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Znet Article Street: Resisting Left Invisibility in the Age of Obama

Znet Article, July, 24 2010 Paul Street
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As a few of my regular readers know, I am currently involved in a modest self-promoting fundraising effort. Iâ??m trying to scare up $1500 to pay for a short east coast book tour for my second major left-progressive critique of the Obama phenomen...

Znet Article Street: Reparations…for Present Injustice

Znet Article, July, 14 2010 Paul Street
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Don’t get me wrong. I have long felt that there is considerable justice in the demand for the payment of reparations to the American black community in compensation for the two-century plus crime of North American black chattel slavery, whose sava...

Znet Article Street: On Imperial Beginnings

Znet Article, July, 06 2010 Paul Street
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I resist the tendency to see the contemporary United States’ many harsh inequalities and crimes as radical departures from the nation’s (supposed) noble and democratic origins. Look at the nation’s founding document, The Declaration of Independenc...

Znet Article Street: A Callous Nation: Reflections on the Obama-McChrystal-Rolling Stone Saga

Znet Article, June, 25 2010 Paul Street
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On the set and in the audience of ABC’s daily women’s talk show “The View” last Tuesday, there was clear majority sentiment on behalf of McChrystal’s discharge. Why? Because McChrystal had “disrespected” the president – a transgression that many f...

Znet Article Street: Obama’s Oil-Slicked Presidency

Znet Article, June, 17 2010 Paul Street
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Given its abject captivity to the same corporate and military power structures that control the Republicans, there’s little that the Democratic Party as currently configured could do to convince me to vote for one of its candidates. Still, I do h...

Znet Article Street: Silly Goose Expectations: Reflections on Frustrated Left-Liberal Hopes and the Obama Administration

Znet Article, June, 14 2010 Paul Street
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As the Obama ascendancy developed, however, Kuttner was hardly alone in unduly idolizing Obama or in failing to grasp the basic Zinn and Piven-Cloward lesson on how progressive change takes place...

Znet Article Street: “Felony is the New ‘N-Word”: Michelle Alexander on Mass Incarceration as “The New Jim Crow” in the Age of Obama

Znet Article, June, 10 2010 Paul Street
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Early in her courageous and important new book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (New York: New Press, 2010), Ohio State University law professor Michelle Alexander offers a painful and poignant memory from the even...

Znet Article Street: Deepwater Lesson: Expropriate the Expropriators

Znet Article, June, 06 2010 Paul Street
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Amidst mass capital-imposed structural unemployment and ever-escalating environmental collapse, the ongoing epic British Petroleum-Deepwater Horizon spill â?? more than 40 million gallons and counting (far beyond the previous record set by the Exx...

Znet Article Street: “Who Controls the Present”*

Znet Article, May, 14 2010 Paul Street
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An expanded version of a talk given at a May Day (2010) event held by the anarchist group Wild Rose Collective in Iowa City, Iowa on May 1, 2010

Znet Article Street: Socialism

Znet Article, April, 30 2010 Paul Street
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A speech given at the 2010 Socialist Minnesota meeting.

Znet Article Street: What “Populist Uprising?” Pt. 1

Znet Article, April, 23 2010 Paul Street
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Facts and Reflections on Race, Class, and the Tea Party “Movement,” Part 1

Znet Article Street: Exposing and Resisting Empire and War Media in the Age of Obama*

Znet Article, April, 15 2010 Paul Street
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We are today one week and two days out from the forty-second anniversary of the execution of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a killing that took place exactly one year – almost down to the hour – after his famous “Break the Silence” speech against th...

Znet Article Street: Remembering Obama

Znet Article, April, 06 2010 Paul Street
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Sometimes you run across an eloquent statement that rings true and false at one and the same time...

Znet Article Street: Corporatist Health Reform as an "Attack on Wealth Inequality":

Znet Article, March, 31 2010 Paul Street
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As became clear to me while talking to local Democrats waiting to see their hero Barack Obama speak in Iowa City last week, many liberals want badly to believe that the Presidentâ??s conservative health reform bill is a truly progressive and egal...

Znet Article Street: Health Reform: Theirs and Ours

Znet Article, March, 24 2010 Paul Street
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Corporate health “reform” has gotten the congressional votes it needed and the public relations spin is on. Now that the “deeply conservative” Barack Obama[1] and his fellow corporate Democrats have pushed their big business-friendly measure – dev...

Znet Article Street: When Media Goes to War: A Review

Znet Article, March, 21 2010 Paul Street
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The “propaganda model” that the leading left U.S. intellectuals and academicians Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman developed over two decades ago to analyze the content of foreign policy news and commentary in the United States’ “mainstream” [1](d...

Znet Article Street: Notes on Building a Left in the Age of Obama

Znet Article, February, 26 2010 Paul Street
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Since I wrote a book that comprehensively criticized Barack Obama from the left two years ago, people are sometimes surprised to learn that my main problem with a lot of U.S. liberals and “progressives” isn’t that they’ve been overly attached to ...

Znet Article Street: The Murder of Iraq: It Never Happened

Znet Article, February, 23 2010 Paul Street
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The doctrinal assumption that “we” (the United States) are inherently benevolent, noble, well-intentioned, helpful, and democratic in our foreign policies is ubiquitous in U.S. dominant media and indeed across the spectrum of respectable opinion i...

Znet Article Street: Colonial War Media: Reflections on a Recent Issue of the New York Times

Znet Article, February, 20 2010 Paul Street
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Yes, the colonials are coming at “our” brave young troops with live ammunition. What next? I wonder if Chivers and his editors ever heard the following bit from the admittedly arch-cynical comedian George Carlin’s 2005 “Life is Worth Losing” show:...

Znet Article Street: Obama & American Politics

Znet Article, February, 02 2010 Paul Street
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Interview for New Left Project...

Znet Article Street: What’s the Matter With the Democrats? Post-Massachusetts Reflections on Popular Resentment, the Liberal-Left Vacuum, and Right Comeback

Znet Article, January, 24 2010 Paul Street
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The e-mails are coming in from frightened Europeans. They are shocked by the previously unknown right-wing Republican state senator Scott Brown’s stunning victory over the establishment Democrat Marcia Coakley in the open seat election for the ...

Znet Article Street: Haiti, "Classquakes," and American Empire

Znet Article, January, 15 2010 Paul Street
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The earthquake catastrophe in Haiti is being portrayed on the national and local evening news as a natural disaster that has elicited a virtuous humanitarian response from the inherently noble and benevolent United States.

Znet Article Street: Killer Obama, Dr. King, and the Triple Evils

Znet Article, January, 14 2010 Paul Street
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Last December 17, eight days before Yemen resident Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to blast Northwest Flight 253 out of the sky on the way to Detroit, Yemen opposition forces testified that many dozens of civilians, including a large number of chi...

Znet Article Street: On Realism and Revolution

Znet Article, January, 04 2010 Paul Street
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In the spring of 1967, after he went public with his principled opposition to the Vietnam War, Martin Luther King, Jr. was approached by liberal and left politicos to consider running for the U.S. presidency. King turned the activists down, saying...

Znet Article Street: Safe Haven (and Other) Myths in Obama’s Terror War: Reflections in the Wake of Flight 253

Znet Article, December, 30 2009 Paul Street
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It is important that the nearly successful terrorist attempt on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day appears to have been planned in Yemen and that the attempted suicide bomber began his journey to the United States in Amsterdam.

Znet Article Street: The (Fading) Call of Obama

Znet Article, December, 22 2009 Paul Street
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Now that Barack Obama is being exposed like never before as a tool and agent of concentrated wealth, business class rule, and militarism, 2009 is ending on a distinct note of liberal disenchantment. His "progressive base" is restive over his actio...

Znet Article Street: “You Can’t Be President”: Race, Class, and Memories of Obama

Znet Article, December, 17 2009 Paul Street
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As we hurtle towards the first anniversary of the new corporate war president Barack Obama’s inauguration, journalists and commentators will advance recollections of – and retrospective reflections on – the ascendancy and early days of the U...

Znet Article Street: Blood on the Nobel

Znet Article, December, 14 2009 Paul Street
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Does Obama deserve his Nobel? Let's admit from the start that the prize has long been a less-than- perfect measure of its recipients' actual commitment to peace. Alfred Nobel, it is worth recalling, was a leading armaments manufacturer. He was t...

Znet Article Street: Life is Simple in a Fake Democracy

Znet Article, November, 29 2009 Paul Street
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“Life isn’t simple,” says the voice of David Brancaccio in the advertisement for the United States’ “Public Broadcasting System’s” (PBS’) popular “Frontline” series. “Not in a democracy.”

Znet Article Street: Obama, As Predicted

Znet Article, November, 21 2009 Paul Street
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In late December of 2006, a young progressive Democrat and recent college graduate stated to me his intention of seeking employment with one of the Democratic presidential campaigns that would soon be setting up shop in Iowa. My initial response w...

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