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Finkelstein: Beyond Chutzpah
Znet Article, November, 02 2005
Norman Finkelstein
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Audacity. Cheekiness. Daring. Gutsiness. Any one of these words can define the Yiddish word, “chutzpah†with both positive and negative nuances. But as DePaul Professor Norm Finkelstein demonstrates in his new book, “Beyond...
Sandronsky: The Hiring Crisis for America's Black Teens
Znet Article, October, 06 2005
Seth Sandronsky
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The Hiring Crisis for America's Black Teens
Podur: The Polls of Bel Air
Znet Article, September, 23 2005
Justin Podur
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The post-coup Haitian presidential election, currently planned for November 20, has a list of 54 candidates. The Canadian Prime Minister's 'special advisor on Haiti', Denis Coderre, suggested yesterday that this sprawling list of candidates was a ...
Podur: From the Embassy to the Prison
Znet Article, September, 21 2005
Justin Podur
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From the Embassy to the Prison
Fisk: Religious Terror
Znet Article, September, 18 2005
Robert Fisk
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In an age when Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara can identify "evil ideologies" and al-Qa’ida can call the suicide bombing of 156 Iraqi Shias "good news" for the "nation of Islam", thank heaven for our readers, in particular John Shepherd, princi...
Street: Framing Katrina
Znet Article, September, 13 2005
Paul Street
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The Personal brilliant and prolific left sociologist C. Wright Mills once said that the core purpose of meaningful analytical work on social and political affairs was to make relevant connections between individual pain and structural inequality. ...
Wise: A God With Whom I am Not Familiar
Znet Article, September, 06 2005
Tim Wise
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This is an open letter to the man sitting behind me at La Paz today, in Nashville, at lunchtime, with the Brooks Brothers shirt: You don't know me. But I know you. I watched you as you held hands with your tablemates at the restaurant where we b...
Podur: Refugees and Citizens
Znet Article, September, 05 2005
Justin Podur
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Jesse Jackson and Bruce Gordon are just two of many high-profile Black leaders who have expressed indignation at the description of those displaced by Hurricane Katrina as ‘refugees’. ‘It is just wrong’, Jackson sai...
Wise: Of Disasters, Natural and Otherwise
Znet Article, September, 02 2005
Tim Wise
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Of Disasters, Natural and Otherwise
Zirin: Edge of Sports
Znet Article, July, 17 2005
Dave Zirin
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In High School, I was a 5' 10" inch center for the fearsome Friends Seminary Quakers in New York City. It wasn't pretty, but I lived for it and didn't care if the opposing center could spit on my head. I just loved sports. My walls were shrines to...
Bacon: Stories from the Borderlands
Znet Article, July, 08 2005
David Bacon
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The world of the border turns labor law on its head-old, established legal rights are just so much ink on paper, and even the decision of federal judges to enforce the law are simply ignored. NAFTA's labor and environmental "side- agreements" have...
Chomsky: What We Know
Znet Article, July, 05 2005
Noam Chomsky
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Thirty-five years ago I agreed, in a weak moment, to give a talk with the title “Language and Freedom.†When the time came to think about it, I realized that I might have something to say about language and about freedom, but the w...
Street: Not in My Backyard
Znet Article, July, 02 2005
Paul Street
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The Chicago Tribune is concerned about racial justice - about racial justice in Mississippi 40 years ago. What about racial justice in the present and the Tribune's own metropolitan backyard?Well that's another story. On June 21, 2005, the Chicag...
Klein: Torture's Part of the Territory
Znet Article, June, 08 2005
Naomi Klein
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Brace yourself for a flood of gruesome new torture snapshots. Last week, a federal judge ordered the Defense Department to release dozens of additional photographs and videotapes depicting prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib. The photographs will elicit...
Engler: Haiti and Media
Znet Article, June, 05 2005
Yves Engler
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Extra, extra, read all about it ... but only in ZNet. Here are just a few of the recent non- or under-reported stories involving Canada and Haiti. Did you read in your local paper that in mid-May, 250 people braved a rainy Sunday morning in downt...
Engelhardt: George's Amazing Alphabet Book
Znet Article, April, 13 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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[Editor's note: It's unprecedented for any official -- high or low -- to leak information to Tomdispatch, but some weeks ago a Senior Official in one of our intelligence agencies -- and since we have so many, that's a little like saying none-of-yo...
Chavez: Capitalism Is Savagery.
Znet Article, April, 10 2005
Hugo Chavez
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The following are excerpts from a speech given by Hugo Chávez at Gigantinho Stadium during the 2005 World Social Forum. A DVD containing the entire speech is available at the Z Store. To find out more, click here. Inspiration. Ignacio Ramonet...
Landau: Payout for Pinochet Victims Shines in Dark Times for Human Rights
Znet Article, March, 16 2005
Saul Landau
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On February 25, Riggs Bank agreed to pay $9 million into a fund for victims of Augusto Pinochet to settle a case over the bank's role in hiding the former dictator's ill-gotten gains. This latest development in the decades-long fight to hold Pinoc...
Churchill: What Did I Really Say? And Why Did I Say It?
Znet Article, February, 22 2005
Ward Churchill
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Thanks to Clarke Iakovakis for the transcription. Emma Perez: I'm Emma Perez; I'm the new chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies [applause]. I'm very proud to be the chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies; I'm very proud of my colleagues; I...
Peterson: Ward Churchill
Znet Article, February, 20 2005
David Peterson
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Between ourselves, I would never want to work for the Racial Statistics Branch of the Population Division of the Census Bureau in Washington. Nevertheless. It appears that some of my fellow Americans would. Thus a friend tells me that a recent e...
