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Street: Supported and Revised
Znet Article, April, 04 2011
Paul Street
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Last February, ZNet published an essay in which I cited the social-psychological theory of cognitive dissonance in arguing that many right wing elites probably don’t believe much of the propagandistic nonsense they put out on the political airwave...
Street: Libya, the Left, and Losing Our Way; Reflections on Empire, Inequality, and “Operation Odyssey Dawn”
Znet Article, March, 30 2011
Paul Street
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Beneath the often vituperative intra-left debate over whether or not to support any aspect of the Obama administration’s intervention in Libya and what the consequences of that intervention will be, lay a fundamental question: why did Obama go to ...
Proyect: Taking Obama's Measure
Znet Article, March, 25 2011
Louis Proyect
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A review of three books: Hodge, Roger D.: The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism, HarperCollins, 2010, 259 pages, ISBN 978-0-06-201126-8 Ali, Tariq: The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad, Verso,...
Street: “Recalls Taking Center Stage”: Wisconsin, Workers, and Corporate Totalitarianism, American Style
Znet Article, March, 15 2011
Paul Street
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The smack to my head came late on the day of my second trip to Madison in support of public sector workers and their struggle against rightist Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s epic assault on union rights there. It didn’t come in the form of a st...
Street: “We Have to Do It Ourselves”
Znet Article, March, 09 2011
Paul Street
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One of the neat things about the recent progressive labor rebellion within and beyond Madison, WI is the extent to which it has broken with the false of promise of change coming from the top down.
Street: “The People Have Been Able to Find Their Own Voice"
Znet Article, March, 08 2011
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
The real energy in the Wisconsin public worker rebellion and its state-level offshoots came from the bottom up. It arose from the grassroots, not from the top down.
Street: An Early Springtime of Peoples: The Global Austerity Party Meets Global Resistance, From Cairo to Athens to Madison
Znet Article, February, 27 2011
Paul Street
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The Global Austerity Party meets Global Resistance, from Cairo to Athens to Madison.
Street: It’s Not About $, It’s About Rights
Znet Article, February, 24 2011
Paul Street
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We were in Madison on Saturday to witness and participate in the fifth day of historic labor protests.
Street: Black History is American History and It Lives On
Znet Article, February, 18 2011
Paul Street
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We’re more than half way through Black History Month...
Street: When Facts Don’t Matter
Znet Article, February, 17 2011
Paul Street
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You know the drill by now with your dodgy right-wing Republican neighbor, colleague, co-worker, sibling, uncle, or cousin who says nice things about Glenn Beck and “the Tea Party” and who can’t stop spouting off about that great left wing radical ...
Street: Cold-Blooded Calibration
Znet Article, February, 11 2011
Paul Street
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How soon – often immediately – we forget the red flags that warned us in advance of imperial abominations to come.
Street: Obama, the Tea Party, and the Ugly American Liberal Intellectual
Znet Article, February, 10 2011
Paul Street
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There’s no real intellectual or political discontinuity in moving my book-length critical focus from the Obama phenomenon and to the Tea Party phenomenon.
Street: What’s Good for Capital
Znet Article, February, 04 2011
Paul Street
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The System is Working...for its Masters...
Street: State (of) Capitalist Absurdity: Reflections Before and After Obama’s State of the Union Address
Znet Article, January, 28 2011
Paul Street
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Preparing for a radio interview on Barack Obama’s upcoming State of the Union Address (SOUA) last Tuesday morning, I nearly became overwhelmed by some of the multiple and interrelated Orwellian absurdities at the heart of United States’ reigning m...
Street: Jared Loughner and the Armed Madhouse*
Znet Article, January, 20 2011
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
The Tea Party’s particular brand of incivility should be a source of concern
Street: False Paradox: Reflections on the American Profits-Jobs Disconnect
Znet Article, January, 11 2011
Paul Street
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The deficit-fueling tax cuts for the rich that Barack Obama recently agreed to inherit and pass on from George W. Bush have been sold to the American public as necessary for the creation of jobs and the expansion of the “recovery.”
Street: Obama Isn’t Spineless, He’s Conservative: Reflections on Chutzpah, Theirs and Ours
Znet Article, December, 11 2010
Paul Street
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President Obama has “caved-in” to Republican demands for the preservation of deficit-driving tax cuts for the wealthy.
Street: The Sorry Surrender of “the So-Called Radical Left” (May 2010)*
Znet Article, December, 08 2010
Paul Street
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This essay is extracted from the May 2010 postscript to my book The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power
Street: “Lives at Risk Around the World”
Znet Article, December, 03 2010
Paul Street
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Two days ago the warmongering U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman voiced broad elite American opinion when he called for Internet companies to refuse to provide hosting for the WikiLeaks Web Site.
Street: Note to “the Left”: Obama Hates You
Znet Article, November, 28 2010
Paul Street
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The 2008 Barack Obama campaign reminded some hopeful left and liberal observers of the fantastic, feel-good presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy (RFK).
Street: The Empire's New Clothes 2/2
Znet Article, November, 20 2010
Paul Street
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In part two Paul Street considers Obama’s impact on race relations, the decline of the American left, and the US mid-term elections.
Street: The Empire’s New Clothes
Znet Article, November, 15 2010
Paul Street
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NLP’s Alex Doherty interviews Paul Street about his new book on Barack Obama: ‘The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power’
Street: Tea Party Triumph
Znet Article, November, 10 2010
Paul Street
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There is a different but related way in which the Tea Party – understood largely as a mass-media-ted phenomenon – can be partly credited for the mid-term outcomes.
Street: Killing is Personal
Znet Article, October, 30 2010
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Recently at a reception on a tour promoting my book The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama and the Real World of Power, a young lady from Chicago refused to be photographed with me.
Street: “All of Them Make Promises”: Reflections on the Big Hope Chill and the Coming Democratic Debacle
Znet Article, October, 25 2010
Paul Street
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The Democrats are going to take a considerable hit in the mid-term elections.
Street: Tea Party Doublethink
Znet Article, October, 24 2010
Paul Street
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Like the broader business-shaped right wing Republican agenda it reflects, advances, and re-brands, “the Tea Party” is not actually opposed to “big government.”
Street: Is Barack Obama Bad for Racial Justice?
Znet Article, October, 02 2010
Paul Street
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Last week an assertive middle class black woman named Velma Hart politely but pointedly got in the first black president Barack Obama’s face during a televised town hall meeting. She said she was the near the end of her ability to defend Obama, a ...
Street: Our Sacrifice for Iraq: The Memory Hole and Obama’s Iraq Address
Znet Article, September, 02 2010
Paul Street
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The Iraqi people – reduced to the moral status of insects by the Pentagon in the spring of 2003 – have experienced what has amounted to a U.S.-imposed Holocaust.
Street: The Empire's New Clothes*
Znet Article, August, 29 2010
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
A shortened version of this talk (below) was given at Bluestockings Bookstore (NYC), the Wooden Shoe Bookstore (Philly), Busboys and Poets (Washington DC), Barnes and Noble (Springfield, New Jersey), and Encuentro 5 (Boston) during a recent northe...
Street: Robert Gibbs and the Professional Not-So Left
Znet Article, August, 19 2010
Paul Street
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Recently White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs’s railed against what he called “the professional left.” “I hear these people saying [Obama is] like George Bush. Those people,” Gibbs pouted, “ought to be drug tested.”
