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Hayden: The Problem Is Empire
Znet Article, September, 03 2008
Tom Hayden
Hayden's ZSpace page
Let me tell you some of my story and lessons I have learned over these past five decades. I have always tried to improve my country, always trying from the places around me...
Cohn: Preemptive Strikes Against Protest at RNC
Commentary, September, 03 2008
Marjorie Cohn
Cohn's ZSpace page
In the months leading up to the Republican National Convention, the FBI-led Minneapolis Joint Terrorist Task Force actively recruited people to infiltrate vegan groups and other leftist organizations and report back about their activities. On May...
Street: ZNet Book Interview: Demystifying Obama
Znet Article, September, 02 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
The book is an attempt to demystify Barack Obama and understand his emergence and candidacy in the context of U.S. political culture and history. Everybody knows that the rise of Obama is loaded with relevance for American social and political hi...
Goodman: Amy Goodman & Two Democracy Now! Producers Arrested at RNC Protest
Znet Article, September, 02 2008
Amy Goodman
Goodman's ZSpace page
More than 280 people were arrested here in St. Paul on Monday, the opening day of the Republican National Convention. Among them were several journalists covering the protests in the streets, including three of us at Democracy Now! I was detained ...
Goodman: Amy Goodman and Two Democracy Now! Producers Unlawfully Arrested At the RNC
Video, September, 02 2008
Amy Goodman
Goodman's ZSpace page
Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar Released After Illegal Arrest at RNC...
Street: The Empire's New Clothes
Book, September, 01 2008
Many Americans believe Barack Obama represents a hopeful future for America. But does he also reflect the American politics of the past? This book offers the broadest and best-informed understanding on the meaning of the “Obama phenomenon” to date.
Herman: The Law of the Conservation of Violence
Zmag Article, September, 01 2008
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
Edward S. Herman on a militarized America.
Fletcher jr.: A Candidate for Change, but not a Candidate of a Social Movement
Commentary, August, 31 2008
Bill Fletcher jr.
Fletcher jr.'s ZSpace page
Probably like many of you, I have found myself reflecting on Senator Obama's choice of Senator Joseph Biden as his Vice Presidential running mate. From the standpoint of campaign strategy, I must say that it was a brilliant decision. Obama, sensin...
Street: Things Not Heard in Obama’s Acceptance Speech
Znet Article, August, 30 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Barack Obama’s grandiose oration before 84,000 listeners at the Democratic National Convention in Denver last Thursday night was a masterpiece in the combined arts of mass propaganda and managed democracy...
Raina: The US Presidential Elections
Znet Article, August, 30 2008
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
First the question: does it matter much whether America elects a Republican or a Democrat as its President? May be not to the rest of the world, but to American citizens it does.
Dangl: Beyond Voting: Guerrilla Gardeners, Outlaw Bicyclists & Pirate Programmers
Znet Article, August, 27 2008
Ben Dangl
Dangl's ZSpace page
This US election year an unprecedented number of voters will likely head to the polls to cast their ballots in an exercise that should take just a few minutes to complete. But what about the rest of the minutes left in the year? Author and activis...
Meister: It's Labor's Day For Great Expectations
Znet Article, August, 25 2008
Dick Meister
Meister's ZSpace page
American unions are celebrating Labor Day this year with greater expectations for a resurgence than they've had in many years, thanks to their political allies.
Glick: Two-Party Conventions and Social Change
Commentary, August, 25 2008
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
The first Democratic or Republican Convention I went to as an outside protester was the 1972 Republican Convention in Miami, Florida. This was where Richard Nixon was nominated for what turned out to be a much-shortened time in office due to his r...
Street: The Madness of Jerome Corsi
Znet Article, August, 24 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
To fully understand right-wing hatchet man Jerome R. Corsi’s new neo-McCarthyite book “The Obama Nation” (New York: Threshold, 2008), you have to differentiate between the accurate, the wacky, and the vile in his presentation.
Solomon: Progressives and Obama: The Clash of Narratives
Commentary, August, 23 2008
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
By now, across the progressive spectrum, some familiar storylines tell us the meaning of the Obama campaign. In a groove, each narrative digs its truths. But whether those particular truths are the most important at this historical moment is anoth...
Hayden: Obama: Transformational President or Another Disappointment?
Znet Article, August, 21 2008
Tom Hayden
Hayden's ZSpace page
'Whether he wins or loses, the vast movement inspired by Obama will become the next generation of American social activists'
Glick: Is Obama's Energy Plan Change We Can Believe In?
Commentary, August, 20 2008
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
On August 4th the Barack Obama Presidential campaign released a comprehensive program for reform of the U.S. energy system. In the words of Obama supporter and climate blogger and author Joe Romm, it was "easily the best energy plan ever put forwa...
Weisbrot: Should Obama, If Elected, Make a Clean Break With Bush's Latin America Policy?
Znet Article, August, 19 2008
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
In the last decade political change has swept across most of Latin America. Much of the region - including the majority of South America - is now run by left governments. These governments have also become much more independent of the United State...
Hayden: The Defunding of the Peace Movement
Znet Article, August, 17 2008
Tom Hayden
Hayden's ZSpace page
Last December I wrote an optimistic cover story for The Nation predicting that "peace advocates will likely have the best funded antiwar message in history" during the coming election year, as "tens of millions of dollars will be raised for voter ...
Street: If Obama Loses
Znet Article, August, 17 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
I have no idea what’s going to happen in November. This presidential election is even more difficult to call than the last two, thanks in part to race.
