Translated from the Hungarian & Edited

by Thomas Ország-Land (October 2016)

György Faludy (1910-2006), a Jewish-Hungarian humanist, was a towering figure of 20^th century European literature and a dominant voice of the anti-Soviet and anti-Nazi resistance. His work in English translation is just beginning to take its rightful place in the bookshops, lecture halls and libraries of the West.  more>>>

by David Solway (October 2016)

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue

                                                                   Psalm 120

Slander is like a missile

that smites from afar.

When it is spoken in Mecca

it kills in New York  more>>>

by Dilip Mohapatra (October 2016)

Poised at the centre of singularity

at the doorway to the bottomless

black hole  more>>>

A Poem in Six Movements

by Evelyn Hooven (October 2016)

          I

Sunlight through the picture doors.

Coffee, a spoon gleams

Against porcelain—  more>>>

by Michael Curtis (October 2016)

The Choice of the Jews under Vichy: Between Submission and Resistance
Adam Rayski
University of Notre Dame Press, 2015

The actions of Jews during World War II and the years of Nazi control of or influence in European countries has given rise to a copious and controversial literature on the general subject in both French and English, and also on the fate of Jews in Vichy France.  more>>>

by Richard Kostelanetz (October 2016)

“Black Lives Matter” is a misnomer, because the real purpose for those parading that slogan is holding police officers, usually Caucasian, responsible for killing black men disobeying the law. Cops don’t go to work planning to shoot some one; they are provoked. Remember that cops don’t even want to draw their guns, if only because they later must write a report explaining why.  more>>>

by Lorna Salzman (October 2016)

A respected historian and scholar, Amadeus Nihilis, has concluded after years of research that the Judeo-Christian god bears ultimate and full responsibility for the institution of slavery in the United States.  more>>>

by Joe Bissonnette (October 2016)

Cars, single family suburban homes and churches are the physical expressions of much of what is great about America.  more>>>

by G. Murphy Donovan (October 2016)

“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra

I had dinner the other day with a family that was about to launch their son towards college. As the evening drew to a close, their first born asked me if I had any words of wisdom about school to share as he left home for the first time.  more>>>

by A. Human Being (October 2016)

Muhammad’s encounter in the Cave of Hira is exceptional in Islam, because it is in this experience that Muhammad first received revelation from Allah, through the intermediary of the Archangel Gabriel. This encounter, therefore, is understood as the pivotal human event of Allah communicating the Islamic message to all mankind through the agency of Muhammad.  more>>>

a demi-Rant

by James Como (October 2016)

Whether good or bad, socio-cultural entropy has neither an end nor a beginning, and for it there is always a price to pay (i.e. the Civil War brings a substantially botched Reconstruction, the fall of Communism brings the Russian plutocracy and Putin).  more>>>

by Paul Austin Murphy (October 2016)

Let the UK Independent introduce us to contemporary conspiracy theories. Nick Harding writes: 

“The number of people who believe conspiracy theories is staggering. According to various recent surveys, a third of Brits believe Princess Diana was murdered (a Daily Mail survey), a quarter believe the moon landings were faked (from Engineering and Technology magazine), nearly half of all Americans do not believe global warming is man-made (a Yale University survey) and 84 per cent of them believe 9/11 was an inside job (a New York Times/CBS poll).”

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by Joe Bissonnette (October 2016)

Among animals there are predators and prey. The first seeks and the other eludes. Obviously prey should try to make themselves as inconspicuous as possible so as to avoid the attention of predators, and yet prey often form into large groups which are easily detected.  more>>>

by Jerry Gordon (October 2016)

George Soros

The UN General Assembly held a two day Summit on Refugees, September 19^th & 20th^, 2016. President Obama was busy trying to respond to terrorist incidents in Minnesota, New Jersey and New York that occurred  on Saturday, September 17, 2016.  more>>>

by Mirza Ismail (October 2016)

Ladies and Gentlemen

Good morning. My name is Mirza Ismail. I am a Yazidi. I was born and raised in what is now called Iraq. But you and I know that the land of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers has only been called Iraq during the last one hundred years. Before that it was once called Mesopotamia, Assyria, or Babylonia, or Chaldea, or Akkad or in the earliest of times, Sumeria.  more>>>