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Uri Avnery, Emeritus Correspondent on Middle Eastern affairs, and founder of Gush Shalom, is Israel's leading peace advocate with the Palestinian nation. A former journalist, and onetime member of the Israeli Parliament (the Knesset) he was in the Israeli militias that did ethnic cleansing of historic Palestine in 1948 to prepare for the state of Israel. His life inspired Leon Uris for the character played by Paul Newman in the movie Exodus.
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One of America's keenest students of its history, Gore Vidal is also the nation's most erudite social critic and media gadfly. From the very start, Vidal has provided intrinsic support and inspiration, and for that we're in his debt.
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"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular? But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right."—Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Cyrano crew [click on the names for bioblurb information]
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Publisher Patrice Greanville keeps busy making sure we don't hit a hidden reef or sail into a perfect storm...On his free time he helms The Greanville Journal [TGJ] and is now collating a new tv/cinema & media index cataloging the most outrageous examples of service to a criminal System.
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Indefatigable Associate Editor Jason Miller's main turf is his Thomas Paine's Corner blog, Cyrano's largest, plus numerous editorial, administrative and promotional tasks, including our newsletter, Mind Detox. His passion and loyalty to the idea of a new society is CJO's blessing.
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Senior Editor sadi ranson-polizzotti's contributions via tantmieux and other venues comprise a rich blend of poetry, photography and liberated personal chronicles of the most compelling kind-- delivered with characteristic honesty. Since the merging of her tantmieux and Cyrano sites in 2007, she also runs a tantmieux blog within Cyrano itself, something of miracle of commitment, given how busy her life is.
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Polymathic veteran Editor-at-Large Ed Duvin fills many functions, but his most important role is as consigliere on all matters pertaining to the smooth sailing of the Information Vessel Cyrano and helping the skipper glue all the idiosyncratic parts into a harmonious whole. He also pens an unusual column for TGJ, Notes From the Asylum
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"Revolution without the Arts is meaningless,” writes Gary Corseri, a Senior Arts & Culture Editor of Cyrano’s Journal Online (CJO), whose articles, poems, stories and plays have appeared in/at CJO, DissidentVoice, The New York Times, Village Voice, CounterPunch, and over 200 other periodicals and websites worldwide.
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Senior Editor of Arts and Culture with Cyrano’s Journal Online, playwright, director, screenwriter and teacher, John Steppling was an original founding member of the Padua Hills Playwrights Festival and has had his plays produced in London, LA, New York, Paris, San Francisco, and Poland. Steppling lives in Lodz with Norwegian director Gunnhild Skrodal, and teaches at the Polish National Film School. He co-edits with Guy Zimmerman Cyrano's celebrated VOXPOP blog on theater, cinema & politics.
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Rowan Wolf, a senior contributing editor to Cyrano's Journal, is a sociologist, teacher, writer and activist. Her areas of interest include social justice, environment, and globalization/
corporatization at the core.
SINCE 5.6.07, she has also been the main host and director of Cyrano's special blog, AVENGER.
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Guy Zimmerman is the Artistic Director of Padua Playwrights. Since 2001, he has staged award-winning productions of new plays by numerous contemporary playwrights (including John Steppling's Dog Mouth) in Los Angeles and New York. As a Senior Editor for CJO, He co-edits VOXPOP with J Steppling.
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Phil Rockstroh, a self-described, auto-didactic, gasbag monologist, is a poet, lyricist, and philosopher bard, living in New York City, in the company of his loyal muse, Angie. Phil is a CJO Senior Contributing Editor. His essays have been published all over the web and have been translated into many languages.
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Based in Rome, Gaither Stewart, well known for his dispatches and essays from Europe, is Cyrano’s Journal’s Senior Editor & Special European Correspondent. Gaither is currently focused on the troubling re-emergence of fascist parties and movements in the old continent.
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Senior Special Editor Bill Blum is one of the most distinguished critics of US Foreign Policy, chronicling for decades the crimes and hypocrisy of American policies of imperial dominionism under the pretext of waging a global struggle for peace, freedom and democracy.
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Senior Editor Joe Bageant needs little introduction. The author of the recent instant classic, DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS, Joe is an undisputed expert in the complex mentality of "red staters" who, while often working class, vote repeatedly for plutocratic frauds in the name of "God" & patriotism.
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Steven Jonas-Professor of Preventive Medicine at Stony Brook University (NY)-- is Special Contributing Editor for Cyrano on Politics & Culture. Always involved in progressive politics, Jonas is also the author of The 15% Solution: A Political History of American Fascism, 2001-2022.published in 1996 under the pseudonym "Jonathan Westminster. Lately Jonas has been following the Democratic Party meanderings during a particularly snarky primary season.
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Steven Best, Ph.D. is Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso. He has published numerous books and articles on philosophy, cultural criticism, social theory and animal rights. He has appeared on TV shows like Extra! and is frequently interviewed by national print and radio media including the New York Times and National Public Radio. Best is Cyrano's Journal Special Editor for Animal Rights, Speciesisim and Human Tyranny over Nature.
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Chicago-based Stephen Lendman is Cyrano's chief book editor and one of our most energetic contributing writers on matters of politics and foreign policy. CJO readers are encouraged to visit Steve's blog and listen to The Global Research News Hour on RepublicBroadcasting.org Mondays from 11AM to 1PM US Central time for cutting-edge discussions of world and national topics with many distinguished guests.
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Maryscott O'Connor is mistress of MyLeftwing.com, a fraternal site that represents some of the best values of the new citizens' media, and a featured CJO writer. Her essays are found on many sites across the web.
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Adam Engel is a Contributing Editor for Cyrano's Journal. Adam has published poetry, fiction, articles, and reviews in several web sites and magazines such as CounterPunch, Dissident Voice, Online Journal, Hudson Review, Accent, The Concord Journal, Beacon, Art World, Ward6 Review, CounterCurrents, LewRockwell.com, Literal Latte, Lummux, POESY, Chronogram, Press Action,and many others.
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Poet and part-time actor Viola Ransel is a Senior Contributing Editor with CJO. Here she's perversely attired in a police uniform for an audition but her nonconformist temperament would never allow her to don one for real.
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OF SPECIAL INTEREST |
A SPECIAL BOOK REVIEW OF Joel Magnuson's Mindful Economics
Redeeming the Dismal Science
capitalism for dummies in one step
BY PATRICE GREANVILLE
NATURAL PROGRESSION INTERRUPTUS
Ed Duvin addresses the irrational fears of progressives and others in regard to socialism, as well as its indispensability to overcome the current crisis
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WILLIAM BLUM'S SPECIAL REPORT
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Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life.
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THE CUBA-VENEZUELA FILES
The vultures have begun circling above, as they await Fidel's departure: Comment by Monthly Review's editors
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The padded bed: the epileptic in western medicine click here
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WINDS OF THE RIGHT OVER EUROPE
Gaither Stewart looks at the tide of neofascism engulfing a politically sophisticated continent
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PHOTO: Badly traumatized orphaned monkey has managed to bond with this dove in one of China's animal sanctuaries. |
Neither the mindnumbing magnitude of our tyranny over nature, especially "factory farm animals," nor its ubiquitousness, should blind us to the fact that a horrendous crime is being committed here. [READ MORE]
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John Steppling, Senior Editor, Arts & Culture, Voxpop // Guy Zimmerman, Senior Editor, Arts & Culture, Voxpop // Gary Corseri, Senior Editor, Arts & Culture // Rowan Wolf, Senior Editor, Environment, Globalization & Imperialism // Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti, Senior Editor, Poetry, Photography & Life Chronicles // Susan Rosenthal, Senior Editor, Medicine, Politics & Empowerment // Steven Jonas, Special Contributing Editor, Politics & Culture // Gaither Stewart, Special Contributing Editor & European Correspondent // Steve Best, Special Editor, Animal Rights, Speciesism, and Human Tyranny over Nature // William Blum, Special Editor, US Foreign Policy Hypocrisy and Imperialist Crimes // Stephen Lendman, Senior Book Editor and Contributing Writer // Suki Falconberg, Senior Contributing Writer // Viola Ransel, Senior Contributing Editor
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HARRY BELAFONTE'S ADDRESS TO THE LINCOLN BRIGADE
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CYRANO READERS OPINE:
"An Obama obsession fired up by the media has struck this country which remains polarized between a very small minority of enlightened sensitive and socially conscious souls and the inane majority. This almost desperately naïve search for salvation from a tightly controlled political process through a candidate who was cleverly sold to the general public will only bring if he is elected president a tighter hidden bondage, exactly because this population will be given what they think they wanted, while helping to maintain the status quo, much like with the Roosevelt New Deal. Obama, the creature of the Eastern establishment and the Kennedy clan will bring some superficial remedies for the Bush years, but he will cement thereby the continuation of capitalist domination of this country and the world. He may well win against McCain, presenting a new face masking the same capitalist features, a brilliant victory for the established powers, having overcome the present day disillusions of Americans. The help of deluded liberal progressives to bring this about has as always in history been more deleterious and destructive of any freedom than what the conservative section has constructed. Obama is truly the symptom of the disease of a social system that has lost its power to convince but lingers on by hollow simulacra and is truly disastrous for the globe."—Gui Rochat
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