Thanks, Obama: You Lie

Counterpunch, August 20, 2020 Record-Setting Absurdity and Mendacity The malignant fascist sociopath Donald Trump lies so voluminously and absurdly that many Americans will believe he said or Tweeted almost anything, no matter how offensive and ridiculous. Every few months for the last three years I’ve been making up off-the-wall Trump statements and sending them out [...]

By |2020-10-19T09:32:02-05:00October 17th, 2020|Articles, Barack Obama, Politics, Racial Equity|

Whispers in the Asylum (Seven Days in August)

Counterpunch, August 14, 2020 Hollow Resistance: The Antidote to Obama Nostalgia Syndrome The deadly ObamaLust Virus is ironically intensified by the fascist Amerikaner presidency the corporate-imperial Barack Obama helped hatch and empower. Here is an antidote that has passed with flying colors through all the testing trials: Paul Street, Hollow Resistance: Obama, Trump, and the Politics [...]

By |2020-10-17T16:28:58-05:00October 17th, 2020|Articles, Politics, Racial Equity|

Recent Interviews on “Hollow Resistance: Trump, Obama, and the Politics of Appeasement”

Tired of reading Paul Street? Listen to him instead! Rising Up with Sonali (Kolhatkar), Pacifica Radio and Free Speech TV, September 24, 2020:  https://vimeo.com/461576221, September 24, 2020. Counterpunch Radio with Eric Draitser, October 2, 2020: https://store.counterpunch.org/category/counterpunch-radio-podcasts/ Green and Red with Bob Buzzanco and Scott Parkin, October 2, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CP4BPPzh9I&fbclid=IwAR3Ll2mG-XeHWZPnmwspsv2KWuRvfhb0aJYjjDzxKD0Ejk6YwBvFCT9WvIA Rob Johnson, Institute for New Economic [...]

By |2020-10-17T16:21:37-05:00October 17th, 2020|Articles, Barack Obama, Politics, Racial Equity|

On Imperial Beginnings

I resist the tendency to see the contemporary United States’ many harsh inequalities[1] and crimes[2] as radical departures from the nation’s (supposed) noble and democratic origins. Look at the nation’s founding document, The Declaration of Independence, issued on July 4, 1776. It’s not for nothing that radical democrats cite it in opposition to plutocratic polices [...]

By |2010-07-21T19:11:30-05:00July 6th, 2010|Politics|

Silly Goose Expectations: Reflections on Frustrated Left-Liberal Hopes and the Obama Administration

What matters is not who’s sitting in the White House. What matters is who’s sitting in. – Howard Zinn Who will save “the progressive movement,” such as it is [1], from the blathering of Robert Kuttner? According to a recent story on National “Public” Radio, leading “disappointed,” “frustrated” and “betrayed”  American “progressives” are reflecting on the (not-so) [...]

By |2013-07-03T21:22:30-05:00June 14th, 2010|Barack Obama, Politics|
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