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Bond: Dennis Vincent Brutus, 1924-2009
Znet Article, December, 26 2009
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
World-renowned political organizer and one of Africa's most celebrated poets, Dennis Brutus, died early on December 26 in Cape Town, in his sleep, aged 85.
Raina: L.K.Advani and the Mythology of “Sadnessâ€
Znet Article, December, 18 2009
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
On December 6, 1992, when the Babri mosque was razed to rubble, Ruchira Gupta was a journalist with Business India.
Raina: The Liberhan Report
Znet Article, December, 18 2009
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
There is substantial evidence that one or two of his own cabinet ministers had warned him of the RSS plans for December 6 well in advance.
Bacon: The Brutal Dark Side of Obama's "Softer" Immigration Enforcement
Znet Article, December, 16 2009
David Bacon
Bacon's ZSpace page
Ana Contreras would have been a competitor for the national tai kwon do championship team this year. She's 14. For six years she's gone to practice instead of birthday parties, giving up the friendships most teenagers live for. Then two months ago...
Majavu: A review of Mamdani's "Saviours and Survivors: Darfur, politics, and the War on Terror"
Commentary, December, 14 2009
Mandisi Majavu
Majavu's ZSpace page
In 2002, Mamdani wrote an essay entitled 'Making sense of political violence in Africa', in which he argued that to distinguish between cultural and political identities is to differentiate between self-identification and state-identification. He ...
Dangl: The Speed of Change: Bolivian President Morales Empowered by Re-Election
Commentary, December, 08 2009
Ben Dangl
Dangl's ZSpace page
Bolivian President Evo Morales was re-elected on Sunday, December 6th in a landslide victory. After the polls closed, fireworks, music and celebrations filled the Plaza Murillo in downtown La Paz where MAS supporters chanted "Evo Again! Evo Again!...
Fletcher jr.: Like Jim Crow and South Africa before it, Israel must be pressured to abandon apartheid
Commentary, December, 07 2009
Bill Fletcher jr.
Fletcher jr.'s ZSpace page
A speech given on November 30, 2009 at the United Nations as part of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Pilger: Returning to a Secret Country
Commentary, November, 27 2009
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
I remember the boys dressed in army surplus, the girls in hessian, their silhouettes framed in beach shanties, staring across an abyss. You were not meant to talk about them. They were not counted in the census, unlike the sheep, and anyway were d...
Bacon: Should We Defend Undocumented Workers?
Znet Article, November, 24 2009
David Bacon
Bacon's ZSpace page
One winter morning in 1996, Border Patrol agents charged into a Los Angeles street-corner clinic where 40 day laborers had lined up to be tested for AIDS. One worker, Omar Sierra, had just taken his seat, and a nurse had inserted the needle for dr...
Jensen: How I stopped hating Thanksgiving and learned to be afraid
Commentary, November, 21 2009
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
Over the past few years a growing number of white people have joined the longstanding indigenous people's critique of the holocaust denial that is at the heart of the Thanksgiving holiday. In two recent essays I have examined the disturbing nature...
Bello: The Migrant Condition
Commentary, November, 20 2009
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Speech delivered at the People's Global Action Conference during the Global Forum for Migration and Development, Athens, Greece, Nov. 1, 2009.
Abu-jamal: Fort Hood
Commentary, November, 16 2009
Mumia Abu-jamal
Abu-jamal's ZSpace page
Once again, an American soldier has gone on a rampage, shooting other American soldiers. What makes this news even more remarkable than usual is the fact that the shooter is more than a soldier -- he's a doctor -- and a psychiatrist!Oh -- and he's...
Landau: A Serious Man -What A Laugh!
Commentary, November, 14 2009
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
Over decades of movie addiction, I know after depositing my fee for entrance, somewhere between the candy counter and the seat, I lose my critical sensibilities by putting on a pair of invisible (virtual) glasses, instruments of optical delusion t...
Hoodbhoy: The Saudi-isation of Pakistan
Znet Article, November, 04 2009
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Hoodbhoy's ZSpace page
A stern, unyielding version of Islam is replacing the kinder, gentler Islam of the Sufis in Pakistan.
Ó Tuathail: Minga Permitida?
Znet Article, November, 04 2009
Micheál Ó Tuathail
Ó Tuathail's ZSpace page
Last fall, Colombia's social and popular movements captured the world's attention.
Street: True Crime: White Privilege and a Police Killing in an Obama-Mad College Town
Commentary, October, 24 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Imagine, if you will, a small, predominantly white city with growing poverty and crime in a small, highly segregated black section of its South East side.
Raina: Old Habits Die Very Hard
Znet Article, September, 18 2009
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
This wall was built to deny access to casteless Tamils of Uthapuram to public places and facilities frequented by caste Tamils on the other side
Zirin: The Serena Williams Double Standard
Znet Article, September, 16 2009
Dave Zirin
Zirin's ZSpace page
A top-ranked tennis player in a moment of rage cursed out a judge and shocked the world, headlining every sports and news program from ESPN to MSNBC. Meanwhile, another champion tennis player hurled expletives at a judge and the media barely yawne...
Wise: Tim Wise on Racism 2.0
Znet Article, September, 14 2009
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
Discussing his new book, Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama, Wise reflects on what he calls Racism 2.0—a new brand of white supremacy that operates under the guise of post-racialism.
Raina: Something Rotten in the State of Gujarat
Znet Article, September, 11 2009
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
Four new skeletons now rattle for justice in the Modi cupboard.
