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Znet Article Street: A Betrayal of the Highest Order

Znet Article, April, 23 2011 Paul Street
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The principles of real, bona-fide working class trade unionism are rooted in the notion of working people joining and acting together in solidarity to improve wages, benefits, and working and living conditions for themselves and others. “An Injury...

Znet Article Street: Biggest Issue of Our Time is the Biggest Loser in the 2011 Budget "Deal"

Znet Article, April, 20 2011 Paul Street
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Here is a disturbing pair of questions to place next to each other...

Znet Article Street: “The Real Issue to be Faced”

Znet Article, April, 15 2011 Paul Street
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I want to thank the Iowa City Federation of Labor for having this event and inviting me to speak tonight on the 43rd anniversary of the assassination or perhaps the execution of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr....

Znet Article Street: America’s Unelected Dictatorship of Money

Znet Article, April, 14 2011 Paul Street
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Imagine if the reigning American media-politics culture approached U.S. policy and society with the same criteria it applies to other countries and governments.

Znet Article Street: Glenn Beck Melts Down and Out

Znet Article, April, 10 2011 Paul Street
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The nation may have taken a step toward communicative sanity this week with the fall of arch-reactionary, proto-fascistic, and paranoid-style Fox News host Glenn Beck.

Znet Article Street: Critical Reflections on “the Left’s" Liberal “Leadership” and the Empire’s New Clothes

Znet Article, April, 09 2011 Paul Street
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“New ideas and new leadership,” Bob Herbert wrote in his last column for the New York Times two weeks ago, “have seldom been more urgently needed.”

Znet Article Street: The (Profits) System is Working

Znet Article, April, 06 2011 Paul Street
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When the profits system (capitalism) is properly understood for what it is really and only about (investor profit and nothing more) at the end of the day, then there is nothing paradoxical about its failure to serve working people and the common g...

Znet Article Street: Supported and Revised

Znet Article, April, 04 2011 Paul Street
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Last February, ZNet published an essay in which I cited the social-psychological theory of cognitive dissonance in arguing that many right wing elites probably don’t believe much of the propagandistic nonsense they put out on the political airwave...

Znet Article Street: Libya, the Left, and Losing Our Way; Reflections on Empire, Inequality, and “Operation Odyssey Dawn”

Znet Article, March, 30 2011 Paul Street
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Beneath the often vituperative intra-left debate over whether or not to support any aspect of the Obama administration’s intervention in Libya and what the consequences of that intervention will be, lay a fundamental question: why did Obama go to ...

Znet Article Street: “Recalls Taking Center Stage”: Wisconsin, Workers, and Corporate Totalitarianism, American Style

Znet Article, March, 15 2011 Paul Street
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The smack to my head came late on the day of my second trip to Madison in support of public sector workers and their struggle against rightist Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s epic assault on union rights there. It didn’t come in the form of a st...

Znet Article Street: “We Have to Do It Ourselves”

Znet Article, March, 09 2011 Paul Street
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One of the neat things about the recent progressive labor rebellion within and beyond Madison, WI is the extent to which it has broken with the false of promise of change coming from the top down.

Znet Article Street: “The People Have Been Able to Find Their Own Voice"

Znet Article, March, 08 2011 Paul Street
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The real energy in the Wisconsin public worker rebellion and its state-level offshoots came from the bottom up. It arose from the grassroots, not from the top down.

Zmag Article Street: "No Progressive Champion"

Zmag Article, March, 01 2011 Paul Street
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The NYT's continued lack of coverage of the left

Znet Article Street: An Early Springtime of Peoples: The Global Austerity Party Meets Global Resistance, From Cairo to Athens to Madison

Znet Article, February, 27 2011 Paul Street
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The Global Austerity Party meets Global Resistance, from Cairo to Athens to Madison.

Znet Article Street: It’s Not About $, It’s About Rights

Znet Article, February, 24 2011 Paul Street
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We were in Madison on Saturday to witness and participate in the fifth day of historic labor protests.

Znet Article Street: Black History is American History and It Lives On

Znet Article, February, 18 2011 Paul Street
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We’re more than half way through Black History Month...

Znet Article Street: When Facts Don’t Matter

Znet Article, February, 17 2011 Paul Street
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You know the drill by now with your dodgy right-wing Republican neighbor, colleague, co-worker, sibling, uncle, or cousin who says nice things about Glenn Beck and “the Tea Party” and who can’t stop spouting off about that great left wing radical ...

Znet Article Street: Cold-Blooded Calibration

Znet Article, February, 11 2011 Paul Street
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How soon – often immediately – we forget the red flags that warned us in advance of imperial abominations to come.

Znet Article Street: Obama, the Tea Party, and the Ugly American Liberal Intellectual

Znet Article, February, 10 2011 Paul Street
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There’s no real intellectual or political discontinuity in moving my book-length critical focus from the Obama phenomenon and to the Tea Party phenomenon.

Znet Article Street: What’s Good for Capital

Znet Article, February, 04 2011 Paul Street
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The System is Working...for its Masters...

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