Swans (magazine)
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Swans Commentary is an American online political and literary magazine, created in 1996; co-editors are Jan Baughman and the French
essayist and political commentator Gilles d’Aymery, who is the magazine's publisher.
, also collaborator of Peter Brook
), and regular or occasional relevant contributors: Paul Buhle
, Art Shay
, Louis Proyect, Alison Phipps (University of Glasgow
), the multilingual poet Guido Monte
, the novelist Alma A. Hromic (aka, Alma Alexander
), Michael Barker, Mohammed Ben Jelloun, the economist Edward S. Herman
(and the experts of political economy Shimshon Bichler
and Jonathan Nitzan
, the philosopher Michael Neumann
, Naseer Aruri
, R. J. Berry, Denis Halliday
, Michael Parenti
, Anthony Arnove
.)
The interest about political principles, joins in world geo-political articles, especially about the Balkans
, Iraq
(with special and meaningful works) and Palestine
.
Swans publishes also a few articles in French on a monthly basis, Le coin français, which are edited by the French story teller and translator Marie Rennard; Jean-Claude Seine contributes his words and pictures.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
essayist and political commentator Gilles d’Aymery, who is the magazine's publisher.
Collaborators and contributors
Swans publishes significant authors (like the critic Charles MarowitzCharles Marowitz
Charles Marowitz is an American critic, theatre director, and playwright who has been a regular columnist on Swans Commentary—a cultural-political bi-weekly—since 2004...
, also collaborator of Peter Brook
Peter Brook
Peter Stephen Paul Brook CH, CBE is an English theatre and film director and innovator, who has been based in France since the early 1970s.-Life:...
), and regular or occasional relevant contributors: Paul Buhle
Paul Buhle
Paul Merlyn Buhle is a Senior Lecturer at Brown University, author or editor of 35 volumes including histories of radicalism in the United States and the Caribbean, studies of popular culture, and a series of nonfiction comic art volumes. He is the authorized biographer of C. L. R...
, Art Shay
Art Shay
Art Shay is an American photographer and writer. Born in 1922, he grew up in the Bronx and then served as a navigator in the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II, during which he flew 52 bomber missions . Shay joined the staff of Life magazine, and quickly became a Chicago-based freelance...
, Louis Proyect, Alison Phipps (University of Glasgow
University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...
), the multilingual poet Guido Monte
Guido Monte
Guido Monte is an Italian writer and poet. In his recent works, he employs linguistic blending in the search for meaningful and archetypal relations between distant cultures....
, the novelist Alma A. Hromic (aka, Alma Alexander
Alma Alexander
Alma Alexander is the pen name of Alma A. Hromic , a fantasy writer whose novels include the "Worldweavers" young adult series, The Secrets of Jin-Shei and its sequel The Embers of Heaven, The Hidden Queen, and Changer of Days. She is a native of Yugoslavia and grew up in various African countries,...
), Michael Barker, Mohammed Ben Jelloun, the economist Edward S. Herman
Edward S. Herman
Edward S. Herman is an American economist and media analyst with a specialty in corporate and regulatory issues as well as political economy and the media. He is Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also teaches at Annenberg School for...
(and the experts of political economy Shimshon Bichler
Shimshon Bichler
Shimshon Bichler is an educator who teaches political economy at colleges and universities in Israel. Along with Jonathan Nitzan, Bichler has created an engaging power theory of capitalism and theory of differential accumulation in their analysis of the political economy of wars, Israel, and...
and Jonathan Nitzan
Jonathan Nitzan
Jonathan Nitzan is a Professor of Political Economy at York University, Toronto, Canada. He is the co-author of Capital As Power: A Study of Order and Creorder, published 2009. Their writings focus of the nature of capital in capitalism and provide an alternative view to that of Marxist and...
, the philosopher Michael Neumann
Michael Neumann
Michael Neumann is a professor of philosophy at Trent University in Ontario, Canada. He is the author of What's Left? Radical Politics and the Radical Psyche , The Rule of Law: Politicizing Ethics and The Case Against Israel , and has published papers on utilitarianism and rationality.-Background...
, Naseer Aruri
Naseer Aruri
Naseer Aruri is an American professor and author of several books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is the Chancellor Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where he taught from 1965 to 1998....
, R. J. Berry, Denis Halliday
Denis Halliday
Denis J. Halliday was the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq from September 1, 1997, until 1998. He is Irish and holds an M.A. in Economics, Geography and Public Administration from Trinity College, Dublin....
, Michael Parenti
Michael Parenti
Michael Parenti is an award-winning, internationally known American political scientist, historian, and culture critic who has been writing on a wide range of both scholarly and popular subjects for over forty years. He has taught at several universities and colleges and has been a frequent guest...
, Anthony Arnove
Anthony Arnove
Anthony Arnove is a freelance literary editor, agent and activist based in Brooklyn. He is on the board of directors of Haymarket Books, and is active in the National Writers Union and the International Socialist Organization.- Early life :...
.)
Themes
A magazine about non-violent and pacifist political themes, with a progressive editorial line, Swans condemns the commercialization of the Web and is “…about thinking, questioning, observing, and providing ideas that are lacking in the mainstream media.”The interest about political principles, joins in world geo-political articles, especially about the Balkans
Balkans
The Balkans is a geopolitical and cultural region of southeastern Europe...
, Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
(with special and meaningful works) and Palestine
Palestine
Palestine is a conventional name, among others, used to describe the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands....
.
Swans publishes also a few articles in French on a monthly basis, Le coin français, which are edited by the French story teller and translator Marie Rennard; Jean-Claude Seine contributes his words and pictures.
External links
- Swans’ website
- G.d'Aymery and Swans on pressaction.com
- Swans C. on experimentaltheatre.org
- Swans C. on bestcyrano.org
- World geopolitical links on Lostchord.org
- Swans on Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung bpb.de
- Democracy Versus Stability by Joel S Hirschhorn, criticalthinking.org, 2007
- Swans C. on connexions.org