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Znet Article Miles: Doctor in Galilee

Znet Article, August, 25 2008 Jim Miles
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“A Doctor in Galilee” is a wonderfully descriptive narrative of life and times in Palestine/Israel. Clearly written, with a mix of personal anecdotes, historical tales, and much in the way of a reality based philosophy of a people living under an...

Znet Article Street: The Madness of Jerome Corsi

Znet Article, August, 24 2008 Paul Street
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To fully understand right-wing hatchet man Jerome R. Corsi’s new neo-McCarthyite book “The Obama Nation” (New York: Threshold, 2008), you have to differentiate between the accurate, the wacky, and the vile in his presentation.

Znet Article Miles: Deconstructing Brzezinski’s Russia

Znet Article, August, 22 2008 Jim Miles
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The warrior ethic of the American Imperial elite, embodied in its fullest measure by Zbigniew Brzezinski, has been rejuvenated momentarily by Russia’s attack on Georgia. Reading Brzezinski’s words leaves one choking on their overt hypocrisy or la...

Znet Article Quadruppani: Red & Black Thrillers

Znet Article, August, 14 2008 Serge Quadruppani
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Italian crime novelists write well about the atmosphere of 1968, but they are only just beginning to tackle the `years of lead' - the grim decade that followed, with its leftwing protest and ensuing rightwing repression.

Znet Article Terrall: A Story of U.S. Immigration In An Age of Global Apartheid

Znet Article, August, 13 2008 Ben Terrall
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In his 2001 book, Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the ‘Illegal Alien’ and the Remaking of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (Routledge), Joseph Nevins focused on the Clinton Administration’s initiatives to heighten security at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Znet Article Miles: The Future is Now - the end of cheap oil

Znet Article, August, 12 2008 Jim Miles
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This is one of the more difficult articles/reviews I have worked on. I have been well aware of Peak Oil for a while, but never did I gather so much information in one sitting that simply spelled out doom and gloom.

Znet Article Lendman: Francis Boyle's "Palestine Palestinians and International Law"

Znet Article, July, 31 2008 Stephen Lendman
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Francis Boyle is a distinguished University of Illinois law professor, activist, and internationally recognized expert on international law and human rights. He also lectures widely, writes extensively, and authored many books, including the subje...

Znet Article Jacobs: A Review of Nikolas Kozloff's "Revolution!"

Znet Article, July, 27 2008 Ron Jacobs
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As it has been throughout much of its history, today's Latin America is a continent of change. Unlike much of its history, the forces that seem to have the upper hand right now are those that have been historically shut out. The poor, the indigeno...

Znet Article Lendman: Jeff Halper's An Israeli in Palestine (Part II)

Znet Article, July, 25 2008 Stephen Lendman
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According to Israeli-based author and journalist Jonathan Cook, Halper's book is "one of the most insightful analyses of the Occupation I've read. His voice cries out to be heard" on the region's longest and most intractable conflict. Part II cont...

Znet Article Lendman: Jeff Halper's An Israeli in Palestine (Part I)

Znet Article, July, 21 2008 Stephen Lendman
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Jeff Halper is an American-born Israeli Professor of Anthropology as well as a peace and human rights activist for over three decades. In 1997, he co-founded the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions (ICAHD), and as its Coordinating Director ...

Znet Article Miles: Descent Into Chaos

Znet Article, July, 21 2008 Jim Miles
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The popular news reporting from Pakistan is limited, even more so than that coming from Afghanistan, which is even more limited than that from Iraq, in turn now becoming more limited as attention is directed towards Iran. For the most part it has...

Znet Article Miles: Marching Toward Hell

Znet Article, July, 03 2008 Jim Miles
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Michael Scheuer’s new work “Marching Toward Hell” is very clear with its overall purpose of exposing where American interests have gone wrong in their interactions with the various peoples, beliefs, and religions of the Middle East. As an ex-CIA ...

Znet Article Henwood: The Oddly Powerless 'Global Power Elite'

Znet Article, June, 28 2008 Doug Henwood
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Are we now ruled by an international elite that has left national borders far behind? It's a fashionable view across the political spectrum that enjoys special prominence every January, when the members of that alleged class hold their annual shar...

Znet Article Kanazi: You Don’t Mess With the Racism

Znet Article, June, 27 2008 Remi Kanazi
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You Don’t Mess With the Zohan, Sandler’s new flick, takes Hollywood chicanery and stereotypes that denigrate Arabs to an unprecedented level—surpassing hit flicks like the Kingdom, the Siege, and every Arnold Schwarzenegger and Chuck Norris movie ...

Znet Article Lendman: Robert McChesney's The Political Economy of Media (Part II)

Znet Article, June, 27 2008 Stephen Lendman
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McChesney's book is a compilation of his best political economy of media work in the past two decades. It contains 23 separate offerings under three topic headings. In them he covers "enduring issues" and "emerging dilemmas." Part I of this review...

Znet Article Lendman: Robert McChesney's The Political Economy of Media (Part I)

Znet Article, June, 26 2008 Stephen Lendman
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Robert McChesney is a leading media scholar, critic, activist, and the nation's most prominent researcher and writer on US media history, its policy and practice. He's also University of Illinois Research Professor in the Institute of Communicatio...

Znet Article Jensen: Fear and hope on the runaway train: A review of Eliza Gilkyson’s “Beautiful World”

Znet Article, June, 25 2008 Robert Jensen
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This really isn’t a music review because I don’t know anything about music. I’m the guy they put in the back row of the choir with instructions to mouth the words as quietly as possible. I learned three guitar chords once; I remember two of them.

Znet Article Miles: Superclass

Znet Article, June, 25 2008 Jim Miles
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This book is written by a person with the right credentials to do so, as David Rothkopf has worked within the edges of the Superclass. As he describes his credentials, "I came to this book with not an insignificant amount of personal experience -...

Znet Article Jacobs: Vietnam Blues: A Review of Joe Allen's Vietnam: The (Last) War the US Lost

Znet Article, June, 23 2008 Ron Jacobs
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There have been several histories of the US war in Vietnam by US writers. Very few of them have stood the test of time. Marilyn Young's Vietnam Wars 1945-1990 and Bernard Fall's Street Without Joy stand out in my mind as two that have, even thou...

Znet Article Podur: On a quest for secular piety

Znet Article, June, 21 2008 Justin Podur
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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...

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