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Blog Post Street: Taibbi on Goldman Sachs Profits

Blog Post, July, 17 2009 Paul Street
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Read this Matt Taibbi article on Goldman Sachs recent profits --- a useful piece of demystification on the whole...

Blog Post Street: You Choose: Jimi Hendrix or Lawrence Welk

Blog Post, July, 13 2009 Paul Street
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Two choices...it's up to you.

Blog Post Street: Obama Bores Russia

Blog Post, July, 09 2009 Paul Street
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See these opening lines (below) from an article in yesterday's New York Times. I really had to laugh when I read this. I've always had much the same response as (apparently) the Russians just did to the current U.S. president...

Blog Post Street: "Liberals:" Do You Need the GOP Back in Power to Get Active?

Blog Post, July, 08 2009 Paul Street
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Here is my response to a recent message/posting on some recent ridiculous right-wing madness from Iowa's ultra-reactionary Republican Congressman Mel King:

Blog Post Street: The New York Times on "McNamara's" "Futile" War

Blog Post, July, 08 2009 Paul Street
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Let's have a look at the beginning of the New York Times' long front-page and high-profile write up on the recent death of Robert McNamara, shall we?

Blog Post Street: Statement on Honduras from the U.S.-Based Poor Peoples' Economic Human Rights Campaign

Blog Post, July, 06 2009 Paul Street
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Statement on Honduras from the U.S.-Based Poor Peoples' Economic Human Rights Campaign....

Blog Post Street: More Orwellian Absurdity from Obama

Blog Post, June, 20 2009 Paul Street
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More absurdity from Empire's New Clothes Barack Orwell Obama this last week: telling freshman Democratic Congresspersons that the White House would sabotage those representatives' next campaigns if they dared to vote against a $106 billion June 20...

Blog Post Street: Maher Assaults Celebrity Prez Obama

Blog Post, June, 16 2009 Paul Street
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Bill Maher kicks the living crap out of celebrity president Barack Obama from somewhat to the president's left actually: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA7GXq4S9KA It's worth a watch.

Blog Post Street: A Picture From and an Essay on Obama's Middle East

Blog Post, June, 05 2009 Paul Street
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A picture and an essay.....

Blog Post Street: "A Nation At War?"

Blog Post, May, 26 2009 Paul Street
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All across the United States yesterday (the nation's militaristic Memorial Day), untold masses of "[United States of] Americans" from our aggressively imperialist president on down repeated the doctrinal mantras that (i) "we are a nation of war" a...

Blog Post Street: Not-So Epic Differences Between Obama and Bush-Cheney

Blog Post, May, 21 2009 Paul Street
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Tonight on the Evening News and Propaganda at the Disney Division of American State-Capitalist Television, Big Brother Charles Gibson (ABC) dedicated the first 10 minutes or so to the day's supposed "epic battle" between Empire’s New Clothes Bar...

Blog Post Street: An Exchange On Obama

Blog Post, May, 21 2009 Paul Street
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I paste in (below) a recent exchange I had with a smart young left-liberal U.S. college student who occcasionally writes me to share perspectives on the Obama phenomenon/presidency and U.S. political history...

Blog Post Street: Wrong Campus Protest/Sign of the Totalitarian Times

Blog Post, May, 17 2009 Paul Street
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Check out this story from the AP: http://news.yahoo.com/ s/ap/us_obama_notre_dame. It's about the big protest that occurred at Notre Dame over Preisdent Obama's commencement address there earlier today. He got hit with a campus protest (admitted...

Blog Post Street: Imperial Morality and Selective Apology

Blog Post, May, 09 2009 Paul Street
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I re-post (below) an essay titled "Letters of No Apology" (from last August) in the wake of Emperor Obama's latest atrocity in Afghanistan (the U.S. killing of at least 120 civilians last Sunday), for which no forced resignations are contemplated...

Blog Post Street: "I Have Got Two Wars I Gotta Run Already"

Blog Post, April, 29 2009 Paul Street
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Obama in his 100 Days Press Conference tonight: "I don’t want to run auto companies,” the president says. “I don’t want to run banks. I have got two wars I gotta run already; I’ve got more than enough to do.” If you call yourself left ...

Blog Post Street: Obama Defeats Antiwar Movement

Blog Post, April, 17 2009 Paul Street
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Here is a nice piece by my friend Glen Ford: "First Black President Defeats U.S. Antiwar Movement" (read at http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/first-black-president-defeats-us-antiwar-movement). Please give it a read, ZNet comrades. Nothi...

Blog Post Street: Just 53 Percent of Americans Now Say Capitalism is Better Than Socialism

Blog Post, April, 09 2009 Paul Street
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Check out this recent poll from Rasmussen Reports. Beyond the remarkable finding that just 53 percent of Americans now say capitalism is better than socialism (20 percent pick socialism as better and 27 percent are unsure), note: *The comment ...

Blog Post Street: Broken Windows and Dominant Media's "Coverage" of London Protests

Blog Post, April, 02 2009 Paul Street
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Okay, so Janet (my wife) and I were sitting on the couch watching the nightly news on ABC/Disney (Charles Gibson the anchor) yesterday at 5:30 pm. Naturally enough, the TV Network lapdogs are giving the news from London, following the president ov...

Blog Post Street: Exceprts from Anti-War Speech: "Get Your Populist Rage On"

Blog Post, March, 30 2009 Paul Street
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Excerpts from a freezing speech I gave in in Iowa City (IC) right before the Radical Cheerleaders rocked the IC Ped Mall at a "Funk the War[s]" rally last Saturday afternoon...

Blog Post Street: Pascal's Wager

Blog Post, March, 07 2009 Paul Street
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After reading my dark essay "The Resistance Gap: On Media, Time, and the Curious Absence of Riots," a friend in lower Manhattan writes the following (received via my secret e-mail address): "you touch on the cultural indoctrination of the public, ...

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