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Bennis: Pressing Obama On The War: An Exchange
Znet Article, April, 03 2008
Phyllis Bennis
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This is an incredibly important and powerful call. I write as an individual, without connection to IPS or any organization...
Henwood: Would You Like Change With That?
Znet Article, April, 03 2008
Doug Henwood
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In this binary world, when you criticize Obama, people immediately include you're a Hillary Clinton fan. Uh, no...
Sargent: Serving the Dominant Elites
Zmag Article, April, 02 2008
Lydia Sargent
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In January 2008 I interviewed Michael Albert on the presidential elections and how a left candidate might present an alternative analysis and program.
Sargent: We'd Like a Woman President But...
Zmag Article, April, 02 2008
Lydia Sargent
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As women, no matter what we pursue, we always get that qualifying “but.” We’d like to vote for her, but she’s too dominating. We’d like to have her as a boss, but she’s so annoying. We’d like it if women participated in meetings more, BUT only if ...
Zinn: Are Hillary and Obama Afraid of Talking About the New Deal?
Commentary, April, 02 2008
Howard Zinn
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We might wonder why no Democratic Party contender for the presidency has invoked the memory of the New Deal and its unprecedented series of laws aimed at helping people in need. The New Deal was tentative, cautious, bold enough to shake the pillar...
Street: Jonathan Alter: Liberal Racist, Obama Fan
Znet Article, March, 31 2008
Paul Street
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Newsweek’s celebrated “liberal” columnist Jonathan Alter is a victim-blaming racist of the worst kind – the sort who cloaks his racially offensive comments in outwardly sensitive prose claiming to express concern for racial justice and black America.
Hayden: Progressives for Obama
Znet Article, March, 28 2008
Tom Hayden
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We descend from the proud tradition of independent social movements that have made America a more just and democratic country...
Klein: Players, Not Cheerleaders
Znet Article, March, 26 2008
Naomi Klein
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Sixty-four per cent of Americans tell pollsters they oppose the war, but you'd never know it from the thin turnout at recent anniversary rallies and vigils...
Prashad: Obama in Teheran
Commentary, March, 23 2008
Vijay Prashad
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Barack Obama's suggestion that he would sit down and talk with the Iranian Prime Minister is perhaps the most sensible policy proposal in the stale foreign policy air of Washington, DC. Twice before Teheran has publicly reached out to the US, but ...
Prashad: Duck and Cover
Commentary, March, 19 2008
Vijay Prashad
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A fractured electorate cannot unite behind candidates. The Republicans have their candidate (Boom, Boom McCain). The Democrats are divided by age, gender and race. In the murky results and polls it is hard to fathom the outcome. What is clear is t...
Street: The Audacity of Reaction
Znet Article, March, 18 2008
Paul Street
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As I’ve been saying since one day after the 2004 speech that made him the leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, Barack Obama is a walking delusion and deception machine.
Hartmann: Hartmann Interviewed on Deadly Election
Znet Article, March, 15 2008
Betsy Hartmann
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ZNet book interview...
Street: The Narrow Spectrum and Identity Politics: Obama’s “Puzzlement,” Invisible Primaries, and the Trivialization of U.S. Politics
Znet Article, March, 15 2008
Paul Street
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According to the New York Times, Barack Obama recently told reporters that he was “puzzled at how, after more than a year of campaigning, race and sex are at the forefront as never before” (1). The comment came after Geraldine Ferraro was forced t...
Marable: Barack Obama's Problem -- And Ours Along the Color Line
Znet Article, March, 13 2008
Manning Marable
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Several years ago, I was walking home to my Manhattan apartment from Columbia University, just having delivered a lecture on New York State's notorious "Rockefeller Drug Laws." The state's mandatory-minimum sentencing laws had thrown tens of thous...
Goodman: As Goes Vermont
Znet Article, March, 09 2008
Amy Goodman
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While the Iraq war is off the front pages, and Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama embark on what may well be a scorched-earth primary battle against each other, let’s keep our eye on where the real scorched earth lies: who profits and who dies.
Schechter: Political News Trumps Deeper Crisis: Will It Go Away If We Don't Know?
Commentary, March, 09 2008
Danny Schechter
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You know this by now. Hillary Clinton became the yellow rose of Texas, two stepping her way to election glory by slashing at her opponent. She also took Ohio and Rhode Island. Barack Obama snagged Vermont, says he leads in delegates. McCain won a...
Street: Nader, The Clintons, Obama, Gore, and Edwards
Znet Article, March, 06 2008
Paul Street
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I live in a contested state in the presidential election (Iowa). At the same time, I view the Republican Party as too dangerous and extremist not to try to prevent from keeping the White House (the most powerful and potentially destructive and ma...
Naiman: Obama Glosses Colombian Attack in Ecuador; Clinton Calls for Escalation Against Venezuela
Znet Article, March, 06 2008
Robert Naiman
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The Clinton and Obama forces have asked us to consider who we want answering the phone at the White House at 3 AM. There is little need to speculate. We have a lot of evidence about how they will respond.
Street: “Hail Hillary!” Clinton, Obama and the Militarization of U.S. Politics
Znet Article, March, 05 2008
Paul Street
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I am writing on the chilly morning after Hillary Clinton’s presidential primary victories in Ohio, Texas, and Rhode Island. If my perusal of media coverage last night and early today is any indication, the depressing militarization of United Stat...
Glick: Obama, Clinton, McKinney & Nader
Commentary, March, 05 2008
Ted Glick
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Progressives, speaking broadly, are clearly divided when it comes to the four most well-known, liberal or progressive Presidential candidates who are still out there.


