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Vol. 13, No. 5, 2014

     
 
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CONTENTS
  1. Essay
KILLING MACHINES AND THE MADNESS OF MILITARISM by Henry A. Giroux
There has always been war. There will soon come a time when there must never be another.
  2. Diagnostic
THE OBAMA BOMB by David Solway
Manchild in a troubled world, with the blessings of ISIS.
  3. Essay
FIXING THE WORLD by Louis René Beres
"Laws they define as right for the subjects what is in the interest of themselves."
  4. Book Review
PLAYING THE WHORE reviewed by Katrina Forrester
There’s a difference between sex workers who sexualize themselves for their jobs and workers who are sexualized by others.
  5. Sexuality
TRANSGENDER TIPPING POINT by Laurie Penny
The male-female binary ain't what it used to be.
  6. Photo Essay
OUT OF SOUTH SUDAN by Sunra Lambert Baj
Beneath the shadow of the sun.
  7. Travel
A SLOVENLY SLOWDOWN IN SLOVAKIA by John M. Edwards
She extended a limp limb evocative of a veal kotlet pounded flat by a Wolfgang Puck acolyte.
  8. Enlightenment
OM: THE GREAT ESCAPE by Robert J. Lewis
The much maligned unemptied mind..
  9. Film
SHAKESPEARE, SHELLEY AND WOODY ALLEN by Nick Catalano
Romantic love (Magic in the Moonlight) in the time of Woody Allen.
  10. Art
NICK CAVE AND FUNK(ADELIC) by Anthony Merino
No maggots in them brilliant minds.
  11.

Arab Politics
THE COLLAPSE OF THE ARAB POLITICAL ORDER by Maged Mandour
The Arab world is in shambles: who are the winners and losers.


  12. Cycles
TO THE END OF HISTORY AND BACK by Oxana Timofeeva
The eternal recurrence of catastrophe and apocalypse.
  13.

Music
SIX DEGREES OF JAZZ
The Shai Maestro Trio insists that melody and post modern jazz are not mutually exclusive.


  14.

Film Review
DA SWEET BLOOD OF JESUS reviewed by Nancy Snipper
Another spike in the coffin of Spike Lee's growing list of mediocre films.


     

 

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