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Jamail: Mccain, Obama And Clinton Silent On Iraq Exit

Znet Article, May, 06 2008 Dahr Jamail
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As soon as it was clear that the presidential primaries would be the news story of the year in the US, Iraq was dropped by the media. The occupation and the campaign for the presidential nominations were de-linked almost from the start. So we don'...

Glick: Obama and Wright: Different Worldviews

Commentary, May, 05 2008 Ted Glick
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Jeremiah Wright summarized the difference between him and Obama in his interviews last weekend as, "I do what pastors do. He does what politicians do. I am not running for office."

Sargent: If the Left Debated the Campaign Issues

Zmag Article, May, 01 2008 Lydia Sargent
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Sargent interviews Albert on the foreign policy issues in this election campaign. Part of a series.

Street: The Pastor v. the Politician

Znet Article, April, 30 2008 Paul Street
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I’ve been talking to some white people who are shocked and appalled that their nice white-soothing Barack Obama and big bad white-scaring Reverend Jeremiah Wright could ever have been close to one another.

Jensen: The Sorrows of Race and Gender in the 2008 Presidential Election

Commentary, April, 28 2008 Robert Jensen
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It may seem odd to talk of sorrows around race and gender in politics when we are a few months away from being able to vote for a white woman or a black man for president of the United States. When I was born in 1958, any suggestion that such an e...

Street: Leading Democrats: “Expropriate the Expropriators”

Znet Article, April, 27 2008 Paul Street
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Tired of defending their business-friendly and state-capitalist policy proposals against Republicans’ insistent description of them as weapons of radical Leftist “class warfare,” the leading Democratic candidates for the United States presidency h...

Bogado: Don't Believe the Hype (Ron Paul is Not Your Savior)

Znet Article, April, 27 2008 Aura Bogado
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Congressman and presidential hopeful Ron Paul has always opposed the Iraq war, and that's really, really great. I'm happy for him. The right wing ideologue actually gets the war, the CIA's practice of so-called extraordinary rendition and Guantana...

Hayden: An Appeal to Barack Obama

Znet Article, April, 27 2008 Tom Hayden
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Barack, I thought Hillary Clinton was known as the Great Triangulator, but you are learning well. The problem with setting up false polarities to position yourself in the “center”, however, is that it’s unproductive both politically and intellect...

Street: Establishment Politics in “Rebel’s Clothing:” Corporate Power, Populist Pandering, and the Ironies of Identity in the Democratic Presidential Race

Znet Article, April, 26 2008 Paul Street
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John Edwards’ “left-leaning” (Nagourney 2007) attempt to run for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in the name of ordinary working people and against corporate rule and “the privileged few” faces three interrelated obstacles. His fi...

Solomon: Party Like It’s 1932: The Obama Option

Znet Article, April, 24 2008 Norman Solomon
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Seventy-six years ago, to many ears on the left, Franklin D. Roosevelt sounded way too much like a centrist. True, he was eloquent, and he’d generated enthusiasm in a Democratic base eager to evict Republicans from the White House. But his campaig...

Street: Race and Class in the Democratic Primaries

Znet Article, April, 24 2008 Paul Street
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Race matters a great deal in the United States, but its workings are intricately tied up with class...

Street: Democrats See Progress in Iraq: Reflections on Moral Failure and Progressive Naiveté

Znet Article, April, 24 2008 Paul Street
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Recently I was speaking to a liberal Iowan peace and justice advocate who told me she was “disappointed” and “surprised” by the leading Democratic presidential candidates. The source of her dismay was a front-page New York Times article showing t...

Street: "No Refuge But in Audacity”: Barack Obama and the Democratic Party’s Holocaust Denial

Znet Article, April, 22 2008 Paul Street
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In February of 2008, Barack Obama received some interesting commentary from a curious source: David Duke...

Fletcher jr.: Doing Elections

Znet Article, April, 21 2008 Bill Fletcher jr.
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Some recent controversy in connection with the statement on the US Presidential elections by Jamala Rogers posted on the FRSO website, along with a odd exchange that accompanied a piece that I wrote at The Black Commentator on the now-halted John ...

Davidson: Bitterness, Hope And Obama In Western PA

Znet Article, April, 16 2008 Carl Davidson
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I'm born and bred in Beaver County, Western PA, which, in 1960, was the most blue-collar county in the entire country - steel, strip mines, and everything related to both...

Marable: African-American Peacemakers - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, and the Struggle Against Racism, Inequality and War

Znet Article, April, 13 2008 Manning Marable
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Obama's immediate challenge is to link the current economic and mortgage crisis being experienced by millions of Americans, with the political economy of the Iraq War.

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