Swans Commentary http://www.swans.com/ January 26, 2009
Note from the Editors: Darn, we did it again! Instead of delving into
the new post-January-20 age and the change we can believe in, we went
astray -- no "deep" analyses on the meaning of Obama's election and his
administration's first few days in office. Instead, Gilles d'Aymery
keeps digging into the financial and economic fiasco that supposedly
nobody saw coming (excuse us?) and looks at the next falling shoes of
that nobody-saw-it-coming crowd (he adds a few tidbits about a topic
that's dear to him, pet food and other inflationary trends...). Jan
Baughman and Femi Akomolafe add humor to the entire W. saga that led to
the new era of the "change we can believe in."
Will our new era of "responsibility" bring a resurgence of activism on
behalf of the planet? Michael Barker does not think so as he lists a
series of organizations you should not support given their links to the
military- industrial-congressional complex, and the likelihood that
their conservation models will most probably destroy the environment
they advertise they want to protect. Long-time environmental advocate
Martin Murie admonishes those sitting on the climate change fence to
get off their couch and work to save the earth and oceans, and, to
close the activist part of this edition, Joel Hirschhorn suggests that
the latest Latvia public protests ought to be reciprocated in the U.S.
It's also long past time to get off the fence regarding the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict. Michael Doliner's powerful essay on the influence
of Vladimir Jabotinsky and Revisionist Zionism on modern Israel
demonstrates the fundamental contradictions that the Israeli state and
the world's Judaism (and Goyism) confront. In and around the topic,
Aleksandar Jokic and Isidor Saslav add their own perspectives.
Arts & Culture managed to survive the election and we must be
responsible for ensuring they also survive the recession. Peter Byrne,
who hasn't met a book he hasn't read, reviews Blood River, A Journey to
Africa's Broken Heart in the context of the Congolese horrors. Charles
Marowitz recalls his early days in the Royal Shakespeare Company with
the irreplaceable Paul Scofield. Poetry has its space through Guido
Monte and Scott Porter. Movie-wise, Jeff Meyerhoff takes strong (but
short) exception with "Slumdog Millionaire." We close with your
letters, full of controversy aplenty -- perhaps a good sign of the
coming resurgence in activism.
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http://www.swans.com/library/art15/desk078.html Blips #78 - From the
Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/jeb204.html The Legacy Of W. -
Cartoon by Jan Baughman
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/femia03.html Bush's Last Hurrah -
Humor by Femi Akomolafe
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/barker12.html When Environmentalists
Legitimize Plunder - Michael Barker
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/murie63.html The Bell Tolls - Martin
Murie
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/joelh07.html Learning From Latvia -
Joel S. Hirschhorn
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/mdolin41.html The Clever Child -
Michael Doliner
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/ajokic05.html Michael Walzer's Sense
Of Proportionality - Aleksandar Jokic
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/saslav10.html The Jewish Role In
History Re-evaluated - Isidor Saslav
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/pbyrne91.html Congo Round And Round -
Book Review by Peter Byrne
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/cmarow128.html Remembering Paul
Scofield - Charles Marowitz
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/gmonte60.html War n.1: Walking On
Thin Ice - Poem by Guido Monte
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/porter12.html The Journey - Poem by
R. Scott Porter
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/jeffm01.html The Poverty Of Slumdog
Millionaire - Film Review by Jeff Meyerhoff
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/letter157.html Letters to the Editor
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