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Hopeless Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion
by Jeffrey St. Clair
Published by AK Press
320p, b&w, softcover, 6"x9"
$16.95
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"The election of Barack Obama sparked long-dormant tingles of optimism
in even the most entrenched political cynics. But the promise of an
Obama revolution fizzled out even before his inauguration, as the
president-in-waiting stocked his cabinet with corporate hacks, cut
secret deals with Wall Street titans and plotted a bloody escalation of
the senseless war in Afghanistan. Here is a scathing indictment of the
Obama presidency from the best writers on the American Left. Hopeless
is a view of Obama's policies from the trenches: the compromises, the
backstabbing, the same old imperial ambitions. From Obama's 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, this
fast-paced chronicle 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 famously quipped, "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."
is a view of Obama's policies from the trenches: the compromises, the
backstabbing, the same old imperial ambitions. From Obama's 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, this
fast-paced chronicle 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 famously quipped, "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."