> Swans Commentary > http://www.swans.com/ > September 21, 2009 > > If you read Swans and appreciate the quality of its content please > support us Financially. Thank you. http://www.swans.com/about/donate.html > > $ $ $ $ $ > > Note from the Editors: Want to cut through the rhetoric and grasp the > evolving state of health care in the U.S.? Jan Baughman's splendid cartoon > makes it clearer than a thousand words -- though words should not be > disregarded. Gilles d'Aymery uses a few to revisit the standings of health > care in Cuba, France, and the U.S. You'll learn that the number of > physicians, nurses, and hospital beds has actually decreased in the U.S. in > the past 15 years while the population has increased by over 40 million. And > you'll also find in his Blips the reasons for the current health care > (non)reform debacle and what should be done about it. > > While it will come as no surprise who controls the health care reform agenda, > the behind-the-scenes manipulators of the anti-nuclear movement may not be as > apparent. Michael Barker analyzes the tight hold that elite, ostensibly > progressive, philanthropists currently wield over leading members of the > movement. Equally enlightening is Femi Akomolafe's report from Africa on > Western hypocrisy, control of Africa's oil and minerals, and the UN Security > Council's indictment of the Sudanese president. How fitting, then, is Tiziano > Terzani's plea from the Himalayas that is shared by Martin Murie: It's time > for us to move out into the open, time to make a stand for the values we > believe in. > > It's also time for an Arts & Culture interlude, in which Art Shay reflects on > David Sedaris, the kookaburra bird, and his 1946 Australia adventures; > Charles Marowitz reviews *A Strange Eventful History,* a book that delineates > how the Ellen Terry-Henry Irving partnership transformed the Gilded Age of > acting to the modernism of the New World; and Peter Byrne pens a one-act play > on the perpetually-smiling aunt, her abusive father, and the New Deal > propaganda that shaped her slaphappy persona. In the French Corner Graham Lea > muses in English over the state of the best cheese in the world. In French, > Marie Rennard presents a polesy with the help of a duck; newcomer Irène Grätz > disserts on freedom of speech; and we offer some old and new words about > adultery. We end with the creative poetry of Guido Monte and Jeffery Klaehn > as well as your letters. > > # # # # # > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/jeb211.html > (R)evolutionary Health Care Reform - Cartoon by Jan Baughman > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/ga272.html > Health Care Here And There - Gilles d'Aymery > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/desk090.html > Blips #90 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/barker31.html > Anti-Nuclear Philanthropy And The US Peace Movement - Michael Barker > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/femia19.html > Africa And The International Criminal Court Of [In]justice - Femi Akomolafe > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/murie79.html > What To Do? - Martin Murie > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/ashay15.html > Kookaburra Bird Shit - Art Shay > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/cmarow147.html > Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, & Co. - Book Review by Charles Marowitz > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/pbyrne109.html > Only Read The Small Print - Dialogue by Peter Byrne > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/glea07.html > French Cheese: A Cultural Metaphor? - Graham Lea > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/marier37.html > Polésie de canard - Marie Rennard (FR) > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/gratz01.html > Liberté d'expression: limites, contraintes et possibilités - Irène Grätz (FR) > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/xxx137.html > Plaidoyer de la comtesse d'Arcira - (FR) > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/marier38.html > Adultère</a> - Marie Rennard (FR) > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/gmonte76.html > Unknown - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/klaehn03.html > Your Beauty Washes Over Me Like Rain - Poetry by Jeffery Klaehn > > http://www.swans.com/library/art15/letter174.html > Letters to the Editor > > # # # # # > > Please, consider supporting our co-operative work financially. 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