ZNet
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- Friday, Feb 26, 2010
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Tuesday, Feb 23, 2010
ZNet Article 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... -
- Saturday, Feb 20, 2010
ZNet Article 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:... -
- Tuesday, Feb 02, 2010
ZNet Article Interview for New Left Project... -
- Sunday, Jan 24, 2010
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Friday, Jan 15, 2010
ZNet Article 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. -
- Thursday, Jan 14, 2010
ZNet Article 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... -
- Monday, Jan 04, 2010
ZNet Article 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... -
- Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009
ZNet Article 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. -
- Tuesday, Dec 22, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Thursday, Dec 17, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Monday, Dec 14, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Saturday, Dec 05, 2009
ZMag Article Orin Kramer defines Obama's duty to America -
- Sunday, Nov 29, 2009
ZNet Article “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.†-
- Saturday, Nov 21, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Wednesday, Nov 04, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Thursday, Oct 22, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Saturday, Oct 10, 2009
ZNet Article 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.... -
- Thursday, Oct 08, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Saturday, Sep 19, 2009
Audio An interview with Paul Street, one of Mr. Obama's earliest critics from the left, who had the opportunity back in Chicago to see him in action. Total runtime an hour and one minute. -
- Friday, Sep 11, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Tuesday, Sep 08, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Tuesday, Sep 01, 2009
ZMag Article Health reform prospects in the age of Obama ZNet Article 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... -
- Friday, Aug 28, 2009
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Sunday, Aug 23, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Saturday, Aug 15, 2009
ZNet Article 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.
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- Thursday, Aug 06, 2009
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Sunday, Jul 26, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Thursday, Jul 23, 2009
ZNet Article 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... - All ZNet
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Featured ZMag Articles
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- Saturday, Dec 05, 2009
ZMag Article Orin Kramer defines Obama's duty to America -
- Tuesday, Sep 01, 2009
ZMag Article Health reform prospects in the age of Obama -
- Friday, May 01, 2009
ZMag Article Tamped down populist anger versus a new popular movement -
- Wednesday, Jan 07, 2009
ZMag Article The likely continuation of empire and inequality under "Brand Obama." -
- Tuesday, Jan 01, 2008
ZMag Article The White House got it right when they initially gave their immoral incursion the acronym OIL (for Operation Iraqi Liberation). “Oil” is the main reason that a rapid and thorough U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and true Iraqi freedom and independence ar... -
- Saturday, Dec 01, 2007
ZMag Article Do you hate and/or fear the authoritarian, regressive, intolerant, messianic, militarist Republican Party? Would you like to see that terrible political organization swept into the dustbin of history? - All Featured ZMag Articles
Commentaries
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- Friday, Jan 29, 2010
Commentary The news of Howard Zinn's death hit me like a ton of bricks. I did not expect to cry and then about 10 minutes after getting the e-mail…it hit me - three times. The last time I looked down and saw that I was standing in my den about one foot aw... -
- Monday, Dec 28, 2009
Commentary The following remarks were delivered on Friday December 18, 2009, at 5 PM in front of the Wells Fargo Bank building in downtown Cedar Rapids, IA, after a vigil and march called by the Cedar Rapids branch of Socialist Alternative and Iowa Women for... -
- Thursday, Dec 03, 2009
Commentary War President Barack Obama's Afghan "surge" address from West Point [1] last night was unsurprising, given the fact that, as Alexander Cockburn has noted, "Obama has...surrounded himself with the same breed of intellectuals who persuaded Lyndon Jo... -
- Saturday, Oct 24, 2009
Commentary Imagine, if you will, a small, predominantly white city with growing poverty and crime in a small, highly segregated black section of its South East side. -
- Wednesday, Aug 12, 2009
Commentary The United States' "representative democracy," crippled by "too much [corporate and military] representation and too little [actual popular] democracy" (Arundhati Roy) abounds with Kafka-esque, Orwellian, and Vonneguttian absurdity. Take, for one... -
- Friday, Jun 26, 2009
Commentary Early last April the New York Times published an article with an ironic title: "In Cuba , Change Means More of the Same." This "news" item reported that "rather than dismantling Cuba 's socialist framework," Cuba 's President Raul Castro "seems t... -
- Friday, May 22, 2009
Commentary Here is a statement that may surprise some of my more regular readers (yes, all four of you): it's a good thing that Barack Obama won the presidential election last fall. -
- Wednesday, Apr 22, 2009
Commentary The liberal and progressive civil libertarians I know who strongly supported Barack Obama's "change" campaign last year are having a difficult time processing some deeply disturbing recent developments in Washington. -
- Monday, Mar 23, 2009
Commentary Recently I spoke to an acquaintance who happens to be a psychiatric nurse at a major hospital. She reports an epidemic of distraught people coming and brought into her facility's emergency room in the wake of mental breakdowns and, often, suicide... -
- Sunday, Mar 01, 2009
Commentary One of the many ways in which the United States' incipiently totalitarian corporate-managed democracy (see Sheldon Wolin, Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism [Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Pr... -
- Sunday, Jan 04, 2009
Commentary In the last week of 2008, Palestinian children in Gaza were blown apart by Israeli bombs and missiles. The air machinery used to kill those children - including American-made F-16s and Blackhawk helicopters - was supplied by the United States. -
- Friday, Dec 12, 2008
Commentary As we prepare for the historic presidential inauguration of the formerly Chicago-based politician Barack Obama, two recent Chicago news stories deserve consideration in relation to the fate of American democracy and hopes for change under the next... -
- Tuesday, Nov 25, 2008
Commentary In a recent Times column and on "P"BS's News Hour, the Republican Brooks heaped praise on the members of the Obama transition team ("more impressive than any other in recent memory," he says) for being "pragmatic" and "not ideological." He also a... -
- Monday, Oct 13, 2008
Commentary According to a recent article in the Chicago Tribune, some voters in the critical political battleground state of Pennsylvania are leaning towards Barack Obama because economic matters are trumping candidate "character" in determining their choice... -
- Wednesday, Sep 17, 2008
Commentary John McCain's selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate is one of the most transparently crass and cynical moves in United States political history. - All Commentaries
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Paul Street's Bio Info
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My ZSpace FriendsRecent Friends MessagesBlogs-
- Friday, Jan 08, 2010
Blog Post Capitalism's utter failure even to provide employment cannot be explicitly mentioned in the corporate media but here (pasted in below) are some ugly facts -- including a real U.S. unemployment rate of 17 percent: See the Associated Press report pa... -
- Sunday, Dec 13, 2009
Blog Post "Obama has only brought war to our country. Peace prize? He's a killer." -
- Thursday, Dec 03, 2009
Blog Post Paul Street's Resoc Interview -
- Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009
Blog Post This (linked) essay by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson is essential reading - the best short summary/critique yet from the actual Left on the foreign policy of Re-Brand Obama. Note that it is also a devastating critique of what passes for prog... -
- Tuesday, Sep 08, 2009
Blog Post The United States' "Labor Day" (yesterday) must have seemed ironic to the nation's expanding army of unemployed, ther vital human labor power deemed un-profitable and therefore unworthy of even minimal ransom-payment by the masters of capital. -
- Monday, Sep 07, 2009
Blog Post I thought I would paste in the following two paragraphs (below) from the June 2008 preface to my book Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics. They seem rather germane to current events and to the difficulty involved in trying to criticiz... -
- Tuesday, Aug 25, 2009
Blog Post I debate a liberal (and fellow Paradigm) author on the Obama phenomenon/presidency....Come on down if you are in or around Chicago. My opponent is a former student of Obama's at the University of Chicago Law School. -
- Friday, Aug 21, 2009
Blog Post Nice Krugman column in New York Times today (pasted in below below). I remain miltiantlly pro-single-payer (pro- HR 676) and otherwise to Krugman's radical portside but this column is well done --- nicely crafted and on point. Note the comment ... -
- Thursday, Aug 06, 2009
Blog Post How mind-bogglingly pathetic is this (see linked story on drug industry's advance deal with corporate regime Democrats Barack Obama and Max Baucus)? I am reminded of Arundahti's Roy comment about western "representative democracy": "too much [corp... -
- Monday, Aug 03, 2009
Blog Post I just found this essay (pasted in below) by Robert Weissman in the endnotes of William Greider's book Come Home, America(2008). It contains remarkable numbers on how much we supposedly "center-right" (United States of) Americans hate (i) big corp... - All Blogs
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- Sunday, Jan 31, 2010
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- Thursday, Sep 24, 2009
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Recent Books-
- Monday, Sep 01, 2008
Book Many Americans believe Barack Obama represents a hopeful future for America. But does he also reflect the American politics of the past? This book offers the broadest and best-informed understanding on the meaning of the “Obama phenomenon” to date. - All Recent Books
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