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Znet Article Street: Saddam's Living Service to Empire

Znet Article, December, 20 2003 Paul Street
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Before Desert Storm Lacking the decency to commit suicide before he could be made into a caged public relations tool for American occupation, Saddam Hussein is functioning in captivity as he did through much of his lethal career: a tool for the i...

Znet Article Street: The Political Consequences Of Racist Felony Disenfranchisement

Znet Article, December, 16 2003 Paul Street
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In a period of painfully close presidential elections, with the most dangerous White House in history hoping to extend its criminal reign, every American vote in 2004 is potentially a matter of life and death for masses of people at home and abroa...

Znet Article Street: Racist Felony Disenfranchisement

Znet Article, December, 16 2003 Paul Street
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In a period of painfully close presidential elections, with the most dangerous White House in history hoping to extend its criminal reign, every American vote in 2004 is potentially a matter of life and death for masses of people at home and abroa...

Znet Article Street: Blood, Contracts, and the Costs of Empire

Znet Article, December, 15 2003 Paul Street
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Governing Absurd What's the most disturbing thing about the latest White House and Pentagon fiasco, sparked by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz's announcement that only countries who supported the United States invasion of Iraq can ...

Znet Article Street: "Bush Wins on Security"

Znet Article, November, 27 2003 Paul Street
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When it comes to the arrogant, elitist science of political and media spin, there's no place quite like the United States. A recent opinion piece by Republican strategist Rich Tafel on the front page of the Chicago Tribune's Sunday "Perspectives" ...

Znet Article Street: "Bush's Best Speech"

Znet Article, November, 13 2003 Paul Street
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Shunning the Mirror According to the Buddhist writer Pema Chodron, "not harming ourselves or others is the basis of enlightened society.  It is how there could be a sane world."   In Chodron's view, "the first and most fundamental harm" is done...

Znet Article Street: Starve the Racist Prison Beast

Znet Article, November, 08 2003 Paul Street
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Let me start by quoting quote my favorite historical personality from Indiana - the great democratic Socialist Eugene Debs, from Terre Haute. "While there is a lower class," Debs once said, "I am of it. While there is a criminal element," he added...

Znet Article Street: Politics and Entertainment I

Znet Article, October, 29 2003 Paul Street
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Many years ago I sat in the home a misguided radical history professor who had invited the local branch of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) to tell 20 students about "the American Road to Socialism." The Party made a mis...

Znet Article Street: Sell Us a Story

Znet Article, October, 15 2003 Paul Street
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A Truly Terrible Record If there was true democratic decency at the heart of the American political system, George W. Bush's defeat in 2004 would be practically a foregone conclusion. During its narrowly and illegally attained reign, the Bush Wh...

Znet Article Street: Honest Mistakes?

Znet Article, September, 30 2003 Paul Street
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We should be pleased, I suppose, that American "mainstream" (corporate-state) media has seen fit to recognize the incorrectness of the Bush administration's leading case for invading and occupying Iraq.  As that media now generally acknowledg...

Znet Article Street: Why They Might Hate US

Znet Article, September, 23 2003 Paul Street
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One year ago, I wrote a ZNet article originally titled "All About US: Missing Persons in the Great Iraq War Debate." The thesis of this commentary was that last fall's mainstream controversy over the White House's apparent decision to invade Iraq ...

Znet Article Street: Urban Race Relations

Znet Article, September, 17 2003 Paul Street
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Urban Race Relations

Znet Article Street: Remembering Chile's 9/11

Znet Article, September, 10 2003 Paul Street
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"Close to Perfect:" A Different, Bloodier Nine-Eleven The events of September 11th were horrific, tragic, and criminal on a monumental scale.  Planes flew low over an American nation's leading city.  Buildings erupted in flames.  ...

Znet Article Street: "Systematic Distortion"

Znet Article, August, 27 2003 Paul Street
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As George W. Bush sets new campaign fundraising records, reflecting dedicated service to the wealthy few, the threat of being removed from office ought to be the least of his worries. Title 18, part 1, chapter 47, and section 1001 of the United St...

Znet Article Street: Forbidden Connections: Class, Cowardice, and War

Znet Article, July, 25 2003 Paul Street
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No Class Analysis Beneath myths of equal opportunity and rampant upward mobility, the United States is a savagely unequal society with a rigidly hierarchical and authoritarian class structure. As a reflection of that harsh structural reality, it...

Znet Article Street: Shocking New York Times Revelation: Democracy Requires A Level Playing Field

Znet Article, July, 12 2003 Paul Street
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"Managing Freedom" Among the many unpleasant aspects of the American Empire, few are more disturbing than the way it reflects and reinforces many Americans' dangerous and self-satisfied indifference, ignorance, and/or denial as to the nature of...

Znet Article Street: A Dark Independence Day For American Historians

Znet Article, July, 10 2003 Paul Street
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Knowledge of history is a tool for democracy. It contains great lessons, both positive and negative, on how best to proceed in making a just and democratic society. It provides standards, models, values, and examples of resistance to deploy agains...

Znet Article Street: "Managing Freedom"

Znet Article, July, 04 2003 Paul Street
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Among the many unpleasant aspects of the American Empire, few are more disturbing than the way it reflects and reinforces many Americans' dangerous and self-satisfied indifference, ignorance, and/or denial as to the nature of their own society and...

Znet Article Street: "No Justice No Peace": A Police Killing and a Riot in Benton Harbor

Znet Article, June, 30 2003 Paul Street
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Bush: Extend Hope to “Every Corner of America” Like many politicians and policymakers past and present, George W. Bush likes to make big claims, promises, and commitments. “Since I was [last] here,” George W. Bush...

Znet Article Street: Deep Poverty, Deep Deception: Facts That Matter Beneath The Imperial Helicopters

Znet Article, June, 16 2003 Paul Street
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An abbrievated version of these comments was presented at the Illinois Welfare Symposium I want to open with five quotations, all from Texas Republicans, three from the president of the United States, that speak to the dark and dubious times in w...

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