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Street: Things Not Heard in Obama’s Acceptance Speech
Znet Article, August, 30 2008
Paul Street
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Barack Obama’s grandiose oration before 84,000 listeners at the Democratic National Convention in Denver last Thursday night was a masterpiece in the combined arts of mass propaganda and managed democracy...
Street: The Madness of Jerome Corsi
Znet Article, August, 24 2008
Paul Street
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To fully understand right-wing hatchet man Jerome R. Corsi’s new neo-McCarthyite book “The Obama Nation” (New York: Threshold, 2008), you have to differentiate between the accurate, the wacky, and the vile in his presentation.
Street: Big Brother McBush: “Nations Don’t Invade Other Nations in the 21st Century”
Znet Article, August, 19 2008
Paul Street
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George Orwell Bush strikes yet again. And the “liberal” media and inauthentic opposition of the Democratic Party offer no relevant corrections, as has so often been the case over the last eight years.
Street: If Obama Loses
Znet Article, August, 17 2008
Paul Street
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I have no idea what’s going to happen in November. This presidential election is even more difficult to call than the last two, thanks in part to race.
Street: Brave New America: On Corporate Totalitarianism, Electoralist Passivity, and Inauthentic Opposition
Znet Article, August, 14 2008
Paul Street
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My forthcoming book “Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics” (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, August 2008) exposes Barack Obama as a conservative, corporate, militarist Democrat posing as a democratic progressive. It provides a detaile...
Street: Letters of No Apology
Znet Article, August, 01 2008
Paul Street
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Recently Obama was asked by CNN’s Candy Crowley if “there's anything that's happened in the past 7 1/2 years that the U.S. needs to apologize for in terms of foreign policy?” Obama responded by saying, “No, I don’t believe in the U.S. apologizing....
Street: Obama Does Berlin
Znet Article, July, 28 2008
Paul Street
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Reflecting the increasing Americanization of their continent’s politics [1], “progressive” European commentators and politicos have been gushing over U.S. Senator Obama’s (D-IL) speech before 200,000 people in Berlin. Never mind that the speech c...
Street: From JFK to Obama: Shared Service to “the Triple Evils That Are Interrelated”
Znet Article, July, 23 2008
Paul Street
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In completing a recent book on the Barack Obama phenomenon, I found much to dispute in the Obama campaign’s description and marketing of the junior U.S. Senator from Illinois. Among the more dubious aspects of his biography and “branding” that I c...
Street: Statehouse Days: The Myth of Barack Obama’s “True Progressive” Past
Znet Article, July, 19 2008
Paul Street
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The extent to which many “liberal left” Democrats and hard-right Republicans will go to convince themselves and/or others that Barack Obama is really a left progressive is quite remarkable. “Oh sure,” they say when you point out that Obama is a co...
Street: Because He’s Black: Race, the Ruling Class, the Left, and Obama
Znet Article, July, 16 2008
Paul Street
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Recently I had a conversation with a Left friend who agrees with me that the Democratic Party’s ever-more right-leaning presidential nominee Barack Obama is a corporate-sponsored militarist who can be expected to betray his best peaceful- and popu...
Street: The Audacity of Imperial Airbrushing: Barack Obama’s Whitewashed History of U.S. Foreign Policy and Why it Matters
Znet Article, July, 05 2008
Paul Street
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Under the rules of “mainstream” political discourse in the United States, crimes are committed by evil others, never by noble “America.” Bad things are done by “them,” but not by “us.” “They” often have malevolent intent but “we” are fundamental...
Street: Obama “Shift to the Center” and the Narrow Authoritarian Spectrum in U.S. Politics
Znet Article, June, 30 2008
Paul Street
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The pronounced rightward drift of the American “mainstream” political and ideological spectrum is on vivid display as we begin to approach the climax of the latest corporate-crafted quadrennial presidential election extravaganza.
Street: “Man” Versus “Nature?” The Politics of the Iowa Floods
Znet Article, June, 24 2008
Paul Street
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Having served my hours on the sandbag lines, I am perhaps entitled to say a thing or two about the Iowa and Midwestern floods of 2008 – the ones that displaced 24,000 people from their homes in Cedar Rapids and thousands more in towns like Waterlo...
Street: News Flash: Obama Lies
Znet Article, June, 21 2008
Paul Street
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Just the other day Obama coldly contradicted his earlier promise to go with money from the U.S. presidential public financing system and to accept accompanying spending limits if his Republican opponent did the same. He admitted that he will rely ...
Street: “No More Excuses”: Putting Obama’s Blackness to Racist Use
Znet Article, June, 15 2008
Paul Street
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It is a sign of a certain sort of very real historical progress that a black person has a real shot at the United States presidency. Still, Barack Obama’s ascendancy is not as good for American race relations [1] as some progressives and left lib...
Street: A Message to American Military Personnel: Bring the War Home
Znet Article, May, 22 2008
Paul Street
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The ongoing United States invasion of Iraq has cost the lives of more than 4,000 American soldiers and 1.2 million Iraqis. The Democratic-majority U.S. Senate has just (20 minutes ago as I write this essay on the afternoon of May 22, 2008) passe...
Street: The Nation’s Leading Moral Issues: Empire and Inequality
Znet Article, May, 17 2008
Paul Street
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The closer we get to the general United States presidential election, the more we can expect to hear about “moral issues” and the role they play alongside and/or against “economic” (or “pocketbook), “national security” (foreign policy) and/or iden...
Street: Hidden Revolutionary Sentiment in the Heartland – a Reason for HOPE*
Znet Article, May, 02 2008
Paul Street
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Since its May 1st, the official day of international working class revolution...
Street: The Pastor v. the Politician
Znet Article, April, 30 2008
Paul Street
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I’ve been talking to some white people who are shocked and appalled that their nice white-soothing Barack Obama and big bad white-scaring Reverend Jeremiah Wright could ever have been close to one another.
Street: Leading Democrats: “Expropriate the Expropriators”
Znet Article, April, 27 2008
Paul Street
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Tired of defending their business-friendly and state-capitalist policy proposals against Republicans’ insistent description of them as weapons of radical Leftist “class warfare,” the leading Democratic candidates for the United States presidency h...
