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Znet Article Street: No Class

Znet Article, June, 03 2003 Paul Street
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Muddling Class: Populist Plutocracy and Millionaire Proletarians One of the more disturbing and dangerous aspects of American political discourse is its tendency to muddle class. For a host of reasons that have provided rich material for generat...

Znet Article Street: Bennett

Znet Article, May, 26 2003 Paul Street
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The first chapter of leading right-wing moral-crusader, Republican political strategist, and educational magnate William J. Bennett's The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Moral Stories (NY: Simon and Schuster, 1993) is titled "Self-Discipline." "The...

Znet Article Street: Rachel Corrie, Jessica Lynch, And The Unequal Worthiness Of Victims

Znet Article, May, 12 2003 Paul Street
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You can learn much about the toxic and authoritarian role of the American “mainstream” (corporate-state) media by asking a representative sample of Americans to identify and tell you what they know and think about two young women r...

Znet Article Street: Behind The Smoking Gun

Znet Article, May, 07 2003 Paul Street
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People who wonder why a majority of African Americans do not support George W. Bush's illegal and immoral invasion and occupation of Iraq might want to talk to a black gentleman and fellow Chicagoan I know named Tony. They should also review some ...

Znet Article Street: The Looting Of Iraq

Znet Article, May, 04 2003 Paul Street
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1.  Even during the Second World War, military forces made efforts to preserve "cultural wealth."  In the Iraq War, we saw that US-British forces had no respect for history.  What is your opinion?  Remembering that all versions...

Znet Article Street: The Rape of Mesopotamia

Znet Article, April, 14 2003 Paul Street
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"A country's identity, its value and civilization resides in its history," says Raid Abdul Ridhar Muhammed, an Iraqi archaeologist. "If a country's civilization is looted, as ours has been here, its history ends. Please tell this to President...

Znet Article Street: Who Hates America?

Znet Article, April, 09 2003 Paul Street
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A Terrorist Recruiting BonanzaAs American armed forces tighten the freshly minted War Criminal George W. Bush’s bloody grip on Baghdad, some interesting answers emerge to the question of who really “hates America.” &nb...

Znet Article Street: Bad War

Znet Article, March, 31 2003 Paul Street
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More than some left commentators may like to acknowledge, the claims of the Bush War Party and its warmongering friends at the Fox News Network regarding “Operation Iraqi Freedom” are significantly contradicted by findings and comm...

Znet Article Street: Resist Despair

Znet Article, March, 25 2003 Paul Street
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Our Streets, Their Telescreens For two straight nights, we filled the streets of downtown Chicago, tens of thousands for peace, justice and democracy - for life. "What do we want? Peace! When do want it? Now!" "Tell me what democracy looks like....

Znet Article Street: Making Connections

Znet Article, March, 19 2003 Paul Street
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Questioning Domestic Hierarchy United States policymakers were encouraged to scale back and finally call off their military crucifixion of Southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s by realization that their actions overseas were feeding a rebelli...

Znet Article Street: Moments of Truth, Masters of War

Znet Article, March, 18 2003 Paul Street
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Moments of Truth, Masters of War

Znet Article Street: People Profit From Trade

Znet Article, March, 10 2003 Paul Street
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George W. Bush: "Trade is Good" As the task of resisting the George Orwell Bush administration's "imminent" attack on Iraq absorbs the lion's share of global peace and justice energies, it becomes easy to forget the contributions and continuing ...

Znet Article Street: Mirror Mirror

Znet Article, March, 08 2003 Paul Street
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"People Are Going To Die" So that's it then.  George W. Bush can put his hand on his Holy Bible and repeat as often as he likes that "war" is his "last option" in his obsession with "disarming Saddam." Truth is, the people who matter most in...

Znet Article Street: Mass Incarceration and Racist State Priorities At Home and Abroad

Znet Article, March, 04 2003 Paul Street
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* A slightly abbreviated version of the following speech was delivered at The National Community Building Network's 2003 Policy Conference, Creating a Connected Community: Strategies for Overcoming Social and Economic Isolation, Seattle Washington...

Znet Article Street: Serving Power

Znet Article, March, 03 2003 Paul Street
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Downplaying Dissent USA TODAY calls itself "The National Newspaper." America does not in fact possess a single national paper, thankfully, but anyone who travels regularly in the United States can tell you that USA TODAY has certainly become the...

Zmag Article Street: Broadcast Priorities

Zmag Article, March, 01 2003 Paul Street
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L et’s start with four basic observations. First, by the widely accepted and often passionately embraced description of its own citizens, media, and elected officials, the United States is a ...

Znet Article Street: Who is

Znet Article, February, 20 2003 Paul Street
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“We Saved Their Butts” It is difficult to imagine the bitter irony with which many French people must be receiving the American charge of “ingratitude.” For the last two weeks at least, leading United States Congre...

Znet Article Street: Broadcast Priorities

Znet Article, February, 19 2003 Paul Street
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Strange Expectation Let’s start with four basic observations. First, by the widely accepted and often passionately embraced description of its own citizens, media and elected officials, the United States is a democracy. Second, a functi...

Znet Article Street: Anti-Empire

Znet Article, February, 19 2003 Paul Street
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It is hard not to notice the shift in the emphasis of American left protest and activism since 9-11. The so-called “new New Left” is looking a bit more like the old New Left as the struggle against corporate globalization makes way...

Znet Article Street: Citizens Or Spectators

Znet Article, February, 05 2003 Paul Street
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The White Man’s Burden: "To Shock and Awe" We are drifting quickly downstream towards a terrible historical waterfall. In "a matter of weeks, not months," America is reported likely to unleash world’s history most lethal milita...

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