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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...
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...
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...
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...
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?
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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.”
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Mian: A review of Nuclear Black Markets
Znet Article, April, 24 2008
Zia Mian
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Proliferation watchers have kept track of A. Q. Khan's activities for about 30 years. In 1979, the Washington Post named him as the Pakistani engineer who had left his position at the uranium enrichment centrifuge facility at Almelo, Netherlands, ...
Lendman: Peter Hallward's "Damning the Flood" (Part II)
Znet Article, April, 18 2008
Stephen Lendman
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Part II of Peter Hallward's account of recent Haitian history and what may lie ahead for its beleaguered people.
Randjbar: Frankfurt School and Critical Theory
Znet Article, April, 13 2008
Amir hossein Randjbar
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While there have been many different lineages of critical thought derived from historical materialism and idealogical critique, the following text will look in some details at one of the most influential schools just like frankfurt school.
