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--Raymond Aron

Authors
Gilles d'Aymery Jan Baughman Milo Clark Deck Deckert
Stephen Gowans Alma Hromic Sandy Lulay Aleksandra Priestfield
Michael Stowell Swans Other Columnists Occasional Contributors

 

Jan E. Baughman

2002: Still Hope For The Future - 12/16/02
Asymmetric Total Information Awareness - 12/2/02
Voter Apathy? Whatever - 11/4/02
A Call To Voices - 10/7/02
Sustainable Disparity - 09/9/02
Should We Spend Or Should We Save? - 07/7/02
Conspiracy And Paranoia As Distraction - 06/3/02
Of Rice And Men: The Mistaken Promise Of Genomics - 05/6/02
Food. More. Now. - 04/8/02
Our Tax Dollars and Moral Leaders at Work - 03/11/02
"Changer of Days," Volume I, by Alma A. Hromic - 01/28/02
Measuring Life in Scrap Metal - 01/01/02

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Milo Clark

And So Goes 2002. . . . - 12/16/02
An Invitation To Catastrophe - 12/2/02
Evolution Through Catastrophy? - 11/18/02
In Memoriam: Cambodia-Kampuchea - 11/18/02
Bad Novel - 11/4/02
Madness - 10/21/02
Other - 10/21/02
Distractions - 10/7/02
Hope - 09/23/02
From Hawaii to Iraq and Islam - 09/9/02
Relative Value - 08/26/02
Enduring Enmity, Radio And America: Field Marshall Lord Kitchener (1850-1916) - 08/26/02
Values, Devaluation -- Pun Or? - 07/29/02
Business Attitude - 07/29/02
Continuing Explorations In Perception And Perspective - 07/15/02
Special Conditions - 07/7/02
Illusion. . . Delusion. . . Confusion - 07/7/02
Newthink - 06/17/02
Differences, Patterns . . . Barbarity - 06/17/02
Digging Through The Morasses (Second Opinion on Jon Phalen's Article) - 06/3/02
Blighted National Priorities - 05/6/02
Dollars for Terror - 05/6/02
Self Interest - 05/6/02
Israel - 05/6/02
The Time The Great Ogre Hacked And Spit - 04/8/02
Wrong Question, Worse Time - 03/11/02
History, Patterns, Differences. . . Not Again! - 02/25/02
Financial Bubbles Track Capitalism - 02/11/02
History, from Historians to Hobbesians - 01/28/02
Peace, an Illusion of Power - 01/28/02
Russia: Putin-Bush Palsy-Walsy? - 01/14/02
War as Punishment Risks Splattering - 01/01/02
Why War Now? - 01/01/02

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Gilles d'Aymery

A Pivotal Year? - 12/16/02
Censorship By Other Means: The Witch-Hunting of a Professor - 12/2/02
Swans, The Birds - 12/2/02
Not Convinced Yet? Then Check The Color Of Hope - 11/18/02
A Trip To Sanity: Arcata - 11/18/02
Iraq, The Ozone Layer, And The Hummer - 11/4/02
Beyond The Lesser Evil - 11/4/02
Vexing Electoral Realities - 10/21/02
United States' Gargantuan Energy Appetite - 10/21/02
Blind And Improvident - 10/7/02
The Black Golden Spigot - 09/23/02
The Anti-Mugabe Brigade - 09/9/02
The 1991 Gulf War Rationale - 08/26/02
Gulf War II - 08/26/02
The Case For A Committed American Imperialism - 07/29/02
Primum Non Nocere - 07/29/02
Smelling Blood - 07/15/02
The Tribulations Of The Toads - 07/7/02
Invent The Future (Introduction to Robin D.G. Kelley's essay) - 06/17/02
Conspiracy Caution (Introduction To Jon Phalen's Article) - 06/3/02
A Tiny Typo - 06/3/02
Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Or Is It Dystopia? - 05/20/02
Blackmailing Palestinians: Plucked, Cooked, Baked And Packaged - 05/6/02
Three Years And Counting: Has America Gone Mad? - 03/25/02
Israeli-Palestinian And American Sad Minuet - 03/11/02
Such A Perfect Little Lynching! - 02/25/02
Scene III - The Solution - 02/11/02
Scene II - The Lament - 02/11/02
9-11: Overheard on Main Street: Scene I - The Situation - 02/11/02

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Deck Deckert

If You're Happy And You Know It, Bomb Iraq - 12/16/02
Can The Peace Movement Save Us? - 11/18/02
The Fourth Estate - 11/4/02
The War Prayer For The New Millennium - 10/21/02
It's Just Good Business - 10/7/02
Oh Say Can You See - 09/9/02
Talking Past Congress - 08/26/02
TIPS of the Iceberg - 07/29/02
Invasion of Iraq Q&A - 07/15/02
Untangling The Mideast For A Martian - 07/7/02
If The Media Were Liberal... - 06/17/02
Controlled News; Dying Democracy - 06/17/02
Exploding Cigars & Dueling Presidents - 05/20/02
The Wrong Stuff - 05/6/02
Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering, Pinky? - 04/22/02
The Untouchable Israelis - 04/8/02
We Are A Peaceful People - 03/25/02
Pretzels And A Book: Sign And Portent - 03/11/02
Why Didn't YOU Vote For Nader? - 03/11/02
The More Things Change - 02/25/02
No Donations Without Representation - 02/11/02
Man vs. Machine - 01/28/02
A Famous Victory - 01/14/02

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Stephen Gowans

Democracy? Count Me Out, Along With Ralph Nader, Richard Swift, Fidel Castro And The US Government - 05/20/02
Must We Always Learn Too Late? - 05/20/02
The United States v. Democracy - 05/6/02
Massacre Or Not? It Depends On Which Side Of Washington's Ledger You're On - 05/6/02
Israel's Iron Heel - 04/22/02
Orwellian Inversion, Or Just Another Day At The New York Times? - 04/22/02
Shepherding Us Into History's Charnel House - 04/8/02
Dealing With The F-Word - 03/25/02
Conspiracy Theory As Received Wisdom - 03/25/02
The Best-Laid Plans Of Mice And Tribunals Go Oft Astray - 03/11/02
The Worst Day of the War? - 03/11/02
Munchausens At The Hague, Cowards At Woods Hole - 02/25/02
Mugging Mugabe - 02/11/02
On What Authority? - 01/28/02
What Price American Primacy? - 01/14/02
Russia's Sept. 11 - 01/01/02
The Government That Cries Wolf - 01/01/02

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Alma A. Hromic

Reclaim The Dream - 12/16/02
NaNoWriMo: Now you too can be a writer! - 10/21/02
Going Home: x - Going Home - 09/23/02
Outsmarted By Artificial Intelligence - 09/23/02
Going Home: ix - The One Place - 09/9/02
Going Home: viii - Ancient Ashes - by Alma A. Hromic - 08/26/02
One Of Us - 08/26/02
Going Home: vii - Against the Wind - 07/29/02
Going Home: vi - Far and Wide - 07/15/02
St Vitus Day: Better Grave Than Slave! - 07/7/02
Going Home: v - Distant Voices - 07/7/02
And What Will They Tell Them For Fairy Tales...? - 06/17/02
The Oracle - 06/17/02
Going Home: iv - Memories of Dreams - 06/3/02
Oprah Closes The Book - 06/3/02
Going Home: iii - Rainbow's Arch - 05/20/02
Going Home: ii - Taking Flight - 05/6/02
Going Home: i - Looking Back - 05/6/02
The Hand Of God - 05/6/02
The Immigrant Nation (Part II): Around My Heart - 04/22/02
The Immigrant Nation (Part I): Mother Of Exiles - 04/8/02
Yugoslavia R.I.P. - 03/25/02
Watch Your Language! - 03/11/02
I Am Tired - 02/25/02
On Fantasy - 01/28/02
Who Turned Out The Lights? - 01/01/02

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Sandy Lulay

Café Espresso - 12/16/02
Can't Stop The Dancing - 11/18/02
The Death Of Merlin - 11/4/02
Tiger - 10/21/02
Rainwater Eyes - 10/7/02
Poet In A Dark Room - 09/9/02
A Whispered Light - 04/22/02
Orenda - 04/8/02
South of Jade - 02/25/02
Cross Fire - 02/11/02
Oasis - 01/28/02
Quantum Views - 01/14/02

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Aleksandra Priestfield

A Case For The Defense - 12/16/02
When The Moral Compass Starts Spinning - 11/18/02
Hit Or Myth? The Mythology Of Murder - 10/7/02
Welcome To Wonderland - 07/29/02
Sven Lindqvist, A History of Bombing - 07/15/02
Shiva, Come Home - 06/17/02
Operation "Infinite Power" - 05/20/02
Destinations For The Cynical Traveler - 03/11/02
Operation New Justice - 02/25/02
Flying The Flag - 02/11/02
First They Came for the Academics... - 01/14/02

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Michael W. Stowell

Whadda Mess - 12/16/02
Hold The Turkey - 12/2/02
A Resolute Proclamation - 11/18/02
Guerrilla TV - 11/4/02
Revival - 10/7/02
The Grand Antithesis - 09/23/02
Grease Monkeys - 09/9/02
Tree Folk - 08/26/02
Bolívar's Ghost - 07/29/02
Magic - 07/15/02
Birds In The Attic - 07/7/02
Where's The Fiddle? - 06/17/02
East Timor: A Child Is Born - 06/3/02
House Of Cowards - 05/20/02
Make A Sign - 04/22/02
Peekaboo - 04/8/02
The Armageddon Story - 03/25/02
Keep Dancing - 03/11/02
The First Stone - 02/25/02
Dogpaddling in the Cesspool - 02/11/02
Renewing the Earth - 01/28/02
Patriot or Pirate? - 01/14/02
Ghost of Xmas Past - 01/01/02

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SWANS

The Blind Men And The Elephant - by John Godfrey Saxe - 12/2/02
The First Winter Storms - by Frank Wycoff and Jan Baughman - 12/2/02
When The Imagination Of The Writer
Is Confronted By The Imagination Of the State
- by Margaret Randall - 11/18/02
I Am The People, The Mob - by Carl Sandburg - 11/4/02
Introduction to Robert's Rules of Order - 11/4/02
The Panther - by Rainer Maria Rilke - 10/21/02
Letters to a Young Poet (Letter One) - by Rainer Maria Rilke - 10/21/02
War Is the Health of the State - by Randolph Bourne - 10/7/02
The Ballad of East and West - by Rudyard Kipling - 09/23/02
April 10, 1999 - by June Jordan - 06/17/02
Wild Geese - by Mary Oliver - 05/20/02
Nobel Prize Speech - by William Faulkner - 05/20/02
War Is Peace - by George Orwell - 04/22/02
You're Dead Mister. Dead. - by Dalton Trumbo - 04/8/02
Explico Algunas Cosas (I'm Explaining a Few Things) - by Pablo Neruda - 03/25/02
War up Close -- Irena Galina - by Harrison E. Salisbury - 03/25/02
War up Close -- Russell's Lament - by Norman L. Russell - 03/11/02
War up Close -- The Kid and the Old Man by Norman L. Russell - 03/11/02
lxxx - by Charles Baudelaire (in French) - 03/11/02
An Acre of Grass - by William Butler Yeats - 03/11/02
God at the Mall, as Predicted - 03/11/02
Kosovo Polje Speech, June 28, 1989 - by Slobodan Milosevich - 02/25/02
US Proposed Military Budget for 2003 - 02/11/02
Erratum on DU Locations in Yugoslavia - 02/11/02
The White Man's Burden - by Rudyard Kipling - 01/28/02
The Brown Man's Burden - by Henry Labouchère - 01/28/02
2002 Predictions - 01/01/02

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Other Columnists

Gregory Elich:  More Of The Same - 12/16/02
Gregory Elich:  Screams And Cries: Prison Camp Lora and the Trial of the Lora 8 - 12/2/02
Gregory Elich:  My Journalistic Dereliction (Response to Mr. Berman's Letter) - 09/9/02
Gregory Elich:  Zimbabwe Under Siege - 08/26/02
Gregory Elich:  SCENES OF WAR, A Glimpse Behind The Curtain Of Silence - 04/22/02
Philip Greenspan:  A Fading Vision Of The USA - 12/16/02
Philip Greenspan:  Pity the Poor Iraqi - 12/2/02
Philip Greenspan:  The War Against Dissenters - 10/21/02
Philip Greenspan:  State of Mind Maladies: Enron and Dubya - 10/7/02
Philip Greenspan:  Democracy Because I Say So - 09/9/02
Philip Greenspan:  Iraq: A Formula For The Future - 08/26/02
Philip Greenspan:  Seeing 3 C's in the Caribbean Sea: Castro, Cuba and Communism - 08/26/02
Philip Greenspan:  A Verbal Analogy - Mind : Body :: Illusion : Reality - 04/8/02
Philip Greenspan:  'Terrorists' Who Made Good - 03/11/02
Philip Greenspan:  A Belated Apology to Adolf - 02/11/02
Stevan Konstantinovic:  The American "Dream" - 04/22/02
Stevan Konstantinovic:  The Barbarians Stand Before the Gates of America - 02/25/02

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Occasional Contributors

Michael P. Anderson:  Keeping a Close Eye on You and Yours - 02/11/02
Baffour Ankomah:  Zimbabwe: Life After The Election - 09/9/02
Sam Bahour:  Palestinian Children In The Night - 12/2/02
Sabina C. Becker:  Empty-Handed Women - 12/16/02
Eli Beckerman:  Sinking In, Sinking, Then Ascension - 12/16/02
Eli Beckerman:  I Vote. Therefore I Think. Therefore I Am. - 11/18/02
Eli Beckerman:  Political Expediency, Media, And Democracy - 11/4/02
Eli Beckerman:  Self-Defeating Prophecy?
The Tenuous Rise of the Greens: it's in their Hands - 07/29/02
Alex Jay Berman:  Wholly Derelict Journalism (Letter to the Editor) - 09/9/02
Robert C. Byrd:  Rush To War Ignores U.S. Constitution - 10/7/02
CAUCE:  Fight Spam (UCE) - 07/7/02
William Funke:  Marching For Peace - 11/4/02
David A. Garrett:  Strange Times In A Strange World - 08/26/02
David A. Garrett:  Jupiter's Eye - 07/7/02
- 12/16/02
Edward S. Herman:  "Antisemitism" As A Tool Of Israeli Ethnic Cleansing - 11/18/02
Edward S. Herman:  Christopher Hitchens And The Uses Of Demagoguery - 09/23/02
Edward S. Herman, Anthony Arnove, Rahul Mahajan & David Peterson:  OPEN LETTER To United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan - 08/26/02
Paul V. Hursh:  No Fanfare for the Common Man - 10/7/02
David McGowan:  America Through The Looking Glass - 04/8/02
Naseem Jamali:  Whither Radical Islam After Afghanistan - 02/11/02
Robin D.G. Kelley:  Finding The Strength To Love And Dream - 06/17/02
David Lamb:  Letter To My US Congressional Representatives Regarding Iraq - 09/9/02
Mac Lawrence:  The Search For A Nonviolent Future - 12/2/02
Alfred M. Lilienthal:  What Price Middle East Peace? - 04/8/02
James Longo:  Litigation Lottery - 07/29/02
James Longo:  Highway Robbery Without A Gun - 07/7/02
Assaf Oron:  An Open Letter To Jewish Americans - 04/8/02
Jon Phalen:  Let's Step Out Of The Box For A Moment, Shall We? A reply To The Anticonspiratorialists - 06/3/02
Margaret Wyles:  War And Economics For Dummies - 01/14/02

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Created: December 31, 2001
Last Updated: December 23, 2002