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Street: George Bush I's “Tender Heart” and His “Little Leaguer's Rough Game”: More Missing Irony at the New York Times
Blog Post, August, 13 2007
Paul Street
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I've been writing for some time about missing irony at the New York Times. Here's another example of what I'm talking about. In the second article linked here (Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “First Father: Tough Times on the Sidelines,” New York Times, 9 ...
Street: Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis
Blog Post, August, 02 2007
Paul Street
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My book Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis: a Living Black Chicago History (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007) is out. I posted the study's introduction and table of contents on ZNet today. Objectively racist "Global Chicago&...
Street: Barack Obama and the Audacity of Imperialism
Blog Post, July, 27 2007
Paul Street
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Perhaps you've heard by now about Barockstar Obama's most recent attempt to prove his Harvard-certified safety to the doctrinal gatekeepers of the U.S. foreign policy establishment. I am referring to Obama's July/August Foreign Affairs essay, titl...
Street: Obama, Nuclear Power and Coal: All About the Green
Blog Post, July, 26 2007
Paul Street
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We live in a degraded political culture. Here is an interesting exchange from the last Democratic presidential candidate debate, which took place earlier this week in South Carolina: CHARLESTON, South Carolina (CNN) -- QUESTION: Hi, my name ...
Street: Loss, Class, Culpability, and Empire: Some Political and Psychological Reflections
Blog Post, July, 20 2007
Paul Street
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I struggle with how to deal with United States military families' participation in the racist imperial oil occupation of Iraq. Below I have pasted in a recent effort (how successful I have no idea) of mine to find a reasonable perspective -- ...
Street: Wanted: a New York Times Columnist with "Three Functioning Grey Cells" (or a Modicum of Courage)
Blog Post, July, 13 2007
Paul Street
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MEDIA ALERT: Childish power-worshipping petro-imperialism denial and doctrinally mandated policy ignorance are reaching new levels of absurdity among New York Times columnists. As the world's leading intellectual and top U.S. policy anal...
Street: Do Not "Move On": On Bush-Cheney, the Libby Case and Impeachment
Blog Post, July, 10 2007
Paul Street
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"MOVE ON" I recently spoke about impeachment to a major Democratic political operative. I didn't raise the topic. He did. The current president's war policy, I commented after a talk the operative ...
Street: July 4th Reflections: England, George, We the People, and the Right of Revolution
Blog Post, July, 03 2007
Paul Street
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Tomorrow is the two hundred and thirty first (231st) anniversary of the Declaration of Independence (DOI), a document that linked the United States' struggle for independence from England to the notion of democratic government and the right of...
Street: Is Obama Starting to "Flame Out?"
Blog Post, June, 29 2007
Paul Street
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Obama dropped the ball. You could see it in the eyes of the predominantly elite black audience members at the historically black Howard University in Washington D.C. last night, where the Democratic Party candidates came together for a debate cen...
Street: Silly White Crush on Obama
Blog Post, June, 20 2007
Paul Street
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My ongoing assault on the Obama campaign continues. Please see my latest effort, titled “Obama's White Appeal” in the excellent left newsletter Dissident Voice and also at Black Agenda Report. Among other things, this essay addresses the unpleasa...
Street: “We Told You So”: Reflections on Authoritarian Peril, Left Invisibility and the Latest Stage of Pathetic Democratic Surrender
Blog Post, May, 30 2007
Paul Street
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One of the things a Left writer, speaker and activist has to get used to in the U.S. is that almost nothing you ever say will receive the attention it deserves beyond the supposed “lunatic fringe” to which you are by definition consigned. ...
Street: Memorial Day Reflections: Why the Military Prefers a Mercenary Army
Blog Post, May, 28 2007
Paul Street
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When I write and speak I often strive to make important connections that ideological authorities tend to hide between seemingly disparate and unrelated phenomena. In the eighteenth number of my semi-weekly Empire and Inequality Report, subtitled ...
Street: Note to Paul Wolfowitz: Do the Right Thing
Blog Post, May, 18 2007
Paul Street
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Dear Paul Wolfowitz: I learned yesterday that you have in fact been forced out of your position as the head of the World Bank. This must be a very difficult time for you. The circumstances of your departure have been quite disgraceful and...
Street: "Three Great Civilizations Came Together for the First Time..." in Jamestown
Blog Post, May, 16 2007
Paul Street
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I don't often just paste in full commentaries by others and call it my blog post but I'm going to make an exception for Ralph Reiland's excellent, short and sweet reflection on Queen Elizabeth II's nauseating trip to Jamestown. Re...
Street: On Obama and Pathological Tolerance of Criminality
Blog Post, May, 11 2007
Paul Street
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I do not understand our tolerance of imperial arch-criminality. Last night on “public” television I saw Joe Mantegna say that PBS will host Colin Powell in a special Memorial Day concert later this month.. I don't think Colin Powell sings...
Street: ZNet is "Harmful to a Young Public": Notes From Madison
Blog Post, May, 04 2007
Paul Street
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Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by the Orwellian absurdity of daily political life in the United States. I am spending a few days in my old home away from home - Madison, WI. This morning I went ino my hotel's complimentary Internet room to hav...
Street: May Day Reflections: TIME AS A DEMOCRACY ISSUE
Blog Post, May, 01 2007
Paul Street
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As Dick Meister notes in the ZNet top page today, May Day (May First) "herald['s] the coming of Spring with song and dance" but was "once also...a day for demonstrations that were crucial in winning the most important righ...
Street: The Democratic Party Presidential Debate on MSNBC
Blog Post, April, 27 2007
Paul Street
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I saw all but the first 12 minutes or so of the first Democratic Party presidential candidate “debate” on MSNBC last night. There were two especially entertaining moments: * Joe Biden responding with one word (“yes”) when NBC's Brian ...
Street: "I'm Confused Why They Lied"
Blog Post, April, 24 2007
Paul Street
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Here is a story from today's New York Times: April 24, 2007 Pentagon Challenged on Lynch and Tillman By JOHN HOLUSHA Military and other administration officials created a heroic story about the death of Cpl. Pat Tillman t...
Street: Calculated Democratic Cowardice on Guns, Impeachment and War
Blog Post, April, 22 2007
Paul Street
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Here is an interesting recent story from ABC News: Democrats' Sounds of Silence on Gun Control Presidential Candidates Have Been Reticent on the Issue After the Virginia Tech Massacre By JAKE TAPPER — - In the past, after shooting massa...
