Sneak peek at Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion
We’re still recovering from our exciting weekend at Left Forum (full reportback forthcoming!) but just a quick post to let you know that we just received the first advance cases of Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion, edited by Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank! It looks just fantastic … the cover is by Tim Simons of Front Group Design, and it’s really incredibly striking.
This collection is both impressive and timely. It’s is a scathing indictment of the Obama presidency from the best writers on the American Left. A view of Obama’s policies from the trenches: the compromises, the backstabbing, the same old imperial ambitions. From the sell-outs to big oil and the nuclear industry to his continuation of savage Bush-era policies in the CIA’s global network of secret prisons, our hope is that this book will outrage the politically naive, delight the critical, and inspire those looking for an alternative to the dismal politics of lesser evilism. As Emma Goldman said, “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” Let this book stand as a painful reminder to those who think anything less than social struggle will net tangible gain.
Below you’ll find a sneak peek at the Table of Contents … and here’s a link to preorder your copy today. Cases of books are on their way to California right now, and we’ll mail out preorders just as soon as they arrive!
Prelude: Barack Obama, Changeling
Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank
Marketing Hope
Kevin Alexander Gray
Obama’s Money Cartel
Pam Martens
A Kettle of Hawks
Jeremy Scahill
Obama’s Israel Problem
Joshua Frank
From Oscar Grant to Barack Obama
Ron Jacobs
AIG and the System
Jeffrey St. Clair
Orwell in Baghdad
Chris Floyd
A Redneck View of Obamarama
Joe Bageant
Obama and Abortion Rights
Sharon Smith
From State Secrets to Wiretaps
Sibel Edmonds
Obama and the Man in the Hat
Jeffrey St. Clair
The Wall Street White House
Andrew Cockburn
The Honduran Coup
Conn Hallinan
Obama’s Immigration Reforms
Wajahat Ali
The Wolf at Trout Creek
Jeffrey St. Clair
Obama’s Mistakes in Health Care Reform
Vicente Navarro
The Afghan War Question
Franklin Spinney
Obama and Nuclear Power
Joshua Frank and Jeffrey St. Clair
The Novocaine Presidency
Kevin Alexander Gray
Obama’s War for Oil in Colombia
Daniel Kovalik
Blowback of the Drones
Gary Leupp
America the Pacified
Kathy Kelly
Kagan’s Disturbing Record
Marjorie Cohn
Obama and the Nuclear Rocket
Karl Grossman
Torturing the Rule of Law
Chase Madar
Eat, Pray, Be Disappointed
Paul Krassner
Let Them Eat Oil
Jeffrey St. Clair
Obama’s Sellout on Taxes
Michael Hudson
Obama and Rendition
Steve Hendricks
The Murdered Women of Juarez
Laura Carlsen
Obama’s Puzzling Silence
Ralph Nader
Inside Obamanomics
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
The US as Israel’s Enabler in the Middle East
Kathleen Christison
Obama the Deregulationist
Andrew Levine
Monsanto’s Minions
Ronnie Cummins
The Torture of Bradley Manning
Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis
Winding Down Obama
Linh Dinh
Sexual Politics in the Age of Obama
David Rosen
What Has Bin Laden’s Killing Wrought?
Ray McGovern
Much Ado About Nothing
Alvaro Huerta
The Obama Administration and Iran
Sasan Fayazmanesh
Obama’s Nuclear Weapons Surge
Darwin Bond-Graham
Friends Without Benefits
David Macaray
War Colleges
Henry Giroux
Politics as the Earth Burns
Brian Tokar
Obama’s Attack on Social Security and Medicare
Dave Lindorff
Obama’s Assault on Civil Liberties
Bill Quigley
Top Ten Myths in the War on Libya
Maximilian Forte
War and Debt
Michael Hudsen
Perpetual War
Tariq Ali
Guantánamo, Torture and Obama’s Surrenders
Andy Worthington
Obama and the Economy
Mike Whitney
The Audacity of Dope
Fred Gardner
Black Backlash Against Obama
Linn Washington, Jr.
Coda: Occupy the System
Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank