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Goodman: Don't Cage Dissent
Znet Article, August, 15 2008
Amy Goodman
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The bulwark against tyranny is dissent. Open opposition, the right to challenge those in power, is a mainstay of any healthy democracy. The Democratic and Republican conventions will test the commitment of the two dominant U.S. political parties t...
Street: Brave New America: On Corporate Totalitarianism, Electoralist Passivity, and Inauthentic Opposition
Znet Article, August, 14 2008
Paul Street
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My forthcoming book “Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics” (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, August 2008) exposes Barack Obama as a conservative, corporate, militarist Democrat posing as a democratic progressive. It provides a detaile...
Halimi: Obama
Znet Article, August, 14 2008
Serge Halimi
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Barack Obama is a lucky man: young, of mixed race, thought likely to make it to the White House, to succeed one of the most unpopular presidents in US history. He appears better equipped than anyone else to "renew American leadership in the world"...
Abu-jamal: Beyond Politics
Commentary, August, 10 2008
Mumia Abu-jamal
Abu-jamal's ZSpace page
If TV channels are any measure, the U.S. presidential elections, now less than 4 months away, are the permanent stuff of headlines...
Baker: The Compromise "Drill Anywhere" Plan
Znet Article, August, 05 2008
Dean Baker
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Senator McCain and the Republicans in Congress are calling Senator Obama and the Democrats environmental wimps for refusing to allow the oil industry to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, environmentally sensitive offshore areas and any...
Fisk: New actor on the same old stage
Znet Article, August, 03 2008
Robert Fisk
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If Obama is elected he will be enmeshed in the Middle East tragedy and forced to take sides...
Solomon: Democratic Platform Option: "Guaranteed Health Care for All"
Commentary, August, 02 2008
Norman Solomon
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In the presidential race, with "health care" a frequent topic, John McCain offers more capitulation to the insurance industry. Speaking in the usual GOP terms, he calls for "ridding the market of both needless and costly regulations." Under his pl...
Street: Letters of No Apology
Znet Article, August, 01 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Recently Obama was asked by CNN’s Candy Crowley if “there's anything that's happened in the past 7 1/2 years that the U.S. needs to apologize for in terms of foreign policy?” Obama responded by saying, “No, I don’t believe in the U.S. apologizing....
Street: Ryan Lizza’s “Left” and the Narrow Spectrum of U.S. Political Culture
Commentary, July, 30 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
You know you are living in a totalitarian political culture when a respected mainstream journalist at the center of that culture tells you that a politician whose consistent career theme is personal accommodation to existing power relationships is...
Street: Obama Does Berlin
Znet Article, July, 28 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Reflecting the increasing Americanization of their continent’s politics [1], “progressive” European commentators and politicos have been gushing over U.S. Senator Obama’s (D-IL) speech before 200,000 people in Berlin. Never mind that the speech c...
Meister: Labor's Foot Soldiers
Znet Article, July, 26 2008
Dick Meister
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Organized labor is making certain Barack Obama and other Democratic candidates will have plenty of foot soldiers to help them round up votes on this year's campaign trails.
Pilger: Obama, The Prince Of Bait-And-Switch
Commentary, July, 24 2008
John Pilger
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On 12 July, the London Times devoted two pages to Afghanistan. It was mostly a complaint about the heat. The reporter, Magnus Linklater, described in detail his discomfort and how he had needed to be sprayed with iced water. He also described the ...
Street: From JFK to Obama: Shared Service to “the Triple Evils That Are Interrelated”
Znet Article, July, 23 2008
Paul Street
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In completing a recent book on the Barack Obama phenomenon, I found much to dispute in the Obama campaign’s description and marketing of the junior U.S. Senator from Illinois. Among the more dubious aspects of his biography and “branding” that I c...
Street: Statehouse Days: The Myth of Barack Obama’s “True Progressive” Past
Znet Article, July, 19 2008
Paul Street
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The extent to which many “liberal left” Democrats and hard-right Republicans will go to convince themselves and/or others that Barack Obama is really a left progressive is quite remarkable. “Oh sure,” they say when you point out that Obama is a co...
Zinn: Memo to Obama, McCain: No one wins in a war
Commentary, July, 19 2008
Howard Zinn
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For someone like myself, who fought in World War II, and since then has protested against war, I must ask: Have our political leaders gone mad? Have they learned nothing from recent history? Have they not learned that no one "wins" in a war, but t...
Baker: Drilling Without Oil, Tax Cuts Without Growth
Znet Article, July, 16 2008
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
McCain proposed offshore drilling in environmentally sensitive areas, attempting to show he cares about lowering gas prices for everyday Americans. Despite the inability of this drilling to lower gas prices anytime soon, the media picked up on his...
Street: Because He’s Black: Race, the Ruling Class, the Left, and Obama
Znet Article, July, 16 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Recently I had a conversation with a Left friend who agrees with me that the Democratic Party’s ever-more right-leaning presidential nominee Barack Obama is a corporate-sponsored militarist who can be expected to betray his best peaceful- and popu...
Hayden: Afghanistan, Pakistan & Obama
Znet Article, July, 16 2008
Tom Hayden
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Barack Obama restated his Iraq phased withdrawal play in response to public questioning today but committed himself to expanding the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Street: Barack Obama's Deceptive Left Impression
Commentary, July, 15 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
The deception conducted by political "elites" is about more than specific factual lies. It is also and perhaps more significantly about the creation of a sense, a feeling, an impression, an atmosphere, and/or even a mood.
Lendman: McCain's Nomination - A Possible September Surprise?
Znet Article, July, 14 2008
Stephen Lendman
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Party conventions are less than two months off, and already rumors are circulating. When the Democrats hold theirs from August 25 - 28, Obama is the virtually sure nominee. According to some, however, things aren't settled for Republicans a week l...
