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Z: The Stupid White Man Quiz
Znet Article, September, 23 2004
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The rules are simple. I provide a quote and you guess which Stupid White Man (or wannabe) is responsible. QUOTE #1: "The destruction was mutual." (Explaining why the U.S. should not apologize to Vietnam) a) Richard Nixon b) Ronald Reagan c) Al...
Z: Get on the Bus
Znet Article, July, 22 2004
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On the mornings I board the Q101 bus from Queens to Manhattan, it's not uncommon for the majority of my fellow riders to be people of color. This is an unremarkable observation in 2004 New York where integrated buses are hardly news...thanks to Ro...
Z: Madman or Commissar?
Znet Article, July, 07 2004
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Parade Magazine took full advantage of Independence (sic) Day falling on a Sunday by hiring none other than Elie Wiesel to pen a little something called "The America I Love" for their patriotic cover story. Over a two-page spread, the "Nobel Laure...
Z: 9/11 and Pearl Harbor
Znet Article, July, 05 2004
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When Sander Hicks asked me to consider reading and/or reviewing Daniel Hopsicker's new 9/11 book, "Welcome to Terrorland," I wondered: How does one discuss September 11, 2001 without sounding naïve, paranoid, or complicit? If you're Michael Moor...
Z: Good Mourning, America
Znet Article, June, 08 2004
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Good Mourning, America
Z: For Memorial Day/D Day
Znet Article, May, 30 2004
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June 6, 2004 marks 60 years since the fabled Allied invasion known as "D-Day." Lost amid the self-congratulatory orgy is the minor detail that by the time of the D-Day invasion, the Soviets were engaging 80 percent of the German Army on the Easter...
Z: Undoing the Latches Recognizing the Gates Around Us
Znet Article, April, 16 2004
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In his brilliant book, The Pig Who Sang t...
Z: Somalia and Iraq: Looking Back and Ahead
Commentary, April, 15 2004
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"Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat." -Jean-Paul Sartre
Z: Just My Imagination
Znet Article, March, 29 2004
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"There is an odor to any press headquarters that is unmistakable...the unavoidable smell of flesh burning quietly and slowly in the service of a machine." -Norman Mailer...
Z: Dreams for Sale
Znet Article, March, 18 2004
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"Poor man wanna be rich/Rich man wanna be...
Z: Depraved Indifference
Znet Article, March, 15 2004
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Melissa Ann Rowland, 28, of Salt Lake City was pregnant with twins. Her doctors claim they warned her about complications requiring a Caesarean section. Without the procedure, they believed the unborn twins might not survive. According to a nurse,...
Z: Support the Good Guys
Znet Article, March, 11 2004
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It's one of the basic tenets of U.S. war propaganda that "we" are the good guys. It's always U.S. vs. Them: the evildoers...and no matter what our boys do to take on such monsters, we at home must always support the troops. The next time you hea...
Z: Pillar Fight
Znet Article, March, 10 2004
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"Make no mistake," declared Paul Martin, ...
Z: Friedman's Education
Znet Article, March, 02 2004
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Criticizing the op-ed columns of Thomas L...
Z: Haiti Fatigue?
Znet Article, February, 06 2004
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A February 5, 2004 New York Times editorial declared Jean-Bertrand Aristide's second presidency "is declining into despotism." Reporting from the land of Supreme Court-decided elections, the Times (fresh off suggesting Sharpton and Kucinich go awa...
Z: A brief history of the Democrats
Znet Article, January, 25 2004
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"Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic." --Gore Vidal My first day back to the NYC commute after spending a week in Santa Cruz serving as MC for One Dance: The People's Summit was something out o...
Z: Snipers: No Nuts In Iraq
Znet Article, January, 04 2004
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An article by Eric Schmitt, in the January 2, 2004 edition of the New York Times ("In Iraq's Murky Battle, Snipers Offer U.S. a Precision Weapon") offered a fine illustration of how heavily conditioned a society we live in. Consider the opening l...
Z: An American Foreign Policy Fable
Znet Article, December, 21 2003
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In the December 21, 2003 edition of the New York (com)Post, there's word that the U.S. "had uncovered a plot to kidnap [Iraq's] provisional leaders in the hopes of trading them for Saddam Hussein." This got me thinking about an earlier plot to res...
Z: Holiday Spirit At The UN
Znet Article, December, 12 2003
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While this is allegedly the time of year when humans allegedly show more kindness, you can always count on god's country and the Holy Land to keep things in cynical perspective. Over the past 25 years, the United States and Israel have a UN voting...
Z: Anarchy And The FBI
Znet Article, November, 24 2003
Mickey Z
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"What a waste of thumbs that are opposable/To make machines that are disposable And sell them to seagulls flying in circles/Around one big right wing Yes, the left wing was broken long ago/By the slingshot of COINTELPRO And now it's so hard to hav...
