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Znet Article Street: Race and Class in the Democratic Primaries

Znet Article, April, 24 2008 Paul Street
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Race matters a great deal in the United States, but its workings are intricately tied up with class...

Znet Article Street: Democrats See Progress in Iraq: Reflections on Moral Failure and Progressive Naiveté

Znet Article, April, 24 2008 Paul Street
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Recently I was speaking to a liberal Iowan peace and justice advocate who told me she was “disappointed” and “surprised” by the leading Democratic presidential candidates. The source of her dismay was a front-page New York Times article showing t...

Znet Article Street: "No Refuge But in Audacity”: Barack Obama and the Democratic Party’s Holocaust Denial

Znet Article, April, 22 2008 Paul Street
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In February of 2008, Barack Obama received some interesting commentary from a curious source: David Duke...

Znet Article Street: Who’s Aims in What “Global War on Terror?”*

Znet Article, April, 21 2008 Paul Street
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A speech delivered at the Plenary Session of the 2008 Midwestern Meetings of the Campus Antiwar Network.

Znet Article Street: Jonathan Alter: Liberal Racist, Obama Fan

Znet Article, March, 31 2008 Paul Street
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Newsweek’s celebrated “liberal” columnist Jonathan Alter is a victim-blaming racist of the worst kind – the sort who cloaks his racially offensive comments in outwardly sensitive prose claiming to express concern for racial justice and black America.

Znet Article Street: Obama’s Latest "Beautiful Speech"

Znet Article, March, 21 2008 Paul Street
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I just read Barack Obama’s Latest Greatest Speech – his celebrated address on race, titled “A More Perfect Union” [1], yesterday (I am writing on the morning of March 19 2008), in Philadelphia.

Znet Article Street: The Audacity of Reaction

Znet Article, March, 18 2008 Paul Street
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As I’ve been saying since one day after the 2004 speech that made him the leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, Barack Obama is a walking delusion and deception machine.

Znet Article Street: The Narrow Spectrum and Identity Politics: Obama’s “Puzzlement,” Invisible Primaries, and the Trivialization of U.S. Politics

Znet Article, March, 15 2008 Paul Street
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According to the New York Times, Barack Obama recently told reporters that he was “puzzled at how, after more than a year of campaigning, race and sex are at the forefront as never before” (1). The comment came after Geraldine Ferraro was forced t...

Znet Article Street: Nader, The Clintons, Obama, Gore, and Edwards

Znet Article, March, 06 2008 Paul Street
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I live in a contested state in the presidential election (Iowa). At the same time, I view the Republican Party as too dangerous and extremist not to try to prevent from keeping the White House (the most powerful and potentially destructive and ma...

Znet Article Street: “Hail Hillary!” Clinton, Obama and the Militarization of U.S. Politics

Znet Article, March, 05 2008 Paul Street
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I am writing on the chilly morning after Hillary Clinton’s presidential primary victories in Ohio, Texas, and Rhode Island. If my perusal of media coverage last night and early today is any indication, the depressing militarization of United Stat...

Znet Article Street: Obama’s Good and “Proper” War

Znet Article, March, 04 2008 Paul Street
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Throughout his Senate career and the presidential campaign, the supposed “peace candidate” Barack Obama has reassured the U.S. foreign policy establishment of his willingness to stay firmly within the spectrum of acceptable imperial opinion by voi...

Znet Article Street: “Calibrating” HOPE in the Effort to “Patrol the Commons”: Samantha Power and the Hidden Imperial Reality of Barack Obama *

Znet Article, February, 25 2008 Paul Street
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A small part of the dark and hidden imperial reality behind the supposedly peace-oriented Barack Obama phenomenon showed itself to those willing to see when leading Obama foreign policy advisor and celebrated Harvard Professor Samantha Power appea...

Znet Article Street: A Fine Democracy

Znet Article, February, 24 2008 Paul Street
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Recent developments should give pause to those who believe in the capacity of American political culture to temper the United States’ propenrity to attack and oppress world neighbors. Two years ago, broad U.S. citizen disgust with Dick Cheney and ...

Znet Article Street: A Message From The American Corporate Plutocracy

Znet Article, February, 04 2008 Paul Street
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I was watching "American Idol" and trying to balance my checkbook...

Znet Article Street: The Cynicism of Hope

Znet Article, January, 28 2008 Paul Street
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If you like cynicism in politics, you’ve got to love Barack Obama. There’s nothing naïve or fanciful about the way he says one thing to one audience and another thing to a different voter or funding group. It’s all about cold calculation under th...

Znet Article Street: Clintons-Obama and the "Over" Struggle for Black Equality

Znet Article, January, 19 2008 Paul Street
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Recently the United States ' idiocy-inducing narrow-spectrum political culture scraped the moral and intellectual bottom on race. It started when Hillary Clinton made a curious remark in criticizing the effectiveness of Barack Obama's "soaring rhe...

Znet Article Street: “Mired In Delusion”: The New Hampshire Democratic Primary and the Abject Idiocy of U.S. Political Culture

Znet Article, January, 10 2008 Paul Street
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During last Saturday night’s Democratic presidential candidate debate in New Hampshire, Edwards made the tactical decision to ally himself with Barack Obama and “change” and against the corporate “establishment” represented by Hillary and Bill Cli...

Znet Article Street: Heart of Stone: Post Caucus Reflections

Znet Article, January, 07 2008 Paul Street
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Last Thursday night, a record number of disproportionately middle-class and white Democrats went to the critical Iowa Caucuses to proclaim “the king is dead, long live the king.” The deceased sovereign is the elitist neo-Hamiltonian corporate-imp...

Znet Article Street: Goodbye Dennis:

Znet Article, January, 03 2008 Paul Street
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For some time now, I’ve been giving a quiet and indirect sort of tribute to Dennis Kucinich. I’ve been praising him for backing progressive policy proposals and initiatives that “mainstream” (corporate) Democrats refuse to embrace: single-payer h...

Zmag Article Street: Largely About Oil

Zmag Article, January, 01 2008 Paul Street
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The White House got it right when they initially gave their immoral incursion the acronym OIL (for Operation Iraqi Liberation). “Oil” is the main reason that a rapid and thorough U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and true Iraqi freedom and independence ar...

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