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Street: "Systemic Rather Than Superficial Flaws": Reflections on Candidate-Centered Elections and U.S. Political Culture
Commentary, June, 07 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
I put the best book of the last few years down for a moment and turned on the television last night (I am writing on the morning of Wednesday, June 4th, 2008). It was Barack Obama, who has become something like Ronald Reagan (whom the conservative...
Fletcher jr.: Obama and the Essence of Critical Support
Znet Article, June, 06 2008
Bill Fletcher jr.
Fletcher jr.'s ZSpace page
So, I watched Senator Obama's speech Tuesday night and thought to myself how, despite every reservation I have had about Senator Obama's politics, I was moved by the moment. Deep inside me I had always expected that a conservative Black candidate ...
Lendman: Choice in November - Nader v. Twiddle Dee or Twiddle Dum
Znet Article, June, 04 2008
Stephen Lendman
Lendman's ZSpace page
Each election cycle, hope springs eternal. Candidates promise change and voters buy it. Intelligent ones. People who know better or should. The current campaign highlights it. A surge is building for Obama, not for what he is. For what people thin...
Herman: Triumph of Lunacy
Zmag Article, June, 02 2008
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
The public in the United States doesn’t like what is going on and fully 81 percent feel that the country is moving in the wrong direction. But there doesn’t seem to be much the public can do about it.
Sargent: If the Left Debated the Campaign Issues
Zmag Article, June, 02 2008
Lydia Sargent
Sargent's ZSpace page
Sargent interviews Albert on economic issues in this election campaign. Part of a series.
Pilger: From Kennedy To Obama; Liberalism's Last Fling
Commentary, June, 01 2008
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
In this season of 1968 nostalgia, one anniversary illuminates today. It is the rise and fall of Robert Kennedy, who would have been elected president of the United States had he not been assassinated in June 1968. Having travelled with Kennedy up ...
Goodman: Presidential Race Ignores Arms Race
Znet Article, May, 25 2008
Amy Goodman
Goodman's ZSpace page
As the U.S. presidential race continues, so does the arms race worldwide. People — civilians, children — are being killed and maimed, on a daily basis, by unexploded cluster bombs and land mines. Thousands of nuclear missiles remain at hair-trigge...
Cohn: Hillary Invokes Assassination
Znet Article, May, 25 2008
Marjorie Cohn
Cohn's ZSpace page
For weeks, pundits have speculated about why Hillary Clinton insists on remaining in the primary race when Barack Obama has all but clinched the Democratic presidential nomination. On Friday, Clinton answered that question. It appears she's waitin...
Meister: Labor's Critical Election Role
Znet Article, May, 24 2008
Dick Meister
Meister's ZSpace page
You might think Kucinich's advice is unnecessary since, like virtually all Republicans, McCain has never been a friend of labor - and his policies as president would most certainly not be pro-labor. They'd most likely be as anti-labor as the polic...
Palast: Obama's Secret War Profiteering Tax
Znet Article, May, 23 2008
Greg Palast
Palast's ZSpace page
In a hotel room in Brussels, the chief executives of the world’s top oil companies unrolled a huge map of the Middle East, drew a fat, red line around Iraq and signed their names to it...
Prashad: The Revelation of Bill Clinton
Commentary, May, 22 2008
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
When Bill Clinton ran for the White House in 1992, I was deeply annoyed. He represented so much that we, on the left, despised: the reaction within the ranks of the Democratic Party's elite that wanted to "save" the party from what it saw as the e...
Hayden: Z-Net Interview with Tom Hayden on the publication of Writings for Democratic Society
Znet Article, May, 21 2008
Tom Hayden
Hayden's ZSpace page
New book interview...
Nader: A Trip Inside Google
Znet Article, May, 20 2008
Ralph Nader
Nader's ZSpace page
An invitation to visit Google’s headquarters and meet some of the people who made this ten year old giant that is giving Microsoft the nervies has to start with wonder.
Landau: The NATO Axiom: 2 + 2 = 5
Znet Article, May, 18 2008
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
One of many relevant questions the ABC moderators neglected to ask Hillary and Obama in the mid April televised debate: Why does NATO continue to exist after the Soviet Union collapsed? Indeed, the entire media accepts NATO as one of the several m...
Kolhatkar: Progressives Are Making a Mistake Lining Up Behind Obama
Znet Article, May, 17 2008
Sonali Kolhatkar
Kolhatkar's ZSpace page
Today Matt Gonzalez is running on an independent ticket alongside Ralph Nader for the Vice Presidency of the US. Sonali Kolhatkar, host of Uprising, interviewed Gonzalez on May 9th in advance of a West Coast City tour with Nader.
Street: The Nation’s Leading Moral Issues: Empire and Inequality
Znet Article, May, 17 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
The closer we get to the general United States presidential election, the more we can expect to hear about “moral issues” and the role they play alongside and/or against “economic” (or “pocketbook), “national security” (foreign policy) and/or iden...
Street: Americans' Progressive Opinion vs. "The Shadow Cast on Society By Big Business"
Commentary, May, 15 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Barack Obama and John McCain are preparing to wage a hotly contested battle in which neither heavily business-sponsored presidential candidate will question the underlying fundamentals of corporate-neoliberal rule and United States world-supremaci...
Schechter: Is Who Becomes the Next President All That Matters?
Znet Article, May, 14 2008
Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page
In this new world, if we want others to do our bidding, we can't threaten to obliterate them or strut around like Mighty Mouse when so many in the world see us as the Mouse that Roared.
Fletcher jr.: Rev. 'Icarus', The Obama Campaign, & The Left
Commentary, May, 13 2008
Bill Fletcher jr.
Fletcher jr.'s ZSpace page
The Greek myth is both simple and compelling. Daedalus, imprisoned on the island of Crete with his son (Icarus), fashioned wings made of feathers and wax in order for the two of them to fly to freedom. Daedalus warned Icarus, however, not to fly t...
Baker: Universal Health Care or John Care
Znet Article, May, 12 2008
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
With the Democratic presidential race winding down, the presidential campaign can again focus on the real issues facing the country. At the top of the list, alongside ending the Iraq War, is providing universal health care.
