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Paul Street's Blog

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Bio:   Paul Street is an independent radical-democratic policy researcher, journalist, historian, and speaker based in Iowa City, Iowa, and Chicago, Illinois.  He is the author ... (More)

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Capitalism's Faillure and "the So-Called 'Underemployment' Rate"

Capitalism's utter failure even to provide employment cannot be explicitly mentioned in the corporate media but here (pasted in below) are some ugly facts -- including a real U.S. unemployment rate of 17 percent: See the Associated Press report pasted in ... (More) Comments (2)

"Peace Prize? He's a Killer"

"Obama has only brought war to our country. Peace prize? He's a killer."... (More) Comments (0)

My Resoc Interview

Paul Street's Resoc Interview... (More) Comments (2)

Essential Reading

This (linked) essay by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson is essential reading - the best short summary/critique yet from the actual Left on the foreign policy of Re-Brand Obama. Note that it is also a devastating critique of what passes for progressive,... (More) Comments (0)

Every Day is Capital Day

The United States' "Labor Day" (yesterday) must have seemed ironic to the nation's expanding army of unemployed, ther vital human labor power deemed un-profitable and therefore unworthy of even minimal ransom-payment by the masters of capital. ... (More) Comments (0)

June 2008 Reflections on the Coming Deceptive Red- and Black-Baiting of Obama

I thought I would paste in the following two paragraphs (below) from the June 2008 preface to my book Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics. They seem rather germane to current events and to the difficulty involved in trying to criticize the ne... (More) Comments (0)

I'm Debating (On) Obama

I debate a liberal (and fellow Paradigm) author on the Obama phenomenon/presidency....Come on down if you are in or around Chicago. My opponent is a former student of Obama's at the University of Chicago Law School. ... (More) Comments (0)

Well Done, Paul Krugman

Nice Krugman column in New York Times today (pasted in below below). I remain miltiantlly pro-single-payer (pro- HR 676) and otherwise to Krugman's radical portside but this column is well done --- nicely crafted and on point. Note the comment on healt... (More) Comments (3)

A Washington Drug Deal and Reflections on Corporate-Managed Democracy

How mind-bogglingly pathetic is this (see linked story on drug industry's advance deal with corporate regime Democrats Barack Obama and Max Baucus)? I am reminded of Arundahti's Roy comment about western "representative democracy": "too much [corporate] r... (More) Comments (3)

"Big Business Is Even More Unpopular Than You Think"

I just found this essay (pasted in below) by Robert Weissman in the endnotes of William Greider's book Come Home, America(2008). It contains remarkable numbers on how much we supposedly "center-right" (United States of) Americans hate (i) big corporations... (More) Comments (0)