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Zirin: Clemens Shouldn't Have to Take the Fall
Znet Article, August, 23 2010
Dave Zirin
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Roger Clemens is about as popular in baseball circles as jock itch. The man is such a pariah, he makes Barry Bonds look like Justin Bieber. Yet we should hold the cheers over the recent news that Clemens has been indicted on perjury charges for ly...
Zirin: Talking Bad Sports With The Nation’s Dave Zirin
Znet Article, August, 02 2010
Dave Zirin
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Zirin talks about his new book, Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love...
Spannos: Gaza Tunnels to Cape Cod
Commentary, July, 24 2010
Chris Spannos
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Woods Hole is a village in the township of Falmouth, just a short ferry ride across from Martha’s Vineyard, with a proud reputation that far exceeds its size.
Parenti: Pedophiles and Popes
Zmag Article, July, 04 2010
Michael Parenti
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Protecting perpetrators and circling the wagons
Zirin: Into the Vacuum: Tony La Russa Loves Arizona’s SB 1070
Znet Article, July, 03 2010
Dave Zirin
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St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa has chosen to publicly back Arizona’s odious, anti-constitutional, anti-immigrant Senate Bill 1070. Call me paranoid. Call me delusional. But it doesn’t take a tinfoil hat to intuit that there are larger f...
Naiman: Stone's 'Border' Shows Fall of South America's Berlin Wall
Znet Article, June, 26 2010
Robert Naiman
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On April 13, 2002, an event occurred in Venezuela which was as world-historical for South America as the fall of the Berlin Wall was for Eastern Europe: a U.S.-backed coup against the democratically-elected government of Venezuela collapsed. The B...
Zirin: The Eagleton has Landed: A Response on Sports and Society
Znet Article, June, 23 2010
Dave Zirin
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Terry Eagleton has been one of the great minds of the European left seemingly since Cromwell. But in his recent piece on Comment is free, Football: A Dear Friend to Capitalism, his absence of understanding on the relationship between sport and mod...
Billet: What Makes the Walk Worth It
Znet Article, April, 04 2010
Alexander Billet
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The initial response to The Brutalist Bricks is something akin to coming home after a long trip. It's all familiar, everything is just where you left it, but somehow, it all still feels so strange--comfortable, yet fresh and new at the same time. ...
Billet: A Rebel To the End
Znet Article, March, 12 2010
Alexander Billet
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In May of 1962, after a horrific performance at Carnegie Hall, a despondent Cash found himself approached by Ed McCurdy, a socialist and folksinger who had just barely escaped the grip of McCarthyism into the thriving Greenwich Village folk scene....
Fletcher: Science Fiction as a Terrain of Struggle: A Review of Red Planets
BookReview, February, 25 2010
Bill Fletcher
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Review of Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction
Shah: Review of new Harrison Ford flick, "Extraordinary Measures"
Commentary, February, 23 2010
Sonia Shah
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Compared to, say, espionage or alien warfare, the drug development business rarely appears on the big screen, and its few cinematic portrayals generally involve sinister white-coated characters doing shadowy experiments. In that sense, the new fil...
Billet: The Clash They Represent?
Znet Article, February, 13 2010
Alexander Billet
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Any band that experiences such a meteoric rise in popularity like that of Vampire Weekend is bound to provoke a backlash. And that's exactly what's happened. Since their new release rocketed to number one last month, a veritable arsenal of pen-ink...
Pilger: Why the Oscars are a Con
Commentary, February, 11 2010
John Pilger
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Why are so many films so bad? This year's Oscar nominations are a parade of propaganda, stereotypes and downright dishonesty. The dominant theme is as old as Hollywood: America's divine right to invade other societies, steal their history and occu...
Palast: Kvetcher in the Rye
Znet Article, February, 02 2010
Greg Palast
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In the sixth grade, the Boys' Vice-Principal threatened to suspend me from school unless I stopped carrying around The Catcher in the Rye I think because it had the word "fuck" in it. Since the Boys' Vice-Principal hadn't read the book - and I don...
Berlet: Tea Bags, Taxes, & Productive Citizens
Zmag Article, February, 01 2010
Chip Berlet
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The history behind current right wing rhetoric
Zirin: NFL Owners Stiff-arm Fans/Union
Znet Article, January, 23 2010
Dave Zirin
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Call it the Super Bowl for lawyers and the reckoning for football fans. On January 13 the owners of all thirty-two NFL teams asked the Supreme Court to shield them from anti-trust laws. Their argument is that the league does not comprise, despite ...
Zirin: One thing about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: the man understood sports.
Znet Article, January, 19 2010
Dave Zirin
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I don't mean that King was any kind of a star athlete. The only sport that the young, roundish "Mike" King was known to excel at was pocket billiards, which isn't exactly a sport (the golden rule: anything that you can gain weight or smoke cigaret...
Zirin: Mark McGwire's Pound of Flesh
Znet Article, January, 13 2010
Dave Zirin
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In the ten years Brian Williams has anchored the NBC Nightly News, he has never once launched a broadcast by lambasting a public figure. Henry Paulson after the economic collapse? George W. Bush after Katrina? Dick Cheney after everything? All wer...
Zirin: Al Sharpton Wants Gilbert Arenas Punished. Seriously.
Znet Article, January, 05 2010
Dave Zirin
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Whenever racism rears its head in sports, the Reverend Al Sharpton has usually had something important to say. In the process, he has proudly earned the contempt of the sports radio blabbocracy. But today, Reverend Al is earning their praise. Al S...
Zirin: Dennis Brutus 1924-2009
Znet Article, December, 30 2009
Dave Zirin
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It was 1976, and the Summer Olympics in Montreal had improbably become ground zero in the struggle against apartheid. Several dozen African nations threatened to boycott if the International Olympic Committee dared allow South Africa to be a part ...
