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Znet Article Klein: America's Teacher

Znet Article, September, 24 2009 Naomi Klein
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Klein interviewing Moore about his new film...

Znet Article Billet: Kanye, the VMAs and the Spectacle of Controversy

Znet Article, September, 20 2009 Alexander Billet
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Over the years, MTV's notion of "controversy" has become about as enticing as a trip to the corner store to pick up toilet paper. That the media can't stop talking about Kanye West's "outburst" is proof that they're really grasping at straws. The ...

Znet Article Zirin: Sports and the Uncivil Society

Znet Article, September, 18 2009 Dave Zirin
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This week, the grand media theme from USA Today to ESPN has been that "we have lost a sense of civility in US society." The examples have ranged from Serena Williams’s expletive-infused outburst at the US Open and Michael Jordan’s brutal baske...

Znet Article Zirin: The Serena Williams Double Standard

Znet Article, September, 16 2009 Dave Zirin
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A top-ranked tennis player in a moment of rage cursed out a judge and shocked the world, headlining every sports and news program from ESPN to MSNBC. Meanwhile, another champion tennis player hurled expletives at a judge and the media barely yawne...

Znet Article Zirin: Stop the Savage Sex Scare in Sports

Znet Article, September, 14 2009 Dave Zirin
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The salacious sports media and the puritanical zealots that run international track and field have joined forces to hit a new low. Someone in the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) leaked to the press that Caster Semenya, th...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" Will Find a Ready Audience

Znet Article, September, 10 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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When I first met Michael Moore more than 20 years ago he was showing a half-finished documentary to a few dozen people in a classroom in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was funny and poignant and had a powerful message. He had taken a second mortgage on h...

Zmag Article Majavu: From Protest to Resistance

Zmag Article, September, 01 2009 Mandisi Majavu
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New Zealand anti-apartheidist John Minto on movement history

Zmag Article Szczepanczyk: Think Galacticon

Zmag Article, September, 01 2009 Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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Report from a conference mixing science fiction with left politics

Znet Article Zirin: Caster Semenya Aint 8 Feet Tall

Znet Article, August, 26 2009 Dave Zirin
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If you aspire to be a star woman athlete but have no aspirations to appear in Playboy's Women of the Olympics issue, you are far better off being from South Africa than the United States. The Western media's handling of the story of Caster Semenya...

Commentary Pilger: Cover-Up: A Film's Travesty Of Omissions

Commentary, August, 22 2009 John Pilger
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On 30 August it will be a decade since the people of East Timor defied the genocidal occupiers of their country to take part in a United Nations referendum, voting for their freedom and independence. A "scorched earth" campaign by the Indonesian d...

Znet Article Zirin: Caster Semenya and the Idiocy of Sex Testing

Znet Article, August, 22 2009 Dave Zirin
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World-class South African athlete Caster Semenya, age 18, won the 800 meters in the International Association of Athletics Federations World Championships on August 19. But her victory was all the more remarkable in that she was forced to run amid...

Znet Article Pilger: Summer reading for activists

Znet Article, August, 18 2009 John Pilger
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A summer reading list for those who aren't interested in listening to lies about the war or media PR.

Znet Article Zirin: McNabb, Eagles Give Vick Second Chance. Will Philly Fans?

Znet Article, August, 15 2009 Dave Zirin
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When a high school football star named Michael Vick visited Syracuse University, he was hosted by the big man on campus, quarterback Donovan McNabb. Today, McNabb is once again going to be hosting Vick and Vick will need his old friend to steer hi...

Znet Article Zirin: Boxing's Month From Hell

Znet Article, August, 13 2009 Dave Zirin
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This July, all the boxing news of note has been in the obituaries. Death has visited the sport like a plague, shocking even the most callous observers.

Znet Article Billet: Suicide Onstage

Znet Article, August, 12 2009 Alexander Billet
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There is a lot of sound and fury over the upcoming stage version of American Idiot. Unfortunately, it signifies nothing. The recent announcement that Berkeley Repertory had at long last assembled the creative team for the opener of their '09/'10 s...

Commentary Dangl: Why We Should All Boycott Union Busting Beer Corporations

Commentary, August, 11 2009 Ben Dangl
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When Obama sat down for a beer in the White House Rose Garden with Professor Gates and Sergeant Crowley, they all turned their backs on the smaller, craft brewers of the country. Obama chose Bud Light, Gates asked for Red Stripe, and Crowley drank...

Commentary Pilger: Books That Counter Our "Training" To Make War

Commentary, August, 07 2009 John Pilger
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These are extraordinary times. Flag-wrapped coffins of 18-year-old soldiers killed in a failed, illegal and vengeful invasion are paraded along a Wiltshire high street. Victory in Afghanistan is at hand, says the satirical Gordon Brown. On the BBC...

Znet Article Zirin: The Paulsons' Edifice Complex

Znet Article, August, 06 2009 Dave Zirin
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For Henry Paulson and his son Merritt, the taxpayers of Portland, Oregon, must look like geese with an infinite supply of golden eggs.

Znet Article Schechter: Michael, Walter, and Nelson in en Era of Iconomania

Znet Article, July, 27 2009 Danny Schechter
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New York New York: What a time for Iconomania, none of it critical, none of it questioning, none offering deeper perspective or leading to very revealing coverage.

Commentary Pilger: Murdoch: A Cultural Chernobyl

Commentary, July, 25 2009 John Pilger
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I met Eddie Spearritt in the Philharmonic pub, overlooking Liverpool. It was a few years after 96 Liverpool football fans had been crushed to death at Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield, on 15 April 1989. Eddie's son, Adam, aged 14, died in his arms....

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