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Street: Bush to America: "I Dare You to Do Something About It"

Blog Post, December, 30 2005 Paul Street
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I am guessing that some of this blog's reader's saw Doug Ireland's excellent call for the initiation of impeachment proceedings against George W. Bush: "A Time to Impeach" (http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=9376§ionID=72). ...

Street: "The Face of Sacrifice": Another Example of The New York Times' Service to Imperial Power

Blog Post, December, 29 2005 Paul Street
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Here's a little new wrinkle in the story of the corporate-liberal New York Times' servility to imperial power. Last Monday's Time's contained an outwardly progressive item: a two-page photo essay on civilian casualties (what the paper calls "The ...

Street: Never Mind: The Recent Spin on Why Bush Invaded Iraq

Blog Post, December, 20 2005 Paul Street
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Are any other Americans out there shaking their head in dumb amazement over George W. Bush's latest statements about why he ordered a war of aggression on Iraq in March, 2003? The Bush administration initially sold that war on the grounds that it ...

Street: Freedom's TALON

Blog Post, December, 16 2005 Paul Street
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Now here is some shit that might give you pause. Even some news managers at General Electric Television (NBC) are worried that Bush and Rumsfeld's Messianic Military may be going too far in turning 9/11 and the terrorist war on terror into a pret...

Street: "You Seem Like a Good Candidate to Live in Norway"

Blog Post, December, 13 2005 Paul Street
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Perhaps some of this blog's readers (and yes, it's getting hard to read this blog...I am afraid the system will collapse before I get this post entered...) saw the piece I did on how local media supports and "normalizes" the death of US ...

Street: On a Mission From God: Bush's Messianic Militarism and a Call for New Elections

Blog Post, December, 05 2005 Paul Street
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I'm currently in the middle of writing a long article on how the Iraq War is not a repetition of the Vietnam War. I'll be arguing (not all that originally) that Iraq is a much bigger fiasco than Vietnam for United States imperialism.....stay tune...

Street: Shameless Orwellian War Pigs and Their Dominant Media Enablers

Blog Post, December, 01 2005 Paul Street
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Here's my latest piece (below) from the excellent radical-democratic newsletter Dissident Voice: "'Dishonest' and 'Reprehensible?'" It's got the standard leftist bluster on Bush-Cheney, I suppose (I'm a master practicioner in that realm), but the ...

Street: "Why Don't You Leave the Country?"

Blog Post, November, 27 2005 Paul Street
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Perhaps some of this blog's readers saw my recent ZNet article, titled "The 'Cowardice' Card: Militarism's Last and Self-Fulfilling Refuge." You can read the original piece at www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=9175§ionID=15 or see...

Street: John Murtha Calls Out Bush and Cheney

Blog Post, November, 19 2005 Paul Street
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I'm not a big fan of the Democratic Party, as anyone who reads my articles and postings knows. I thought one of the non-opposition's party's lowest points came in 2002, when Democratic War Hawks like John Murtha (D-Pa.) voted for Bush's illegal a...

Street: Why Do So Many Americans Believe in God and Fundamentalist "Christianity"?

Blog Post, November, 04 2005 Paul Street
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I'm guessing that some of this blog's readers have already purchased the latest Noam Chomsky book - Imperial Ambitions (Metropolitan, 2005) a remarkable set of interviews with Chomsky (2003-2005) conducted by the award winning radio journalist Dav...

Street: "It's Up to Us"

Blog Post, November, 02 2005 Paul Street
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The following speech was delivered in the "Martin Luther Kings Jr. Commons" at Northern Illinois University. It's a small part of the November 2nd national day of action against the Bush-Cheney administration (see http://www.worldcantwait.net/inde...

Street: The Surveillance Tax: A Potential New Factor in the Rising Costs of College Tuition

Blog Post, October, 27 2005 Paul Street
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I'm sure many of this blog's readers know about the pressing issue of rising college tuition costs in America. It's a big problem. Long story short: many millions of young Americans and working class Americans especially are being priced out of ...

Street: The Corporation and Frankenstein

Blog Post, October, 20 2005 Paul Street
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Here are some brief comments I'll make before the public showing of the excellent documentary "The Corporation" by the Labor Rights Alliance at Northern Illinois University (DuSable Hall, Room 461 at 7 PM). Here is the URL for the flick: http://w...

Street: Radical Democratic Education is "as American as Apple Pie"

Blog Post, October, 16 2005 Paul Street
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I have now published a book titled Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in Post Civil Rights America (Routledge, 2005). Here is a link at www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/041595116X/qid=1129415390/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/103-7906517-...

Street: "We Had a Different Policy": Clinton Was No Champion of the Poor

Blog Post, September, 30 2005 Paul Street
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Here is the text of an article I just did for the excellent left newsletter Dissident Voice (www.dissidentvoice.org): It's interesting to see former Democratic President William Jefferson Clinton speaking for the poor and against those who would...

Street: "Please Stop Talking About Race," II

Blog Post, September, 16 2005 Paul Street
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Here (below) is the next and only other chapter from my aborted past race manuscript (see my last post) that I want to put up. It's about the loaded class-race issue of affirmative action and you will notice again I do not think you can fully un...

Street: "Please Stop Talking About Race" I

Blog Post, September, 16 2005 Paul Street
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A "left" commenter on my blog (see last post) has asked me to "please stop talking about race" and basically to speak only about class. Funny, but this is my last day at the black civil rights agency where I've worked for the last five years and...

Street: A "Racist Country" With "Perveted Priorities"

Blog Post, September, 14 2005 Paul Street
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Speaking of declining U.S. hegemony, how's this for an editorial headline from France's right-wing and historically pro-American newspaper Le Figaro: "The Superpower is forced to call for help" (Le Figaro, September 3, 2005) "The French," the c...

Street: Declining U.S. Hegemony: A Brief Exchange

Blog Post, September, 12 2005 Paul Street
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Here (below) is an exchange that may or may not interest this blog's readers. It was sparked by the recent Howard Zinn interview on Tomdispatch and ZNet..... A reader wrote as follows: Hey Street: Have you read Howard Zinn's interview with T...

Street: The All-Too American Tragedy of New Orleans

Blog Post, September, 06 2005 Paul Street
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Here (below) is a piece I did for an excellent left internet newsletter --- Dissident Voice. It's about class, race, capitalism, oil, empire, and Katrina. Driving across Illinois on I-80 this evening, I tuned in briefly to Republican-dominated t...

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