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Street: Gut Check in Madison: Is Labor Ready to Fight for its Life?
Commentary, March, 12 2011
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Governor Scott Walker and his right Republican allies in the Wisconsin legislature might be a bunch of plutocratic, Koch-funded thugs, but...
Street: Obama, Egypt, and Universal Values: Some History
Commentary, February, 06 2011
Paul Street
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The recent remarkable and revolutionary unrest in the Arab world and particularly in Egypt has created an awkward dilemma for Barack Obama and his administration.
Street: The Real Issue to be Faced: King Day Reflections on the State of the Union and the World
Commentary, January, 17 2011
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In his speech commemorating the victims of the mass murderer Jared Loughner in Tucson, Arizona, Barack Obama turned to the Bible.
Street: Health Care as a Commodity: On the Irony of the Hudson Decision
Commentary, December, 19 2010
Paul Street
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So a key part of U.S. President Barack Obama’s health “reform” bill was declared “unconstitutional” last week by the right wing federal district court judge Henry E. Hudson in Virginia.
Street: Howard Zinn: The People's Historian
Commentary, January, 29 2010
Paul Street
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The news of Howard Zinn's death hit me like a ton of bricks. I did not expect to cry and then about 10 minutes after getting the e-mail…it hit me - three times. The last time I looked down and saw that I was standing in my den about one foot aw...
Street: Fight the Rich, Not Their Wars
Commentary, December, 28 2009
Paul Street
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The following remarks were delivered on Friday December 18, 2009, at 5 PM in front of the Wells Fargo Bank building in downtown Cedar Rapids, IA, after a vigil and march called by the Cedar Rapids branch of Socialist Alternative and Iowa Women for...
Street: Obama's West Point War Speech: A Quick Response
Commentary, December, 03 2009
Paul Street
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War President Barack Obama's Afghan "surge" address from West Point [1] last night was unsurprising, given the fact that, as Alexander Cockburn has noted, "Obama has...surrounded himself with the same breed of intellectuals who persuaded Lyndon Jo...
Street: True Crime: White Privilege and a Police Killing in an Obama-Mad College Town
Commentary, October, 24 2009
Paul Street
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Imagine, if you will, a small, predominantly white city with growing poverty and crime in a small, highly segregated black section of its South East side.
Street: Blue Cross and Blue Dog Democrats: Reflections on "Health Reform" Under "The Unelected Dictatorship of Money"
Commentary, August, 12 2009
Paul Street
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The United States' "representative democracy," crippled by "too much [corporate and military] representation and too little [actual popular] democracy" (Arundhati Roy) abounds with Kafka-esque, Orwellian, and Vonneguttian absurdity. Take, for one...
Street: "Business Liberalism": The Real Meaning of Obama's "Pragmatic" Reluctance to "Tilt at Windmills"
Commentary, June, 26 2009
Paul Street
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Early last April the New York Times published an article with an ironic title: "In Cuba , Change Means More of the Same." This "news" item reported that "rather than dismantling Cuba 's socialist framework," Cuba 's President Raul Castro "seems t...
Street: It Could Still Be a Good Thing for Lefties that Obama Won the Election: On Historical Irony and Radical Hope
Commentary, May, 22 2009
Paul Street
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Here is a statement that may surprise some of my more regular readers (yes, all four of you): it's a good thing that Barack Obama won the presidential election last fall.
Street: Barack Obama, Torture, and Habeas Corpus: Unsurprised but Shocked Nonetheless
Commentary, April, 22 2009
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The liberal and progressive civil libertarians I know who strongly supported Barack Obama's "change" campaign last year are having a difficult time processing some deeply disturbing recent developments in Washington.
Street: Anti-Capitalism as Suicide Prevention: Personal Worth Against Exchange Value and Corporate Thought Control
Commentary, March, 23 2009
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Recently I spoke to an acquaintance who happens to be a psychiatric nurse at a major hospital. She reports an epidemic of distraught people coming and brought into her facility's emergency room in the wake of mental breakdowns and, often, suicide...
Street: Invisible: On Left Non-Existence and Corporate-Managed Democracy
Commentary, March, 01 2009
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One of the many ways in which the United States' incipiently totalitarian corporate-managed democracy (see Sheldon Wolin, Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism [Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Pr...
Street: Obama-Gaza: No Surprise
Commentary, January, 04 2009
Paul Street
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In the last week of 2008, Palestinian children in Gaza were blown apart by Israeli bombs and missiles. The air machinery used to kill those children - including American-made F-16s and Blackhawk helicopters - was supplied by the United States.
Street: Two Chicago Stories: Hope and Shame
Commentary, December, 12 2008
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As we prepare for the historic presidential inauguration of the formerly Chicago-based politician Barack Obama, two recent Chicago news stories deserve consideration in relation to the fate of American democracy and hopes for change under the next...
Street: David Brooks' Pragmatic Illusions and the New Administration
Commentary, November, 25 2008
Paul Street
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In a recent Times column and on "P"BS's News Hour, the Republican Brooks heaped praise on the members of the Obama transition team ("more impressive than any other in recent memory," he says) for being "pragmatic" and "not ideological." He also a...
Street: Fear McCain
Commentary, October, 13 2008
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According to a recent article in the Chicago Tribune, some voters in the critical political battleground state of Pennsylvania are leaning towards Barack Obama because economic matters are trumping candidate "character" in determining their choice...
Street: One Heartbeat Away: Reflections on the Palin Nomination
Commentary, September, 17 2008
Paul Street
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John McCain's selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate is one of the most transparently crass and cynical moves in United States political history.
Street: Beijing Reflections
Commentary, August, 14 2008
Paul Street
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Nineteen years and two months ago, hundreds of peasant soldiers in Red China's "People's Liberation Army" (PLA) bivouacked in the world's largest McDonald's in downtown Beijing. Followed by the vapid gaze of Ronald McDonald, the troops marched ou...
