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To think is easy; to act is difficult; to act according to one's thinking is the most difficult thing in the world.
--Goethe
A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief.
--Max Horkheimer
Like power in any shape, a full stomach always holds a dose of insolence, and this dose express itself first of all in the well-fed lecturing the starving.
--Chekhov
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January 2007
Issue date: January 1, 2007. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- 2007 Predictions - Swans
- The Soldiers Among Us - Jan Baughman
- Failure And Truth - Michael DeLang
- Empire And Glory - Martin Murie
- A Good Start - Bruce Patterson
- What Happens To The Decent Kids Who Enlist - Philip Greenspan
- The Insurgent Word: Education - Gerard Donnelly Smith
- 2007 - Milo Clark
- Do You Know The Way To San José? - Charles Marowitz
- The Turkish Man Mountain - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- medianoche - Poem by Guido Monte
- Blips #46 - Gilles d'Aymery
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: January 15, 2007. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Oil, The Elites, And The Commons - Gilles d'Aymery
- When And How Might It End? - Philip Greenspan
- Implosions 2007? - Milo Clark
- Hezbollah's Democratic Demands - Mohammed Ben Jelloun
- My New Year's Resolutions - Charles Marowitz
- Durito - Martin Murie
- Jared Brown's Moss Hart: A Prince Of The Theatre - Book Review by Charles Marowitz
- As Time Goes By - Michael Doliner
- Visitors Out Of Season - Short Story by Peter Byrne
- From Innocent Rebellion To Militant Feminism - Karen Moller
- Unity Of The Scottish Independence Movement - Joe Middleton
- The Fall Of Saddam Hussein - Poem by Gerard Donnelly Smith
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: January 29, 2007. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Energy Resources And Our Future - Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
- The "New" Way Forward - Cartoon by Jan Baughman
- Another Neocon Disaster Awaits - Philip Greenspan
- The Insurgent Word: Zhōng ("Loyalty") - Gerard Donnelly Smith
- The 5th Estate - Bruce Patterson
- Les Revendications Démocratiques Du Hezbollah - Mohammed Ben Jelloun
- The Breakdown of Nations - Milo Clark
- Fear, Distraction, Hypnosis, And The National Attention Span - Carol Warner Christen
- Call Of The Wild - Martin Murie
- The Old Man Of Corfu - A Story by Peter Byrne
- Dynastic Legends - Theatre Review by Charles Marowitz
- The Good Shepherd - Film Review by Robert Wrubel
- Voices n.2:muraika munjereri - Poem by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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February 2007
Issue date: February 12, 2007. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Oil and War - Michael Doliner
- Lubricating Our Megamachines - Gilles d'Aymery
- Two Views: Reasonable/Rational and Neocon/Born Again - Milo Clark
- A Mess Of Potage - Carol Warner Christen
- On Obligation In A Participatory Democracy - Michael DeLang
- Attitude - Martin Murie
- A Freak Speaks - Troy Hendrick
- Beware Of Those Desperate Hawks - Philip Greenspan
- Pimps and Ponces at War - Film Review by Robert Wrubel
- "The Producers" In Denmark - Charles Marowitz
- Another Chekhov Worth Meeting - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Islamorada - William T. Hathaway
- Satori - Poem by Guido Monte
- Blips #47 - Gilles d'Aymery
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: February 26, 2007. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Every Vote Counts - Cartoon by Jan Baughman
- An Open Letter To Cindy Sheehan - Eli Beckerman
- The First Conscious Thought And Its Implications - Carol Warner Christen
- PRChina: Quandary Wrapped In Very Ripe Baloney - Milo Clark
- The Insurgent Word: Loyalty (Continued) (Loyalty to Corporation and Consumption) - Gerard Donnelly Smith
- People - Martin Murie
- The Impossible Takes . . . - Philip Greenspan
- Peter Brook's Sober Magic In Milan And The Dower Of Giorgio Strehler - Peter Byrne
- Anna Nicole Smith & Celebrityitis - Charles Marowitz
- Capnomancy - Poem by Marie Renard
- Siku Next Za Future (present future) - Poem by Guido Monte
- Samantha Power's A Problem from Hell - Book Review by Dimitri Oram
- Letters to the Editor
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March 2007
Issue date: March 12, 2007. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- An Appeal To Antiwar Advocates To Fight The Right Battle - Jan Baughman
- Deceitful Solutions To America's Energy Dependence - Gilles d'Aymery
- Al Gore At The Oscars - Martin Murie
- The Documentary As Propaganda: An Inconvenient Truth - Gerard Donnelly Smith
- Consent Of The Governed - Philip Greenspan
- Whose Free Will? - Carol Warner Christen
- Overdue Correction, Not Excessive. . . - Milo Clark
- Murdering Immigration in Holland - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Streetcar Derailed In Denmark - Charles Marowitz
- Concerts And An Opera In New York - Isidor Saslav
- Beyond The Line - Poem by Marie Renard
- written on my sanbenito - Poem by Guido Monte
- Blips #48 - Gilles d'Aymery
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: March 26, 2007. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- The Royal We And The Royal My - Carol Warner Christen
- Heck Of A Job, Uncle Sam - Gilles d'Aymery
- Operation Iraqi Freedom - Cartoon by Jan Baughman
- There Are No Right Wars - Gilles d'Aymery
- No Excuse For Inaction - Philip Greenspan
- Devices And Things - Martin Murie
- Schizoid Comedy & Stephen Colbert - Charles Marowitz
- Paradero Ltd. - Short Story by Marie Renard
- Stage Struck In London And Dublin - Theatre Review by Peter Byrne
- This House Of Pain - Poem by Gerard Donnelly Smith
- Ulysses: Kuenda beyond n.2 - Poem by Guido Monte
- Blips #49 - Gilles d'Aymery
- Letters to the Editor
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April 2007
Issue date: April 9, 2007. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Questioning Forty Years Of Optimism - Gilles d'Aymery
- How Did This Happen? - Carol Warner Christen
- American Ingenuity And The Immigration Problem - Jan Baughman
- Seymour Hersh, A Closet Swans Scanner? - Milo Clark
- A Cornucopia Of Reality Via The Video - Philip Greenspan
- Ancient Grease - Film Review by Charles Marowitz
- A Long Ago Summer That Never Was - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- The Day Of The 'Cello - Isidor Saslav
- Maecho, filisika (Echoes, rundown) - Poem by Guido Monte & Francesca Saieva
- A Paolo Conte - Polesy by Marie Renard
- Progress - Aaron Karmin
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: April 23, 2007. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- A Tragic Week In The Culture Of Life - Jan Baughman
- Bridges, Walls, And Gated Communities - Fran Shor
- Lies And Other Untruths - Milo Clark
- Suspicious Scenarios + Logical Explanations = Nuts - Philip Greenspan
- Exit Strategy For George W. Bush - Charles Marowitz
- Homemade Politics - Carol Warner Christen
- Simplicity - Martin Murie
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) - Bijou (1989-2007) - Gilles d'Aymery
- Whistling Home From Auschwitz - Film Review by Peter Byrne
- The Litany Of W - Poem by Gerard Donnelly Smith & Jude Bischoff
- Kuenda beyond n.4: voice of silence - Poem by Guido Monte & Francesca Saieva
- Blips #50 - Gilles d'Aymery
- Letters to the Editor
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May 2007
Issue date: May 7, 2007. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- The Fourth World - Charles Marowitz
- Thoughts 001 - Carol Warner Christen
- The Fragmentation Of The Left - Poem by Gerard Donnelly Smith
- A Walk In The Iliad - Martin Murie
- Report From A Chávez Fan Club - Philip Greenspan
- Making Sense - Michael Doliner
- A Neglected Critic - Book Review by Charles Marowitz
- How Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr. Became Gorino - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- More Revivals Of Seldom Heard Operas In New York - Isidor Saslav
- Remembering Mstislav Rostropovich - Isidor Saslav & Arthur Lieb
- Os Esquecidos Do Mundo - Poem by Guido Monte & Francesca Saieva
- Blips #51 - Gilles d'Aymery
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: May 21, 2007. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- In Praise Of Anger - Charles Marowitz
- International Ignominy - Book Review by Gilles d'Aymery
- Contrasts - Carol Warner Christen
- On Choosing A Way Of Life - Michael DeLang
- Hedge Funds - Milo Clark
- The Fragmentation Of The Left, Part II - Poem by Gerard Donnelly Smith
- War Against Wolves - Martin Murie
- Locate A Lecture: Look, Listen, Learn - Philip Greenspan
- Music Sheet Of Le Déserteur - Boris Vian and Harold B. Berg
- Open Letter To Mr. Paul Faber, City Councilman - Boris Vian
- I'll Die from a Cancer of the Spine - Boris Vian
- We Were Girls - Poem by Marie Rennard
- Pont Suspendu (Suspension Bridge) - Poem by Guido Monte & Francesca Saieva
- A Long Look Behind The Mirror - Film Review by Peter Byrne
- Letters to the Editor
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June 2007
Issue date: June 4, 2007. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Welcome Back To Reality, Cindy - Gilles d'Aymery
- Mandate 2006 - Cartoon by Jan Baughman
- The Politicians Cannot Prevent An Unsatisfactory End - Philip Greenspan
- Has Mankind Become Inhumanly Serious? - Carol Warner Christen
- The Greening Of The Peace Movement - Eli Beckerman
- Walking And Talking - Martin Murie
- Attacking The ICTY And The ICJ - Dimitri Oram
- The Real Solution For Kosovo - Aleksandar Jokic
- Stefan Kanfer's Stardust Lost - Book Review by Charles Marowitz
- The Uncertain Heart of Utopia - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Holy The One - Poem by Marie Rennard
- Mémoire - Oubli (Memory - Oblivion) - Poem by Guido Monte & Francesca Saieva
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: June 18, 2007. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- The Insurgent Word: Fragments - Gerard Donnelly Smith
- A Rudderless, Co-opted Antiwar "Movement" - Gilles d'Aymery
- The Founding Fathers' Fraud - Philip Greenspan
- Tangled Web Of Life Or Worse - Carol Warner Christen
- Walking The Dog - Humor by Peter Byrne
- Artifacts - Poem by Martin Murie
- Sundays In Hope - Poem by Marie Rennard
- Polyhedron n.3: Moenia Mundi - Poem by Guido Monte & Francesca Saieva
- Adam Sisman's The Friendship: Wordsworth & Coleridge - Book Review by Charles Marowitz
- New Art And Imperialism In Dublin - Peter Byrne
- Blips #52 - Gilles d'Aymery
- Letters to the Editor
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July 2007
Issue date: July 2, 2007. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Blips #53 - Gilles d'Aymery
- No System Can Measure Itself - Carol Warner Christen
- Defending The Constitution - Gerard Donnelly Smith
- The Vote - Martin Murie
- Sick Minds & Sick Bodies - Charles Marowitz
- The Education Route To Con Hearts And Minds - Philip Greenspan
- Global Warming Gag Orders - Cartoon by Jan Baughman
- Trying Prime Times - Humor by Peter Byrne
- Wrecked - Poem by Marie Rennard
- Polyhedron n.2: El Ahora - Poem by Guido Monte & Francesca Saieva
- Joseph Roth's What I Saw - Book Review by Michael Doliner
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: July 16, 2007. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Blips #55 - Gilles d'Aymery
- Morpheus In The Underworld - Poem by Charles Marowitz
- Current Game: The Constitution 0 -- The Elites 1 (won) - Carol Warner Christen
- Condemn That Contemptible Constitution - Philip Greenspan
- Deciders - Martin Murie
- Surveillance Creep - Jan Baughman
- The Essential Significance Of Ralph Nader - Gilles d'Aymery
- Hail To The Chief Nose - Humor by Peter Byrne
- Who Was Michael Chekhov? - Charles Marowitz
- Polyhedron n.5: World History - Poem by Guido Monte & Francesca Saieva
- Blips #54 - Gilles d'Aymery
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: July 30, 2007. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- The Establishment's Tocsin - Gilles d'Aymery
- Iraq Now As I See It - Michael Doliner
- Choice Of Evils - Charles Marowitz
- War And The Constitution - Martin Murie
- Treason -- Often An Essential Business Practice - Philip Greenspan
- The Past Explains The Present - Carol Warner Christen
- Dog Fighting - Senator Robert C. Byrd
- This Land Is His Land - Humor by Peter Byrne
- The First Law Of Thermodynamics (for Cara) - Prose Poem by Gerard Donnelly Smith
- Polyhedron n. 7: World Useless Slaughter - Poem by Guido Monte & Francesca Saieva
- Letters to the Editor
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August 2007
Issue date: August 13, 2007. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Human Generational Nonsense - Carol Warner Christen
- The Senior Senator From West Virginia - Gilles d'Aymery
- Blips #56 - Gilles d'Aymery
- Fiddling During The Conflagration - Philip Greenspan
- On Foot In Plattsburgh - Martin Murie
- Bruce Anderson's Latest Roar - Gilles d'Aymery
- The Chilling Effect: The Fairness Doctrine - Gerard Donnelly Smith
- An Early Warning - Humor by Michael Doliner
- A Saint And Her Senator - Humor by Peter Byrne
- Remembering Joe Orton - Charles Marowitz
- Linguistic Blending - Francesca Saieva
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: August 27, 2007. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Gulag For Critics - Charles Marowitz
- Is Life A Set Of Infundibula? - Carol Warner Christen
- Keeping Hope On Life Support - Jan Baughman
- Check Your Sources - Gilles d'Aymery
- Blips #57 - Gilles d'Aymery
- Blips #58 - Gilles d'Aymery
- Is This Not Genocide? - Philip Greenspan
- Gold - Martin Murie
- Don't Bite The Dog Please - Humor by Peter Byrne
- Guardian Angel - Short Story by Marie Rennard
- A Pinch Of Black Salt - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Polyhedron n. 8: History Two - Poem by Guido Monte & Francesca Saieva
- Letters to the Editor
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September 2007
Issue date: September 10, 2007. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Blips #59 - Gilles d'Aymery
- The Experiment Requires That You Continue - Ted Dace
- Mea Culpa - Carol Warner Christen
- Who Are Your Enemies? - Philip Greenspan
- The Politics And Propaganda Of Ethanol - Jan Baughman
- Send Off The Clowns - Charles Marowitz
- Learning Mammals - Martin Murie
- Preemptive Retreat - Humor by Peter Byrne
- A Dream Deferred - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- A Cross-Legged Night And Les Arbres De Tom - Poem by Marie Rennard
- Incertitude/Soledad (Doubt/Solitude) - Poem by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: September 24, 2007. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- You Say "Obama" -- I Say "OSAMA" - Humor by Charles Marowitz
- Quality Time In The Rose Garden - Humor by Peter Byrne
- "The Curse Of Ignorance:" Endless Centuries Of War - Carol Warner Christen
- Is The USA Heading For Third World Status? - Gilles d'Aymery
- The Ugliest Americans - Gerard Donnelly Smith
- The Immigration Problem - Philip Greenspan
- On Edge In Middle-Class Heaven - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- The Second Law of Thermodynamics (for Cara) - Poem by Gerard Donnelly Smith
- Sentence - Poem by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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October 2007
Issue date: October 8, 2007. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- The Ideological Struggle Of The 21st Century - Cartoon by Jan Baughman
- Irresponsible Americans - Joel S. Hirschhorn
- Phases Projected - Carol Warner Christen
- Politicolingo & The Vanishing Art Of Rhetoric - Charles Marowitz
- The Bollinger Effect: Smear And War - Gilles d'Aymery
- Do Protests Make A Difference? - Philip Greenspan
- On The Fiftieth Anniversary Of On the Road - Karen Moller
- Notes From Cheyenne - Martin Murie
- Going To Bed With An Elephant - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Memory Of A Day With A Beloved Stranger (To S.) - Poem by Marie Rennard
- Haiku - Poem by Guido Monte
- A Couple Of Sampling Errors - Humor by Peter Byrne
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: October 22, 2007. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Blips #60 - Gilles d'Aymery
- The New Obscenities - Charles Marowitz
- Après Bush! Le Déluge? - Philip Greenspan
- Lying Is Free Speech? - Gerard Donnelly Smith
- Lonesome Outsiders - Martin Murie
- Emerging Markets For Investing In Human Misery - Jan Baughman
- Is It About Why They Hate Us Or About Why We Hate Them? - Carol Warner Christen
- Remembering Rene Stark - Gilles d'Aymery
- Halloween Skeletons On The Rocks - Poem by Marie Rennard
- Shir Hashirim (Part I) - Poem by Guido Monte & Viviana Fiorentino
- Small Stuff - Humor by Peter Byrne
- Letters to the Editor
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November 2007
Issue date: November 5, 2007. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- The Inexorable March Into Iran - Gilles d'Aymery
- We Hold These Truths - Michael Doliner
- The Insurgent Word: Waterboarding - Gerard Donnelly Smith
- Torture Is An Abomination To Humankind - Carol Warner Christen
- The Fire Next Time - Charles Marowitz
- Crazy Woman Creek - Martin Murie
- Will Hollywood Films Ride To The Rescue? - Philip Greenspan
- The Alarming Exclusion Of Charles Marowitz - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Unauthorized Considerations Of A Housewife About Things She'd Better Not Feel Concerned With - Marie Rennard
- The Third Law of Thermodynamics (for Cara) - Poem by Gerard Donnelly Smith
- Shir Hashirim (Part II) - Poem by Guido Monte & Viviana Fiorentino
- Beakspeak - Humor by Peter Byrne
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: November 19, 2007. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Blips #61 - Gilles d'Aymery
- Sexual Equality - Charles Marowitz
- Whither Green Utopias: Journey To The Past Or Visions Of Future? - Arnab Roy Chowdhury
- Back To Feudalism - Carol Warner Christen
- Democracy Versus Stability - Joel S. Hirschhorn
- The Home Court Advantage - Philip Greenspan
- Habitats - Martin Murie
- Praying For Some Sanity - Jan Baughman
- Cormac McCarthy's The Road - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Dann Gibt Es Nur Eins! (Then There's Only One Choice!) - Poem by Wolfgang Borchert
- Shir Hashirim (Part III, the end) - Poem by Guido Monte, Viviana Fiorentino, & Francesca Saieva
- The Devil You Don't Want To Know - Humor by Peter Byrne
- Letters to the Editor
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December 2007
Issue date: December 3, 2007. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- A Much Admired Human Being - Book Review by Gilles d'Aymery
- Language Shapes Reality - Gerard Donnelly Smith
- Where Are The Open Unprejudiced Minds? - Philip Greenspan
- How Do They Sleep At Night? - Charles H. Pearson
- Master Recipe - Carol Warner Christen
- Saving The Earth Is Not About Harmony - Martin Murie
- Blips #62 - Gilles d'Aymery
- Ideologies - Short Story by Peter Byrne
- Wilfrid Sheed's The House That George Built - Book Review by Charles Marowitz
- Down On Nature - Poem by Charles Marowitz
- Journey To The Sleep Doors n.1: Daedalus - Poem by Guido Monte & Francesca Saieva
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: December 17, 2007. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- From Travesty To Tragedy - Charles Marowitz
- A Battered America - Gilles d'Aymery
- 2007: The Great Unraveling Begins - Eli Beckerman
- The Nation Magazine And The 2008 Presidential Elections - Louis Proyect
- The Meltdown - Gerard Donnelly Smith
- Looking Back At The Antiwar Movement - Martin Murie
- Who, What, And Why Was 2007? - Carol Warner Christen
- 2007: Disconnected In The Age Of Technology - Jan Baughman
- The USA Of 2007: A Sinking Ship Of State - Philip Greenspan
- What Myrtle Said And Read In 2007 - Peter Byrne
- World Tragedy 2007 - Guido Monte & Francesca Saieva
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