Paul Street

Empire's New Clothes (eBook, ePUB)

Barack Obama in the Real World of Power

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As Obama nears the middle of his first-term as president Paul Street assesses his performance against the expectations of his supporters. While mainstream journalists have noted discrepancies between Obama's original vision and reality, Paul Street uniquely measures Obama's record against the expectations of the truly progressive agenda many of his supporters expected him to follow. Taken together, the list of Obama's weakened policies is startling: his business-friendly measures with the economy, the lack of support for the growing mass of unemployed and poor, the dilution of his health reform agenda, the passage of a record-setting Pentagon budget, and escalation of US military violence in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Street's account reveals these and many other indications of how deeply beholden Obama is to existing dominant domestic and global hierarchies and doctrines.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317260547
• Artikelnr.: 44366723

Autorenporträt

Paul Street

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Business Rule as Usual
Chapter 2 Empire's New Clothes
Chapter 3 Corporate-Managed "Health Reform" (2009)
Chapter 4 Barack Obama, the Myth of the Postracial Presidency, and the Politics of Identity
Chapter 5 Big Brother Lives
Chapter 6 We Were Warned
Afterword
Postscript