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

Znet Article, May, 01 2005 Paul Street
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  â€œThe 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 importan...

Znet Article Street: "The Nuclear Option" and the One Party State

Znet Article, April, 23 2005 Paul Street
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America's wacky right wing party and political system doesn't get much worse than this. Tomorrow, the Republican United States Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tennessee) will appear on a national evangelical Christian television show that dep...

Znet Article Street: My Civil Rights Field Trip to the Capital of Inequality

Znet Article, April, 09 2005 Paul Street
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I recently spent three days in Washington D.C. as par...

Znet Article Street: No Apologies For Dissent: Truth And Cowardice

Znet Article, December, 07 2004 Paul Street
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My November 23rd article "Loves, Hates, Kills, Dies," about an episode of fawning imperial war journalism at Time Magazine (see http://blog.zmag.org/index.php/ weblog/entry/loves _hates_kills_dies), continues to evoke angry response from militaris...

Znet Article Street: Inequality, Deep Poverty, and Moral Vision

Znet Article, November, 16 2004 Paul Street
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Comments to Work, Welfare and Families Annual Summit on Low-Income Families Chicago, IL November 11, 2004 I want to thank Work, Welfare, and Families for inviting me to speak today. I'd also like to thank the Institute for Women's Policy Resea...

Znet Article Street: Rich White Protestants: You Rocked...Us Further to the Right

Znet Article, November, 11 2004 Paul Street
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We’ve been having an interesting discussion within and beyond my ZNet blog (which you can access off this page) about how and why many lower-middle and working-class Americans now vote for the Republican Party, which happens to be more mil...

Znet Article Street: Frank Discussion

Znet Article, November, 06 2004 Paul Street
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 It is interesting to see how centrist Democratic types (who ought to be heading to the hills in the wake of yet another centrist disgrace) are spinning the disturbing capture of many white working-class/lower-middle-class votes by a party (the Re...

Znet Article Street: The Planet is Melting

Znet Article, November, 05 2004 Paul Street
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Many of us are understandably depressed over the perilous return engagement obscenely granted to our Messianic Militarist Fortunate Son President and hiscorporate-fascist Uncle Darth Cheney. We are naturally demoralized to see yet another sorry ...

Znet Article Street: Why Didn't We Attack Sweden?

Znet Article, October, 31 2004 Paul Street
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What do Osama bin-Laden and the owners and top editors of the gigantic corporate media outlet the Chicago Tribune have in common? They both want George W. Bush to return for a second term. The Tribune’s masters want Bush back because they ...

Znet Article Street: Campaign Reflections

Znet Article, October, 25 2004 Paul Street
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The election is too close to call. Last time I looked (yesterday), the fellow who runs http://www.electoral-vote.com had Bush with 254 electoral votes and Kerry with 253 and listed Florida, yes Florida, as an absolute tie. The count changes ev...

Znet Article Street: Bush, Kerry, and

Znet Article, October, 12 2004 Paul Street
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This is an actual letter to the editor that appeared in yesterday's New York Times (p. A 28):  "To the Editor: Re 'Best Defense: More Offense" (news analysis, front page, Oct,9): "Your statement that John Kerry 'often seemed to be more in command ...

Znet Article Street: Sorry Dennis, Al Qaeda's Voting for Bush

Znet Article, September, 20 2004 Paul Street
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There's a segment called "Who You Crapping" that plays occasionally on a local sports talk radio show in Chicago. During this segment, callers phone-in to rip some local sports or media personality for saying or doing something preposterous, endin...

Znet Article Street: Sorry Dennis, Al Qaeda's Voting for Bush

Znet Article, September, 20 2004 Paul Street
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There's a segment called "Who You Crapping" that plays occasionally on a local sports talk radio show in Chicago. During this segment, callers phone-in to rip some local sports or media personality for saying or doing something preposterous, end...

Znet Article Street: Nine-Eleven Retrospective

Znet Article, September, 10 2004 Paul Street
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The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers abroad. - James Madison, 1799 The process of transformation is likely to be a long one, absent s...

Znet Article Street: Pretending Not to Love 9/11 at the RNC

Znet Article, September, 01 2004 Paul Street
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So many Republicans, so many lies. It's hard to keep up with the deceptions of Bush, Rove, Cheney, and company. You could write an entire book just about the Republicans' false statements. In fact, left-liberal journalist David Corn did precisel...

Znet Article Street: Insult to Injury

Znet Article, September, 01 2004 Paul Street
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As the Republican National Convention approaches its nauseating climax, it's worth noting and remembering how much the Republicans deserve to regret their decision to hold their celebration of bad political faith in New York City. In the early...

Znet Article Street: An American Hiroshima

Znet Article, August, 12 2004 Paul Street
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You won't often read a more chilling opinion piece than today's commentary by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristoff. In an editorial titled "An American Hiroshima," Kristoff cites leading establishment academic, intelligence, and policy aut...

Znet Article Street: Keynote Reflections

Znet Article, July, 29 2004 Paul Street
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I come from the same Chicago neighborhood (Hyde Park) as the nation's official new political rock star Barack Obama. I work in urban policy and civil rights and I've recently been telling leftists to engage in "tactical" presidential voting - for ...

Znet Article Street: Day After July 4th

Znet Article, July, 05 2004 Paul Street
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According to the American right, studying the Founders of the United States and their charter documents inspires simple patriotic respect for the nation's supposedly "exceptional" commitment to "freedom" and "democracy." But the founders' legacy...

Znet Article Street: We Do Killing Right

Znet Article, June, 22 2004 Paul Street
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President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Secretary of State Colin Powell have recently gone out on the political limb by denouncing the "barbarism" of the latest terrorist decapitation of an American hostage in the Middle East. Yes, of course...

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