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Street: The Janus-Faced* Obama Phenomenon
Znet Article, January, 07 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
As Barack Obama’s historic inauguration approaches, many progressives are reflecting on the possibilities and perils of the next American administration as viewed from the Left.
Street: Arne Duncan and Neoliberal Racism:
Znet Article, December, 24 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Educational justice advocates are understandably displeased with President Elect Obama’s appointment of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Arne Duncan to the position of Education Secretary in the next White House.
Street: "Getting Things Done" With Obama
Znet Article, December, 20 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Recently I was speaking to a liberal friend about a writer I thought might be a good reviewer for a book I recently published on the Barack Obama phenomenon.
Street: "Re-Missioning" and Advance Betrayal: Notes on Iraq, "Expectation Management," and the Imperial Transition
Znet Article, December, 08 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Recently The New York Times reported an alleged evolution in President-Elect Obama’s position on the invasion of Iraq. Having run for the president partly on a vow to “end the war†in Iraq, Obama, Times reporter Thom Shanker wrote, “is ma...
Street: Our Challenge, Not Obama’s
Znet Article, November, 30 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Far be it from me to criticize a Nobel Prize-winner, but liberal New York Times columnist and Princeton economist Paul Krugman really dropped the ball three weeks ago on how progressives should think and act in relation to the Obama presidency.
Street: The "Violin Model"
Znet Article, November, 25 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
I have four interrelated questions for the editors of The New York Times.
Street: "Brand Obama," "Brand Usa," And "The Audacity Of Marketing": Some Candid Reflections at Advertising Age
Znet Article, November, 18 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Twenty-three years ago the clever anti-television writer Neil Postman dissected the authoritarian nightmare that is modern political advertising in the United States. The television commercial, Postman noted, is the antithesis of rational popular ...
Street: The Narrow Spectrum and “The Obama Dividend”
Znet Article, November, 14 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
As Noam Chomsky has noted, the best way to see the narrow state-capitalist nature of the spectrum of acceptable debate in U.S. political and media culture is to examine content at the “leftmost” margins of what passes for “mainstream” opinion. It...
Street: “Anyone Out There”? Reflections on the Obama Ascendancy and Progressive Surrender
Znet Article, November, 09 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
If I must peer into the crystal ball, then health care seems like a good first place to fight with a good shot at success. Corporations tend to have a stranglehold on social policy in this country and they are exasperated with their giant employee...
Street: Barack Obama as a Ruling Class Candidate
Znet Article, November, 04 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
It is a welcome democratic development for people who previously felt disenfranchised to become engaged in the political process. And I have no doubt that expanded black turnout is going to be (I am writing on the Monday before the 2008 election) ...
Street: Obama Nation: Sixteen Reasons*
Znet Article, October, 31 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
It would be an understatement to describe the cautious and traditionalist Obama as “not too far ahead.” He as been behind “the curve” of the U.S. populace on numerous key issues during his time in national politics. Karl Rove and other hard right...
Street: Redistribute the Wealth? Yes (But Not What Obama Proposes)
Znet Article, October, 28 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
According to the “liberal” New York Times last Friday, John McCain’s fading chances of overtaking Barack Obama in the presidential election were increased to some degree by an “inopportune remark by Mr. Obama.” Obama’s bad statement was the “remar...
Street: Why Barack Didn’t Hire Me: On Obama, Niebuhr, and the Manipulation of Populism by Elitism
Znet Article, October, 21 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Maybe the Obama campaign should have hired me. They could have put me on tour and gotten me on CNN and FOX News and MSNBC, just like – and to counter- Jerome Corsi.
Street: Proto-Fascism in the United States: Campaign Reflections
Znet Article, October, 16 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Recently a radio talk-show host asked me if the John McCain-Sarah Palin campaign is being racist...
Street: The Obama Phenomenon: An Interview with Paul Street by Adam Burke and Little Village*
Znet Article, October, 04 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
I figured Obama was a leading future presidential candidate after the Keynote Address – a very conservative speech. Once Kerry lost I considered that Obama would be irresistible for 2008 to certain sections of the power elite and much of the despe...
Street: White America Lives in Vicious Racial Denial – The Obama Phenomenon Is Making It Worse
Znet Article, October, 02 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
I’d like to suggest a different headline for USA Today’s recent cover story on racial attitudes in the United States: “White America’s Head Still Up Ass on Race: Obama Not Helping.”
Street: Profiles in Cowardice and Corruption: Why McCain and Obama are United in Weakness on the Financial Crisis
Znet Article, September, 25 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
The nation’s financial system is in the middle of a colossal crisis caused by massive fraud, idiocy, and greed at the upper reaches of the banking, insurance, and real estate industries. The arch-plutocratic Bush administration and Federal Reserv...
Street: The Democrats, Obama, and the White Working Class
Znet Article, September, 16 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Working class white people – critical to the outcome of the 2008 presidential election – are often more complex than many middle-class observers know.
Street: ZNet Book Interview: Demystifying Obama
Znet Article, September, 02 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
The book is an attempt to demystify Barack Obama and understand his emergence and candidacy in the context of U.S. political culture and history. Everybody knows that the rise of Obama is loaded with relevance for American social and political hi...
Street: The Empire's New Clothes
Book, September, 01 2008
Many Americans believe Barack Obama represents a hopeful future for America. But does he also reflect the American politics of the past? This book offers the broadest and best-informed understanding on the meaning of the “Obama phenomenon” to date.
