“So,” people keep asking me, “how did ‘the Tea Party’ do” in last Tuesday’s historic mid-terms elections?[1] The answer: pretty damn…
Originally published at MR Zine: Freedom Restored: "We've Come to Take Our Country Back" by Paul Street The Republican and Tea Party…
“I Like Obama” Recently at a reception on a tour promoting my book The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama and the…
“No Matter Who You Put In, It’s the Same Thing” The Democrats are going to take a considerable hit in the…
I may throw up if I hear one more pundit refer to the Tea Party Republicans’ supposed demand for “small government.” …
“I’m Waiting, Sir, I’m Waiting” Last week an assertive middle class black woman named Velma Hart politely but pointedly got in…
PREDICTABLE MIND TORTURE The rhetoric of the imperial governing class is so predictable once you know the doctrinal codes. Here’s my…
* A shortened version of this talk (below) was given at Bluestockings Bookstore (NYC), the Wooden Shoe Bookstore (Philly), Busboys and Poets…
DRUG TESTREFLECTIONS Recently White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs’s railed against what he called “the professional left.” “I hear these people…
War Crime Whistleblower in Obama’s Sights, War Criminals Not Private First Class Bradley Manning, a 22 year old U.S. Army intelligence…
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