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Bohmer: Reflections on U.S. Economy, September 2009
Blog Post, September, 14 2009
Peter Bohmer
Bohmer's ZSpace page
Officially, the recession is probably over. The lack of meaningful structural reforms means conditions for continued collapse continue. So will massive economic hardships. However,I'm hopeful about growing social movements.
Street: My June 2008 Reflections on How President Barack Obama Would be Absurdly Red- (and Black-) Baited
Blog Post, September, 07 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
I thought I would paste in the following two paragraphs (below) from the June 2008 preface to my book Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics. They seem rather germane to current events and to the difficulty involved in trying to criticiz...
Russell: On Van Jones' Resignation, right wing "populism", and Glenn Beck
Blog Post, September, 06 2009
Joshua kahn Russell
Russell's ZSpace page
Some thoughts on the resignation of White House Green Jobs Advisor, Van Jones
Davidson: Socialism and the Progressive Majority: Report on CCDS 6th Convention
Blog Post, August, 05 2009
Carl Davidson
Davidson's ZSpace page
Firsthand Report by Carl Davidson on the 6th Convention of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
Street: Honeymoon Fades: National Obamalust Lessens in Intensity
Blog Post, July, 27 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Barack Obama ratings fall as polls show honeymoon may be over: Barack Obama's honeymoon period appears to be coming to an end in America as polls have shown his ratings have fallen to their lowest point yet
Street: "It's Just Ridiculous...Which is it?"
Blog Post, July, 24 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
The quote of the day on Obama's health care plan belongs to Rowena Ventura. “You see,†she said, gesturing at Mr. Obama on the television (during his press conference last Tuesday night), “he’s saying he wants to continue private insurance...
Street: Taibbi on Goldman Sachs Profits
Blog Post, July, 17 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Read this Matt Taibbi article on Goldman Sachs recent profits --- a useful piece of demystification on the whole...
Street: Obama Bores Russia
Blog Post, July, 09 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
See these opening lines (below) from an article in yesterday's New York Times. I really had to laugh when I read this. I've always had much the same response as (apparently) the Russians just did to the current U.S. president...
Street: "Liberals:" Do You Need the GOP Back in Power to Get Active?
Blog Post, July, 08 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Here is my response to a recent message/posting on some recent ridiculous right-wing madness from Iowa's ultra-reactionary Republican Congressman Mel King:
Street: Maher Assaults Celebrity Prez Obama
Blog Post, June, 16 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Bill Maher kicks the living crap out of celebrity president Barack Obama from somewhat to the president's left actually: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA7GXq4S9KA It's worth a watch.
Mcgehee: Same Shit, Different Day
Blog Post, June, 03 2009
Michael Mcgehee
Mcgehee's ZSpace page
We are not going to change anything. We will just do a remix of the same old song and dance and cross our fingers that the audience is too stupid to notice.
Mcgehee: American Amnesia and the Abuse of History
Blog Post, May, 27 2009
Michael Mcgehee
Mcgehee's ZSpace page
Initially the bombing, invasion and occupation of Afghanistan was to get Osama bin Laden but many may not have known that before the end of October 2001 the Taliban offered bin Laden on more than three occasions. Liberation and Democracy, like Ira...
Mcgehee: Direct Democracy vs Participatory Polity; A False Dichotomy
Blog Post, May, 26 2009
Michael Mcgehee
Mcgehee's ZSpace page
a conversation on direct democracy versus participatory polity
Street: Not-So Epic Differences Between Obama and Bush-Cheney
Blog Post, May, 21 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Tonight on the Evening News and Propaganda at the Disney Division of American State-Capitalist Television, Big Brother Charles Gibson (ABC) dedicated the first 10 minutes or so to the day's supposed "epic battle" between Empire’s New Clothes Bar...
Street: An Exchange On Obama
Blog Post, May, 21 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
I paste in (below) a recent exchange I had with a smart young left-liberal U.S. college student who occcasionally writes me to share perspectives on the Obama phenomenon/presidency and U.S. political history...
Street: Wrong Campus Protest/Sign of the Totalitarian Times
Blog Post, May, 17 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Check out this story from the AP: http://news.yahoo.com/ s/ap/us_obama_notre_dame. It's about the big protest that occurred at Notre Dame over Preisdent Obama's commencement address there earlier today. He got hit with a campus protest (admitted...
Abu-jamal: Arlen Specter is a Party unto Himself.
Blog Post, May, 08 2009
Mumia Abu-jamal
Abu-jamal's ZSpace page
That great observer of American democracy, Alexis de Tocqueville noted that U.S. political parties were like nations at war with one another.
Peterson: How Best To Use the New Media?
Blog Post, May, 06 2009
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Yesterday (May 5), the Senate Finance Committee heard presentations by 15 different witnesses on the issue of "reforming" the U.S. health care system.
Mcgehee: Why We Need Campaign Finance Reform
Blog Post, May, 04 2009
Michael Mcgehee
Mcgehee's ZSpace page
Is there a political cause that also neatly defines much of our prime concerns? I think so.
Cohn: Condi Channels Nixon: If the President Says So, It’s Not Illegal
Blog Post, April, 30 2009
Marjorie Cohn
Cohn's ZSpace page
On April 27, Condoleezza Rice had a brief Q & A with some Stanford students...
