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Street: News From the Capitalist Nuthouse: A 90 Year-Old Man's Triumphant Return to Wage Slavery
Blog Post, February, 21 2009
Paul Street
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The late Kurt Vonnegut would have appreciated this story (below). We are truly living in a Capitalist Nuthouse: Read here from a California CBS affilate's account of a rugged 90-year old man's triumphant return to wage slavery in the wake of an un...
Street: Judis on No Popular Left: Reflections
Blog Post, February, 16 2009
Paul Street
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Look at this interesting article by John Judis at The New Republic, titled "End the Honeymoon." The key line that caught my attention: "I think the main reason that Obama [has gone forward with a really shitty and inadequate economic plan - P.S.]...
Street: Obama Gets Some Blood on His Hands
Blog Post, January, 26 2009
Paul Street
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So it took Empire's New Clothes what, four days to become a war criminal?
Street: A Testament of Hope
Blog Post, January, 20 2009
Paul Street
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As Martin Luther King, Jr. Day gives way to Barack Obama Day, I want to type in one of my favorite King quotes: "Millions of American are coming to see that we are fighting an immoral war that costs nearly thirty billion dollars a year, that we ar...
Street: Two Very Different Pilots
Blog Post, January, 16 2009
Paul Street
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I wonder if anyone else has been as struck as I have been by the interesting conjuncture of events yesterday. On one hand we had the remarkable story of U.S. Airways Flight 1549. Americans and others the world over were inspired by the compet...
Street: Dick Cheney, "Is Your Money That Good?"
Blog Post, January, 14 2009
Paul Street
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Behold the parting denials and deceptions of War Criminal Dick Cheney, spoken to the ex-Marine Jim Lehrer in an extended interview on the not-so Public Broadcacasting System earlier tonight: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june09/chene...
Street: "When Will the West Stand up for Justice?"
Blog Post, January, 11 2009
Paul Street
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"When Will the West Stand Up for Justice?"" http://www.ikhwanweb.com/ No essay here. Please view the slides.
Street: TV Dates and NYC
Blog Post, December, 07 2008
Paul Street
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I am in NYC for the 92nd time but this is the first time to be on TV. On Wednesday I'm with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales on "Democracy Now:" http://www.democracynow.org/ Tomorrow I tape with Laura Flanders' show Grit TV: http://www.freespeech....
Street: One Radio Appearance and Seven Quotes
Blog Post, November, 18 2008
Paul Street
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I'm on Kansas City public radio tonight talking about the meaning of the Obama election and my study of the Obama phenomenon. I'll be on at 6 Midwestern time, which is 7 in the east, 4 in the west, and 5 in the Rockies. For details, the link, and ...
Street: Satire From Last Year: Obama and other Democratic Candidates as "Marxists"
Blog Post, October, 30 2008
Paul Street
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With Sarah Palim, John McCain, and Sean Hannity et al. now absurdly suggesting that the ruling-class candidate Barack Obama is a "socialist," this is as good a time as any to re-post a satire I did for Black Agenda Report last November - an essay ...
Street: One Quote and Two Plugs
Blog Post, October, 07 2008
Paul Street
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Dear readers, I have one remarkable quote for you and then two acts of shameless Chicago-area self-promotion. Here is the quote: "The world is not ending. Despite the wrenching turmoil in global financial networks and morbid allusions to the deat...
Street: "The Same Mission --- With a Twist --- At Home"
Blog Post, October, 01 2008
Paul Street
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Think about this chilling story (pasted in below) from The Army Times in light of the deepening finanical-economic crisis, the possible imminent third straight theft of an election (by and for the proto-fascistic GOP), and the ever-present possibl...
Street: Quick Reflections on the First Presidential Debate, Race, and the Election
Blog Post, September, 26 2008
Paul Street
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In the presidential debate tonight, for what it's worth, I thought Obama was "on his game," such as it is. The debate had all the standard authoritarian ideological iimitis. No serious candidate can question the military budget or mention the num...
Street: I Get a Junk E-Mail from "Henry Paulson"
Blog Post, September, 24 2008
Paul Street
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I just got the following joke-junk e-mail from a "Henry Paulson." I did not make this up (I wish I had); it was actually in my e-mail inbox. Here it is:
Street: Whirlpool's Racist Jack Nicklaus Eco-Enclosure in Benton Harbor
Blog Post, September, 23 2008
Paul Street
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Here's a depressing press release from Southwest Michigan on a "local" struggle that continues beneath and beyond the corporate-crafted candidate-centered quadrennial "that's politics" electoral extravaganza and the latest capitalist high finance cr
Street: The Horror of Obama's Just-Released Two-Minute "Economy Video"
Blog Post, September, 18 2008
Paul Street
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Now here is something truly terrible from Obama on the financial crisis and more --- a short "economy video" that concludes with him actually saying that "the outworn ideas of the left and the right" won't solve our economic problems: http://my.barac
Street: 90 Civilians Killed by "Good" Uncle Sam in Azizabad
Blog Post, September, 14 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
So tell me, "progressive" Obama supporters, does the great and wonderful United States apologize for "mistakenly" murdering 90 civilians this summer, in the process of figthing what Obama considers to be George W. Bush's "good" and "proper" war
Street: Republican Convention Reflections
Blog Post, September, 05 2008
Paul Street
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The RNC orgy of messianic-militarist white nationalism ("Country First") has come to its grotesque conclusion in the Twin Cities. It was entertaining to watch the 93 percent white country club Republican delegates roar their approval while the pr...
Street: Speaking in Chicago Next Monday
Blog Post, September, 04 2008
Paul Street
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I'm speaking in Chicago next Monday evening, talking about my new book on the Obama phenomenon at the Open University of the Left, which is meeting at the Lincoln Park Library on the North Side.
Street: "A Task That is From God"
Blog Post, September, 03 2008
Paul Street
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Here below is an AP/Yahoo story about hard-right evangelical "hockey mom" Sarah Palin's opinion that the arch-criminal, immoral, and mass--murderous U.S. occupation of Iraq (cause of the death of more than 1 million Iraqis) is "a task that is from...
