[Pen-l] Swans Release: September 21, 2009

[Louis Proyect]

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September 21, 2009

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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.

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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

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