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Commentary Majavu: Xenophobia and Society

Commentary, December, 17 2007 Mandisi Majavu
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Various research studies conclude that South Africans, black and white, are xenophobic. In 1997, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) identified xenophobia "as a major source of concern to human rights and democracy in the country." T...

Znet Article Bennis: Responding to Islamophobia: A Pro-Active Strategy

Znet Article, November, 28 2007 Phyllis Bennis
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The current Islamophobic crusade in the US reflects a deeply rooted racist demonisation of Muslim communities that, if not responded, might consolidate the racist demagoguery as a

Commentary Lendman: Thanksgiving Hypocrisy

Commentary, November, 20 2007 Stephen Lendman
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In the US, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November to give thanks for the year's blessings and bounty.

Znet Article Trigona: Human Rights in Argentina: A Year Without Julio Lopez

Znet Article, September, 20 2007 Marie Trigona
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Human Rights groups in Argentina rallied September 18 to mark the one year disappearance of a key witness who helped convict a forme...

Znet Article Podur: Shawn Brant

Znet Article, September, 19 2007 Justin Podur
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On August 30, about two weeks before Canada became one of only four countries to vote against a UN declaration on indigenous rights, Tyendinaga Mohawk father and activist, Shawn Brant was released from Quinte Detention Centre on bail. Bail had bee...

Znet Article Cook: A Year After Israel's Second Lebanon War

Znet Article, August, 16 2007 Jonathan Cook
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This week marks a year since the end of hostilities now officially called the Second Lebanon war by Israelis. A month of fighting -- mostly Israeli aerial bombardment of Lebanon, and rocket attacks from the Shia militia Hizbullah on northern Israe...

Znet Article Raina: The Unacceptable Excesses of Irreligion

Znet Article, August, 15 2007 Badri Raina
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The Unacceptable Excesses of Irreligion

Znet Article Raina: Indian State on Trial

Znet Article, August, 07 2007 Badri Raina
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This story has been told before, but can never be  told enough. On the 6th of December, 1992, a majority right-wing Hindutva putsch overcame the majesty of the Indian State. With the full and open collaboration of the then BJP government in Utta...

Znet Article Prashad: Letter to a Young American Hindu

Znet Article, May, 22 2007 Vijay Prashad
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Dear Friend, Like you, I was raised in a mixed family. My parents' families came to Bengal from Punjab, and from Burma. One side leans towards Hinduism; the other to Sikhism. The city, the metro, provided its own cultural mooring, and in secular ...

Znet Article Raina: Mullah Modi

Znet Article, May, 14 2007 Badri Raina
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If the just concluded elections in Uttar Pradesh have been phenomenally significant on account of the acknowledgement of Dalit leadership in a state that has traditionally been the high-seat of Brahminism in North India, a collateral consequence h...

Commentary Street: "I Know How Black Folks Think": Reflections on an Outrageously Non-Scandalous Remark From Bill Clinton

Commentary, April, 24 2007 Paul Street
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Imagine that George Bush Senior was heard to say this about why the Jewish-American vote went a certain way in a New York City mayoral election: "well, that doesn't surprise me because I know how Jews think."

Znet Article Cohn: Coming Up Short on Habeas for Detainees

Znet Article, April, 05 2007 Marjorie Cohn
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The Bush administration has stopped the Supreme Court from giving the Guantánamo detainees their day in court - at least for now.In Boumediene v. Bush and Al Odah v. United States, forty-five men challenged the constitutionality of the habeas cor...

Znet Article Goodman: American Kangaroo Court Claims Its First Victim

Znet Article, March, 29 2007 Amy Goodman
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It is appropriate that a person from Australia, home of the kangaroo, should be the first one dragged before the kangaroo court at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay. David Hicks, imprisoned there for more than five years, pleaded guilty Monday...

Znet Article Raina: Parvenu Nationalism

Znet Article, March, 27 2007 Badri Raina
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I recall that some two decades ago Frederic Jameson noted how literary/creative productions from the “third world” tend to become “national allegories.” And I also recall   some noted Indian intellectuals taking umb...

Znet Article Zibechi: Let's All Stand With Cite Soleil

Znet Article, March, 14 2007 Raúl Zibechi
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In less than two years the troops of MINUSTAH (Mission of the Nations United for the Stabilization of Haiti) perpetrated three massacres in Cite Soleil, an outlying slum of Port au Prince. According to numerous testimonies, barely mentioned by the...

Znet Article Podur: An Open Letter to Mitch Potter, on Truly Disgusting Racism

Znet Article, February, 13 2007 Justin Podur
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Dear Mitch Potter, It has been some time since you wrote me on September 10, 2006, in response to my blog post at killingtrain.com of July 28, 2006. You wrote me with serious concerns that I had maligned your reputation – attaching, in y...

Znet Article Raina: The Meaning of Modi

Znet Article, February, 07 2007 Badri Raina
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[NOTE: This piece was written immediately after the carnage that took place in Gujrat in 2002. We thought it appropriate to run it on the 5th anniversary of the massacres.] After the true purposes of the Nazi party began to reveal themselves in H...

Znet Article Sandronsky: James Brown

Znet Article, December, 31 2006 Seth Sandronsky
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Music superstar James Brown's influence was widespread. Count me in as a longtime fan of his. Brown's recent passing marks the end of an era. What I wish to add to the many accolades and tributes to him is just this. His song "Say It Loud, I'm Bl...

Znet Article Raina: Sachar Committee Report on Indian Muslims

Znet Article, December, 15 2006 Badri Raina
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India’s majoritarian fascists, represented in parliament by the Bharti Janata Party (BJP), are in a blue funk.  The findings of the “Prime Ministers’ High Level Committee” (set up on 9th March,2005) headed by former...

Znet Article Cook: Palestinians are being denied the right to non-violent resistance

Znet Article, November, 30 2006 Jonathan Cook
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If one thing offers a terrifying glimpse of where the experiment in human despair that is Gaza under Israeli siege is leading, it is the news that a Palestinian woman in her sixties -- a grandmother -- chose last week to strap on a suicide belt an...

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