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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...

Znet Article Street: Perverted Priorities: One Year Later

Znet Article, November, 04 2009 Paul Street
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One year after President Barack Obama’s historic election in the name of “change” and “hope,” Gallup and USA Today report that the U.S. citizenry’s initially high expectations of the Obama presidency have fallen along with the presiden...

Znet Article Street: Obama Q & A

Znet Article, October, 22 2009 Paul Street
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Dissident U.S. author Paul Street was interviewed by Brazilian journalist Leonardo Sequeira via e-mail between 10 AM and 12 PM on September 18, 2009. The interview took place before: the awarding of the Olympics to Rio/Brazil (not Chicago/US), th...

Znet Article Street: The Nobel Gift: A Quick Note

Znet Article, October, 10 2009 Paul Street
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It is said that the Norwegians wanted to send a message against the unilateral American imperialism and militarism epitomized by the Cheney-Bush years and to encourage less brazenly hubristic, world-hegemony-oriented behavior on the part of the U....

Znet Article Street: Michael Moore and Barack Obama: A Love Story

Znet Article, October, 08 2009 Paul Street
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If you liked Michael Moore's latest movie, “Capitalism: a Love Story” (I did) and are long past being fed up with Barack Obama's deep allegiance and service to his corporate paymasters (I am), then this essay might be for you. I start with som...

Znet Article Street: “They Employ a Lot of Our Friends:” Left Reflections on Obama’s Corporatist Health Care Speech

Znet Article, September, 11 2009 Paul Street
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With Barack Obama as with Bill Clinton, you must always distinguish between progressive style and corporate-regime substance. Obama is a master when it comes to embodying what the formerly left Christopher Hitchens once (in a book about the Clint...

Znet Article Street: “That’s Politics”: Reflections on The Election Trap, Grassroots Activism, Presidential Narcissism, and Health Reform in the Age of Obama

Znet Article, September, 08 2009 Paul Street
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Three weeks ago, The New York Times ran a front-page story on the difficulty that the Obama White House was experiencing in getting its supporters to fight for the president’s “embattled health care plan” with anything like the passion and n...

Znet Article Street: Employment-Based Health Care vs. Democracy: Hidden Dimensions of Business Rule

Znet Article, September, 01 2009 Paul Street
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It is characteristic of the narrow, business-dominated nature of the United States’ political culture that the current U.S. health reform debate includes no meaningful discussion of the critical roles the nation’s employment-based health insur...

Znet Article Street: A Silly Question: “Is Barack Obama a Progressive?”*

Znet Article, August, 28 2009 Paul Street
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Opening comments in a debate with John K. Wilson, a former Barack Obama student and author of the book President Barack Obama: A More Perfect Union (Paradigm, 2009) The debate, held by The Open Univesity of the Left in Chicago on Thursday, August ...

Znet Article Street: The Racist Red-Baiting of Obama is About More than Race Alone

Znet Article, August, 23 2009 Paul Street
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The persistent, deeply entrenched, and often all-too hidden power of racism in American life needs to be acknowledged and acted upon in progressive ways if the left is going to have any chance of successfully and desirably advancing democratic soc...

Znet Article Street: Frank Rich, Barack Obama, and the Corporatist "Punking" of America

Znet Article, August, 15 2009 Paul Street
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Let history record that on August 9, 2009 Sunday New York Times columnist Frank Rich toyed with acknowledging the manipulative, fake-progressive nature of Barack Obama and the broader corporate-managed "democracy" Obama epitomizes.

Znet Article Street: “In Cold Blood”

Znet Article, August, 06 2009 Paul Street
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The current recession does not weigh very heavily on Iowa City in Johnson County, Iowa. Iowa City was recently named a “top small metropolitan area” in three career-related areas by Forbes Magazine. It was No. 5 in “Best Places to Begin a ...

Znet Article Street: Skip Gates

Znet Article, July, 26 2009 Paul Street
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The black-bourgeois Harvard professor and Cambridge, Massachusetts resident Henry Louis “Skip” Gates (who is certainly far into the six figure salary stratosphere at the nation’s top university) is a curious martyr in the struggle against ra...

Znet Article Street: Walter Cronkite

Znet Article, July, 23 2009 Paul Street
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Walter Cronkite died one week ago at the age of 92. He was the nation’s leading news anchor in the 1960s and 1970s. Like millions of other Americans who grew up in those decades, my earliest political memories carry the sound and image of “Unc...

Znet Article Street: Worker Action in Not-So “Center-Right” America:

Znet Article, July, 13 2009 Paul Street
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I've never been comfortable with many pundits' tendency to describe the United States as a “center-right nation.”[1] This description is appropriate when it comes to the United States' business class, its dominant corporate media, its two reig...

Znet Article Street: Re-Imagining and Recovering Revolutionary Socialism

Znet Article, July, 12 2009 Paul Street
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Why re-imagine socialism? I can think of five reasons...

Znet Article Street: Honduras, Washington, and Liberal-Left Grasping at Straws

Znet Article, July, 06 2009 Paul Street
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So liberal-left Obama supporters think they’ve got something to crow about in regard to Honduras. As George Ciccareillo-Maher noted recently on Counterpunch.org:“Previously resigned Obamaphiles, desperate to grasp at any shred of proof suggest...

Znet Article Street: Imperial Culture and Moral Absurdity in the Age of Obama: From Teheran and Bala Boluk to New York, Bagua, and Tegucigalpa

Znet Article, July, 01 2009 Paul Street
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During a concert at Chicago’s United Center last May 12th, Bruce Springsteen observed that “sometimes it seems like the more things change the more they stay the same.” He was talking about the persistence and indeed the deepening of povert...

Znet Article Street: Niebuhr Lives, Civilians Die in the Age of Obama

Znet Article, June, 15 2009 Paul Street
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Ever since the beginning of his Barack Obama’s presidency I’ve been telling liberals and leftists why they should not be surprised at the new chief executive’s continuation and even expansion of various supreme United States policy evils.

Znet Article Street: Hope-Killers

Znet Article, June, 08 2009 Paul Street
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Review of Lance Selfa's The Democrats: A Critical History

Znet Article Street: The Dawning Age of Obama as a Potentially Teach-able Moment for The Left

Znet Article, May, 30 2009 Paul Street
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There has been a lot of left-wing teeth-gnashing over the policies of the United States' fake-progressive president Barack Obama. Left-progressives' anger with the Obama administration is understandable given the new White House's actions to (for ...

Znet Article Street: “America’s Soul”: A History Lesson for Paul Krugman

Znet Article, May, 07 2009 Paul Street
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Being seriosuly Left can make for some lonely wandering in the wilderness of dominant U.S. corporate media. It’s terrible, of course, to hear one right-wing talk radio or television host after another denounce some recent conservative White Hou...

Znet Article Street: The People’s Bailout: A May Day Speech*

Znet Article, May, 04 2009 Paul Street
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A speech delivered in downtown Iowa City on the evening of May First, 2009.

Znet Article Street: Obama’s First Hundred Days: A Critical Assessment From the Left (A Speech)*

Znet Article, April, 30 2009 Paul Street
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A speech was given at a public forum anti war sponsored by AWARE, the local Anti War Anti Racism Effort in Urbana, Illinois on the evening of April 30, 2009 at the Urbana City Council Chambers.

Znet Article Street: No Left Excuses for Obama

Znet Article, April, 27 2009 Paul Street
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Thanks to a book I did on the Barack Obama phenomenon last year, people have been writing me to ask for an assessment of the Obama White House's “first 100 days.”

Znet Article Street: “More of the Same” at the New York Times

Znet Article, April, 09 2009 Paul Street
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The New York Times should take a look in the national and institutional mirror before it charges foreign governments or anyone else with confusing “change” with “more of the same.”

Znet Article Street: Obama Does Strasbourg

Znet Article, April, 07 2009 Paul Street
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Obama’s trip to Europe was about winning top-down assent to U.S.-mandated top-down pseudo-fixes. It was about “managing” widespread European “anger” over the fact that U.S. financial mismanagement and militarism have run the world into ...

Znet Article Street: Reflections on a Largely Forgotten Book: Herbert Schiller's The Mind Managers (1973)

Znet Article, April, 04 2009 Paul Street
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Reflections on a largely forgotten book...

Znet Article Street: Cowardice Pays: Reflections on Academic Abdication and a Paul Krugman Lecture in Iowa City

Znet Article, April, 01 2009 Paul Street
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Recently I heard the renowned liberal Princeton economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman speak before a packed crowd loaded with liberal-Democratic professors in a classic old college auditorium at the University of Iowa (UI). Just hal...

Znet Article Street: Flim-Flam Obama Man: The “New Democrat[ic]” President’s Wall Street Loyalties Get Clearer Every Day

Znet Article, March, 26 2009 Paul Street
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Many on what passes for a left in the United States have been led to believe that Barack Obama is a “Mr. Smith-goes- to-Washington” character eager and ready to struggle against entrenched corporate and financial interests.

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