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Wise: The Afrikaner Party Draws First Blood: Van Jones, Barack Obama And The Audacity Of Capitulation
Znet Article, September, 09 2009
Tim Wise
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Van Jones, special advisor to the President's Council on Environmental Quality, has resigned from the administration. To be honest, he was forced out. Oh, perhaps not directly, but if not, then by the stunning silence of his employer. An employer ...
Cook: Israel's Arab citizens call general strike
Znet Article, September, 09 2009
Jonathan Cook
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The increasingly harsh political climate in Israel under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing government has prompted the leadership of the country's 1.3 million Arab citizens to call the first general strike in several years.
Bond: 'Seattle' Copenhagen call, as Africans demand reparations
Commentary, September, 06 2009
Patrick Bond
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Here's a fairly simple choice: the Global North would pay hard-hit Global South sites to deal with climate crisis either through complicated, corrupt, controversial 'Clean Development Mechanism' (CDM) projects with plenty of damaging side effects ...
Bacon: It's Time to be Audacious
Znet Article, September, 04 2009
David Bacon
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A talk given at Socialism 2009...
Raina: Yet He Could Not Equivocate to Heaven
Znet Article, August, 31 2009
Badri Raina
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His great contribution to politics: pulling his party, the BJP, from two to some one hundred and eighty seats in parliament - all on the back of a hate-filled, anti-Muslim pogrom.
Zirin: President Obama: Jack Johnson Punched Back
Znet Article, August, 31 2009
Dave Zirin
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In a recent monologue, Bill Maher said that the United States has two main political parties: one party on the center-right: the Democrats, and one party in a mental institution: the Republicans. Frankly, his comment insults those who receive care...
Klein: Minority Death Match: Jews, Blacks, And The “Post-Racial†Presidency
Znet Article, August, 28 2009
Naomi Klein
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When I arrived at the grand offices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, at the Palais Wilson, looking out at a drizzly Lake Geneva, Navanethem Pillay was hunched over the shoulder of her deputy, Kyung-wha Kang, dictating a pr...
Parenti: Italian American Identity: To Be or Not To Be
Commentary, August, 28 2009
Michael Parenti
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In the 1950s and early 1960s, it was the accepted view among many social scientists that, as ethnic assimilation advanced, ethnic group identities would fade away. But in fact, ethnicity continued to impact significantly upon political life. Why ...
Raina: The Democracy Flu
Znet Article, August, 25 2009
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
Ah, how often in human history have bastions of one kind or another sought to thwart the march of the rational, always without success.
Ehrenreich: The Destruction of the Black Middle Class
Znet Article, August, 04 2009
Barbara Ehrenreich
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To judge from most of the commentary on the Gates-Crowley affair, you would think that a "black elite" has gotten dangerously out of hand. First Gates (Cambridge, Yale, Harvard) showed insufficient deference to Crowley, then Obama (Occidental, Har...
Abu-jamal: The San Francisco 8 -- No More!
Commentary, July, 30 2009
Mumia Abu-jamal
Abu-jamal's ZSpace page
It's been 2 1/2 years since the San Francisco 8 -- eight former members of the Black Panther Party -- were cast into California jails and threatened with life sentences stemming from the 1971 shooting of a cop.
Jensen: Teachable moments require willing learners
Commentary, July, 29 2009
Robert Jensen
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Honoring President Obama's request that the controversy involving a black Harvard University professor and a white Cambridge police officer become "a teachable moment," here's my contribution to an old lesson that we white people tend to be slow t...
Podur: Polyculturalism and Self-determination
Znet Article, July, 15 2009
Justin Podur
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The present essay reviews in summary form the key ideas for "cultural liberation" and then discusses the consequences of these ideas for the concept of self-determination, specifically national self-determination, in our world and in a good society.
Hoodbhoy: Imperialism and Islamism: a View from the Left
Znet Article, July, 13 2009
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Hoodbhoy's ZSpace page
It is both healthy and necessary for the Left to keep seeking new utopias and to re-imagine the outlines of a future classless society. But to pretend away the ugliness of the real world – or to think that all conflict today is class conflict â€...
Daniels: In Defense of "Identity Politics"
Commentary, June, 27 2009
Ron Daniels
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The nomination of Judge Sotomayor for Justice on the Supreme Court has simply sent some conservatives into a tizzy, searching for anything that might derail her historic quest to be the first Latina to occupy a seat on this august body. One of the...
Jensen: What does it mean to be a human being? Balancing theological and political insights
Commentary, June, 20 2009
Robert Jensen
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My first venture into political activism was in the feminist movement to end men's violence against women and men's use of women in the sexual-exploitation industries (stripping, pornography, prostitution), grounded in a critique of the underlying...
Jamail: Destroying Indigenous Populations
Znet Article, June, 20 2009
Dahr Jamail
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The Fort Laramie Treaty once guaranteed the Sioux Nation the right to a large area of their original land, which spanned several states and included their sacred Black Hills, where they were to have "the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation...
Daniels: Conservatives Use "Racism" to Confuse and Exploit
Commentary, June, 19 2009
Ron Daniels
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When rabid right wing radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh and conservative guru Newt Gingrich initially attacked Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor as a "racist," they were using a time-tested strategy to appeal to Whites who believe their...
Fletcher jr.: Murder on 14th Street
Znet Article, June, 18 2009
Bill Fletcher jr.
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When he opened the door to the Holocaust Museum on June 10th, Stephen Johns probably thought that he was being polite in assisting an elderly gentleman. More than likely it would never have occurred to him that he was a few minutes from death at t...
Gibler: Indigenous Protest and State Violence in the Peruvian Amazon
Znet Article, June, 15 2009
John Gibler
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Before dawn on Friday, June 5, an estimated 650 Peruvian National Police and Special Forces officers attacked several thousand Awajun and Wambis indigenous people at their roadside blockade on the Fernando Belaunde Terry highway.
