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Znet Article Street: State Of Deception

Znet Article, January, 28 2003 Paul Street
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New Uses for Duct Tape What’s the old saying - "a picture is worth a thousands words?" I’ve always been a little skeptical about that phrase, but it was born out last Wednesday when George W. Bush’s "Boxgate" incident hi...

Znet Article Street: Big Brother Bush, "Suicidal Saddam", And The Homegrown Threat To Liberal Democracy

Znet Article, January, 22 2003 Paul Street
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Beyond Democratic Constraint? It is hard to avoid the chilling conclusion that the corporate plutocrats and arch-imperialists in and around the Bush administration do not think they are required to speak or act with even moderate respect for the...

Znet Article Street: The Readily Available Reality of American Policy in an Age of Empire and Inequality

Znet Article, January, 09 2003 Paul Street
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Empire Abroad, Inequality at Home   The harsh realities of American life and policy ...

Zmag Article Street: Empire abroad, prisons at home

Zmag Article, January, 01 2003 Paul Street
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I t is commonplace for left writers and activists to note stark contradictions between the declared objectives of United States foreign policy and the harsh imperial realities of that policy. It is...

Znet Article Street: A Whole Lott Missing

Znet Article, December, 22 2002 Paul Street
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The most disturbing aspect of the recent national melodrama over Senate Majority Leaders Trent Lott’s offensive declaration of retrospective support for the race-segregationist 1948 Presidential campaign of Strom Thurmond is not the conten...

Znet Article Street: Empire Abroad, Repression At Home: Notes From Chicago

Znet Article, November, 08 2002 Paul Street
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Think back to a time when you were taken aback by the shameless hypocrisy of an authority figure in your community, school or workplace: the married minister who preached about family values on Sunday and hit on your sister in the privacy of his w...

Znet Article Street: Playing Dumb? Dan Rather's Curiously Clueless Take on Why Americans Don't

Znet Article, November, 06 2002 Paul Street
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Let's start with two elementary precepts relating to the proper role of the media in a democratic society. First, key media personalities in such a society should never lie to the people, whose capacity for making intelligent and informed policy a...

Znet Article Street: Beacon To The World

Znet Article, October, 18 2002 Paul Street
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Those who think the super-rich are smarter than the rest of us might want to take a look at the foreign policy speeches given in the millionaire-laden United States Senate last week. In one thick headed oration after another, the pro-war majority ...

Znet Article Street: Iraq War Debate

Znet Article, September, 28 2002 Paul Street
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Iraq War Debate

Zmag Article Street: Too Many Children Left Behind

Zmag Article, September, 01 2002 Paul Street
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Paul Street & Dennis A. Kass  In an ominous 5-4 decision handed down on June 27, 2002, the Supreme Court made “standard” claims of concern for poor inner-city childr...

Znet Article Street: Welfare Reform and the Limits of Acceptable Debate in the United States

Znet Article, July, 31 2002 Paul Street
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Welfare Reform and the Limits of Acceptable Debate in the United States

Znet Article Street: The Biggest Scandal of Corporate America: What Happens on Its Best Behavior

Znet Article, July, 23 2002 Paul Street
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A recent column by popular Chicago business writer David Greising speaks volumes about the limits of recent "mainstream," well, corporate media commentary on the sins of corporate America. In an amusing July 12th piece in the Chicago Tribune, Grei...

Znet Article Street: Defending Civilization And The Myth Of Radical Academia

Znet Article, July, 15 2002 Paul Street
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I know it is no laughing matter when America's thought police control go on patrol. Still, even if it is just as a defense mechanism, I couldn't help but laugh when I finally read the by-now notorious report on alleged academic anti-Americanism pu...

Zmag Article Street: Towards A Decent Left?

Zmag Article, July, 01 2002 Paul Street
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Paul Street  Among the many disagreeable parts of the aftermath of September 11, we might include the intensification of internal unpleasantness within an American...

Znet Article Street: The Case Against School Vouchers

Znet Article, July, 01 2002 Paul Street
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In an ominous 5-4 decision yesterday, the United States' right-wing Supreme Court used disingenuous claims of concern for poor inner-city children to remove a major roadblock to a leading goal of the conservative movement: letting parents use publ...

Znet Article Street: Misunderstanding Power

Znet Article, June, 06 2002 Paul Street
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Thanks in part to recent disclosures that a minimally competent federal security establishment would have had reasons to know and act on intelligence predicting something like what occurred last September, conspiracy theorists are having a field d...

Zmag Article Street: Class, Color, and The Hidden Injuries of Race

Zmag Article, June, 01 2002 Paul Street
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Paul Street  Sometimes it’s the silences that speak the loudest. Consider, for example, a study released last year by a team of public health researchers at the Children’...

Znet Article Street: Liar Liar

Znet Article, May, 24 2002 Paul Street
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It's been quite an interesting experience hearing United States Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tell us that more Americans are probably going to perish in future terror attacks. It's "inevitable," they say, and th...

Znet Article Street: Towards a "Decent Left"

Znet Article, April, 30 2002 Paul Street
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The Liberal-Left Attack Among the many dark aspects of September 11th's aftermath we might include the intensification of internal division within an American left that was already rather snippy with itself. This latest intra-"progressive" unplea...

Zmag Article Street: Bush's proposal for welfare moms and the real White House agenda

Zmag Article, April, 01 2002 Paul Street
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Bush's proposal for welfare moms and the real White House agenda

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