“Consider the intelligence of the average man, then realize 50% are even stupider.” —Mark Twain // Share this on…
FE Author: E. B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
L&R: The Network Implodes
by E. B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
Liz Highleyman’s exhaustive account of the demise of Love & Rage (this issue, FE #343, Fall-Winter, 1993) is a sad but enlightening view of the internal process involved in the attempt to create a libertarian organization, something we have always …
The PLO/Israeli Treaty
by E. B. Maple (Peter Werbe), George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
“The affairs of a puppet play are not to be taken too seriously.” —Wu Cailuan, 9th century Taoist adept The internationally televised signing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)/Israel peace treaty Sept. 11 brought to mind Geronimo’s surrender to General …
Will Marijuana Save World Capitalism?
by E. B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
a review of The Emperor Wears No Clothes: The Authoritative Historical Record of the Cannabis Plant, Marijuana Prohibition, & How Hemp Can Still Save the World, Jack Herer, HEMP/Queen of Clubs Publishing, 200 pp., Van Nuys CA, 1992 edition, $14.95 …
We Get a Computer and Hate It!
by E. B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
“Things are in the saddle and ride Man.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson One blind man leads many blind men Into the fire hole hand in hand. —Zen saying After several years of discussing and debating the implications of a newspaper which …
Confronting Poverty and the Poor
by E. B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
a review of Food Not Bombs: How to Feed the Hungry and Build Community, C.T. Lawrence Butler and Keith McHenry, New Society Publishers, Philadelphia, 1992, 120 pp., $8.95. Street Lives: An Oral History of Homeless Americans, Steven Vanderstaay, New Society …
The Radical Press Today
by E. B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
a review of The World of Zines: A Guide to the Independent Magazine Revolution, Mike Gunderloy and Carl Goldberg Janice, Penguin Books, New York, 1992, $14. // Share this on…
Was it Anarchy in Somalia?
by E. B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
“‘You just have to turn on a television to see that those people need help, and no one else is going to help them but us,’ said Todd Schuppert, a truck driver from Pekin, Ind.” —New York Times, Dec. 1992 …
The Berkman Conference
by E. B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 340, Autumn 1992
A few days before the commencement in Pittsburgh of the July 23rd conference, “A Remembrance of Alexander Berkman, The Man Who Shot Frick,” Sunfrog and I headed for a little town on the Pennsylvania/West Virginia border called Confluence where several …
Three Books on Israel
by E. B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 313, Summer, 1983
a review of Israel’s Global Role: Weapons for Repression. Israel Shakak. Association of Arab-American University Graduates, Inc., Belmont MA, 61 pp., 1982, $2.95. // Share this on…