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Tidbits Flying Across the Martian Desk
Blips #126
by Gilles d'Aymery
"Every damn fool thing you do in this life, you pay for."
—Edith Piaf's last words
A few selected issues that landed on the Editor's desk, from
overpaid CEOs, undervalued leaders, and bankrupt cities and
countries; to the fallout from not taking sides on the recent
French elections, and more. More...
Gilles d'Aymery is Swans' publisher and co-editor.
America: Myths & Realities
The Rules Of The Game USA
by Manuel García, Jr.
The ten commandments of political economy embedded in the American
psyche, based on some thoughts about the human stories I am
observing daily in this highly lack-of-equality or
lack-of-opportunity USA. More...
Manuel García, Jr. is a retired physicist, author, and family man
who lives in Oakland, California.
(R)evolutionary Health Care Reform
Cartoon by Jan Baughman
[Originally published on September 21, 2009] The majority of the
people have asked for health care reform that includes a public
option, and the Senate has responded -- on behalf of the insurance
industry and anti-abortion, anti-immigrant, and anti-public-option
("socialist") ideology. Survival of the fittest prevails! God
Bless Darwin, and God Bless the United States of America. More...
Jan Baughman is a clinical researcher and Swans' co-editor.
Vacation For An Operation
by Bo Keeley
A traveler, or US resident willing to take a junket to a 5-star
hotel plus quality hospital care in an exotic land, need not have
American medical insurance, and he'll get quality treatment at a
fraction the cost. Third World countries charge cheap rates, the
same for locals and visitors, for diagnosis, treatment,
operations, and hospitalization. Someone has pointed out to me
that it is correctly termed "medical" rather than "health"
insurance because many American doctors poorly promote your
health. More...
Bo Keeley is a former national paddleball and racquetball
champion, author of 7 books, and adventurer.
Patterns Which Connect
The Roots Of Theosophy (Part II)
by Michael Barker
Despite the increase in her popularity in some circles, when
Blavatsky returned to Madras in December 1884, she was "savaged by
the press" when the full Society for Psychical Research report was
released -- and was effectively forced by Olcott to leave her own
Society, thereby ending their friendship. She traveled back to
Europe in March 1885, eventually settling in London (in the spring
of 1887). More...
Michael Barker is an independent researcher who lives in London,
England.
Hungry Man, Reach For The Book
The Unending (C.L.R. James) Saga
by Paul Buhle
In the twenty-three years since the death of C.L.R. James
(1901-1989), the drumbeat of new books describing and
anthologizing his writings has been steady and at times almost
deafening to those who listen with rapt attention. Not that the
books are in any way unwelcome, or in danger of exhausting the
canon (next fall actually sees the appearance of Toussaint
L'Ouverture, the 1936 play performed in England but never before
published, by Duke University Press). Nor that the waning of
deconstruction, once the major source of new books and essays on
James, is anything but welcome. More...
Paul Buhle is a retired academic and comics' editor who lives in
Madison, Wisconsin.
Arts & Culture
Our Spring Is Extinguished
by Raju Peddada
There was an abrupt ignition of energy in the house as soon as I
showed my wife what I had brought home. An electric potential
charged the house in the possibilities of a healthy guest that
could double our joy with its antics. The boys, bored to the brim
with frequent excursions to the store with their mother, jumped at
the chance to go with me to the supermarket to get food for the
newly-arrived guest. I am getting ahead of the story here, am I
not? Spring is the time that brings us pleasant, as well as
unpleasant, surprises. Well, here is what happened. More...
Raju Peddada is an industrial designer who lives in Des Plaines,
Illinois.
Screen Distractions: Old Story
by Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
It looks like a number of articles have emerged recently
disparaging our addictions to digital technology. In May, Aatekah
Mir of The Wall Street Journal wrote the article "How Distracting
is Technology?", which bemoaned the amount of time people spend on
social networking sites and checking e-mails while at work. The
image caption of the article, a man wearing a pair of glasses that
is a computer, projects where digital soothsayers claim digital
technology is going: embedded in or on the human body. More...
Harvey E. Whitney, Jr. is a Ph.D. student in history at Florida
State University.
The Boy Wonder Peter Brook Is 87
by Peter Byrne
Peter Brook, born in 1925, has been throwing out the bathwater
since the early 1960s. But the baby we see in the film his son
Simon made of him in 2001 is a laughing senex, shrunken and lined,
but in no danger of going down the drain. He has not disappeared a
decade later, but neither has he stopped shedding his skin and
moving on. More...
Peter Byrne is an American-born teacher and writer who lives in
Lecce, Italy.
Multilingual Poetry
Infinite Blending Dream
by Guido Monte & Claudine Giovannoni
Sipping from the blossom of Time:
soledad sin imagen, sed sin labios.
Schau mal deine Hande
para acabar con todo:
hands without Macht, sans pouvoir More...
Guido Monte teaches Italian and Latin literature in Palermo,
Italy. Claudine Giovannoni is an artist who lives in Switzerland.
Letters to the Editor
Letters
On the Golden Gate Bridge and other world spots for the fatal
leap; exception to Raju Peddada's glorification of Swami
Vivekananda; the Republicans crashing of the US economy has been
done before -- and it backfired; and war and the walking time
bombs among us. More...
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