http://swans.com/ Swans Commentary Swans Commentary - As always, please form your OWN opinion, and let your friends (and foes) know about Swans. en Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:55:01 GMT 012345678910121314151617181920212223 1 daily 1970-01-01T11:00+00:00 1440 sburke@cpan.org http://interglacial.com/d/about_rss/1day#_yes_this_means_YOU http://interglacial.com/rss/swans.rss http://interglacial.com/rss/swans.pl swanscomm Vignettes On J.D. Salinger http://swans.com/library/art16/xxx141.html Vignettes On J.D. Salinger  ·  by Various Swans Authors  ·  This excerpt from the book They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 is frighteningly relevant to today's sociopolitical condition in which the people are habituated to their disappearing liberties and the expanding police state. Blips #95 http://swans.com/library/art16/desk095.html Blips #95  ·  by Gilles d'Aymery  ·  A few selected issues that landed on the Editor's desk, from civil libertarians like Nat Hentoff and Glenn Greenwald puzzled by the Obama Doctrine and ignorant of the systemic predicaments; the courage and ethics of the great late Howard Zinn; to Alberto Giacometti, screaming from his grave at the obscenity of our modernity. A Short History Of Stupidity - Part 1 http://swans.com/library/art16/mdolin51.html A Short History Of Stupidity - Part 1  ·  by Michael Doliner  ·  In Part 1 of a two-part story, Michael Doliner examines the history of nation-states and the justification of war, beginning with the Enlightenment and the notion of universal human equality. Caring For Haiti http://swans.com/library/art16/barker42.html Caring For Haiti  ·  by Michael Barker  ·  A critical examination of Paul Farmer's connection to various liberal elites and the conservative AmeriCares. The Displaced Generation http://swans.com/library/art16/cmarow158.html The Displaced Generation  ·  by Charles Marowitz  ·  A displaced generation of Americans are struggling in an atmosphere that has become rife with strife and dotted with mounting anger against the inequalities between Main Street and Wall Street. Is Seattle Of Two Minds? Well, Yes And No http://swans.com/library/art16/sshay05.html Is Seattle Of Two Minds? Well, Yes And No  ·  by Steve Shay  ·  Not all is progressive in the city of Seattle, where conservation and expansion collide, pot and candy are political, and barely-clad baristas may soon be on the endangered list. Nigeria: A Nation In Custody http://swans.com/library/art16/femia29.html Nigeria: A Nation In Custody  ·  by Femi Akomolafe  ·  Femi Akomolafe continues his analysis of the politics and poverty of Nigeria, and the political vacuum in which it remains with an in absentia president. Cameras On White Africa http://swans.com/library/art16/pbyrne119.html Cameras On White Africa  ·  by Peter Byrne  ·  The award-winning documentary Mugabe and the White African needed a much wider lens and a broader historical backdrop for its portrayal of Robert Mugabe and the fate of one white family forced off their farm. Richard Quinney's A Lifetime Burning http://swans.com/library/art16/pbuhle03.html Richard Quinney's A Lifetime Burning  ·  by Paul Buhle  ·  A review of A Lifetime Burning, the remarkable illustrated memoir by Richard Quinney on his parents and grandparents' family farm in a bygone era. Via Dimenticata http://swans.com/library/art16/gmonte84.html Via Dimenticata  ·  by Guido Monte Picture by Guido Monte  ·  Questions about human existential confusion, new dangers, and forgotten ways. Letters http://swans.com/library/art16/letter184.html Letters  ·  In search of Michael Doliner in Swans archives; praise for Gilles d'Aymery's Beginnings With No Known End and The First Obama Year; Seine and Shay: a contrast in photographers; the coming French Tea Partiers; and the reality of the census.