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Street: Obama’s Good and “Proper” War
Znet Article, March, 04 2008
Paul Street
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Throughout his Senate career and the presidential campaign, the supposed “peace candidate” Barack Obama has reassured the U.S. foreign policy establishment of his willingness to stay firmly within the spectrum of acceptable imperial opinion by voi...
Klein: Obama, Being Called a Muslim Is Not a Smear
Znet Article, March, 03 2008
Naomi Klein
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Hillary Clinton denied leaking the photo of Barack Obama wearing a turban, but her campaign manager says that even if she had, it would be no big deal. "Hillary Clinton has worn the traditional clothing of countries she has visited and had those p...
Herman: Neither Popular Government Nor Popular Information
Zmag Article, March, 01 2008
Edward Herman
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One of my favorite quotations, from James Madison in 1822, is that “a popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both” (this was used as the title of Nichols ...
Fletcher jr.: Obama, Enthusiasm & Movement-Building
Znet Article, February, 29 2008
Bill Fletcher jr.
Fletcher jr.'s ZSpace page
A friend called me the other day. 'Bill,' he said, 'How will all of this enthusiasm for Obama translate into anything long-term?' He went on to comment on the potential this upsurge of support for Senator Obama COULD have for a progressive movemen...
Chomsky: Noam Chomsky: Why is Iraq Missing from 2008 Presidential Race?
Audio, February, 27 2008
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
In a major address, Noam Chomsky says there has been little change in the conventional debate over a US invasion abroad: from Vietnam to Iraq, the two main political parties and political pundits differ only on the tactics of US goals, which are a...
Street: “Calibrating” HOPE in the Effort to “Patrol the Commons”: Samantha Power and the Hidden Imperial Reality of Barack Obama *
Znet Article, February, 25 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
A small part of the dark and hidden imperial reality behind the supposedly peace-oriented Barack Obama phenomenon showed itself to those willing to see when leading Obama foreign policy advisor and celebrated Harvard Professor Samantha Power appea...
Glick: Non-Electoral Activism in a Presidential Election Year
Commentary, February, 25 2008
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
Just about a year ago a leading activist in the climate movement made a comment that I took note of at the time and haven't forgotten: Presidential politics overshadows all other politics during a Presidential election period.
Street: A Fine Democracy
Znet Article, February, 24 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Recent developments should give pause to those who believe in the capacity of American political culture to temper the United States’ propenrity to attack and oppress world neighbors. Two years ago, broad U.S. citizen disgust with Dick Cheney and ...
Billet: Barack's Big Hype: Is Obama the candidate of the Hip-Hop Generation?
Commentary, February, 23 2008
Alexander Billet
Billet's ZSpace page
For many, the answer to this question might be an enthusiastic "yes." In recent weeks I have spoken on a radio show on "the hip-hop effect on the Obama campaign." I've talked to politically active MCs who are beyond stoked that Obama is ahead in...
Zinn: Election Madness
Znet Article, February, 21 2008
Howard Zinn
Zinn's ZSpace page
There’s a man in Florida who has been writing to me for years (ten pages, handwritten) though I’ve never met him.
Ehrenreich: Unstoppable Obama
Znet Article, February, 15 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
When did you begin to think that Obama might be unstoppable? Was it when your grown feminist daughter started weeping inconsolably over his defeat in New Hampshire? Or was it when he triumphed in Virginia, a state still littered with Confederate m...
Chomsky: "Good News," Iraq and Beyond
Znet Article, February, 15 2008
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Not long ago, it was taken for granted that the Iraq war would be the central issue in the presidential campaign, as it was in the mid-term election of 2006. But it has virtually disappeared, eliciting some puzzlement. There should be none.
Goodman: Lessons of the Chesapeake Sweep
Znet Article, February, 14 2008
Amy Goodman
Goodman's ZSpace page
After the Potomac Primary, Virginia is the new Massachusetts and Texas is the new Florida. Barack Obama claimed a “Chesapeake Sweep,” winning all three primaries-Maryland, the District of Columbia and Virginia-by decisive margins. Hillary Clinton,...
Glick: Obama vs. Clinton, A Second Thought
Commentary, February, 10 2008
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
Obama vs. Clinton, A Second Thought
Flanders: A New Moment?
Znet Article, February, 08 2008
Laura Flanders
Flanders's ZSpace page
Some lessons about politics and grassroots movements from 1964.
Landau: Speech Found In Mailbox Of Supreme Underdog On Super Tuesday
Commentary, February, 07 2008
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
Between now and the November election, the public and the political professionals expect me to behave like a traditional candidate. Avoid important issues and instead focus on abstractions like "change" and non political, life style issues like fo...
Engelhardt: Exit Poll
Znet Article, February, 05 2008
Tom Engelhardt
Engelhardt's ZSpace page
"I swear that I will not 'handicap' any primary race, nor predict who is going to win Super Tuesday in either party. I will not handicap the race to the conventions. I will not speculate on who will be the vice-presidential candidate for whom in t...
Fletcher jr.: Edwards' Strategic Mistake
Commentary, February, 03 2008
Bill Fletcher jr.
Fletcher jr.'s ZSpace page
In the aftermath of the Nevada caucuses, it is not entirely clear where the Edwards campaign is going, but I do not think that he can yet be counted out. Nevertheless, it is important that we reflect on the Edwards campaign and the weaknesses it h...
Meister: If Asked, Don't Tell
Znet Article, February, 02 2008
Dick Meister
Meister's ZSpace page
The secret ballot. How's that for an idea? It's supposedly been a fundamental right of all citizens since the 1880s.
Hayden: Would a Democratic President pull out of Iraq?
Video, February, 02 2008
Tom Hayden
Hayden's ZSpace page
Media and contractors in Iraq...
