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Zmag Article Street: Corporate-Managed Democracy

Zmag Article, September, 01 2009 Paul Street
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Health reform prospects in the age of Obama

Znet Article Street: Employment-Based Health Care vs. Democracy: Hidden Dimensions of Business Rule

Znet Article, September, 01 2009 Paul Street
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It is characteristic of the narrow, business-dominated nature of the United States’ political culture that the current U.S. health reform debate includes no meaningful discussion of the critical roles the nation’s employment-based health insur...

Znet Article Street: A Silly Question: “Is Barack Obama a Progressive?”*

Znet Article, August, 28 2009 Paul Street
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Opening comments in a debate with John K. Wilson, a former Barack Obama student and author of the book President Barack Obama: A More Perfect Union (Paradigm, 2009) The debate, held by The Open Univesity of the Left in Chicago on Thursday, August ...

Znet Article Street: The Racist Red-Baiting of Obama is About More than Race Alone

Znet Article, August, 23 2009 Paul Street
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The persistent, deeply entrenched, and often all-too hidden power of racism in American life needs to be acknowledged and acted upon in progressive ways if the left is going to have any chance of successfully and desirably advancing democratic soc...

Znet Article Street: Frank Rich, Barack Obama, and the Corporatist "Punking" of America

Znet Article, August, 15 2009 Paul Street
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Let history record that on August 9, 2009 Sunday New York Times columnist Frank Rich toyed with acknowledging the manipulative, fake-progressive nature of Barack Obama and the broader corporate-managed "democracy" Obama epitomizes.

Znet Article Street: “In Cold Blood”

Znet Article, August, 06 2009 Paul Street
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The current recession does not weigh very heavily on Iowa City in Johnson County, Iowa. Iowa City was recently named a “top small metropolitan area” in three career-related areas by Forbes Magazine. It was No. 5 in “Best Places to Begin a ...

Znet Article Street: Skip Gates

Znet Article, July, 26 2009 Paul Street
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The black-bourgeois Harvard professor and Cambridge, Massachusetts resident Henry Louis “Skip” Gates (who is certainly far into the six figure salary stratosphere at the nation’s top university) is a curious martyr in the struggle against ra...

Znet Article Street: Walter Cronkite

Znet Article, July, 23 2009 Paul Street
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Walter Cronkite died one week ago at the age of 92. He was the nation’s leading news anchor in the 1960s and 1970s. Like millions of other Americans who grew up in those decades, my earliest political memories carry the sound and image of “Unc...

Znet Article Street: Worker Action in Not-So “Center-Right” America:

Znet Article, July, 13 2009 Paul Street
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I've never been comfortable with many pundits' tendency to describe the United States as a “center-right nation.”[1] This description is appropriate when it comes to the United States' business class, its dominant corporate media, its two reig...

Znet Article Street: Re-Imagining and Recovering Revolutionary Socialism

Znet Article, July, 12 2009 Paul Street
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Why re-imagine socialism? I can think of five reasons...

Znet Article Street: Honduras, Washington, and Liberal-Left Grasping at Straws

Znet Article, July, 06 2009 Paul Street
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So liberal-left Obama supporters think they’ve got something to crow about in regard to Honduras. As George Ciccareillo-Maher noted recently on Counterpunch.org:“Previously resigned Obamaphiles, desperate to grasp at any shred of proof suggest...

Znet Article Street: Imperial Culture and Moral Absurdity in the Age of Obama: From Teheran and Bala Boluk to New York, Bagua, and Tegucigalpa

Znet Article, July, 01 2009 Paul Street
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During a concert at Chicago’s United Center last May 12th, Bruce Springsteen observed that “sometimes it seems like the more things change the more they stay the same.” He was talking about the persistence and indeed the deepening of povert...

Znet Article Street: Niebuhr Lives, Civilians Die in the Age of Obama

Znet Article, June, 15 2009 Paul Street
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Ever since the beginning of his Barack Obama’s presidency I’ve been telling liberals and leftists why they should not be surprised at the new chief executive’s continuation and even expansion of various supreme United States policy evils.

Znet Article Street: Hope-Killers

Znet Article, June, 08 2009 Paul Street
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Review of Lance Selfa's The Democrats: A Critical History

Znet Article Street: The Dawning Age of Obama as a Potentially Teach-able Moment for The Left

Znet Article, May, 30 2009 Paul Street
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There has been a lot of left-wing teeth-gnashing over the policies of the United States' fake-progressive president Barack Obama. Left-progressives' anger with the Obama administration is understandable given the new White House's actions to (for ...

Znet Article Street: “America’s Soul”: A History Lesson for Paul Krugman

Znet Article, May, 07 2009 Paul Street
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Being seriosuly Left can make for some lonely wandering in the wilderness of dominant U.S. corporate media. It’s terrible, of course, to hear one right-wing talk radio or television host after another denounce some recent conservative White Hou...

Znet Article Street: The People’s Bailout: A May Day Speech*

Znet Article, May, 04 2009 Paul Street
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A speech delivered in downtown Iowa City on the evening of May First, 2009.

Zmag Article Street: Obama's Violin

Zmag Article, May, 01 2009 Paul Street
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Tamped down populist anger versus a new popular movement

Znet Article Street: Obama’s First Hundred Days: A Critical Assessment From the Left (A Speech)*

Znet Article, April, 30 2009 Paul Street
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A speech was given at a public forum anti war sponsored by AWARE, the local Anti War Anti Racism Effort in Urbana, Illinois on the evening of April 30, 2009 at the Urbana City Council Chambers.

Znet Article Street: No Left Excuses for Obama

Znet Article, April, 27 2009 Paul Street
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Thanks to a book I did on the Barack Obama phenomenon last year, people have been writing me to ask for an assessment of the Obama White House's “first 100 days.”

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