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  • Labor Fights Back at Goose Island (Book Review)
    20 April 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    When I read Kari Lydersen’s first-rate “Revolt on Goose Island,” recently, it took me back to a talk, I’d attended, on May 1, 2008, at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, MD. One of the speakers at the spirited event, an “International Labor Day Celebration,” was Richard L. Trumka, now the head of the AFL-CIO. (1) Thinking back on Trumka’s cogent remarks, it was like he had a crystal ball in describing the ongoing baleful effects of globalization. It was as if he could see down the (…)

  • Video: Poet Shelley Puhak’s “Stalin in Aruba”
    17 April 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Saturday, April 17, 2010, poet Shelley Puhak read excerpts from her first book of poetry, “Stalin in Aruba.” The event took place at Baltimore’s celebrated Central Pratt Library, as part of the annual “CityLit Festival.” It was held in the Edgar Allan Poe room. Reviewer Julianna Baggott has labeled Ms. Puhak’s book “deeply political and deeply personal,” and as a “startling debut.”

  • Video: Book Talk with Kari Lydersen: “Revolt on Goose Island”
    10 April 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Video: Book Talk with Kari Lydersen: “Revolt on Goose Island”
    On Friday evening, April 9, 2010, author/journalist Kari Lydersen discussed her latest book, “Revolt on Goose Island: The Chicago Factory Takeover, and What It Says about the Economic Crisis.” The event was sponsored by and held at Red Emma’s Bookstore and Coffeehouse, in Baltimore, MD. Check out: http://www.redemmas.org/event/1845/ Ms. Lydersen is an award-winning staff reporter for the Washington Post; and a co-author, with (…)

  • From Frankenstein to Temple Mount PROMETHEAN MADNESS
    28 March 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    From Frankenstein to the Temple Mount Promethean Madness
    ‘Frankenstein’ subtitled ‘The Modern Prometheus’ by Mary Shelley, published by the Oxford press, contains the name of Lewis Awad; an Egyptian Promethean scholar, in its sources. Awad was associated with the Egyptian weekly newspaper Al Ahram. They celebrated the tenth anniversary of Awad’s death by holding a summit for sixty Arab scholars on the last week of Sept. 2001. Each received a copy of Awad’s work ‘Prometheus Unbound‘. (…)

  • “Hail to the Cheat,” a political novel, by Ted Venetoulis - A Review
    5 March 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    [Wandering Sage Publications, 2009, 370 pp., soft cover, $17.95]
    If you’re going to write your first novel, and it’s a political spoof, then you might as well as set it in the White House. Well, Ted Venetoulis does exactly that in his “Hail to the Cheat,” which is not only a fun read, I predict it’s going to make one zany movie.
    Venetoulis is an author who has lived politics and it shows in his book. The main characters are all credible and taken from that realm. As a young man, (…)

  • “This Dream Called Death,” a novelzine, by Stephen Janis
    22 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    [Publisher, Novelzine, 2010,164 pp., soft cover, $15.99]
    Baltimore, MD — Stephen Janis is an awarding-winning investigative reporter. The urban crime scene is his beat. His engrossing, surreal novel, “This Dream Called Death,” is his second book.
    The fast-paced story is set in the decaying, crime-saturated and once-highly industrialized, “City of Balaise.” It’s a look into a grim, but maybe a not-too-distant future, where your worst fears of an ultra-controlling “Homeland Security-like” (…)

  • Pulp Fiction: We are living in a novel
    21 September 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Shakespeare said all the world’s a stage, and we are but players — bit players, he might have added, although he preferred to write about the high and mighty. I don’t know about the high and mighty, but to tweak the old bard a bit, I would say it is more like a novel we are living in, and a bad one at that. The Warren Report, the 9/11 Commission Report, the "news" as it is fed to us 24/7 by the mass media, what is it all but pulp fiction, a never-ending penny dreadful hacked together by (…)

  • Edgar Allan Poe: A Tragic, but Talented, American Original
    29 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    “[Poe] would dress in ‘black’...It was his color...He liked to wander through cemeteries.” - Peter Ackroyd.
    Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of 40, in Baltimore, Maryland, under mysterious circumstances. The exact truth of what really happened to him has evaded historians. I think even the experts on the popular TV program, “Forensic Files,” would be baffled by the case. Poe is a both a legendary and tragic figure. He is one of America’s greatest men of letters. Was his death related to “a (…)

  • Farewell anti-war hero & Literature Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter who slammed US, UK war crimes in Iraq
    27 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Farewell to pro-Peace, pro-human rights, anti-war hero and Literature Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter 1930-2008 who exposed the human soul in his brilliant plays and also exposed huge Anglo-American crimes against Humanity in Occupied Iraq (post-invasion violent and non-violent excess deaths now total about 2 million, refugees total 6 million). Outstanding Jewish British playwright, humanitarian and 2005 Literature Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter died on Christmas Eve, 2008 at the age of 78. He (…)

  • Book refuting Jewish taboo on Israel’s bestseller list
    27 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Book refuting Jewish taboo on Israel’s bestseller list
    Jonathan Cook, Foreign Correspondent Last Updated: October 06. 2008 10:38PM UAE / GMT
    TEL AVIV // No one is more surprised than Shlomo Sand that his latest academic work has spent 19 weeks on Israel’s bestseller list – and that success has come to the history professor despite his book challenging Israel’s biggest taboo.
    Dr Sand argues that the idea of a Jewish nation – whose need for a safe haven was originally used to justify the (…)