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Znet Article Street: Nader, The Clintons, Obama, Gore, and Edwards

Znet Article, March, 06 2008 Paul Street
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I live in a contested state in the presidential election (Iowa). At the same time, I view the Republican Party as too dangerous and extremist not to try to prevent from keeping the White House (the most powerful and potentially destructive and ma...

Znet Article Street: “Hail Hillary!” Clinton, Obama and the Militarization of U.S. Politics

Znet Article, March, 05 2008 Paul Street
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I am writing on the chilly morning after Hillary Clinton’s presidential primary victories in Ohio, Texas, and Rhode Island. If my perusal of media coverage last night and early today is any indication, the depressing militarization of United Stat...

Znet Article Street: Obama’s Good and “Proper” War

Znet Article, March, 04 2008 Paul Street
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Throughout his Senate career and the presidential campaign, the supposed “peace candidate” Barack Obama has reassured the U.S. foreign policy establishment of his willingness to stay firmly within the spectrum of acceptable imperial opinion by voi...

Znet Article Street: “Calibrating” HOPE in the Effort to “Patrol the Commons”: Samantha Power and the Hidden Imperial Reality of Barack Obama *

Znet Article, February, 25 2008 Paul Street
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A small part of the dark and hidden imperial reality behind the supposedly peace-oriented Barack Obama phenomenon showed itself to those willing to see when leading Obama foreign policy advisor and celebrated Harvard Professor Samantha Power appea...

Znet Article Street: A Fine Democracy

Znet Article, February, 24 2008 Paul Street
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Recent developments should give pause to those who believe in the capacity of American political culture to temper the United States’ propenrity to attack and oppress world neighbors. Two years ago, broad U.S. citizen disgust with Dick Cheney and ...

Znet Article Street: A Message From The American Corporate Plutocracy

Znet Article, February, 04 2008 Paul Street
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I was watching "American Idol" and trying to balance my checkbook...

Znet Article Street: The Cynicism of Hope

Znet Article, January, 28 2008 Paul Street
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If you like cynicism in politics, you’ve got to love Barack Obama. There’s nothing naïve or fanciful about the way he says one thing to one audience and another thing to a different voter or funding group. It’s all about cold calculation under th...

Znet Article Street: Clintons-Obama and the "Over" Struggle for Black Equality

Znet Article, January, 19 2008 Paul Street
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Recently the United States ' idiocy-inducing narrow-spectrum political culture scraped the moral and intellectual bottom on race. It started when Hillary Clinton made a curious remark in criticizing the effectiveness of Barack Obama's "soaring rhe...

Znet Article Street: “Mired In Delusion”: The New Hampshire Democratic Primary and the Abject Idiocy of U.S. Political Culture

Znet Article, January, 10 2008 Paul Street
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During last Saturday night’s Democratic presidential candidate debate in New Hampshire, Edwards made the tactical decision to ally himself with Barack Obama and “change” and against the corporate “establishment” represented by Hillary and Bill Cli...

Znet Article Street: Heart of Stone: Post Caucus Reflections

Znet Article, January, 07 2008 Paul Street
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Last Thursday night, a record number of disproportionately middle-class and white Democrats went to the critical Iowa Caucuses to proclaim “the king is dead, long live the king.” The deceased sovereign is the elitist neo-Hamiltonian corporate-imp...

Znet Article Street: Goodbye Dennis:

Znet Article, January, 03 2008 Paul Street
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For some time now, I’ve been giving a quiet and indirect sort of tribute to Dennis Kucinich. I’ve been praising him for backing progressive policy proposals and initiatives that “mainstream” (corporate) Democrats refuse to embrace: single-payer h...

Znet Article Street: Why I’ve Focused On Obama: Seven Points

Znet Article, December, 29 2007 Paul Street
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A reader recently wrote to ask me why I have spent so much energy penning Left criticisms of the pseudo-progressive Barack Obama phenomenon (1). What, the reader wanted to know, about the other leading mainstream Democratic presidential candidates...

Znet Article Street: Looking for Bill Clinton in Columbus Junction:

Znet Article, December, 24 2007 Paul Street
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Columbus Junction is a small Iowa town located about 35 miles south of Iowa City in the rolling hills of Louisa County. I went there last Friday to ask Bill Clinton a question about his wife’s position on the United States’ colonial occupation of ...

Znet Article Street: “Angry John” v. KumbayObama

Znet Article, December, 20 2007 Paul Street
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For many following the Democratic presidential race in the pivotal early Caucus state of Iowa, there’s a disconcerting disconnect between the reality on the ground and the treatment you see in dominant media. Watching national television and read...

Znet Article Street: Note to Liberals: The Right Does Not Hate "Government"

Znet Article, December, 17 2007 Paul Street
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Maybe it's some sort of "progressive victory" that "Daily Kos" publisher Markos Moulitsas is a contributing columnist at the longstanding "mainstream" (corporate) media outlet Newsweek magazine. That's what a liberal I know tells me. I wouldn't re...

Znet Article Street: Obama Speaks: "Oh Great White Masters, You Just Haven’t Been Asked to Help America"

Znet Article, December, 11 2007 Paul Street
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Maybe it’s because Barack Obama and his handlers are sensitive to the need to reassure ruling forces that the “first black United States president” will not challenge existing hierarchies.

Znet Article Street: Barack Obama and The Audacity of Deception

Znet Article, December, 09 2007 Paul Street
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All mainstream United States politicians regularly purvey falsehoods big and small, but United States Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) and his campaign lie and deceive with distinctively nauseating chutzpah.

Znet Article Street: The Obama Disease

Znet Article, December, 09 2007 Paul Street
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America 's "most popular politician" Barack Obama has hitched his campaign on a munificent pledge to save the Republic by overcoming the terrible divisions between "red state" (white-patriarchal and more rural and evangelical and militarist) Repub...

Znet Article Street: "Dead Man Talking”: Shocking Allegations and Ongoing Investigations

Znet Article, October, 26 2007 Paul Street
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Sparked by recent allegations that Public Broadcasting System (PBS) News hour host Jim Lehrer died more than four years and seven months ago, political and medical investigators are monitoring the appearance, life signs, and behavior of a number o...

Znet Article Street: The Animal Farm At Home:

Znet Article, October, 23 2007 Paul Street
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If you want to know how dangerously narrow and rightward the dominant doctrinal spectrum is in the United States, look at what passes for that nation

Znet Article Street: Obama's Role: To Confuse and Divide the Progressive Base

Znet Article, October, 19 2007 Paul Street
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Hillary Clinton can get as irritated with Barack Obama as she wants. The truth is she owes him big time. He

Znet Article Street: "For the Children": Class, Race, Place, and Late Capitalist Eco-Enclosure in Benton Harbor

Znet Article, September, 23 2007 Paul Street
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"One of the great ...

Znet Article Street: You Can Make a Difference: an Antiwar Speech

Znet Article, September, 11 2007 Paul Street
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You Can Make a Difference: an Antiwar Speech

Znet Article Street: Democratic Iraq Betrayal: Treachery on the Campaign Trail

Znet Article, August, 15 2007 Paul Street
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Democratic Iraq Betrayal: Treachery on the Campaign Trail

Znet Article Street: What is Racism? Reflections From Global Chicago

Znet Article, August, 01 2007 Paul Street
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What is Racism? Reflections From Global Chicago

Znet Article Street: Running Dog Obama

Znet Article, July, 29 2007 Paul Street
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Barack Obama's most recent attempt to prove his Harvard-certified safety to the doctrinal gatekeepers of the U.S. foreign policy establishment ought to make it clear once and for all that he is what the Maoists used to call a "running dog lackey o...

Znet Article Street: A RESPONSE TO TOM HARKIN et al.:

Znet Article, July, 23 2007 Paul Street
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A RESPONSE TO TOM HARKIN et al.:

Znet Article Street: Rational Fears and "Gut Feelings:" U.S. Policy, the Middle East and the Privileging of Hegemony Over Survival

Znet Article, July, 21 2007 Paul Street
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Rational Fears and "Gut Feelings:" U.S. Policy, the Middle East and the Privileging of Hegemony Over Survival

Znet Article Street: The Courage of Their Convictions: Confronting Criminal Trespass with the Iowa Occupation Project

Znet Article, July, 13 2007 Paul Street
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The Courage of Their Convictions: Confronting Criminal Trespass with the Iowa Occupation Project

Znet Article Street: Libby, Bush-Cheney and Impeachment: Don't "Move On"

Znet Article, July, 09 2007 Paul Street
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Libby, Bush-Cheney and Impeachment: Don't "Move On"

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