Five Key Lessons Beyond the Gnashing of Radical Teeth

This essay is long but well worth it.


The Dawning Age of Obama as a Potentially Teach-able Moment for The Left
Five Key Lessons Beyond the Gnashing of Radical Teeth

May 30, 2009 By Paul Street

LEGITIMATE LEFT ANGER

There has been a lot of left-wing teeth-gnashing over the policies of the United States' fake-progressive president Barack Obama. Left-progressives' anger with the Obama administration is understandable given the new White House's actions to (for example):

* Significantly expand the reach and intensity of imperial violence (replete with the mass slaughter of civilians and the related escalation of targeted assassinations) in South Asia.

* Promote a notorious assassin and death-squad leader (Lt. General Stanley A McChrystal - former chief of the military's special Joint Special Operations Command) to the position of Commander of U.S. Forces in the newly merged "Af-Pak" war theater. <1>

* Sustain the criminal occupation of Iraq beneath rhetoric of withdrawal. <2>

* Increase "defense" (empire) spending, consistent with the following statement in a report issued by the leading Wall Street investment firm Morgan Stanley one day after Obama's presidential election victory: "As we understand it, Obama has been advised and agrees that there is no peace dividend."<3>

link below


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Other section titles include:

Beyond Surprise and Disappointment: Previous Warnings and a Teachable Moment

LESSON # 1: BEYOND LAISSEZ-FAIRE MYTHOLOGY: STATE POLICY FOR WHOM?
The Left Hand vs. the Right Hand of the State

What Government "Can" and "Can't" Pay For

"The Government Has Plenty of Money to Spend When the Right People Want It"

LESSON # 2: WHAT IS SOCIALISM?

LESSON # 3: THE BIPARTISAN NATURE OF AMERICAN EMPIRE AND INEQUALITY, INC.

LESSON # 4: THE DEEPER RACISM

"They All Said No"

LESSON # 5: THE "URGENT TASK" BEYOND THE MADDENING CORPORATE-CRAFTED CANDIDATE-CENTERED QUADRENNIAL ELECTION TRAP

"I Don't Think He's Worried About the Left"

"What Exists of a Popular Left..."

"Obama Has Whipped Them, But Good"

"Smarter Things to Do" Than "Taking to the Streets"

"Progressives Can Only Hope..."

"EDUCATORS" ON THE RIGHT


Here is the link:
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/21576


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