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Street: Amy Goodman Arrested in St. Paul - No Film At Eleven
Blog Post, September, 01 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Continuing with the Convention-time police-state theme of my last blog post, I paste in here news and links relating to the arrest of left journalist Amy Goodman (produce of "Democracy Now") around the site of the planned quadrennial convention of...
Street: Police State/Police Trap
Blog Post, August, 30 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Police state tactics were widely evident in support of the Democratic National Converntion (DNC) and the ruling class candidate Barack Obama in Denver last week.. They will be more evident in St. Paul, Minnesota, where a much larger convergence o...
Mcgehee: The Best Political Joke
Blog Post, August, 28 2008
Michael Mcgehee
Mcgehee's ZSpace page
The Best Political Joke (a very short fiction story)
Abu-jamal: August 8th
Blog Post, August, 15 2008
Mumia Abu-jamal
Abu-jamal's ZSpace page
For most people, August 8th is merely a reference to the Beijing Olympics.
Sitrin: Farmers Strike in Argentina: Was it a Victory and Where Is the Left?
Blog Post, August, 01 2008
Marina Sitrin
Sitrin's ZSpace page
The four-month long farmers’ strike that at times paralyzed parts of the Argentine economy is over. The big question now is, who won, the right or the left. In most struggles this is not even a question, much less a complicated one. In Argentina, ...
Street: Obama: "I Don't Believe in the U.S. Apologizing"
Blog Post, July, 28 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
I just did a critical piece on Emperor Obama's big Berlin speech last week. Here (pasted in below) is an interesting exchange between CNN's Candy Crowley and Obama. The exchange took place after Obama's speech. Obama tells Crowely that he doesn...
Sitrin: Does a Referendum Manifest Power? Where is Power? The Case of Bolivia
Blog Post, July, 26 2008
Marina Sitrin
Sitrin's ZSpace page
One of the biggest questions facing social movements in Latin America over the course of the past decade is the question of power. Where is power? What is power? And how to organize
Hill: Talking (Some) Politics: Obama, the Elections, the Idea of a President, and What’s Being Left Out
Blog Post, July, 23 2008
Marcus Hill
Hill's ZSpace page
Thoughts on Obama, the election, the idea of a president, and what's being left out of the discussion.
Podur: A Day in Delhi
Blog Post, July, 19 2008
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
On my way from Pakistan to Kerala, I stopped for a day in Delhi - I have a couple of hours left in this very interesting city. Thanks to friends I had an excellent 48 hours, though I could have stayed much longer and learned much more.
Sitrin: Organizing for Justice: Inside the Anti-G8
Blog Post, July, 17 2008
Marina Sitrin
Sitrin's ZSpace page
Organizing in Japan before, during and after the G8. Homeless autonomous organizing, despite political repression.
Street: "Obama Backers on the Left Are Doing the Wincing Now"
Blog Post, July, 14 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Here, pasted in (pretty far) below, is a very sharp and clever column on the Obama phenomenon and its often delusional "left" supporters/participants. The column (titled "Obama Backers on the Left Are Doing the Wincing Now") was written by the Ch...
Street: Bob Herbert Column on Obama's Rightward Lurch
Blog Post, July, 08 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Today in The New York Times, there's a useful Bob Herbert column on Barack Obama's rightward lurch. I think it's pretty late in the game for Herbert to figure out that Barack Obama is an opportunistic win-at-all-costs centrist (Herbert's fellow T...
Street: Progressive Obamanists: Where Do You Draw the Line?
Blog Post, July, 03 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Dear “Progressive” Obamanists and/or ”Progressives for Obama:” I have a question for you: at what point could Barack Obama lose you? I’ll return to this question and deepen it a little at the end.
Peterson: Charlie Rose, Bill Moyers, and Jeremiah Wright
Blog Post, May, 10 2008
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
I have a great deal of respect for Bill Moyers.
Peterson: "O wretched countrymen!"
Blog Post, May, 07 2008
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
When I first read that long (7,500-word) report in the April 20 New York Times about how the "Bush administration has used its control over access and information in an effort to transform"
Spannos: Reviewing Pentagon Propaganda & The New York Times
Blog Post, April, 22 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
The Sunday edition of the New York Times ran a very candid cover story about a carefully orchestrated Pentagon propaganda campaign masquerading as objective journalism in the form of military analysts appearing on Fox News, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, and...
Peterson: The Day of Jerusalem's Fall
Blog Post, April, 04 2008
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
It is clear to me that the politics behind the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's September 16, 2001 sermon before the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago was to stay the hand of vengeance
Peterson: Audacity and Hopelessness II
Blog Post, March, 30 2008
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Correct me if I've missed one: But since the start of the whole Reverend Jeremiah Wright episode on the morning of March 13 over ABC - TV's Good Morning America program,
Peterson: Worthy vs. Unworthy Opinion Surveys
Blog Post, March, 28 2008
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
First, the obvious: 2008 is an election year in the United States. And now for something utterly alien: "The will of the people should be the basis of the authority of government."
Peterson: Open Letter to MoveOn.org
Blog Post, March, 21 2008
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
To Robert Greenwald and the MoveOn.org Campaign:
