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Street: Jonathan Alter, Part 2: Campaign Finance Deception

Blog Post, April, 27 2008 Paul Street
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Perhaps you saw where I exposed "liberal" Newsweek columnist and Obama fan Jonathan Alter as a racist - evoking a very unconvincing denial from him in the comments section of Black Agenda Report three weeks back. It was an instructive and enterta...

Street: Superficial Campaign Coverage

Blog Post, April, 17 2008 Paul Street
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In the course of researching a book on U.S. political culture, the 2008 presidential campaign, and the Obama phenomenon, I have been sady unsurprised at the stunning superficiality of the way the Democratic primary campaign has been portrayed in "...

Street: Past and Present in Obama's Race Speech

Blog Post, March, 26 2008 Paul Street
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There's something really wrong with Obama's instantly hailed March 18th Race/Reverend Wright speech and it isn't getting enough attention. I'm talking about the way-too easy way he got away with discussing the racism that produces black American a...

Street: "The Death [and Ghosts] of Iraq"

Blog Post, March, 14 2008 Paul Street
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As we approach the fifth anniversary of the monumentally illlegal, brazenly imperialist, inherently mass-murderous (some estimates put the number of Iraqis killed by "Operation Iraqi Liberation" [O.I.L.] at or above 1.3 million), significantly oi...

Street: Speaking Engagement at UW-Milwaukee

Blog Post, March, 06 2008 Paul Street
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Sponsored by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) chapter at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Paul Street The Audacity of Deception: U.S. Political Culture, Progressive Illusion, and the 2008 Presidential Election Tuesday, Marc...

Street: Obama's Iraq Position and the Academic Meritocracy: An Exchange

Blog Post, March, 04 2008 Paul Street
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Here (pasted in below)is my response to a student from a liberal arts college where a liberal professor recently played the role of Barack Obama during a pretend presidential debate. That must have been fun! The student wrote me to say that his pr...

Street: Juan Santos on "Barack Obama and the 'End of Racism"

Blog Post, March, 01 2008 Paul Street
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Below I am (as promised) pasting in an excellent Juan Santos article on the Obama phenomenon from Dissident Voice. Think of the Matt Gonzales piece I put up two posts ago sort of as the nuts-and -bolts policy record "base" and prose of the argumen...

Street: Obama Staffer to Canadian Ambassador: "Don't Take Our Campaign Rhetoric Seriously"

Blog Post, February, 29 2008 Paul Street
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There is a global and corporate-globalizationist ruling class and there are subordinate, nation-bound working-classes within specific states that make up the many smaller state-specific political units of the world capitalist system. Many of the...

Street: "The Obama Craze: Count Me Out" by Matt Gonzales

Blog Post, February, 27 2008 Paul Street
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I’m tired of having to be the big bad radical Grinch on the limits and dangers of Barack Obamanism. After doing a large number of critical Left essays on the postmodern Hamiltonian Obama's politics, policy actions, and world view, I’m going to let...

Street: "It's All a Farce"

Blog Post, February, 20 2008 Paul Street
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I live in Iowa City where our Congressman is a "liberal" “political scientist” (not to be confused with a Christian Scientist) named David Loebsack. Loebsack is one of three Democratic Congressmen in the state of Iowa. He sends out occasional cons...

Street: A Bad Conversation and the Democratic Primaries

Blog Post, February, 07 2008 Paul Street
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And now I will comment on a brief conversation I overheard in college-town coffee shop in Iowa yesterday, one day after the big Super Tuesday primaries. The conversation took place between two Caucasian undergraduate students at a Big Ten Universi...

Street: On the Elections Tomorrow and Politics More Broadly

Blog Post, February, 04 2008 Paul Street
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I’ve been getting a number of e-mail messages pretty much along the following lines: “Dear Paul Street, you intrepid Left political analyst you, I live in a Super Tuesday Primary state and I just don’t know what to do tomorrow. I know you follow ...

Street: Resources and Inspiration Against the Occupation

Blog Post, January, 18 2008 Paul Street
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Here is a killer musical video from the wonderful left English folk-singer Billy Bragg: "The Loneseome Death of Rachel Corrie," adapted from a famous Dylan song. In 2003, Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer while seeking...

Street: Stephen Zunes on Obama on the Middle East

Blog Post, January, 12 2008 Paul Street
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Here (pasted in below) is a simply first-rate analysis of Barack Obama's imperial foreign policy statements and actions regarding the Middle East. It is by the Left foreign policy expert Stephen Zunes. It is so important and well done that I have...

Street: David Brooks is a Little Slow

Blog Post, January, 04 2008 Paul Street
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Electoral Politics

Street: Greenspan Speaks:

Blog Post, September, 17 2007 Paul Street
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Here (pasted in below) is an interesting story from the Sunday London Times. Leftists are regularly mocked in the halls of American intelllectual and political power for daring to think that (imagine) the invasion of Iraq was about oil (as in the ...

Street: NYC Transport Workers Union Snubs Clinton By Endorsing John Edwards, the Most Electable Democratic Presidential Candidate

Blog Post, September, 07 2007 Paul Street
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AP Photo: TWU Local 100 president Roger Toussaint smiles while speaking to the Transit Workers By JESSE J. HOLLAND, AP Labor Writer Thu Sep 6, 7:31 PM ET WASHINGTON - The Transport Workers Union of America endorsed John Edwards on T...

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