Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion

Content: 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 / Vincente 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 Columbia / 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 as deregulationist / Andrew Levine --
Monsanto\'s minions / Rommie 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 / Susan 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 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.