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Znet Article Street: “More of the Same” at the New York Times

Znet Article, April, 09 2009 Paul Street
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The New York Times should take a look in the national and institutional mirror before it charges foreign governments or anyone else with confusing “change” with “more of the same.”

Znet Article Street: Obama Does Strasbourg

Znet Article, April, 07 2009 Paul Street
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Obama’s trip to Europe was about winning top-down assent to U.S.-mandated top-down pseudo-fixes. It was about “managing” widespread European “anger” over the fact that U.S. financial mismanagement and militarism have run the world into ...

Znet Article Street: Reflections on a Largely Forgotten Book: Herbert Schiller's The Mind Managers (1973)

Znet Article, April, 04 2009 Paul Street
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Reflections on a largely forgotten book...

Znet Article Street: Cowardice Pays: Reflections on Academic Abdication and a Paul Krugman Lecture in Iowa City

Znet Article, April, 01 2009 Paul Street
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Recently I heard the renowned liberal Princeton economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman speak before a packed crowd loaded with liberal-Democratic professors in a classic old college auditorium at the University of Iowa (UI). Just hal...

Znet Article Street: Flim-Flam Obama Man: The “New Democrat[ic]” President’s Wall Street Loyalties Get Clearer Every Day

Znet Article, March, 26 2009 Paul Street
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Many on what passes for a left in the United States have been led to believe that Barack Obama is a “Mr. Smith-goes- to-Washington” character eager and ready to struggle against entrenched corporate and financial interests.

Znet Article Street: Obama and the Left, Such As it Is*

Znet Article, March, 20 2009 Paul Street
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Remarks at “The Left and Obama” Panel, February 28, 2009...

Znet Article Street: “Obamanots”: People Who Care What David Brooks Thinks

Znet Article, March, 10 2009 Paul Street
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We got a small but good example of what the new presidential administration is really all about on the Op-Ed page of last Friday’s New York Times. On the left-hand side of that page, conservative Times columnist David Brooks reported that a rec...

Znet Article Street: Why Did Newsweek Say “We are All Socialists Now?”

Znet Article, March, 04 2009 Paul Street
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Two weeks ago, in what struck me as a remarkable development, the leading corporate weekly U.S. magazine Newsweek published a cover story titled “We are All Socialists Now.”

Znet Article Street: Obama’s Violin: Calibrating Hope Since the Election

Znet Article, February, 26 2009 Paul Street
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This article reviews Barack Obama’s record since the day of his election. That record, we shall see, is deeply consistent with his record-setting corporate election funding, including more than $900,000 from Goldman Sachs and $37.5 million from...

Znet Article Street: No, We Can’t All Get Along: On Lincoln, Obama, and Dysfunctional Conflict Avoidance

Znet Article, February, 17 2009 Paul Street
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Now would be a good time to read or re-read Abraham Lincoln’s justly famous Second Inaugural Address (1864). Coming off “President’s Day” (combining the Lincoln and George Washington birthdays), we have recently marked the 200th birthday (...

Znet Article Street: Wall Street Welfare

Znet Article, February, 11 2009 Paul Street
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According to the New York Times, Obama's corporate-Democratic Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner' bailout plan reflected a triumph for unfettered capitalist prerogatives inside the new White House.

Znet Article Street: The Resistance Gap: On Media, Time, and the Curious Absence of Riots

Znet Article, February, 09 2009 Paul Street
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Like many left and liberal writers and activists, I often cite polling data showing that majority U.S. public opinion on numerous key policy issues is well to the left of actual (not-so public) U.S. policy and the nation’s two dominant business ...

Znet Article Street: Authoritarian Capitalism and Economic Crisis in the Age of HOPE

Znet Article, January, 30 2009 Paul Street
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Beneath the drama over how to make the U.S. economy “work again,” we hear nothing in the dominant corporate-mediated political discourse about the state-capitalist authoritarianism that is on sharper-than-usual display (for those willing to lo...

Znet Article Street: "We Will NOT Apologize for Our Way of Life"

Znet Article, January, 23 2009 Paul Street
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The Obama administration makes a very big point of claiming to be above and beyond "ideology." It's all about the "pragmatic" goal of "getting things done" with no particular "ideological" axe to grind.

Znet Article Street: How Obama Happened: The Real Story

Znet Article, January, 20 2009 Paul Street
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With the historic inauguration of Barack Obama, the question of how Obama happened merits critical reflection. The explanation advanced by his campaign, the incoming White House public relations team, and, for the most part, dominant U.S. media h...

Znet Article Street: "Skin in the Game": Inequality, Sacrifice, Obama, and the Fate of the Earth

Znet Article, January, 16 2009 Paul Street
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Last Sunday on ABC's "This Week," Barack Obama agreed with George Stephanopolous that his presidency's economic agenda will present the American people with a "grand bargain" in which "everybody in this country is going to have to sacrifice someth...

Znet Article Street: Equanimity, Power, Gaza, and The New York Times

Znet Article, January, 10 2009 Paul Street
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A picture, the saying goes, is worth a thousand words. On the front page of last Tuesday’s New York Times, you can see United State House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi sitting with a giant grin between a smiling President-Elect and the...

Zmag Article Street: There is No Peace Dividend

Zmag Article, January, 07 2009 Paul Street
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The likely continuation of empire and inequality under "Brand Obama."

Znet Article Street: The Janus-Faced* Obama Phenomenon

Znet Article, January, 07 2009 Paul Street
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As Barack Obama’s historic inauguration approaches, many progressives are reflecting on the possibilities and perils of the next American administration as viewed from the Left.

Znet Article Street: Arne Duncan and Neoliberal Racism:

Znet Article, December, 24 2008 Paul Street
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Educational justice advocates are understandably displeased with President Elect Obama’s appointment of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Arne Duncan to the position of Education Secretary in the next White House.

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