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Billet: Nas, the N-word, and the Changing Face of Hip-Hop
Znet Article, July, 28 2008
Alexander Billet
Billet's ZSpace page
Expectations have run high for Nas' new album Untitled. It seems impossible to read a review of it without references to his previous album Hip-Hop is Dead. Ultimately, the question on people's minds seems to be "If hip-hop is dead, why is Nas sti...
Bond: Can reparations for apartheid profits be won in US courts?
Commentary, July, 06 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
A telling remark about US imperialism's double standards was uttered by Clinton-era deputy treasury secretary Stuart Eizenstat, who a decade ago was the driver of reparations claims against pro-Nazi corporations, assisting plaintiffs to gain $8 bi...
Spannos: What is Real Utopia?
Znet Article, July, 04 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
UTOPIAS HAVE A LONG, mixed history in Left movements. Sometimes they have propelled our imagination toward what better worlds might look like. Other times they have trumpeted heaven on earth, a world for angels rather than mortals, a far fetched l...
Spannos: Real Utopia Interview
Znet Article, July, 02 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
The book is a collective effort to spell out vision and strategy for a feasible and desirable transformation of society’s defining institutions. It explores how to get there along with concrete examples and lessons taken from past and present Left...
Zirin: "Well, There You Go": Imus the Bigot Is Back
Znet Article, June, 27 2008
Dave Zirin
Zirin's ZSpace page
Is Don Imus irredeemably stupid or just a run-of-the-mill racist? Perhaps the answer is both. On Monday, Imus's sports sidekick, Warner Wolf, was going over the incredibly long arrest history of football star Adam "Pacman" Jones and Imus just coul...
Suggett: Will the Bolivarian Revolution End Coal Mining in Venezuela?
Znet Article, June, 24 2008
James Suggett
Suggett's ZSpace page
Plans for new coal mining in the Sierra de Perijá, the northwestern region of the state of Zulia, Venezuela, were suspended by President Hugo Chávez last year following anti-coal declarations by Chávez and several ministers. The Wayúu, Yukpa, and ...
Landau: Life and Commercial Death Near the Mississippi
Commentary, June, 22 2008
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
In June 2008, Tom and Huck (Saul and his friend Marin) return as two senior citizens not on a raft but in a rented car, driving from New Jersey south and then west through Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, and into Illinois...
Wise: The Ugly Side of Disaster
Znet Article, June, 21 2008
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
This week, as Iowans and some in Illinois watched flood waters rise ever higher, Limbaugh took to the air to contrast these supposedly good and decent people who have joined forces to help each other, with the presumably evil, lazy and violent fol...
Podur: On a quest for secular piety
Znet Article, June, 21 2008
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Tarek personally asked me to review his book, Chasing a Mirage: the tragic illusion of an Islamic State (CM). With a book being favorably reviewed in the Canadian (and US and UK) media, including the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Huffing...
Street: “No More Excuses”: Putting Obama’s Blackness to Racist Use
Znet Article, June, 15 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
It is a sign of a certain sort of very real historical progress that a black person has a real shot at the United States presidency. Still, Barack Obama’s ascendancy is not as good for American race relations [1] as some progressives and left lib...
Jensen: Diversity and the incoherence of journalism’s ideology
Znet Article, June, 13 2008
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
The ideology of contemporary corporate commercial journalism is incoherent, and one place to see clearly this confusion is the news media industry’s approach to “diversity.”
Raina: Fatwa Against Terrorism
Znet Article, June, 07 2008
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
May 31, 2008 must rank as a very consequential day in modern Indian history. Indeed, it might be said, in modern Muslim history as well. On that day, in a public gathering at Delhi’s historic Ramlila grounds, hundreds of thousands, mainly Muslims...
Wise: America's Racial Litmus Test: Farrakhan is not the Problem
Znet Article, June, 05 2008
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
The more things change, the more they stay the same...
Bond: Xenophobia tears apart SA's working class
Commentary, May, 27 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
The low-income black township here in Durban which suffered more than any other during apartheid, Cato Manor, was the scene of a test performed on a Mozambican last Wednesday morning.
Rebick: Indigenous People Defending Their Land and Our Environment
Commentary, May, 26 2008
Judy Rebick
Rebick's ZSpace page
On Monday May 26, Indigenous people will gather from across Ontario, including the remote North, on the lawns of Queen's Park to insist that governments and industry recognize their right to say no to mining and forestry on their lands. Travelling...
Raina: The State, the Seminaries, and the People of India
Znet Article, May, 19 2008
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
Over the last month or so, India’s most influential Islamic seminaries—Deoband, Bareilly, Lucknow, Hyderabad—have been holding well-attended public meetings/conferences with a single-point agenda. Namely, to make it known that the so-called “...
Fletcher jr.: Rev. 'Icarus', The Obama Campaign, & The Left
Commentary, May, 13 2008
Bill Fletcher jr.
Fletcher jr.'s ZSpace page
The Greek myth is both simple and compelling. Daedalus, imprisoned on the island of Crete with his son (Icarus), fashioned wings made of feathers and wax in order for the two of them to fly to freedom. Daedalus warned Icarus, however, not to fly t...
Raptis: White People
Commentary, May, 07 2008
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
Do most white people treat black people as if they are inferior? The answer is an angry: Yes!
Billet: Rebel Music
Znet Article, May, 01 2008
Alexander Billet
Billet's ZSpace page
Today the National Front is a shadow of its former self. However, the threat of racist scapegoating at the ballot box is far from over...
Peterson: A Theology of Oppression
Blog Post, April, 29 2008
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Anybody game for a new theology of oppression? --
