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Znet Article 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...

Commentary 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...

Znet Article Baker: Drilling Without Oil, Tax Cuts Without Growth

Znet Article, July, 16 2008 Dean Baker
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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...

Znet Article Street: Because He’s Black: Race, the Ruling Class, the Left, and Obama

Znet Article, July, 16 2008 Paul Street
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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...

Znet Article 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.

Commentary Street: Barack Obama's Deceptive Left Impression

Commentary, July, 15 2008 Paul Street
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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.

Znet Article 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...

Commentary Solomon: Obama and the Progressive Base

Commentary, July, 12 2008 Norman Solomon
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A reasonably evenhanded biography of Barack Obama, published last year, describes him as "an exceptionally gifted politician who, throughout his life, has been able to make people of wildly divergent vantage points see in him exactly what they wan...

Znet Article Palast: The House I Live In

Znet Article, July, 08 2008 Greg Palast
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John Kennedy said we are "a nation of immigrants." That’s the sanitized phrase. We are, in fact, a nation of refugees, who, despite the bastards in white sheets and the know-nothings in Congress, have held open the Golden Door to a dark planet. We...

Znet Article Hayden: No Retreat: If you Want to Win, Stop the War! Barack at Risk

Znet Article, July, 06 2008 Tom Hayden
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Call him slippery or nuanced, Barack Obama’s core position on Iraq has always been more ambiguous than audacious. Now it is catching up with him as his latest remarks are questioned by the Republicans, the mainstream media, and the antiwar movemen...

Znet Article Street: The Audacity of Imperial Airbrushing: Barack Obama’s Whitewashed History of U.S. Foreign Policy and Why it Matters

Znet Article, July, 05 2008 Paul Street
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Under the rules of “mainstream” political discourse in the United States, crimes are committed by evil others, never by noble “America.” Bad things are done by “them,” but not by “us.” “They” often have malevolent intent but “we” are fundamental...

Znet Article Baker: Barack Care Versus John Care: Health Care Under the Next President

Znet Article, June, 30 2008 Dean Baker
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By far the most important domestic policy issue facing the next president will be fixing the health care system. The United States stands out among wealthy countries in not guaranteeing health insurance to its citizens.

Znet Article Street: Obama “Shift to the Center” and the Narrow Authoritarian Spectrum in U.S. Politics

Znet Article, June, 30 2008 Paul Street
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The pronounced rightward drift of the American “mainstream” political and ideological spectrum is on vivid display as we begin to approach the climax of the latest corporate-crafted quadrennial presidential election extravaganza.

Znet Article Baker: John McCain Wants to Drill in Your Toilet

Znet Article, June, 24 2008 Dean Baker
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That is not true, as far I know, but it makes about as much sense as McCain's plans to drill off the coast of Florida and in other environmentally sensitive areas. This is McCain's response to the pain of millions of families hit by $4 a gallon of...

Graphic Palast: Vote Theft for Idiots. Part 1

Graphic, June, 24 2008 Greg Palast
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Are they going to Steal 2008?

Znet Article Street: News Flash: Obama Lies

Znet Article, June, 21 2008 Paul Street
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Just the other day Obama coldly contradicted his earlier promise to go with money from the U.S. presidential public financing system and to accept accompanying spending limits if his Republican opponent did the same. He admitted that he will rely ...

Znet Article Scipes: The Green Party: An Electoral Force to be Reckoned With?

Znet Article, June, 21 2008 Kim Scipes
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Last year, I published a couple of articles on the Greens that appeared on Z Net: “Wo sind de Gruenen?”, asking where are the Greens, and then “The Green Party: Critique, Response and the Illinois Greens October 2007 Membership Meeting”. I want ...

Znet Article Milstein: Hope in a Time of Elections:

Znet Article, June, 20 2008 Cindy Milstein
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As libertarian leftists, we view presidential contests as egregious reaffirmations of the state, and thus challenge electoralism’s connection to statecraft but also hierarchy. Yet often the best we can muster is an anti-politics, where our organiz...

Commentary Glick: No Easy Victories

Commentary, June, 20 2008 Ted Glick
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It is a basic tenet of successful organizing that you need to win victories in order to hold the allegiance of a critical mass of supporters and keep your organization together. But it is also true, as African revolutionary Amilcar Cabral said, th...

Znet Article Klein: Obama’s Chicago Boys

Znet Article, June, 16 2008 Naomi Klein
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Barack Obama waited just three days after Hillary Clinton pulled out of the race to declare, on CNBC, “Look. I am a pro-growth, free-market guy. I love the market.”

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