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• Saturday, May 18, 2013
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  Danny Schechter: The News That Isn’t

  

  

  ZNet Article

  News programs are the new wrestling shows, a noisy battleground

  Danny Schechter ZSpace page
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  David Swanson: Hit and Stay

  

  

  ZNet Article

  There is much to inspire us in independent media reports of nonviolent actions today, but I suspect this movie has the power to inspire us further

  David Swanson ZSpace page
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  Robert Jensen: The Collapse Of Journalism

  

  

  ZNet Article

  It’s unrealistic to imagine that journalism can flourish without journalists who have the time and resources to do journalism

  Robert Jensen ZSpace page
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• Friday, May 17, 2013
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  David Swanson: Drone Pilots Expose Lies

  

  

  Commentary

  Every effort is made to avoid killing innocent family members, but if it can't be avoided, well, the target "brought it on himself"

  David Swanson ZSpace page
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• Thursday, May 16, 2013
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  Dave Zirin: "Why Won't Obama Call Tim Tebow?"

  

  

  ZNet Article

  Representative Steve King invoked the name of Tim Tebow as a contrast to the athlete he sees is “undermining Western Civilization”: Jason Collins

  Dave Zirin ZSpace page
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• Wednesday, May 15, 2013
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  Peter Marcuse: Paradoxes of Public Space

  

  

  ZNet Article

  A key, but not the only, aspect of public space is the role it plays in permitting popular public participation in democratic governance, democratic political decision-making

  Peter Marcuse ZSpace page
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• Tuesday, May 14, 2013
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  Jeremy Brecher: Why Labor Should Back McCarthy

  

  

  ZNet Article

  American workers need jobs. They also need protection from chemicals and pollutants that threaten their lives, health, environment, climate, and future

  Jeremy Brecher ZSpace page
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  Paul Street: Deadly Manufacturing Mirage

  

  

  ZNet Article

  It was always implicit that some manufacturing might return to the U.S. if and when American unions were smashed and wages cut

  Paul Street ZSpace page
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  David Swanson: Why We Allow the Destruction of Our Planet

  

  

  ZNet Article

  Belief in theism itself reaches as much as 80 percent in the United States and includes strong activists for sustainable policies

  David Swanson ZSpace page
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• Monday, May 13, 2013
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  Carl Bloice: Austerity Has Lost All Credibility

  

  

  ZNet Article

  Over 20 percent of 18-29-year-old African Americans are without a job

  Carl Bloice ZSpace page
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  Alfred W. McCoy: “Rocket’s Red Glare”

  

  

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  Keynote speech at the Third National Conference of Historians Against the War called "The New Faces of War"

  Alfred W. McCoy ZSpace page
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• Saturday, May 11, 2013
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  Danny Schechter: The “Rot” Rots On

  

  

  ZNet Article

  Could there be mental “rot” in the intelligence world that we know is usually anything but intelligent?

  Danny Schechter ZSpace page
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• Friday, May 10, 2013
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  Bill Fletcher: She’s No Terrorist

  

  

  ZNet Article

  The case against Assata Shakur is nothing more than a cynical pawn to move a more diabolical agenda

  Bill Fletcher ZSpace page
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  Norman Solomon: Obama in Plunderland

  

  

  ZNet Article

  The president’s new choices for Commerce secretary and FCC chair underscore how far down the rabbit hole his populist conceits have tumbled

  Norman Solomon ZSpace page
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• Thursday, May 09, 2013
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  David Swanson: Some Don't Pay Their War Taxes

  

  

  ZNet Article

  "War steals from the poor"

  David Swanson ZSpace page
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• Wednesday, May 08, 2013
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  Tom Engelhardt: And Then There Was One

  

  

  ZNet Article

  Imperial gigantism and the decline of planet earth

  Tom Engelhardt ZSpace page
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  Dave Zirin: RGIII at the Muhammad Ali Center

  

  

  Commentary

  RGIII was confronted with the actuality of Ali’s ideas and was deeply in awe of his sacrifice

  Dave Zirin ZSpace page
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• Tuesday, May 07, 2013
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  Noam Chomsky: The Military Is Misunderstood

  

  

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  Noam Chomsky speaking at the CPE press conference about the myth of free market capitalism in the United States

  Noam Chomsky ZSpace page
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  Steve Early: Militant Minority Grows

  

  

  ZNet Article

  NUHW-CNA organizers believe they have made great progress

  Steve Early ZSpace page
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  Josh Eidelson: Caravans to Walmart

  

  

  ZNet Article

  Members of the labor group OUR Walmart will send civil rights movement–style caravans of workers from around the country

  Josh Eidelson ZSpace page
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• Monday, May 06, 2013
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  Angela Davis/Lennox Hind: Exiled Activist to Terrorist List

  

  

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  Exiled former Black Panther Assata Shakur became the first woman named to the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list

  Angela Davis ZSpace page
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• Sunday, May 05, 2013
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  Bill Fletcher: Obama & Venezuela

  

  

  ZNet Article

  The Obama administration has continued the tried and true path of most US administrations in treating Latin America as if it is the backyard of the United States

  Bill Fletcher ZSpace page
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  Noam Chomsky: US, A Top Terrorist State

  

  

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  The United States would be recognized as a leading terrorist state if international law is applied

  Noam Chomsky ZSpace page
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  Shamus Cooke: U.S. Anti-Syria Club

  

  

  ZNet Article

  . Suddenly The Onion's objectivity and satire was reduced to regurgitating the war mongering that the website had previously mocked

  Shamus Cooke ZSpace page
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• Saturday, May 04, 2013
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  Tom Hayden: The American War in Vietnam

  

  

  ZNet Article

  Most peace advocates are unaware that our government has commenced a 13-year program of commemorating the Vietnam War at a cost of $65 million

  Tom Hayden ZSpace page
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• Friday, May 03, 2013
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  Noam Chomsky: Boston and Beyond

  

  

  ZNet Article

  Rack up another triumph for President Obama's global assassination program, which creates hatred of the United States and threats to its citizens

  Noam Chomsky ZSpace page
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  Paul Street: American Populist Anger

  

  

  ZNet Article

  Populist anti-plutocracy and suspicion of concentrated capitalist wealth and power is “as American as Apple Pie”

  Paul Street ZSpace page
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  Ramzy Baroud: Irrational Rhetoric, Illegal Wars

  

  

  Commentary

  Rights are infringed at will whenever it suits US foreign policy makers and their intellectual peddlers

  Ramzy Baroud ZSpace page
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  Dave Zirin: The Substance of Change

  

  

  ZNet Article

  "I was certain that my world would fall apart if anyone knew. And yet when I acknowledged my sexuality I felt whole for the first time”

  Dave Zirin ZSpace page
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• Thursday, May 02, 2013
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  Dave Zirin: Sports and the American Dream

  

  

  ZNet Article

  Alienation, poverty and despair drive people—overwhelmingly young men—to awful acts of violence

  Dave Zirin ZSpace page
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