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Znet Article Street: Resisting Left Invisibility in the Age of Obama

Znet Article, July, 24 2010 Paul Street
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As a few of my regular readers know, I am currently involved in a modest self-promoting fundraising effort. Iâ??m trying to scare up $1500 to pay for a short east coast book tour for my second major left-progressive critique of the Obama phenomen...

Znet Article Street: Reparations…for Present Injustice

Znet Article, July, 14 2010 Paul Street
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Don’t get me wrong. I have long felt that there is considerable justice in the demand for the payment of reparations to the American black community in compensation for the two-century plus crime of North American black chattel slavery, whose sava...

Znet Article Street: On Imperial Beginnings

Znet Article, July, 06 2010 Paul Street
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I resist the tendency to see the contemporary United States’ many harsh inequalities and crimes as radical departures from the nation’s (supposed) noble and democratic origins. Look at the nation’s founding document, The Declaration of Independenc...

Znet Article Street: A Callous Nation: Reflections on the Obama-McChrystal-Rolling Stone Saga

Znet Article, June, 25 2010 Paul Street
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On the set and in the audience of ABC’s daily women’s talk show “The View” last Tuesday, there was clear majority sentiment on behalf of McChrystal’s discharge. Why? Because McChrystal had “disrespected” the president – a transgression that many f...

Znet Article Street: Obama’s Oil-Slicked Presidency

Znet Article, June, 17 2010 Paul Street
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Given its abject captivity to the same corporate and military power structures that control the Republicans, there’s little that the Democratic Party as currently configured could do to convince me to vote for one of its candidates. Still, I do h...

Znet Article Street: Silly Goose Expectations: Reflections on Frustrated Left-Liberal Hopes and the Obama Administration

Znet Article, June, 14 2010 Paul Street
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As the Obama ascendancy developed, however, Kuttner was hardly alone in unduly idolizing Obama or in failing to grasp the basic Zinn and Piven-Cloward lesson on how progressive change takes place...

Znet Article Street: “Felony is the New ‘N-Word”: Michelle Alexander on Mass Incarceration as “The New Jim Crow” in the Age of Obama

Znet Article, June, 10 2010 Paul Street
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Early in her courageous and important new book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (New York: New Press, 2010), Ohio State University law professor Michelle Alexander offers a painful and poignant memory from the even...

Znet Article Street: Deepwater Lesson: Expropriate the Expropriators

Znet Article, June, 06 2010 Paul Street
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Amidst mass capital-imposed structural unemployment and ever-escalating environmental collapse, the ongoing epic British Petroleum-Deepwater Horizon spill â?? more than 40 million gallons and counting (far beyond the previous record set by the Exx...

Znet Article Street: “Who Controls the Present”*

Znet Article, May, 14 2010 Paul Street
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An expanded version of a talk given at a May Day (2010) event held by the anarchist group Wild Rose Collective in Iowa City, Iowa on May 1, 2010

Znet Article Dimaggio: What “Populist Uprising?” Part II: Further Reflections on an “Astroturf Movement”

Znet Article, April, 30 2010 Anthony Dimaggio
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The much-ballyhooed Tea Party “movement” that has arisen to absurdly accuse the corporate and imperial Barack Obama administration with “socialism,” “favoring the poor,” and other “radical leftist” crimes claims to be a decentralized, independent,...

Znet Article Street: Socialism

Znet Article, April, 30 2010 Paul Street
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A speech given at the 2010 Socialist Minnesota meeting.

Znet Article Street: What “Populist Uprising?” Pt. 1

Znet Article, April, 23 2010 Paul Street
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Facts and Reflections on Race, Class, and the Tea Party “Movement,” Part 1

Znet Article Street: Exposing and Resisting Empire and War Media in the Age of Obama*

Znet Article, April, 15 2010 Paul Street
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We are today one week and two days out from the forty-second anniversary of the execution of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a killing that took place exactly one year – almost down to the hour – after his famous “Break the Silence” speech against th...

Znet Article Street: Remembering Obama

Znet Article, April, 06 2010 Paul Street
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Sometimes you run across an eloquent statement that rings true and false at one and the same time...

Znet Article Street: Corporatist Health Reform as an "Attack on Wealth Inequality":

Znet Article, March, 31 2010 Paul Street
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As became clear to me while talking to local Democrats waiting to see their hero Barack Obama speak in Iowa City last week, many liberals want badly to believe that the Presidentâ??s conservative health reform bill is a truly progressive and egal...

Znet Article Street: Health Reform: Theirs and Ours

Znet Article, March, 24 2010 Paul Street
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Corporate health “reform” has gotten the congressional votes it needed and the public relations spin is on. Now that the “deeply conservative” Barack Obama[1] and his fellow corporate Democrats have pushed their big business-friendly measure – dev...

Znet Article Street: When Media Goes to War: A Review

Znet Article, March, 21 2010 Paul Street
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The “propaganda model” that the leading left U.S. intellectuals and academicians Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman developed over two decades ago to analyze the content of foreign policy news and commentary in the United States’ “mainstream” [1](d...

Znet Article Street: Notes on Building a Left in the Age of Obama

Znet Article, February, 26 2010 Paul Street
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Since I wrote a book that comprehensively criticized Barack Obama from the left two years ago, people are sometimes surprised to learn that my main problem with a lot of U.S. liberals and “progressives” isn’t that they’ve been overly attached to ...

Zmag Article Street: The Enemy at Home

Zmag Article, February, 26 2010 Paul Street
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Presidential speechifying and nationalistic nonsense

Znet Article Street: The Murder of Iraq: It Never Happened

Znet Article, February, 23 2010 Paul Street
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The doctrinal assumption that “we” (the United States) are inherently benevolent, noble, well-intentioned, helpful, and democratic in our foreign policies is ubiquitous in U.S. dominant media and indeed across the spectrum of respectable opinion i...

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