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Znet Article Street: “Obamanots”: People Who Care What David Brooks Thinks

Znet Article, March, 10 2009 Paul Street
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We got a small but good example of what the new presidential administration is really all about on the Op-Ed page of last Friday’s New York Times. On the left-hand side of that page, conservative Times columnist David Brooks reported that a rec...

Znet Article Street: Why Did Newsweek Say “We are All Socialists Now?”

Znet Article, March, 04 2009 Paul Street
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Two weeks ago, in what struck me as a remarkable development, the leading corporate weekly U.S. magazine Newsweek published a cover story titled “We are All Socialists Now.”

Znet Article Street: Obama’s Violin: Calibrating Hope Since the Election

Znet Article, February, 26 2009 Paul Street
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This article reviews Barack Obama’s record since the day of his election. That record, we shall see, is deeply consistent with his record-setting corporate election funding, including more than $900,000 from Goldman Sachs and $37.5 million from...

Znet Article Street: No, We Can’t All Get Along: On Lincoln, Obama, and Dysfunctional Conflict Avoidance

Znet Article, February, 17 2009 Paul Street
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Now would be a good time to read or re-read Abraham Lincoln’s justly famous Second Inaugural Address (1864). Coming off “President’s Day” (combining the Lincoln and George Washington birthdays), we have recently marked the 200th birthday (...

Znet Article Street: Wall Street Welfare

Znet Article, February, 11 2009 Paul Street
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According to the New York Times, Obama's corporate-Democratic Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner' bailout plan reflected a triumph for unfettered capitalist prerogatives inside the new White House.

Znet Article Street: The Resistance Gap: On Media, Time, and the Curious Absence of Riots

Znet Article, February, 09 2009 Paul Street
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Like many left and liberal writers and activists, I often cite polling data showing that majority U.S. public opinion on numerous key policy issues is well to the left of actual (not-so public) U.S. policy and the nation’s two dominant business ...

Znet Article Street: Authoritarian Capitalism and Economic Crisis in the Age of HOPE

Znet Article, January, 30 2009 Paul Street
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Beneath the drama over how to make the U.S. economy “work again,” we hear nothing in the dominant corporate-mediated political discourse about the state-capitalist authoritarianism that is on sharper-than-usual display (for those willing to lo...

Znet Article Street: "We Will NOT Apologize for Our Way of Life"

Znet Article, January, 23 2009 Paul Street
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The Obama administration makes a very big point of claiming to be above and beyond "ideology." It's all about the "pragmatic" goal of "getting things done" with no particular "ideological" axe to grind.

Znet Article Street: How Obama Happened: The Real Story

Znet Article, January, 20 2009 Paul Street
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With the historic inauguration of Barack Obama, the question of how Obama happened merits critical reflection. The explanation advanced by his campaign, the incoming White House public relations team, and, for the most part, dominant U.S. media h...

Znet Article Street: "Skin in the Game": Inequality, Sacrifice, Obama, and the Fate of the Earth

Znet Article, January, 16 2009 Paul Street
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Last Sunday on ABC's "This Week," Barack Obama agreed with George Stephanopolous that his presidency's economic agenda will present the American people with a "grand bargain" in which "everybody in this country is going to have to sacrifice someth...

Znet Article Street: Equanimity, Power, Gaza, and The New York Times

Znet Article, January, 10 2009 Paul Street
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A picture, the saying goes, is worth a thousand words. On the front page of last Tuesday’s New York Times, you can see United State House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi sitting with a giant grin between a smiling President-Elect and the...

Znet Article Street: The Janus-Faced* Obama Phenomenon

Znet Article, January, 07 2009 Paul Street
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As Barack Obama’s historic inauguration approaches, many progressives are reflecting on the possibilities and perils of the next American administration as viewed from the Left.

Znet Article Street: Arne Duncan and Neoliberal Racism:

Znet Article, December, 24 2008 Paul Street
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Educational justice advocates are understandably displeased with President Elect Obama’s appointment of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Arne Duncan to the position of Education Secretary in the next White House.

Znet Article Street: "Getting Things Done" With Obama

Znet Article, December, 20 2008 Paul Street
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Recently I was speaking to a liberal friend about a writer I thought might be a good reviewer for a book I recently published on the Barack Obama phenomenon.

Znet Article Street: "Re-Missioning" and Advance Betrayal: Notes on Iraq, "Expectation Management," and the Imperial Transition

Znet Article, December, 08 2008 Paul Street
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Recently The New York Times reported an alleged evolution in President-Elect Obama’s position on the invasion of Iraq. Having run for the president partly on a vow to “end the war” in Iraq, Obama, Times reporter Thom Shanker wrote, “is ma...

Znet Article Street: Our Challenge, Not Obama’s

Znet Article, November, 30 2008 Paul Street
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Far be it from me to criticize a Nobel Prize-winner, but liberal New York Times columnist and Princeton economist Paul Krugman really dropped the ball three weeks ago on how progressives should think and act in relation to the Obama presidency.

Znet Article Street: The "Violin Model"

Znet Article, November, 25 2008 Paul Street
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I have four interrelated questions for the editors of The New York Times.

Znet Article Street: "Brand Obama," "Brand Usa," And "The Audacity Of Marketing": Some Candid Reflections at Advertising Age

Znet Article, November, 18 2008 Paul Street
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Twenty-three years ago the clever anti-television writer Neil Postman dissected the authoritarian nightmare that is modern political advertising in the United States. The television commercial, Postman noted, is the antithesis of rational popular ...

Znet Article Street: The Narrow Spectrum and “The Obama Dividend”

Znet Article, November, 14 2008 Paul Street
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As Noam Chomsky has noted, the best way to see the narrow state-capitalist nature of the spectrum of acceptable debate in U.S. political and media culture is to examine content at the “leftmost” margins of what passes for “mainstream” opinion. It...

Znet Article Street: “Anyone Out There”? Reflections on the Obama Ascendancy and Progressive Surrender

Znet Article, November, 09 2008 Paul Street
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If I must peer into the crystal ball, then health care seems like a good first place to fight with a good shot at success. Corporations tend to have a stranglehold on social policy in this country and they are exasperated with their giant employee...

Znet Article Street: Barack Obama as a Ruling Class Candidate

Znet Article, November, 04 2008 Paul Street
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It is a welcome democratic development for people who previously felt disenfranchised to become engaged in the political process. And I have no doubt that expanded black turnout is going to be (I am writing on the Monday before the 2008 election) ...

Znet Article Street: Obama Nation: Sixteen Reasons*

Znet Article, October, 31 2008 Paul Street
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It would be an understatement to describe the cautious and traditionalist Obama as “not too far ahead.” He as been behind “the curve” of the U.S. populace on numerous key issues during his time in national politics. Karl Rove and other hard right...

Znet Article Street: Redistribute the Wealth? Yes (But Not What Obama Proposes)

Znet Article, October, 28 2008 Paul Street
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According to the “liberal” New York Times last Friday, John McCain’s fading chances of overtaking Barack Obama in the presidential election were increased to some degree by an “inopportune remark by Mr. Obama.” Obama’s bad statement was the “remar...

Znet Article Street: Why Barack Didn’t Hire Me: On Obama, Niebuhr, and the Manipulation of Populism by Elitism

Znet Article, October, 21 2008 Paul Street
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Maybe the Obama campaign should have hired me. They could have put me on tour and gotten me on CNN and FOX News and MSNBC, just like – and to counter- Jerome Corsi.

Znet Article Street: Proto-Fascism in the United States: Campaign Reflections

Znet Article, October, 16 2008 Paul Street
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Recently a radio talk-show host asked me if the John McCain-Sarah Palin campaign is being racist...

Znet Article Street: The Obama Phenomenon: An Interview with Paul Street by Adam Burke and Little Village*

Znet Article, October, 04 2008 Paul Street
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I figured Obama was a leading future presidential candidate after the Keynote Address – a very conservative speech. Once Kerry lost I considered that Obama would be irresistible for 2008 to certain sections of the power elite and much of the despe...

Znet Article Street: White America Lives in Vicious Racial Denial – The Obama Phenomenon Is Making It Worse

Znet Article, October, 02 2008 Paul Street
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I’d like to suggest a different headline for USA Today’s recent cover story on racial attitudes in the United States: “White America’s Head Still Up Ass on Race: Obama Not Helping.”

Znet Article Street: Profiles in Cowardice and Corruption: Why McCain and Obama are United in Weakness on the Financial Crisis

Znet Article, September, 25 2008 Paul Street
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The nation’s financial system is in the middle of a colossal crisis caused by massive fraud, idiocy, and greed at the upper reaches of the banking, insurance, and real estate industries. The arch-plutocratic Bush administration and Federal Reserv...

Znet Article Street: The Democrats, Obama, and the White Working Class

Znet Article, September, 16 2008 Paul Street
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Working class white people – critical to the outcome of the 2008 presidential election – are often more complex than many middle-class observers know.

Znet Article Street: ZNet Book Interview: Demystifying Obama

Znet Article, September, 02 2008 Paul Street
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The book is an attempt to demystify Barack Obama and understand his emergence and candidacy in the context of U.S. political culture and history. Everybody knows that the rise of Obama is loaded with relevance for American social and political hi...

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