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Znet Article Fletcher jr.: Race, the National Question, Empire and Socialist Strategy in the USA

Znet Article, June, 11 2009 Bill Fletcher jr.
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Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications...

Znet Article Berlet: How Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories and Fearmongering Led to the Holocaust Memorial Shooting

Znet Article, June, 11 2009 Chip Berlet
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The broadcast of hatred and paranoia have led to perfect storm of mobilized resentment threatening to rain violent bigotry across the US.

Commentary Abu-jamal: Race, Racism & the Sotomayor Nomination

Commentary, June, 07 2009 Mumia Abu-jamal
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It would be easy to describe the present faux controversy over the nomination of 2nd Circuit of Appeals Court judge, Sonia Sotomayor, to the U.S. Supreme Court as media-generated, and thus, unreal.

Znet Article Raina: Indians Down Under

Znet Article, June, 03 2009 Badri Raina
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The Kangaroos have been behaving badly. Hopping mad, you might say.

Znet Article Majavu: Overcoming some of the suicidal tendencies of the left

Znet Article, June, 01 2009 Mandisi Majavu
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Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications...

Commentary Daniels: The Fragile State of Black Progress in America

Commentary, May, 12 2009 Ron Daniels
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With the election of Barack Obama, as the first Black President of the United States, there has been an open debate about whether this historic feat is the climax of the Black freedom struggle, minimizing the need for government to address issues ...

Commentary Wise: The Myth Of White Victimhood

Commentary, May, 06 2009 Tim Wise
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As a general rule, one should regard with a mountain of salt anything to be found on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. Committed to the promotion of right-wing economics and social policy, and unburdened by such mundane requirements a...

Commentary Daniels: On the Need for Presidential Accountability

Commentary, April, 19 2009 Ron Daniels
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Television and radio journalist Tavis Smiley took some major hits during the presidential campaign when he had the audacity to suggest that Black folks should expect then candidate Barack Obama to respond to Black issues and be held accountable in...

Znet Article Raina: L.K.Advani

Znet Article, April, 13 2009 Badri Raina
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India's oldest political formation, the Indian National Congress, dates back formally to 1885, a fact that the gauche Narendra Modi has recently scoffed at in his typical lumpen oratory.

Commentary Daniels: In the Era of Obama, Is There a Need for a Black Agenda?

Commentary, April, 12 2009 Ron Daniels
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President Barack Obama speaks proudly of his days as an organizer on the South Side of Chicago where his wife Michelle was also raised in a working class family. There are certainly sections of Chicago's south side which are still "crime-haunted d...

Znet Article Raina: The Pakistan Problem

Znet Article, April, 07 2009 Badri Raina
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Now suppose that the post-Independence Indian State had been constituted as Savarkar and the Hindu Mahasabha, Golwalker and the RSS had wished it to be constituted - a theocratic Hindu one.

Znet Article Goodman: Supreme Court Denies Appeal for Death Row Prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal

Znet Article, April, 07 2009 Amy Goodman
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The Supreme Court has denied an appeal from the journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal. On Monday, the court rejected without comment Abu-Jamal's bid to overturn his conviction for the 1981 killing of a white police officer following ...

Commentary Peters: Women Who Bathe Together

Commentary, April, 06 2009 Cynthia Peters
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At a public bath in Morocco, I watched a young adolescent bathe her grandmother. She picked up each limb, moved her breasts this way and that, and shifted her belly about to reach every crevice. She stood over her, squatted next to her, and sat al...

Znet Article Raina: Capitalism is Dead, Long Live Capitalism

Znet Article, April, 04 2009 Badri Raina
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One million Indian lives were consumed by the famine of 1771 in the Purnea district of the then undivided Bengal Province.

Znet Article Roy: The silence surrounding Sri Lanka

Znet Article, March, 31 2009 Arundhati Roy
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Given the government's stated objective of "wiping out" the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelan, this malevolent collapse of civilians and "terrorists" does seem to signal that the government is on the verge of committing what could end up being geno...

Znet Article Bacon: Why Immigrant Workers Will Fill the Streets This May Day

Znet Article, March, 28 2009 David Bacon
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In a little over a month, hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of people will fill the streets in city after city, town after town, across the US. This year these May Day marches of immigrant workers will make an important demand on the O...

Commentary Bond: Apartheid reparations and other courtroom brawls

Commentary, March, 19 2009 Patrick Bond
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The movement for reparations against transnational corporations that profited from apartheid is finally making progress within the generally hostile US judicial system, using the 'Alien Tort Claims Act' (ATCA) and public pressure. Along with Denni...

Znet Article Hoodbhoy: Towards Theocracy?

Znet Article, March, 15 2009 Pervez Hoodbhoy
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For 20 years or more, a few of us in Pakistan have been desperately sending out SOS messages, warning of terrible times to come. Nevertheless, none anticipated how quickly and accurately our dire predictions would come true. It is a small matter t...

Znet Article Rebick: Memo to Minister Kenney

Znet Article, March, 04 2009 Judy Rebick
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As Israeli Apartheid Week gets underway, there is a major campaign currently underway to deny freedom of expression on campus to those in solidarity with Palestine on the basis of alleged anti-Semitism.

Znet Article Wise: Color-Blind, Power-Oblivious: Eric Holder and the Whitewashing of Racism

Znet Article, March, 02 2009 Tim Wise
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It was all too predictable that Attorney General Eric Holder would be attacked for his recent remarks about race in America. To suggest that the nation is still haunted by the specter of racism is unacceptable it seems, especially since, with the ...

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