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Jensen: Arrogance, ignorance, and cowardice: Lessons from 9/11
Znet Article, September, 11 2008
Robert Jensen
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Given the disastrous decisions made by U.S. officials in the seven long years since September 11, 2001, it would be easy tonight simply to catalog those many mistakes and condemn the bipartisan depravity of the Republican and Democratic politician...
Zirin: Why We Need A People’s History of Sports
Znet Article, September, 09 2008
Dave Zirin
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There are those who insist that sports and politics don’t belong in the same sentence, the same zip code, or the same universe...
Sargent: Recent Troubles?
Zmag Article, September, 01 2008
Lydia Sargent
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Lydia Sargent on politics and the Olympics.
Zirin: People's History of Sports
Video, August, 30 2008
Dave Zirin
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Dave Zirin talks about his latest book...
Zirin: The 2008 Olympics: Subterranean Rot
Znet Article, August, 25 2008
Dave Zirin
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Not since Marco Polo has anyone traveled so far up China's Silk Road with such amoral élan. But there was Jacques Rogge, president of the IOC, knight of the court of King Leopold's Belgium, three-time Olympian in the grand sport of yachting - stan...
Zirin: Remembering Gene Upshaw
Znet Article, August, 23 2008
Dave Zirin
Zirin's ZSpace page
The last thirty years haven't exactly been kind to the labor movement. It's been a story of slow death, with decades of falling union numbers, stagnant wages and disappearing pensions--all signs pointing toward total oblivion. It's been the era as...
Zirin: Women’s Gymnastics: The Big Mac of the Beijing Games
Znet Article, August, 16 2008
Dave Zirin
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The Olympics and I have what you could call a conflicted relationship. There’s the beauty of the games, the enjoyment of sports that don’t normally make it onto the sports landscape. Then there’s that ugly pervasive undercurrent that can leave you...
Street: Beijing Reflections
Commentary, August, 14 2008
Paul Street
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Nineteen years and two months ago, hundreds of peasant soldiers in Red China's "People's Liberation Army" (PLA) bivouacked in the world's largest McDonald's in downtown Beijing. Followed by the vapid gaze of Ronald McDonald, the troops marched ou...
Klein: The Olympics: Unveiling Police State 2.0
Znet Article, August, 08 2008
Naomi Klein
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So far, the Olympics have been an open invitation to China-bash, a bottomless excuse for Western journalists to go after the Commies on everything from internet censorship to Darfur. Through all the nasty news stories, however, the Chinese governm...
Weissman: The Commercial Games: How Commercialism is Overrunning the Olympics
Znet Article, August, 06 2008
Robert Weissman
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The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games have been referred to as the “People’s Games,” the “High Tech Games” and the “Green Games,” but they could be more aptly described as the Commercial Games.
Billet: We The Fire Next Time!
Znet Article, August, 06 2008
Alexander Billet
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In the five years since the release of his searing debut Blood and Fire, Baltimore-based MC Son of Nun has gone from playing small fundraisers and local open mic nights to sharing stages with the likes of Wayne Kramer, The Coup and Tom Morello. Hi...
Zirin: China’s Olympic Trials
Znet Article, August, 04 2008
Dave Zirin
Zirin's ZSpace page
"Go Red for China!" was the slogan unveiled on the Chinese mainland by Pepsi-Cola, whose ubiquitous blue can will, "for a limited time," be red. Pepsi is just one of many companies advertising at the Olympics, at a cost of up to $6 billion, in an ...
Zirin: Why He Fears the Fist: A Response to Jonah Goldberg
Znet Article, August, 01 2008
Dave Zirin
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Jonah Goldberg’s regular column in the LA Times is usually an awkward grab bag of right wing talking points backed by knowledge of history that would shame a poodle, although a poodle would never be so pompous. Goldberg stepped on to my beat this...
Billet: Nas, the N-word, and the Changing Face of Hip-Hop
Znet Article, July, 28 2008
Alexander Billet
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Expectations have run high for Nas' new album Untitled. It seems impossible to read a review of it without references to his previous album Hip-Hop is Dead. Ultimately, the question on people's minds seems to be "If hip-hop is dead, why is Nas sti...
Landau: Obits for Opposites
Commentary, July, 28 2008
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
In 1977, James Abourezk (D-SD) had just returned from Cuba. He and his fellow South Dakota Solon, George McGovern, had sought to use basketball diplomacy. The University of South Dakota's team played Cuba's national team. President Carter had supp...
Landau: Truth In Comedy
Commentary, July, 26 2008
Saul Landau
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Have mainstream politicians grown so out of synch with the needs of the people that only comedians address the issues? Traditionally, the court jester dared shine a satiric light on imperial problems. In our society, standup comics and "The Daily ...
Billet: Still Stuck in 'Guyville'
Commentary, July, 18 2008
Alexander Billet
Billet's ZSpace page
Listening to Liz Phair's debut Exile in Guyville, recently reissued by ATO Records after years out of print, it's striking how fresh and new the album sounds. It's raw, coarse, cocky and confrontational; it fits right in with the kind of rock albu...
Landau: Huckster And Tomsky (Marvin and Saul ) Discover More America
Commentary, July, 03 2008
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
Elvis was to rock and roll what Marilyn Monroe was to Hollywood movies, a great box office star, provoking teen-agers and, with Marilyn, the world's "sex kitten," even "mature" men. Like Elvis, she also failed to find contentment. At age 42, in 19...
Zirin: A People's History of Sports in the United States
Book, July, 01 2008
In this long-awaited book from the rising superstar of sportswriting, whose blog “The Edge of Sports†is read each week by thousands of people across the country, Dave Zirin offers a riotously entertaining chronicle of larger-than-life sportin...
Bronski: How Vietnam Gave us Dude, Where's My Car
Zmag Article, July, 01 2008
Michael Bronski
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One of the most amazing cultural responses to the war against Iraq has been the plethora of documentary and feature films produced by independent companies and even Hollywood studios. From In the Valley of Elah, Grace is Gone, and Stop-Loss to Red...
