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Author: To Noam is to Love Him
Commentary, December, 09 2002
Guest Author
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"This is a dissident linguist Bono stole from the radicals. I'm stealing him back."
Choudry: Sweet and Dangerous Music: Soundtrack For A Secret Country
Commentary, November, 29 2002
Aziz Choudry
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Music has moved many of us to act, and inspires us in our work for justice and liberation. Close friends and comrades tell of how music has helped form, frame and inflame their political consciousness and hunger for justice. While much of the wor...
Pinter: The War Against Reason
Znet Article, November, 27 2002
Harold Pinter
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There's an old story about Oliver Cromwell. After he had taken the Irish town of Drogheda the citizens were brought to the main square. Cromwell announced to his lieutenants: "Right! Kill all the women and rape all the men." One of his aides said:...
Roy: Print Excerpt / Lannan Speech
Znet Article, September, 29 2002
Arundhati Roy
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Recently, those who have criticised the actions of the US government (myself included) have been called "anti-American". Anti-Americanism is in the process of being consecrated into an ideology. The term is usually used by the American establishme...
Roy: Come September
Znet Article, September, 29 2002
Arundhati Roy
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Howard Zinn: Well, thank you. [Applause]. This is a very nice crowd. [Laughter] Thank you Patrick Lannan for that introduction. I almost recognized myself. [Laughter] I'm here to introduce Arundhati Roy. I say this in hushed tones. Really, I never...
Pilger: Palestine is still the Issue
Znet Article, September, 16 2002
John Pilger
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Palestine is still the Issue
Tv: June Jordan Dies
Znet Article, June, 20 2002
Free speech Tv
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June Jordan died on June 14th, 2002. She had fought a long, courageous battle with cancer. There is so much that can and must be said about this remarkable woman's life. Even in the final months she continued to write and edit. She had the most be...
Roy: Democracy
Znet Article, April, 28 2002
Arundhati Roy
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Last night a friend from Baroda called. Weeping. It took her fifteen minutes to tell me what the matter was. It wasn't very complicated. Only that Sayeeda, a friend of hers, had been caught by a mob. Only that her stomach had been ripped open and ...
Pilger: Hollywood Hurrah
Znet Article, April, 06 2002
John Pilger
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I sat down the other night to watch Mai Masri's film Frontiers of Dreams and Fears. It was on videotape; like most of her remarkable work about the Palestinians, ten films in all, it has not been shown in the cinema or on television in this countr...
Moore: Police Raid Booksigning
Znet Article, March, 12 2002
Michael Moore
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Dear Friends, It's a few minutes before midnight, on Friday night on 3/8/2002. I'm in San Diego, and I have just escaped being arrested by the San Diego police. This book tour keeps getting more surreal, but the last hour has been unlike anything ...
Moore: Dog Eat Dog....
Graphic, August, 27 2001
Kevin Moore
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federal budget, military budget, social programs
Raptis: A New Film
Commentary, May, 20 2001
Nikos Raptis
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In the late '40s and early '50s quite a few young Greek leftists had to flee their country to avoid at best torture and long prison terms and at worst execution in the hands of the US appointed local puppet Greek Government.
Raptis: Norman Rockwell
Commentary, April, 02 2001
Nikos Raptis
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Norman Rockwell was born in 1894 and died in 1978. For almost sixty years he worked as an illustrator. He did covers for the Saturday Evening Post, for 47 years. Those covers played a significant role in the cultural environment in which two gener...
Bronski: Feminism and Hollywood
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Michael Bronski
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Feminism and Hollywood
Bronski: Gay Movies
Zmag Article, October, 01 2000
Michael Bronski
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There was a point in film history when almost any film with gay or lesbian characters or content was defined as transgressive. In the 1960s such films as Victim, The Children’s Hour and Compulsion, with their tastefully handled homosex...
Randall: A CULTURE OF RAGE
Commentary, September, 19 2000
Margaret Randall
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This weekÕs mail brought a letter quite suddenly and unceremoniously informing me that my health insurance provider is discontinuing my group policy. "Your existing QualMed health care coverage will end on October 31, 2000. . . this is the only no...
Carter: The Grammies: Follow the Money
Commentary, March, 03 2000
Sandy Carter
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Every year when the National Academy Of Recording Arts and Sciences celebrates its Grammy Awards, I gag at the notion that any of this music industry pomp and propaganda honors the best music of the past year. Although all of the big time entertai...
Bronski: The State of Queer Film
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Michael Bronski
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Nearly a decade ago it looked as though we were about to enter a Renaissance of gay and lesbian filmmaking. Unable to have access to mainstream movie making, independent filmmakers, writers, and producers began turning out a remarkable body ...
Schechter: Dung on All Their Houses - The New Censorship
Commentary, October, 16 1999
Danny Schechter
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On October l, thousands of New York artists, activists and politicians rallied outside the Brooklyn Museum against threats by the city's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to defund one of the city's preeminent cultural institutions because of one painting on...
