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Commentary Street: Ryan Lizza’s “Left” and the Narrow Spectrum of U.S. Political Culture

Commentary, July, 30 2008 Paul Street
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You know you are living in a totalitarian political culture when a respected mainstream journalist at the center of that culture tells you that a politician whose consistent career theme is personal accommodation to existing power relationships is...

Commentary Street: Barack Obama's Deceptive Left Impression

Commentary, July, 15 2008 Paul Street
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The deception conducted by political "elites" is about more than specific factual lies. It is also and perhaps more significantly about the creation of a sense, a feeling, an impression, an atmosphere, and/or even a mood.

Commentary Street: "Systemic Rather Than Superficial Flaws": Reflections on Candidate-Centered Elections and U.S. Political Culture

Commentary, June, 07 2008 Paul Street
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I put the best book of the last few years down for a moment and turned on the television last night (I am writing on the morning of Wednesday, June 4th, 2008). It was Barack Obama, who has become something like Ronald Reagan (whom the conservative...

Commentary Street: Americans' Progressive Opinion vs. "The Shadow Cast on Society By Big Business"

Commentary, May, 15 2008 Paul Street
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Barack Obama and John McCain are preparing to wage a hotly contested battle in which neither heavily business-sponsored presidential candidate will question the underlying fundamentals of corporate-neoliberal rule and United States world-supremaci...

Commentary Street: Note to Liberals: The Right Does Not Hate "Government"

Commentary, December, 11 2007 Paul Street
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Note to Liberals: The Right Does Not Hate "Government"

Commentary Street: none

Commentary, November, 16 2007 Paul Street
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Here are 49 words to inspire dismay and disgust...

Commentary Street: A Very Narrow Spectrum: Even John Edwards is Too Left for the U.S. Plutocracy

Commentary, September, 03 2007 Paul Street
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You know a nation's political culture is dangerously captive to business power when John Edwards is "too left" for its ruling media and electoral system.

Commentary Street: George Bush I's "Tender Heart" and His "Little Leaguer's Rough Game": More Missing Irony at the New York Times*

Commentary, August, 24 2007 Paul Street
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TEARFUL MEMORIES OF A TERRIBLE DEFEAT

Commentary Street: "I Know How Black Folks Think": Reflections on an Outrageously Non-Scandalous Remark From Bill Clinton

Commentary, April, 24 2007 Paul Street
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Imagine that George Bush Senior was heard to say this about why the Jewish-American vote went a certain way in a New York City mayoral election: "well, that doesn't surprise me because I know how Jews think."

Commentary Street: "Diversion" and "Good Faith Distraction": On the Use Value of Conspiracy Data for the Power Elite

Commentary, April, 08 2007 Paul Street
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Booz Allen Hamilton is a leading global consulting firm that "has more than 18,000 employees serving clients on six continents." According to its website, the U.S.-based company "integrat[es] the full range of consulting capabilities" and "is the ...

Commentary Street: The New Becomes Old: The Historical Normalization of Sudden Madness

Commentary, March, 02 2007 Paul Street
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I am concerned about the speed with which many people can be convinced that astonishing recent injustice and criminality are normal and "just the way things are."

Commentary Street: What the ÒBetter PeopleÓ Get from Private Charity

Commentary, February, 04 2007 Paul Street
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It's nice to know that, as the New York Times reports today, there is "widespread skepticism about the Bush administration's Iraq strategy" among congressional "Democrats and some Republicans" (Michael Gordon and Jeff Zeleny, "Latest Plan Sets a S...

Commentary Street: What the “Better People” Get from Private Charity

Commentary, February, 04 2007 Paul Street
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It's nice to know that, as the New York Times reports today, there is "widespread skepticism about the Bush administration's Iraq strategy" among congressional "Democrats and some Republicans" (Michael Gordon and Jeff Zeleny, "Latest Plan Sets a S...

Commentary Street: Strange Dreams

Commentary, December, 31 2006 Paul Street
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I keep having the same two crazy dreams. I'm just not sure what they mean. In the first dream, George W. Bush becomes obsessed with disproving the charge that he's a "chicken hawk" - a military hawk who has never seen or experienced military acti...

Commentary Street: The Times Speaks on "Petroleum-Related Criminal Activity"

Commentary, December, 11 2006 Paul Street
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$200 MILLION: ONE IMPERIAL DAY VS. ONE "INSURGENT" YEAR

Commentary Street: Not Funny: Lazy Letterman Lets Ogre OÕReilly Off the Racist Oil War Hook

Commentary, November, 17 2006 Paul Street
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Last Friday night I saw something on television that momentarily knocked me out. For about six or seven minutes, it seemed that substantive political controversy had trumped mindless amusement Ð on the ÒLate Night With David Letterman Show,Ó of al...

Commentary Street: Not Funny: Lazy Letterman Lets Ogre O’Reilly Off the Racist Oil War Hook

Commentary, November, 17 2006 Paul Street
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Last Friday night I saw something on television that momentarily knocked me out. For about six or seven minutes, it seemed that substantive political controversy had trumped mindless amusement – on the “Late Night With David Letter...

Commentary Street: The White Crowd in the Black City: Race, Place, and World Series Detroit

Commentary, November, 01 2006 Paul Street
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STATE-OF-MIND V. STATE-OF-BEING

Commentary Street: The Repair of Broken Societies Begins at Home

Commentary, October, 13 2006 Paul Street
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A shortened version of this presentation was delivered at the Community United Church of Christ at a meeting sponsored by the Anti-war Anti-Racism Effort (AWARE) in Champaign, Illinois on September 26, 2006

Commentary Street: 9/12 Reflections

Commentary, September, 13 2006 Paul Street
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Through the tears, I see an opportunity

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