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Billet: Bashing Britney:
Znet Article, March, 03 2007
Alexander Billet
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I am loath to defend the likes of Britney Spears. I, like many others, cringed when MTV dressed her up as the sexist stereotype of the naughty schoolgirl and billed her as "wholesome." I shuddered when the...
Engelhardt: Thelma and Louise Imperialism
Znet Article, February, 09 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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Let me make an argument about Bush administration Iran policy -- about the possibility that a regime-change-style, shock-and-awe air assault might someday be launched on Iranian nuclear facilities and associated targets -- based on no insider know...
Billet: Notes of Resistance:
Znet Article, January, 09 2007
Alexander Billet
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A friend of mine told me recently how intensely unexcited he was by the bands out there. When I asked why, he said “they’re not doing anything different. It’s like they...
Billet: The World Is Worth Fighting For: The Legacy of Joe Strummer
Znet Article, December, 27 2006
Alexander Billet
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"I'd like to say that people . . . people can change anything they want to. And that means everything in the world. Show me any country . . . and there'll be people in it just trying to take their humanity back into the center of the ring . . . ...
Billet: The World Is Worth Fighting For: The Legacy of Joe Strummer
Znet Article, December, 27 2006
Alexander Billet
Billet's ZSpace page
"I'd like to say that people . . . people can change anything they want to. And that means everything in the world. Show me any country . . . and there'll be people in it just trying to take their humanity back into the center of the ring . . . ...
Deshpande: Is the Death of Art Upon Us?
Commentary, October, 11 2006
Sudhanva Deshpande
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In 1937, at the height of the Spanish Civil War, General Franco's planes bombed Guernica, the holy city of the Basques, for three days. The city was flattened, and about 1600 people were killed, a large number children. The event shocked the world...
Pilger: In praise of the 'subversive' documentary
Znet Article, September, 16 2006
John Pilger
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The political documentary, that most powerful and subversive medium, is said to be enjoying a renaissance on both sides of the Atlantic. This may be true in the cinema but what of television, the source of most of our information? Like the work of...
Engelhardt: 9/11 in a Movie-Made World
Znet Article, September, 07 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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9/11 in a Movie-Made World
Ehrenreich: 'Miami Vice': The Class Analysis
Znet Article, August, 16 2006
Barbara Ehrenreich
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The film's bleak vision of a world divided between shanty-towns and trailer parks at one end, and unimaginable luxury at the other, is not far off the mark. Everyone knows that the new big-screen "Miami Vice" is "darker" than the old one, meaning...
Spannos: International Noise Conspiracy Interview
Zmag Article, July, 01 2006
Chris Spannos
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O n May 20 major label recording artists and radical leftists, the International Noise Conspiracy, began their very first headlining tour across Canada. The band is from Sweden and their first stop...
Galeano: Interviewing Galeano
Znet Article, May, 20 2006
Eduardo Galeano
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JUAN GONZALEZ: We spend the rest of the hour with one of Latin America's most acclaimed writers: Eduardo Galeano. His works from the trilogy Memory of Fire to the classic Open Veins of Latin America are a unique blend of history, fiction, journali...
Landau: Munich And The Hamas Electoral Victory
Znet Article, February, 11 2006
Saul Landau
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How does Steven Spielberg’s Munich relate to Hamas’ recent electoral victory? Israel presents this organization as the epitome of Palestinian terrorism. This caricature could lead Washington to deny aid to the Palestinian people ...
Fisk: Those Danish Cartoons
Znet Article, February, 09 2006
Robert Fisk
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So now it's cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed with a bomb-shaped turban. Ambassadors are withdrawn from Denmark, Gulf nations clear their shelves of Danish produce, Gaza gunmen threaten the European Union. In Denmark, Fleming Rose, the "culture" edi...
Podur: Aristide the Film
Znet Article, December, 13 2005
Justin Podur
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Review: Aristide and the Endless Revolution. 2005. Baraka Productions. 83 min. Movie site: www.aristidethefilm.com Available from www.firstrunfeatures.com Each fact is disputed. Haiti’s President, Jean Bertrand Aristide, was overthrown ...
Pilger: The Silence of Writers
Znet Article, October, 16 2005
John Pilger
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In 1988, the English literary critic and novelist, D.J. Taylor wrote a seminal piece entitled 'When the Pen Sleeps'. He expanded this into a book 'A Vain Conceit', in which he wondered why the English novel so often denigrated into 'drawing room t...
Engelhardt: Spellcheck, the Poem
Znet Article, October, 09 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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Spellcheck, the Poem
Ireland: Restoring Pasolini
Znet Article, August, 03 2005
Doug Ireland
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Ostia, the harbor city of ancient Rome, is noted for its ruins of temples, baths and palaces, constructed in the centuries before Christ, which dot its sprawling landscape. It was on a deserted vacant lot, hard by an obsolete seaplane base in Osti...
Ireland: Remembering Herbert Marcuse
Znet Article, July, 20 2005
Doug Ireland
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Today is the 107th birthday of the late Herbert Marcuse (left), the political, social, and cultural philosopher -- a leading member of what is known as the Frankfurt School along with Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Max Horkheimer. The Frank...
Zirin: Crass Slipper Fits 'Cinderella Man'
Znet Article, June, 23 2005
Dave Zirin
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"When our country was on it's knees, he brought America to his feet." So is the tagline for Ron Howard's Depression Era boxing film Cinderella Man starring Russell Crowe. Cinderella Man, the story of 1930's heavyweight champion James J. Braddock, ...
Ireland: SARTRE AT 100: STILL RELEVANT
Znet Article, June, 22 2005
Doug Ireland
Ireland's ZSpace page
SARTRE AT 100: STILL RELEVANT
