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    • Tuesday, Feb 02, 2010
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      Interview for New Left Project...
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    • Friday, Jan 29, 2010
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      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 away from one of my old "instructors' copies" of Zinn's masterpiece, A People's History of the United States, 1492-Present.
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    • Sunday, Jan 24, 2010
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      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 critical U.S. Senate post formerly held by leading liberal Democrat Teddy Kennedy in “liberal” Massachusetts. The remarkable Brown “upset” costs the Democrats their filibuster proof “super majority: (60 to 40) in the U.S. Senate, endangering the legislative viability Obama’s “health reform” – if that’s what we really want to call it (see below) – as currently constructed.
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    • Friday, Jan 15, 2010
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      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.
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    • Thursday, Jan 14, 2010
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      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 children, were killed in US air-raids in the southeast section of their country. The fighters reported the deaths of 63 people, 28 of whom were children, in the province of Abyan.
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    • Friday, Jan 08, 2010
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      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 pasted in
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    • Monday, Jan 04, 2010
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      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 that he preferred to think of himself "as one trying desperately to be the conscience of all the political parties, rather being a political candidate…I've just never thought of myself as a politician."[
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    • Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009
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      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.
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    • Monday, Dec 28, 2009
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      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 Peace.
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    • Tuesday, Dec 22, 2009
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      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 actions to an unprecedented (to use Obama’s favorite word [1]) degree as the president of “Yes we can” has morphed (as widely predicted on “hard left”) into the pallid symbol of “No We can’t – as the clarion of “change” has emerged as another Democratic office-holder whose outwardly progressive campaign pledges translate into corrupt, corporate and imperial nothingness in the real world of power.
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    • Thursday, Dec 17, 2009
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      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 United States’ first black president.
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    • Monday, Dec 14, 2009
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      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 the inventor of dynamite along with other deadly war materials.
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    • Sunday, Dec 13, 2009
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      "Obama has only brought war to our country. Peace prize? He's a killer."
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    • Saturday, Dec 05, 2009
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      Orin Kramer defines Obama's duty to America
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    • Thursday, Dec 03, 2009
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      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 Johnson to escalate the [ Vietnam ] war." [2] As Tom Engelhardt has pointed out, Obama's "civilian advisors" on Afghanistan include a large number of military men, all predisposed by career background and philosophy to advocate increased force levels. Did it really make sense to be surprised, Engelhardt wondered more than two months ago, that Obama would opt for more troops, money, and war when the president had "turn[ed] crucial war decisions over to the military…functionally turn[ing] our foreign policy over to them as well?"
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    • Sunday, Nov 29, 2009
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      “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.”
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    • Saturday, Nov 21, 2009
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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 was to ask “why?”
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    • Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009
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      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 progressive,
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    • Wednesday, Nov 04, 2009
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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 president’s popularity.
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    • Saturday, Oct 24, 2009
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      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.
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    • Thursday, Oct 22, 2009
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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), the Orwellian granting of the Nobel Peace Prize to Obama, Obama’s claim at the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh(where militarized police dispersed protesters with tear gas, pepper spray, batons, and an eardrum-piercing “crowd control” machine mounted in the turret of a tank) that Iran had been caught with a “secret nuclear weapons facility,” the U.S.-led burial of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Goldstone Report (on Israel’s war crimes in Gaza in late 2008 and early 2009), and the efforts U.S. negotiators to weaken rich nations’ commitment to serious carbon emission reduction measures at global climate meetings (held in late September and early October)in Bangkok.
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    • Saturday, Oct 10, 2009
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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.S....
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    • Thursday, Oct 08, 2009
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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 some happy reflections on Moore 's apparent ideological evolution. The mood darkens, however, as I raise unpleasant questions about the extent of Moore 's break with existing American power relations. I discuss two critical and related matters that exist in curious tension with Moore 's newly proclaimed rejection of the capitalist system (portrayed as a sin in his new flick): the President of the United States ' love affair with capitalism and Moore's continuing love affair with the President.
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    • Saturday, Sep 19, 2009
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      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.
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    • Friday, Sep 11, 2009
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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 Clintons) called “the essence of American politics” – “the manipulation of populism by elitism.” The president is a maestro at executing what former Clinton administration official David Rothokopf calls “the violin model,” under which “you hold power with the left hand and you play the music with the right.” In other words, “you” gain and keep office with populace-pleasing progressive-sounding rhetoric but govern in standard service to existing dominant corporate and military institutions.
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    • Tuesday, Sep 08, 2009
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      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.
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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 numbers voters and activists demonstrated in getting Barack Obama elected. The story was titled “Health Debate Fails to Ignite Obama’s Grass Roots.” It was sent in from the largely working-class town of Muscatine in the pivotal presidential-electoral state of Iowa, where Obama’s defeat of John Edwards and Hillary Clinton on January 3, 2008, made the viability of his quest to become the nation’s first black president crystal clear.
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    • Monday, Sep 07, 2009
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      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 criticize the ne
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    • Tuesday, Sep 01, 2009
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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 insurance system play in deepening the power of bosses over workers and closing off democratic space.
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