Welcome to Swans Commentary http://www.swans.com/ November 29, 2010
*** FUNDRAISING DRIVE: How do you keep integrity intact? How? You know the answer, don't you? Help us keep this little light of sanity shining. We've almost reached our goal -- just need a last-ditch effort to raise another $800. Donate Now! http://www.swans.com/about/donate.html Many thanks to CG, JE, Mark Lause, Ashley Berry, Walter Trkla, Roger Barker, Christine Quigless, Milo Clark, Charles Pearson, and Steven Hohensee for their generous contributions. Thanks to them we received just over $1,000 in the past two weeks. *** # # # # # Note from the Editors: After months of research, analysis, and months of writing on why the economy is not coming back, among other distractions, Gilles d'Aymery is returning to his Blips in true form, covering everything from inguinal hernias to plantar fasciitis; a missing dog, a stolen article, and Alexander Cockburn's lost marbles; to a positive learning experience with photographer Edward Burtynsky and his friend Marcus Schubert, and more. Regarding those months of research and the stolen article, the (anonymous) folks at peakoil.com stole Part III of Gilles's series, deleting half of the title, the first paragraph, the footnotes, and of course, his name. Oil may not yet have peaked, but for some, ethics certainly have, particularly given the anonymity of the Internet. More on this topic another time... For today, Michael Barker presents Part 3 of his series on the history of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, including the CIA's and philanthropic organizations' control over the black movement. Michael DeLang offers a unique approach for US citizens to counter the increasing influence of corporations on politics. Much in the news is the WikiLeaks Web site, and while Francis Shor believes it is providing valuable and otherwise suppressed information from the war on Iraq, the documents do not give an Iraqi perspective on the atrocities -- for that, one has to look to other sources. For his part, Charles Marowitz could live without the social networking Web sites that demean language and devalue the very notion of friends. And speaking of devaluation, Charles Pearson examines the eurozone and the neoliberal attack on democracy and the working classes in the EU, and Michael Doliner considers the limitations on physics given its proponents' greatest fear. The culture corner is bursting with creativity, from film noir enthusiast Jonah Raskin's anticipation of the upcoming movie "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"; Peter Byrne's examination of the unstable afterlife and metamorphosis of artist Paul Gauguin; Fabio De Propris's look at the world-wide embrace of American pop culture, which lives on even while the country's clout diminishes at home and abroad; and "le coin français," with offerings from Marie Rennard, Christian Cottard, Simone Alié-Daram, and Alfred Jarry. We conclude with the poetry of Guido Monte and Maxwell Clark, and as always, your letters. # # # # # All the articles and the Letters to the Editor can be freely accessed from Swans front page. Please go to: http://www.swans.com/ You can also access our past issues at: http://www.swans.com/library/past_issues/past_issues.html And you have access to almost 15 years of archives by date, author, and subject at: http://www.swans.com/library/archives.html Remember, what's free to you is not to us! To help our work financially please visit http://www.swans.com/about/donate.html # # # # # Swans (aka Swans Commentary), ISSN: 1554-4915, is a bi-weekly non- commercial ad-free Web-only magazine which provides original content to its readers. We encourage pulp publications to republish Swans Work in print format. Please contact the publisher at <aymery AT ix.netcom.com>. Please, do not repost Swans Work on the Web and other mailing lists: "Hypertext" links to any pages of Swans.com are authorized; however, republication of any part of this site, inlining, mirroring, and framing are expressly prohibited. (You are receiving this E-mail notification for you have expressed your interest in Swans and the work of its team. If you wish not to receive these short notifications, simply reply to this E-mail (delete the content) and enter the word REMOVE in the subject line.) Cordially, Gilles d'Aymery -- Swans "Hungry man, reach for the book: It is a weapon." B. Brecht _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
