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Street: Colonial War Media: Reflections on a Recent Issue of the New York Times
Znet Article, February, 20 2010
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Yes, the colonials are coming at “our” brave young troops with live ammunition. What next? I wonder if Chivers and his editors ever heard the following bit from the admittedly arch-cynical comedian George Carlin’s 2005 “Life is Worth Losing” show:...
Street: Obama & American Politics
Znet Article, February, 02 2010
Paul Street
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Interview for New Left Project...
Street: What’s the Matter With the Democrats? Post-Massachusetts Reflections on Popular Resentment, the Liberal-Left Vacuum, and Right Comeback
Znet Article, January, 24 2010
Paul Street
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The e-mails are coming in from frightened Europeans. They are shocked by the previously unknown right-wing Republican state senator Scott Brown’s stunning victory over the establishment Democrat Marcia Coakley in the open seat election for the ...
Street: Haiti, "Classquakes," and American Empire
Znet Article, January, 15 2010
Paul Street
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The earthquake catastrophe in Haiti is being portrayed on the national and local evening news as a natural disaster that has elicited a virtuous humanitarian response from the inherently noble and benevolent United States.
Street: Killer Obama, Dr. King, and the Triple Evils
Znet Article, January, 14 2010
Paul Street
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Last December 17, eight days before Yemen resident Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to blast Northwest Flight 253 out of the sky on the way to Detroit, Yemen opposition forces testified that many dozens of civilians, including a large number of chi...
Street: On Realism and Revolution
Znet Article, January, 04 2010
Paul Street
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In the spring of 1967, after he went public with his principled opposition to the Vietnam War, Martin Luther King, Jr. was approached by liberal and left politicos to consider running for the U.S. presidency. King turned the activists down, saying...
Street: Safe Haven (and Other) Myths in Obama’s Terror War: Reflections in the Wake of Flight 253
Znet Article, December, 30 2009
Paul Street
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It is important that the nearly successful terrorist attempt on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day appears to have been planned in Yemen and that the attempted suicide bomber began his journey to the United States in Amsterdam.
Street: The (Fading) Call of Obama
Znet Article, December, 22 2009
Paul Street
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Now that Barack Obama is being exposed like never before as a tool and agent of concentrated wealth, business class rule, and militarism, 2009 is ending on a distinct note of liberal disenchantment. His "progressive base" is restive over his actio...
Street: “You Can’t Be Presidentâ€: Race, Class, and Memories of Obama
Znet Article, December, 17 2009
Paul Street
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As we hurtle towards the first anniversary of the new corporate war president Barack Obama’s inauguration, journalists and commentators will advance recollections of – and retrospective reflections on – the ascendancy and early days of the U...
Street: Blood on the Nobel
Znet Article, December, 14 2009
Paul Street
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Does Obama deserve his Nobel? Let's admit from the start that the prize has long been a less-than- perfect measure of its recipients' actual commitment to peace. Alfred Nobel, it is worth recalling, was a leading armaments manufacturer. He was t...
Street: To Save the Capitalist System
Zmag Article, December, 05 2009
Paul Street
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Orin Kramer defines Obama's duty to America
Street: Life is Simple in a Fake Democracy
Znet Article, November, 29 2009
Paul Street
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“Life isn’t simple,†says the voice of David Brancaccio in the advertisement for the United States’ “Public Broadcasting System’s†(PBS’) popular “Frontline†series. “Not in a democracy.â€
Street: Obama, As Predicted
Znet Article, November, 21 2009
Paul Street
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In late December of 2006, a young progressive Democrat and recent college graduate stated to me his intention of seeking employment with one of the Democratic presidential campaigns that would soon be setting up shop in Iowa. My initial response w...
Street: Perverted Priorities: One Year Later
Znet Article, November, 04 2009
Paul Street
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One year after President Barack Obama’s historic election in the name of “change†and “hope,†Gallup and USA Today report that the U.S. citizenry’s initially high expectations of the Obama presidency have fallen along with the presiden...
Street: Obama Q & A
Znet Article, October, 22 2009
Paul Street
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Dissident U.S. author Paul Street was interviewed by Brazilian journalist Leonardo Sequeira via e-mail between 10 AM and 12 PM on September 18, 2009. The interview took place before: the awarding of the Olympics to Rio/Brazil (not Chicago/US), th...
Street: The Nobel Gift: A Quick Note
Znet Article, October, 10 2009
Paul Street
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It is said that the Norwegians wanted to send a message against the unilateral American imperialism and militarism epitomized by the Cheney-Bush years and to encourage less brazenly hubristic, world-hegemony-oriented behavior on the part of the U....
Street: Michael Moore and Barack Obama: A Love Story
Znet Article, October, 08 2009
Paul Street
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If you liked Michael Moore's latest movie, “Capitalism: a Love Story†(I did) and are long past being fed up with Barack Obama's deep allegiance and service to his corporate paymasters (I am), then this essay might be for you. I start with som...
Street: Ringmaster
Audio, September, 19 2009
Paul Street
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An interview with Paul Street, one of Mr. Obama's earliest critics from the left, who had the opportunity back in Chicago to see him in action. Total runtime an hour and one minute.
Street: “They Employ a Lot of Our Friends:†Left Reflections on Obama’s Corporatist Health Care Speech
Znet Article, September, 11 2009
Paul Street
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With Barack Obama as with Bill Clinton, you must always distinguish between progressive style and corporate-regime substance. Obama is a master when it comes to embodying what the formerly left Christopher Hitchens once (in a book about the Clint...
Street: “That’s Politicsâ€: Reflections on The Election Trap, Grassroots Activism, Presidential Narcissism, and Health Reform in the Age of Obama
Znet Article, September, 08 2009
Paul Street
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Three weeks ago, The New York Times ran a front-page story on the difficulty that the Obama White House was experiencing in getting its supporters to fight for the president’s “embattled health care plan†with anything like the passion and n...
