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Commentary Street: Odious Obama's Path to Hell

Commentary, June, 18 2006 Paul Street
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In the spring of 1967, after he went public with his strong and principled opposition to the Vietnam War, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. was approached by liberal and left politicos to consider running for the United States Presidency. King tur...

Commentary Street: "They Are a Force for Good:" Have You Read Your QDR?

Commentary, February, 25 2006 Paul Street
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My fellow Americans, have you read your QDR?

Commentary Street: George OrWell Bush II and "Freedom"

Commentary, February, 05 2006 Paul Street
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Among George Orwell's most enduring essays is his "Politics and the English Language." Reflecting on the licentious use of the honored western key word "democracy" (as in "people's democracy" or the oxymoronic "capitalist democracy"), Orwell obser...

Commentary Street: Martin Luther King, Jr., Democratic Socialist

Commentary, January, 14 2006 Paul Street
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One of the many disturbing characteristics of dominant American ideology is the way it deletes radical-democratic beliefs from the official memory of certain acknowledged great historical personalities.

Commentary Street: Selling Death: Leo Burnett,

Commentary, August, 22 2005 Paul Street
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Do you struggle with poor job choices, bad employment options, and frustrated career ambitions? Are you misemployed, underpaid, and alienated on the job? Are you under-employed, unemployed or (alternately) overworked? Do you cringe upon hearing ab...

Commentary Street: Patriotism Lite

Commentary, August, 05 2005 Paul Street
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A United States History professor I know tells me an interesting story from late March of 2003. "How many of you," she asked her U.S. History class that fateful month, "support the American war on Iraq." Two-thirds of the 100 students in her lectu...

Commentary Street: Time to Scrape the Kerry Sticker Off: On Democrats, Values, and the Lakoff Thesis

Commentary, July, 01 2005 Paul Street
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Have you run across this person and/or his car? He is a white male in his late 30s with long curly hair. He drives a 1990-something green Toyota Corolla and lives near the campus of a major metropolitan university. There is a cloth peace symbol...

Commentary Street: Reflections On The Costs Of Being Left...and How To Reduce Them

Commentary, May, 04 2005 Paul Street
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Don't let the title of this essay throw you. I'm happy to have been a person of the left since for the last two and half decades or so. I've derived considerable personal satisfaction and no small sense of community from being part of that sizeab...

Commentary Street: National Narcissism and the Racist, Neo-McCarthyite Assault on Ward Churchill

Commentary, March, 06 2005 Paul Street
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By now, ZNet readers are familiar with the reactionary witch hunt against the prolific radical indigenist professor, author, speaker, and activist Ward Churchill, who was mugged by fascist FOX News thug Bill O'Reilly and then prevented from making...

Commentary Street: The Manly Scent of the Hummer

Commentary, December, 31 2004 Paul Street
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I know a young lady in Chicago who has a curious reaction whenever she sees a HUMMER while driving in the city: she raises her middle finger and screams "go to Hell you rich gas-guzzling imperialist pig" at the top of her lungs. She's about 5 foot...

Commentary Street: Dear Europe

Commentary, December, 10 2004 Paul Street
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I'm growing a little weary of post-election European commentary about the dangerous "stupidity" of the American masses. The reason for the commentary is of course the, well, unwise election (the first one actually) of the dangerous Bush, an action...

Commentary Street: Campaign and Debate Reflections

Commentary, October, 17 2004 Paul Street
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Like many on the left, I am of a split mind on the now concluded debates and the campaign melodrama, which is a bigger quadrennial extravaganza than usual this time for some good reasons.

Commentary Street: The Racial Windfall Lives On: The Living Legacy of Past Racism and the Case for Reparations

Commentary, September, 16 2004 Paul Street
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Fifty years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision declared that "separate is unequal" and therefore unconstitutional, as the dominant two business parties in the United States stock their convention stages with a disproportionate number o...

Commentary Street: Not-So "Sobering News"

Commentary, September, 06 2004 Paul Street
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Last Thursday the United States Census Bureau reported a sharp rise in both the poor and the medically uninsured in 2003.Ê Last year, we learned, 1.3 million more citizens in the "world's richest nation" were pushed below the federal government's ...

Commentary Street: A Farewell Message From Stanley Fish: "Good Professors Do What They're Told"

Commentary, June, 14 2004 Paul Street
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Some ZNet readers have by now caught a whiff of the putrid Stanley Fish droppings that floated to the top of the New York Times editorial page last week. Fish's May 21st New York Times commentary, marvelously titled "Why We Built the Ivory Tower,"...

Commentary Street: Serve the Superpower

Commentary, April, 04 2004 Paul Street
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The left should respond to the Richard A. Clarke revelations with guarded praise and trenchant criticism. Praise: because Clarke, BushÕs former counter-terrorism czar has removed the veil a bit further from the reckless nature of United States (U....

Commentary Street: No Time for "Told You So": Left Vision, Iraqi Quagmire, and 2004

Commentary, November, 29 2003 Paul Street
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No Time for "Told You So": Left Vision, Iraqi Quagmire, and 2004

Commentary Street: Globalization From the Top Down

Commentary, September, 22 2003 Paul Street
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The recipients of this ÒdevilÕs giftÓ are not victims of globalization per se. Their difficulties stem from the ÒworkingsÓ of a top-down, privilege-friendly form of globalization under the command of Western capital. The dominant no-liberal model ...

Commentary Street: Class, Race, and Legalized Gambling: William J. BennettÕs Nasty Habit and The Limits of Acceptable Debate

Commentary, May, 25 2003 Paul Street
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The first chapter of leading right-wing moral-crusader, Republican political strategist, and educational magnate William J. BennettÕs The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Moral Stories (NY: Simon and Schuster, 1993) is titled ÒSelf-Discipline.Ó ÒTh...

Commentary Street: Class, Race, and Legalized Gambling: William J. Bennett’s Nasty Habit and The Limits of Acceptable Debate

Commentary, May, 25 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-D...

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