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Znet Article Lendman: Doug Dowd's "At the Cliff's Edge" (Part II)

Znet Article, June, 18 2008 Stephen Lendman
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Dowd's book is an essential text for students and adults. It's a critical review of 500 years of history that brought us to today's unprecendented dangers. Part I covered four and one-half centuries through WW II. Part II continues the story to th...

Znet Article Jacobs: Trouble On the Way: A Review of Jeffrey St. Clair's Born Under a Bad Sky

Znet Article, June, 17 2008 Ron Jacobs
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Grizzly bears and gray wolves. John McCain and Al Gore. Hog farming and the Endangered Species Act. All of these and more are the focus of Jeffrey St. Clair's latest book Born Under a Bad Sky. Myths of governmental efforts to protect the enviro...

Znet Article Lendman: Doug Dowd's "At the Cliff's Edge" (Part I)

Znet Article, June, 16 2008 Stephen Lendman
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At age 89, Doug Dowd is a wonder. He's still active, vibrant and thankfully so. He calls himself a "radical economist" in the best sense of the term, and for more than 50 years through the late 1990s, he was a distinguished interdisciplinary profe...

Znet Article Flacks: On Tom Hayden

Znet Article, June, 15 2008 Richard Flacks
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If you were on the campus at Ann Arbor at the dawn of the 1960s, you’d have been aware of Tom Hayden’s writings in The Michigan Daily (the substantial and influential University of Michigan student newspaper). He first came to notice for his trave...

Znet Article Podur: Bursting the Dam of Containment

Znet Article, June, 13 2008 Justin Podur
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At its core, Peter Hallward's remarkable book, “Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment”, is the detailed story of the struggle between the Lavalas movement and the forces arrayed against Haitian sovereignty and democra...

Znet Article Early: The Crisis In Organized Labor—As Viewed From The Inside and Out

Znet Article, June, 13 2008 Steve Early
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Although he looks old and tired today, AFL-CIO president John Sweeney was once hailed as a dynamic reformer, with a sharp eye for new talent. One of the first things he did, after getting elected in 1995, was appoint former Sixties’ radicals to be...

Znet Article Miles: Palestine Inside Out Review

Znet Article, June, 10 2008 Jim Miles
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This has been one of the most difficult books that I have ever read. It removed me from my academic detachment with which I read the majority of books and took me into emotions ranging from frustration, sadness, melancholy through to anger and be...

Znet Article Roesch: Shoes, Men and Stereotypes

Znet Article, June, 08 2008 Jen Roesch
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Where the real women are in the "female-driven" blockbuster?

Znet Article Miles: Pens and Swords

Znet Article, May, 29 2008 Jim Miles
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In an era when American foreign policy has reached the pinnacle of unilateralism by invading other countries pre-emptively, threatening others with nuclear annihilation, and abrogating in doing so many decades if not more than a century of interna...

Znet Article Eagleton: Culture Conundrum

Znet Article, May, 23 2008 Terry Eagleton
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The age-old conflict between civilisation and barbarism has lately taken an ominous turn...

Znet Article Guma: Momentum: A Presidential Blockbuster

Znet Article, May, 20 2008 Greg Guma
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Presidents have frequently been the focus of films and, to a lesser extent, TV serials. In recent years, however, the race to become “the decider” has become the theme for big and small screen storytelling. On the tube, the plots have mainly been ...

Znet Article Johnson: Our ‘Managed Democracy’

Znet Article, May, 19 2008 Chalmers Johnson
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It is not news that the United States is in great trouble. The pre-emptive war it launched against Iraq more than five years ago was and is a mistake of monumental proportions—one that most Americans still fail to acknowledge. Instead they are arg...

Znet Article Lendman: Frances Fox Piven's "Challenging Authority"

Znet Article, May, 15 2008 Stephen Lendman
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Frances Fox Piven is a Canadian-born Professor of Political Science and Sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). Her career is long and distinguished. She's the recipient of numerous awards, has combined scholarship wi...

Znet Article Miles: Reviewing Sachs

Znet Article, May, 13 2008 Jim Miles
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Sach’s essential thrust is how to eliminate poverty, indeed a noble goal, and to do so with our most “important responsibility [being] a commitment to know the truth as best we can, truth that is both technical and ethical.”

Znet Article Early: Teamsters & Taxi Drivers

Znet Article, May, 11 2008 Steve Early
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In the late 1990s, it looked, for a while, like organized labor was making a comeback...

Znet Article Miles: Our Eyes & Dreams of Home

Znet Article, May, 08 2008 Jim Miles
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The pictures arrive at first in the sad multi-tones of greys, the ever-present grey concrete walls of the narrow alleys of the refugee camp, the shadows and lines on faces, the abstract shadows of wire and fence on concrete, and the loom of the Wa...

Znet Article Lendman: Ramzy Baroud's "The Second Palestinian Intifada"

Znet Article, May, 08 2008 Stephen Lendman
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Ramzy Baroud is a veteran Palestinian-American journalist and former Al-Jazeera producer. He also taught Mass Communication at Australia's Curtin University of Technology and is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Palestine Chronicle, a vital r...

Znet Article Miller: Review of John Berger's "Hold Everything Dear"

Znet Article, April, 27 2008 Alex Miller
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John Berger’s latest book consists of 16 short essays, written between 2001 and 2006, concerning “surviving the nights and imagining a new day” in the era of unimpeded capitalism and the “war on terror”. For Berger, in particular, this means findi...

Znet Article Miles: Treacherous Alliance

Znet Article, April, 26 2008 Jim Miles
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As the prospects of a limited ‘strike’ or a full out attack on Iran become more and more familiar in the media, and as the end date for the Bush-Cheney regime in the United States draws ever nearer to its close, a better understanding of the tripa...

Znet Article Bello: Power, Passion, and Neoliberalism

Znet Article, April, 24 2008 Walden Bello
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Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is very impressive indeed. This is, however, not immediately evident, a sense that is confirmed by Joseph Stiglitz' review of the book. Even before I read it, I was certain that the...

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