. Ryan: Stealth Randian? - 06/6
Blips #111 - 05/23
Blips #110 - 05/9
Blips #109 - 04/25
Blips #108 - 04/11
Blips #107 - 03/28
Blips #106 - 03/14
Blips #105 - 02/28
Blips #104 - 02/14
Blips #103 - 01/31
The State Of Delusion - 01/31
Blips #102 - 01/17

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Michael Barker

Richard Branson's Year - 12/19
Eugenic Propaganda, Old And New - Part I - 12/5
The Original Population Bomb - Part II - 11/21
The Original Population Bomb - Part I - 11/7
William Vogt And Malthusian Conservation - 10/24
The Invisible Planners: Part II of II - 10/10
The Invisible Planners: Part I of II - 09/26
AFL-CIO: Solidarity Or Sabotage? - 09/12
Resistance Or Tyranny - 08/29
Jon Snow's Big Society: (Part II of II) - 08/29
Jon Snow's Big Society: (Part I of II) - 08/15
Challenging The Stanford Prison Experiment (Part III of III) - 08/1
Challenging The Stanford Prison Experiment (Part II of III) - 07/18
Challenging The Stanford Prison Experiment (Part I of III) - 07/4
Capitalising On Nonviolence - 06/20
Blinded By Jim Crow - 06/6
The American Hijacking Of The Philippines' "People-Power" Struggle - 05/23
The Reality Of American Supremacy In Hollywood - 05/9
Post-Dictatorship [Red White And] Blues Brings Low-Intensity Warfare To The Philippines - 04/25
People Power Leashed: Kurt Schock on the Ousting of Dictators - 04/11
Reporting On Egyptian Workers: Solidarity in the Name of Capitalism - 03/28
Blinded By People Power: Stephen Zunes on the Ousting of Dictators - 03/14
The Velvet Slipper And The Military-Peace Nonprofit Complex - 02/28
Promoting The Real Spirit of America - 02/14
The First Sexual Revolution And Its Discontents - 01/31

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Jan E. Baughman

A Stormy Year - 12/19
Occupiers Against Wall Street Meet Veterans Against The War - 11/21
From Arab Spring To American Fall - 10/10
The Best Of Times, The Worst Of Times - 09/26
Ten Years Of Forgetting - 09/12
I Want My NYT: Rural Delivery, from the Sublime to the Ridiculous - 08/15
Help Wanted: A rural struggle with The New York Times delivery - 07/4
Tea Party Envy - 05/9
Watson And Wisconsin - 02/28
Score One For Climate Change - 02/14
Rhymes With Pints: Reince Priebus to the Rescue - 01/31

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Paul Buhle

Quite The Year - 12/19
Crime Does Not Pay - 11/7
Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History - 10/10
Kim Scipes's AFL-CIO's Secret War - 07/4
Ursula K. Le Guin's The Wild Girls - 04/25
SciFi And The Disguised Left Of The Cold War Days - 01/17

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Peter Byrne

A Writer's 2011 - 12/19
Love Letter To Mary Jane - 12/5
Looters And Consumers - 11/21
Bedtime Story - 11/7
Shortcuts To Comfort: James M. Cain - 10/24
Humanity Hanging On In Mumbai - 10/10
Alan Lomax: An Ear For Folk - 09/26
Sarcasm And The Class War - 09/12
A Ballad For Baha Mousa - 08/29
Death of the "Fat Bastard" - 08/15
Off The Map - 08/1
A Novel Of Atoms And Small Minds - 07/18
The Big Schmooze Mail Call - 07/4
Operation Gentle Zeus - 06/20
Matera's Buried Heart - 06/6
Nonstandard Tales From The Real Europe - 05/23
Our Classless Aquarium - 05/23
The End Or The Beginnings Of A Novelist - 05/9
London Reading - 04/25
India Nine Times Over - 04/11
The Culvert - 03/28
Stalking Utopia In Barcelona - 03/14
Jonathan Franzen's Great American Doorstop - 02/28
Young, Spanish Speaking, And Following The Crowd - 02/14
Granta Or The Stuttering Corpse - 01/31
The N-word - 01/17

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Maxwell Clark

The Murderous Care Of Our Philosopher-Kings - 03/28
Charles Bernstein's All The Whiskey In Heaven - 03/14
The Tempest Of Capital - 02/28
Four Theses On Marx's "Method Of Political Economy" - 02/14
Shelley The Efflorescent - 01/31
WTF Is Contextual Spelling? - 01/17

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Christian Cottard

Les deux ailes envolées d'Allain Leprest (FR) - 12/5
Leurs deux prénoms (FR) - 09/12
Deux jours entre autres... (FR) - 07/4
Le malheur, le vrai (FR) - 03/28

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Manuel García, Jr.

A Personal Kaleidoscope Of Events In 2011 - 12/19
What Next For OWS, Politics? - 12/5
A National Students' Recovery Bank - 11/21
From Social Contract To Occupy Wall Street - 11/7
Political Belief And Self Image: Aron, OWS, And Libya - 11/7

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Charles Marowitz

Come Fly Away - 11/21
Criticizing The Critics - 10/10
Shakespearean Scraps - 09/26
Exonerating Kazan - 08/15
Exclusive Interview With President Obama - 08/1
Midnight In Paris - 07/4
A House Divided - 06/6
Eric G. Wilson's My Business Is To Create: Blake's Infinite Writing - 05/9
Variations On A Midsummer Night's Dream - 04/11
Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) - 03/28
Comes The Revolution - 03/14
The Vanished Mr. Olbermann - 02/28
Roy Blount Jr.'s Hail, Hail, Euphoria! - 02/14
The Second Coming - 01/17

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Guido Monte & Friends

We All Are Migrants - 12/19
Sputnik - 12/5
Ariel - 11/21
Tartar Legend - 11/7
To Alda Merini - 10/24
Usual Apocalypse of a TV Technician (unfinished) - 10/10
Island water (Walcott n.3) - 09/26
Walcott n.2 - 09/12
Creative hints: vade mecum - 08/29
Carribean Union (Walcott n.1) - 08/15
on little pieces of paper - 08/1
fragment of hugo (from l'homme qui rit) - 07/18
Fliegen Ohne Flügel - 07/4
Bitterly - 06/20
On a death-boat - 06/6
Promised Land - 05/23
Pensieri - 05/9
Confusione-Confusión-Verwirrung - 04/25
One Day, Any Day - 03/28
"Song Of Injury And Insult" - 03/14
Tamah (Darkness) - 02/28
bible alphabet - 02/14
atharva veda (time of dreams) - 01/31
Testigos son las estrellas (lament of a prisoner n.3) - 01/17

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Raju Peddada

Peripheral Vision And Blind Spots - 12/19
The Stoop Of The 21st Century - 12/5
Why Does The Front Engine Have Three lights? - 11/21
The Forgotten Auteur: Buster Keaton: The Genius of his Films - Part II - 11/7
The Forgotten Auteur: Buster Keaton: The Genius of his Films - Part I - 10/24
The Recycling Of Malignance - 10/10
What Do We Do When It Rains? - 09/26
Are We Drowning In Think Tanks? - 09/12
The Man They Called Baldy - 08/29
People And Their Personal Vibrators - 08/15
My Devolution - 08/1
The Mystical Genius Of Kabir - 07/18
A Parent and Teacher Conference Part II - 07/4
A Parent and Teacher Conference Part I - 06/20
An Engine That Lifted Our Spirits! Part II - 06/6
An Engine That Lifted Our Spirits! Part I - 05/23
Rescued By The Rescued - 05/9
The Drip Versus The Tsunami: Which One in Reality is Drowning us? - 04/25
A Repository of Magnificence: Stendhal's The Red and The Black - Part II - 04/11
A Repository of Magnificence: Stendhal's The Red and The Black - 03/28

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Fabio De Propris

The Words Of 2011 - 12/19
Storytelling And Social Action: Italian Teacher-Writers - 10/24
You Are Here - 08/29
The Wellspring Of Orhan Pamuk - 06/20
Berlusconi's Reality Show Goes Sour Off Screen - 04/11
Soccer Feet: The World From The Grassy Pitch - 03/14
Jessica Preserved - 02/28

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Louis Proyect

Henry's Demons: A Review - 08/1
Bobby Fischer - 06/20
Michael Lebowitz's The Socialist Alternative - 06/6
The Lessons Of Yugoslavia - 04/11
A Marxist Approach To Problems Of the Aging - 04/11
Looking Back At The Battle Of Algiers - 04/11
Taking Obama's Measure - 03/14

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Jonah Raskin

Inside/Outside The Whale: Goodbye to Academia, at Least for Now - 12/19
Occupy America: Striking Images - 11/21
The First Amendment Redux - 10/24
The Co-optation Of Critical Thinking - 09/26
Austerity No, Joie De Vivre Oui - 08/15
The Rebellion Against The Book: College Students 2011 - 06/6
The Question Of Edward Said: Mongrel Intellectual - 05/9
Nothing Is Sacred: Hunter S. Thompson, Gonzo Journalist - 04/25
H.L. Mencken And The Cult Of Incivility - 01/31

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Marie Rennard

France 2011 - 12/19
Publies et sois maudit (FR) - 12/5
Gestion bénévole des copropriétés (FR) - 11/7
Aux origines de Providence (FR) - 09/12
Non Dit (FR) - 07/4
Intelligence (FR) - 03/28
Dirty Teaching - 02/14

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Isidor Saslav

A Few Thoughts And Two Books - 12/19
Requiem For An Iconic School - 09/12
"Chaconne, Anyone?" Arnold Steinhardt Performs In Indianapolis - 07/18
April Concerts And Operas In London - 05/23
Celebrating Shaw's Chicago Century - 04/11
Nixon In China In Longview - 02/28
Puccini's Female California Orpheus - 01/31
"Celebration" In Los Angeles - 01/17

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SWANS

Georges Clemenceau: Claude Monet et Giverny (FR) - 11/7
Georges Pompidou: Speech On The Environment: Chicago, February 28, 1970 - 07/18
Swans: 2011 Predictions - 12/27/10

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In memoriam

Philip Greenspan (1926-2008)
Richard Macintosh (1933-2005)

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Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.

The Year Of Barren Economics And TechnoSaints - 12/19
Sport And Scandal: The Failing American University - 11/21
The Great Satan - 08/15
A Response to Stanley Fish's "Triumph of the Humanities" - 07/18
The State Of Education In America: A Teacher's Perspective - 06/20

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Other Columnists

Claudine Giovannoni: Island water (Walcott n.3) - 09/26
Claudine Giovannoni: Carribean Union (Walcott n.1) - 08/15
Claudine Giovannoni: Fliegen Ohne Flügel - 07/4
Claudine Giovannoni: Promised Land - 05/23
Claudine Giovannoni: Confusione-Confusión-Verwirrung - 04/25
Claudine Giovannoni: Tamah (Darkness) - 02/28
Claudine Giovannoni: Testigos son las estrellas (lament of a prisoner n.3) - 01/17
Bo Keeley: Bladder Cross-Training In A Michigan Garage - 03/28
Bo Keeley: Short Guide To Writing And Self-Editing - 03/14
Bo Keeley: I'm Beginning To Think Like Them - 02/28
Francesca Saieva: Calvino et le sentier d'un enfant anti-héros (FR) - 09/12
Francesca Saieva: La calvinienne histoire d'un "terrestre" en ville: Marcovaldo (FR) - 06/6
Francesca Saieva: Voyage vers d'infinies patries dans un seul livre: Claudio Magris (FR) - 04/25
Francesca Saieva: Italo Calvino: la légèreté du monde et l'engagement civil (FR) - 03/28
Francesca Saieva: The Journey "Beyond": Archetypal Meanings for Today's Men - 02/14

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Occasional Contributors

Edward ("Paddy") Apling: Energy And The Tsunami - 03/28
AVHC: Important Message From The Anderson Valley Health Center - 06/6
Lynda Burstein Brayer: Palestinian Statehood – Kalaam Faadi - 08/29
Gabrielle Capirone: Avant que d'être vieille (FR) - 12/5
Cliff Conner: R U Rah-Rah? - 01/17
Kazue Daikoku: Living With Radioactive Contamination - 12/19
Kazue Daikoku: Football: Seeing From Cultural Aspects - 12/5
Kazue Daikoku: Watershed: What I Thought After The Day March 11 - 04/25
Michael DeLang: Not Enough Yet - 12/19
Michael DeLang: It Was Before My Time - 10/24
Michael DeLang: I Saw It On The News - 09/12
Michael DeLang: Socialism In America - 03/28
Gregory Elich: Class Struggle On The Baseball Diamond - 11/7
Gregory Elich: Raise Your Weapons: An Interview with Mickey Z - 05/9
Gregory Elich: Exposing Kosovo's Mafia State - 01/17
Peter Gorman: Getting The Story - 04/25
William T. Hathaway: Cascade Mountain Fights Back - 09/26
William T. Hathaway: Coming Home - 07/18
Jana Hill: The House That Man Built - 07/4
Joel S. Hirschhorn: American Democracy's Faults And Fixes More Visible - 12/19
Joel S. Hirschhorn: Awful Reasons Why Obama Could Get Reelected - 10/24
Joel S. Hirschhorn: The Unspoken Lesson From The Japan Disaster - 03/28
Aleksandar Jokic & Tiphaine Dickson: A Year Of Living Lawlessly - 12/19
Aleksandar Jokic & Milan Brdar: The Michael Walzer Affair - 11/21
Aleksandar Jokic: The (Narrative) Crimes Of Ian Buruma - 06/20
Aleksandar Jokic: Are We A Morally Dumb Nation? A Reply to my Critic - 05/23
Karen Moller: A Taste Of Mortality In A Pocket Of Pain - 08/1
Karen Moller: Remembering John Cage - 06/20
Martin Murie: Casino Bear - 05/23
Bashir Sakhawarz: Hamam - 08/29
Bashir Sakhawarz: Afghanistan 1972 - 08/15
Bashir Sakhawarz: A Night In Delhi - 05/23

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Swans - ISSN: 1554-4915
URL: http://www.swans.com/library/a2011.html
Created: December 28, 2009
Last Updated: December 19, 2011