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Znet Article Street: Addicted to Empire, Not Middle Eastern Oil

Znet Article, February, 08 2006 Paul Street
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I am in the middle of my usual George Orwell-inspired dissection of the George W. Bush's "State of the Union" address (SOUA). A soon-to-be-published ZNet commentary of mine will grace readers with my critical analysis of how Bush...

Znet Article Street: Thomas Friedman and the Murder of Civilians

Znet Article, January, 05 2006 Paul Street
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Maybe New York Times columnist and corporate globalization champion Thomas Friedman should consult his paper’s news desk before crafting his creepy, power-worshipping editorials.  THE UNITED STATES AS A BENEVOLENT “ELEPHANTâ̈́...

Znet Article Street: The People Are Unfit to Rule: The Ideological Meaning of Maury Povich and Jerry Springer

Znet Article, January, 03 2006 Paul Street
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One morning last Fall I witnessed a mass-cultural war crime in the comfort of my own living room: The Maury Povich Show.  It was an engrossing episode. A married couple was waiting for Povich’s paternity testers to come in with the verdi...

Znet Article Street: The Face of Sacrifice

Znet Article, December, 30 2005 Paul Street
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The Face of Sacrifice

Znet Article Street: "Nothing to Worry About": Orwellian Family Values Made Banal at USA Today

Znet Article, December, 18 2005 Paul Street
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A NEW "FIRST" FOR BUSH Sometimes you've got to wonder if newspaper managers are deliberately trying to numb readers with Orwellian madness.  For an example of what I mean you can consult the top page of last Tuesday's "USA Today," the "national...

Znet Article Street: Letter to the Friends of a Fallen Soldier

Znet Article, December, 11 2005 Paul Street
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Does it dishonor the memory of a fallen U.S. soldier to argue that he or she was unjustly sacrificed in George W. Bush's criminal war on Iraq? That is the accusation I have been receiving from one such soldier's friends in the wake of an article...

Znet Article Street: Normalizing Evil on the Local News

Znet Article, December, 07 2005 Paul Street
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Watching the Ten O'Clock News from Rockford, Illinois a few nights ago, I learned about the death of Andrew Patten.  A graduate of the public high school in nearby Byron, Illinois, Patten is one of ten United States Marines killed by an anti-occup...

Znet Article Street: To All Who Wear the Uniform

Znet Article, December, 04 2005 Paul Street
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It's getting hard not to notice that most of president Bush's major speeches are being delivered in military forums - at bases, war colleges, naval academies, and the like.  It makes sense.  A rising percentage of the U.S. citizenry - 62 percent...

Znet Article Street: Antonio Gramsci on Sesame Street

Znet Article, November, 28 2005 Paul Street
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The hegemonic ideology of the ruling class, Antonio Gramsci once observed, becomes all too much like the "air we breathe." It comes to define the "common sense"of ordinary daily consciouness and experience, with tragic consequences all around.  ...

Znet Article Street: An Anti-War Speech in Martin Luther King Commons

Znet Article, November, 04 2005 Paul Street
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A small part of the November 2nd national day of action against the Bush-Cheney administration, a shortened version of the following speech was delivered in the "Martin Luther Kings Jr. Commons" at Northern Illinois University: I want to applaud...

Znet Article Street: Bill Clinton Was No Champion of the Poor

Znet Article, September, 30 2005 Paul Street
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"We Had a Different Policy" It's interesting to see former Democratic President William Jefferson Clinton speaking for the poor and against those who would distribute wealth yet further upward in America. Two Saturdays ago, Clinton told ABC News ...

Znet Article Street: Marching Without Illusion

Znet Article, September, 24 2005 Paul Street
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I regret being unable to attend the antiwar demonstrations in Washington D.C. today.  It’s important to make visible large-scale American dissent from the American government’s bloody, illegal, immoral, and brazenly imperialist occ...

Znet Article Street: Framing Katrina

Znet Article, September, 13 2005 Paul Street
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The Personal brilliant and prolific left sociologist C. Wright Mills once said that the core purpose of meaningful analytical work on social and political affairs was to make relevant connections between individual pain and structural inequality. ...

Znet Article Street: Bush, China, Two Deficits, and the Ongoing Decline of U.S. Hegemony

Znet Article, July, 27 2005 Paul Street
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How about that wild and wacky world capitalist system? The United States (U.S.) is clearly the world’s “hegemonic” military power. The U.S. government’s capacity for “forward global force projection”...

Znet Article Street: Not in My Backyard

Znet Article, July, 02 2005 Paul Street
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The Chicago Tribune is concerned about racial justice - about racial justice in Mississippi 40 years ago. What about racial justice in the present and the Tribune's own metropolitan backyard?Well that's another story. On June 21, 2005, the Chicag...

Zmag Article Street: Race, Place, and the Perils of Prisonomics

Zmag Article, July, 01 2005 Paul Street
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I t’s the silences that speak the loudest in dominant media’s coverage of current events. Consider, for example, a Detroit News story that appeared in mid -uly 2001 under the curious title...

Znet Article Street: Durbin, Daley, Democrats, and the New American Militarism

Znet Article, June, 24 2005 Paul Street
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United States Senator Richard Durbin (D-Illinois) should resign – for backing down to ignorant and authoritarian militarists like Richard M. Daley, the longtime “Democratic” Mayor of Chicago. Durbin, as most ZNet readers ...

Znet Article Street: Rags to Rags, Riches to Riches

Znet Article, May, 28 2005 Paul Street
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Hey, guess what: the social class into which you are born matters a lot when it comes to where you stand on the American socioeconomic ladder.  It matters more in the United States, the supposed land of upward mobility, than it does in Europe. The...

Znet Article Street: Social Health and Spiritual Death: Empire, Inequality, and the Costs of War

Znet Article, May, 20 2005 Paul Street
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A shortened version of these comments were delivered to the "Health Not War Group" at the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Nursing on May 14, 2005 "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense tha...

Znet Article Street: King George, Prince Abdullah, Global Warming, and the Torture of Thomas Jefferson

Znet Article, May, 03 2005 Paul Street
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"The period of history which is commonly called 'modern,'" wrote Bertrand Russell in 1945, "has a mental outlook which differs from that of the medieval period in many ways.  Of these, two are most important: the diminishing authority of the Churc...

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