Zcom_simple

Back Search Results - New Search

Znet Article Street: Things Not Heard in Obama’s Acceptance Speech

Znet Article, August, 30 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

Barack Obama’s grandiose oration before 84,000 listeners at the Democratic National Convention in Denver last Thursday night was a masterpiece in the combined arts of mass propaganda and managed democracy...

Znet Article Street: The Madness of Jerome Corsi

Znet Article, August, 24 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

To fully understand right-wing hatchet man Jerome R. Corsi’s new neo-McCarthyite book “The Obama Nation” (New York: Threshold, 2008), you have to differentiate between the accurate, the wacky, and the vile in his presentation.

Znet Article Street: Big Brother McBush: “Nations Don’t Invade Other Nations in the 21st Century”

Znet Article, August, 19 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

George Orwell Bush strikes yet again. And the “liberal” media and inauthentic opposition of the Democratic Party offer no relevant corrections, as has so often been the case over the last eight years.

Znet Article Street: If Obama Loses

Znet Article, August, 17 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

I have no idea what’s going to happen in November. This presidential election is even more difficult to call than the last two, thanks in part to race.

Znet Article Street: Brave New America: On Corporate Totalitarianism, Electoralist Passivity, and Inauthentic Opposition

Znet Article, August, 14 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

My forthcoming book “Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics” (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, August 2008) exposes Barack Obama as a conservative, corporate, militarist Democrat posing as a democratic progressive. It provides a detaile...

Znet Article Street: Letters of No Apology

Znet Article, August, 01 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

Recently Obama was asked by CNN’s Candy Crowley if “there's anything that's happened in the past 7 1/2 years that the U.S. needs to apologize for in terms of foreign policy?” Obama responded by saying, “No, I don’t believe in the U.S. apologizing....

Znet Article Street: Obama Does Berlin

Znet Article, July, 28 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

Reflecting the increasing Americanization of their continent’s politics [1], “progressive” European commentators and politicos have been gushing over U.S. Senator Obama’s (D-IL) speech before 200,000 people in Berlin. Never mind that the speech c...

Znet Article Street: From JFK to Obama: Shared Service to “the Triple Evils That Are Interrelated”

Znet Article, July, 23 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

In completing a recent book on the Barack Obama phenomenon, I found much to dispute in the Obama campaign’s description and marketing of the junior U.S. Senator from Illinois. Among the more dubious aspects of his biography and “branding” that I c...

Znet Article Street: Statehouse Days: The Myth of Barack Obama’s “True Progressive” Past

Znet Article, July, 19 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

The extent to which many “liberal left” Democrats and hard-right Republicans will go to convince themselves and/or others that Barack Obama is really a left progressive is quite remarkable. “Oh sure,” they say when you point out that Obama is a co...

Znet Article Street: Because He’s Black: Race, the Ruling Class, the Left, and Obama

Znet Article, July, 16 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

Recently I had a conversation with a Left friend who agrees with me that the Democratic Party’s ever-more right-leaning presidential nominee Barack Obama is a corporate-sponsored militarist who can be expected to betray his best peaceful- and popu...

Znet Article Street: The Audacity of Imperial Airbrushing: Barack Obama’s Whitewashed History of U.S. Foreign Policy and Why it Matters

Znet Article, July, 05 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

Under the rules of “mainstream” political discourse in the United States, crimes are committed by evil others, never by noble “America.” Bad things are done by “them,” but not by “us.” “They” often have malevolent intent but “we” are fundamental...

Znet Article Street: Obama “Shift to the Center” and the Narrow Authoritarian Spectrum in U.S. Politics

Znet Article, June, 30 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

The pronounced rightward drift of the American “mainstream” political and ideological spectrum is on vivid display as we begin to approach the climax of the latest corporate-crafted quadrennial presidential election extravaganza.

Znet Article Street: “Man” Versus “Nature?” The Politics of the Iowa Floods

Znet Article, June, 24 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

Having served my hours on the sandbag lines, I am perhaps entitled to say a thing or two about the Iowa and Midwestern floods of 2008 – the ones that displaced 24,000 people from their homes in Cedar Rapids and thousands more in towns like Waterlo...

Znet Article Street: News Flash: Obama Lies

Znet Article, June, 21 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

Just the other day Obama coldly contradicted his earlier promise to go with money from the U.S. presidential public financing system and to accept accompanying spending limits if his Republican opponent did the same. He admitted that he will rely ...

Znet Article Street: “No More Excuses”: Putting Obama’s Blackness to Racist Use

Znet Article, June, 15 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

It is a sign of a certain sort of very real historical progress that a black person has a real shot at the United States presidency. Still, Barack Obama’s ascendancy is not as good for American race relations [1] as some progressives and left lib...

Znet Article Street: A Message to American Military Personnel: Bring the War Home

Znet Article, May, 22 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

The ongoing United States invasion of Iraq has cost the lives of more than 4,000 American soldiers and 1.2 million Iraqis. The Democratic-majority U.S. Senate has just (20 minutes ago as I write this essay on the afternoon of May 22, 2008) passe...

Znet Article Street: The Nation’s Leading Moral Issues: Empire and Inequality

Znet Article, May, 17 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

The closer we get to the general United States presidential election, the more we can expect to hear about “moral issues” and the role they play alongside and/or against “economic” (or “pocketbook), “national security” (foreign policy) and/or iden...

Znet Article Street: Hidden Revolutionary Sentiment in the Heartland – a Reason for HOPE*

Znet Article, May, 02 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

Since its May 1st, the official day of international working class revolution...

Znet Article Street: The Pastor v. the Politician

Znet Article, April, 30 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

I’ve been talking to some white people who are shocked and appalled that their nice white-soothing Barack Obama and big bad white-scaring Reverend Jeremiah Wright could ever have been close to one another.

Znet Article Street: Leading Democrats: “Expropriate the Expropriators”

Znet Article, April, 27 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

Tired of defending their business-friendly and state-capitalist policy proposals against Republicans’ insistent description of them as weapons of radical Leftist “class warfare,” the leading Democratic candidates for the United States presidency h...

Znet Article Street: Trapped by Their Own Militarism? Democrats Bare Their Back for the American Right

Znet Article, April, 27 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

I recently received an interesting mailing from my “progressive” Congressman David Loebsack (D, IA). Loebsack is a “liberal” Democrat who rode antiwar sentiment into the United States House of Representatives last year.

Znet Article Street: Establishment Politics in “Rebel’s Clothing:” Corporate Power, Populist Pandering, and the Ironies of Identity in the Democratic Presidential Race

Znet Article, April, 26 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

John Edwards’ “left-leaning” (Nagourney 2007) attempt to run for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in the name of ordinary working people and against corporate rule and “the privileged few” faces three interrelated obstacles. His fi...

Znet Article Street: Race and Class in the Democratic Primaries

Znet Article, April, 24 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

Race matters a great deal in the United States, but its workings are intricately tied up with class...

Znet Article Street: Democrats See Progress in Iraq: Reflections on Moral Failure and Progressive Naiveté

Znet Article, April, 24 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

Recently I was speaking to a liberal Iowan peace and justice advocate who told me she was “disappointed” and “surprised” by the leading Democratic presidential candidates. The source of her dismay was a front-page New York Times article showing t...

Znet Article Street: "No Refuge But in Audacity”: Barack Obama and the Democratic Party’s Holocaust Denial

Znet Article, April, 22 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

In February of 2008, Barack Obama received some interesting commentary from a curious source: David Duke...

Znet Article Street: Who’s Aims in What “Global War on Terror?”*

Znet Article, April, 21 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

A speech delivered at the Plenary Session of the 2008 Midwestern Meetings of the Campus Antiwar Network.

Znet Article Street: Jonathan Alter: Liberal Racist, Obama Fan

Znet Article, March, 31 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

Newsweek’s celebrated “liberal” columnist Jonathan Alter is a victim-blaming racist of the worst kind – the sort who cloaks his racially offensive comments in outwardly sensitive prose claiming to express concern for racial justice and black America.

Znet Article Street: Obama’s Latest "Beautiful Speech"

Znet Article, March, 21 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

I just read Barack Obama’s Latest Greatest Speech – his celebrated address on race, titled “A More Perfect Union” [1], yesterday (I am writing on the morning of March 19 2008), in Philadelphia.

Znet Article Street: The Audacity of Reaction

Znet Article, March, 18 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

As I’ve been saying since one day after the 2004 speech that made him the leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, Barack Obama is a walking delusion and deception machine.

Znet Article Street: The Narrow Spectrum and Identity Politics: Obama’s “Puzzlement,” Invisible Primaries, and the Trivialization of U.S. Politics

Znet Article, March, 15 2008 Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page

According to the New York Times, Barack Obama recently told reporters that he was “puzzled at how, after more than a year of campaigning, race and sex are at the forefront as never before” (1). The comment came after Geraldine Ferraro was forced t...

Loading_border