ZNet Article
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.

Street's ZSpace page

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...
Street's ZSpace page

ZMag Article
The likely continuation of empire and inequality under "Brand Obama."

ZNet Article
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...

Street's ZSpace page

ZNet Article
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.

Street's ZSpace page

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...
Street's ZSpace page

ZNet Article
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”...

Street's ZSpace page

I am in NYC for the 92nd time but this is the first time to be on TV. On Wednesday I'm with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales on "Democracy Now:" http://www.democracynow.org/ Tomorrow I tape with...

ZNet Article
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...

Street's ZSpace page

ZNet Article
I have four interrelated questions for the editors of The New York Times.

Street's ZSpace page

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...
Street's ZSpace page

ZNet Article
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,...

Street's ZSpace page

I'm on Kansas City public radio tonight talking about the meaning of the Obama election and my study of the Obama phenomenon. I'll be on at 6 Midwestern time, which is 7 in the east, 4 in the west,...

ZNet Article
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...

Street's ZSpace page

ZNet Article
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...

Street's ZSpace page

ZNet Article
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...

Street's ZSpace page

ZNet Article
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...

Street's ZSpace page

With Sarah Palim, John McCain, and Sean Hannity et al. now absurdly suggesting that the ruling-class candidate Barack Obama is a "socialist," this is as good a time as any to re-post a satire I did...

ZNet Article
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...

Street's ZSpace page

ZNet Article
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.

Street's ZSpace page

ZNet Article
Recently a radio talk-show host asked me if the John McCain-Sarah Palin campaign is being racist...

Street's ZSpace page

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...
Street's ZSpace page

Dear readers, I have one remarkable quote for you and then two acts of shameless Chicago-area self-promotion. Here is the quote: "The world is not ending. Despite the wrenching turmoil in global...

ZNet Article
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...

Street's ZSpace page

ZNet Article
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.”

Street's ZSpace page

Think about this chilling story (pasted in below) from The Army Times in light of the deepening finanical-economic crisis, the possible imminent third straight theft of an election (by and for the...

ZNet Article
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...

Street's ZSpace page

In the presidential debate tonight, for what it's worth, I thought Obama was "on his game," such as it is. The debate had all the standard authoritarian ideological iimitis. No serious candidate...

I just got the following joke-junk e-mail from a "Henry Paulson." I did not make this up (I wish I had); it was actually in my e-mail inbox. Here it is:

Here's a depressing press release from Southwest Michigan on a "local" struggle that continues beneath and beyond the corporate-crafted candidate-centered quadrennial "that's politics" electoral...