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Street: Ghettoizing Iraq
Blog Post, May, 22 2006
Paul Street
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According to the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and other agents of imperial United States "democracy promotion," the development of a strong middle-class is a leading social-historical condition for "modern" (bourgeois) representative go...
Street: The Fading Global Distinction Between the Good U.S. People and the Bad U.S. Government
Blog Post, May, 17 2006
Paul Street
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In the sixth chapter (titled "Who Hates America?" ) of my book Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2004 www.paradigm publishers.com), I suggested that the U.S. citizenry's initial apparent willingness (a...
Street: Immigration Doesn't Have to Be a Zero Sum Game Pitting Natives Against Newcomers
Blog Post, May, 10 2006
Paul Street
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My visiting-professorial year in and around in one of the nation's many academic islands of indfference (and confusion) was a little demoralizing, but the Spring semester ended on a wonderful and inspiring note. A much-shortened version of the fol...
Street: "Suffer the Consequences" of the Great Disconnect
Blog Post, April, 27 2006
Paul Street
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It's good to see people more influential than me saying something that needs to be said and which I've been saying for a while: it's the dominant U.S. institutions and powers that be --- the corporate-state media, the two U.S. Chamber of Commerce ...
Street: Mission Accomplished
Blog Post, April, 24 2006
Paul Street
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I just walked down to my local town's public library and on the way I saw the same bumper sticker on three cars sitting in the driveways of three houses. The sticker says (if I remember correctly): "George W. Bush: 'Mission Accomplished.'" Wel...
Street: The Power of Positive Thinking
Blog Post, April, 21 2006
Paul Street
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If you are reading this blog, the chances are good that you are some kind of left-leaning soul. And if you are a (United-States-of) American and your left sentiments are more than a purely private matter, the chances are decent that you&un...
Street: WHICH WMD Lie Do You Mean?
Blog Post, March, 25 2006
Paul Street
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Recently a self-described "conservative" and "pro-war" intellectual stopped me in the hallway to say that I was "right on one thing --- Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction." "It's...
Street: We Should Leave If They Want Us Out... and They Do
Blog Post, March, 23 2006
Paul Street
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Speaking of polling data (the subject of my last post) on Iraq, here are a couple of important findings from recent history: * Seventy-two percent of Americans surveyed by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations in 2004 (...
Street: Occupation Soldiers Agree: We Invaded Iraq "to Avenge September 11"
Blog Post, March, 19 2006
Paul Street
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Never underestimate the power of war propaganda. Don't forget the danger to democracy posed by the existence of a separate mercenary military caste within an ostensibly democratic society. "WE INVADED IRAQ...
Street: Time to Knock the Table out from Under President Pinocchio's Elbows
Blog Post, March, 02 2006
Paul Street
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According to the Associated Press (AP) today (March 2, 2006), George Bush II received explict advance warnings about Hurricane Katrina's monumental scale and impact late last summer. "In dramatic and sometimes agonizin...
Street: Talk on U.S. War Airms
Blog Post, February, 26 2006
Paul Street
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Here are some comments I made to the University of Iowa Antiwar Goup yesterday. .......Good afternoon. Thanks for asking me to speak. I want to say a few things about why the American Empire is in Iraq, why it’s going to...
Street: Addicted to Empire, Not Middle Eastern Oil
Blog Post, February, 06 2006
Paul Street
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Addicted to Empire: Bush, Iraq, Oil, Candor, and American Global Dominance I am in the middle of my usual George Orwell-inspired dissection of the George W. Bush’s “State of the Union” address (SOUA). A recently publi...
Street: The Recurrent Doctrinal Hitlerization and Rhetorical Nazification of Everybody the American Empire Hates
Blog Post, February, 05 2006
Paul Street
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Here's a clever topic for a doctoral dissertation or at least an academic article: "The Recurrent Doctrinal Hitlerization and Rhetorical Nazification of Everybody the American Empire Hates." It's quite recurre...
Street: Project Talking Head: Shocking Revelations and Ongoing Investigations
Blog Post, January, 28 2006
Paul Street
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Sparked by recent revelations that Public Broadcasting System (PBS) News hour host Jim Lehrer died more than four years and seven months ago, political and medical investigators are closely monitoring the appearance, life signs, and behavior of a ...
Street: "All Out October 27 to End This War": You Need to Fight Back
Blog Post, January, 28 2006
Paul Street
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I just got an e-mail from an old comrade and occasional ZNet commentator: "All out October 27 to end this fucking war. Please watch and distribute widely. http://youtube.com/watch?v=76lZC_o95gE." Here's a direct hyperlink of the v...
Street: Speaking Tomorrow Night in Chicago: You've Read the Blog, Now Hear the Writer
Blog Post, January, 28 2006
Paul Street
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I am speaking tomorrow tonight in Chicago at the In These Times building, second floor, at 2040 N. Milwaukee. I am being hosted by the Open University of the Left (OUL), which is (I quote from its Web Site) "a cooperative educational project ...
Street: Justifying Hiroshima: Ken Burns, "Saving Lives," and Atomic Crimes
Blog Post, January, 28 2006
Paul Street
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This (below) was on the ZNet top page last week and got a fairly wide readership; thought I'd put it up here and let folks have at it if they wish. If I have time and there's any interest, I can post (anonymously) some of the outraged responses I ...
Street: Money Talks, BU**SH** Walks
Blog Post, January, 20 2006
Paul Street
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The title of this post is from an old U.S. working-class slogan meant to capture the disproportionate legal influence exercised by people of means relative to those without the financial resources to hire good lawyers and work the political and ju...
Street: On The Ideological Role of Maury Povich, Jerry Springer, and Judge Judy et al.
Blog Post, January, 10 2006
Paul Street
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As some of this blog's readers may know, I occasionally undertake common-sense left content analysis of America's corporate-crafted "popular culture." I also think that "entertainment" media is loaded with richly ideological messages that may be ...
Street: Worthy and Unworthy Victims: Twelve Dead in Sago Mine Versus Twelve Dead in Baiji, Iraq
Blog Post, January, 06 2006
Paul Street
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Americans are properly mourning the tragic and unnecessary deaths of 12 West Virginia coal miners in a terrible mine explosion that reflects inadequate public and private investment in worker safety. In the "mainstream" (dominant corporate-state) ...
