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Street: Herbert vs. Herbert
Blog Post, January, 30 2007
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I agree with the liberal New York Times columnist Bob Herbert of January 25th in his (unacknowledged) argument with the liberal New York Times columnist Bob Herbert of January 4th, 2007. Let me explain. On January 4th, Herbert opened the New...
Street: Good Move: Chavez Closes Down RCTV
Blog Post, January, 29 2007
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Venezuela's Socialist president Hugo Chavez has announced that he is shutting down his country's oldest private television station. On May 27th, Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) -- a broadcaster of idiotic soap operas and authoritarian/bour...
Street: "Please, Mr. President, We Need You to Admit Your 'Mistakes' Before We Can Help You 'Move Forward' With Your....
Blog Post, January, 24 2007
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...'Well-Intentioned' Petro-Imperialist Assault on Iraq.... Okay sir, I mean please, Sir?"* * University of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey R. Stone to George W. Bush, January 16, 2007 The sniveling, power-worshiping instin...
Street: Love Notes: My Three Year Cyber Stalker "Walt K" (Probably Physicist Walter Kauppila)
Blog Post, January, 19 2007
Paul Street
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"Walt K" is one of the worst of the persistent and moronic right-wing trolls this blog has attracted since it began in the spring of 2004. The main and recurrent themes in his comments are: diversion (from core blog post topics), an atte...
Street: Because They Can (Kolko Wins)
Blog Post, January, 15 2007
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I got an interesting and somewhat critical question from Canada, relating to a ZNet piece I just did titled "Idiot Winds of Empire." The issues involved relate to some broader issues I've been wanting to write about and may be of som...
Street: On Alternatives
Blog Post, January, 11 2007
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It was nice to see Congress show some backbone today in grilling the mendacious war criminal Condaleeza (Chevron) Rice and new Pentagon chief Robert Gates. Liberal Democratic Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) raised the issue of actually de-funding the...
Street: The Oil Occupation: From the Empire and Inequality Report
Blog Post, January, 10 2007
Paul Street
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Here (pasted in below*) are some reflections on the critical role of oil in the imperialist occupation of Iraq. They are from the latest issue (the sixth so far) of my widlly popular Empire and Inequality Report. They may provide some useful bac...
Street: Reflections on American Idiocy
Blog Post, January, 09 2007
Paul Street
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We're mostly good people in the United States but we've got to be a bit less idiotic, both morally and intellectually. Before I give some examples of what I mean, let me note that an original Greek meaning of the word “idiot” referred to the oppos...
Street: Strange Dreams
Blog Post, January, 04 2007
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ZNet Commentary: Strange Dreams December 31, 2006* I keep having the same two crazy dreams. I'm just not sure what they mean. In the first dream, George W. Bush becomes obsessed with disproving the charge that he's a "chick...
Street: The Gerald Ford Deference Ritual
Blog Post, January, 02 2007
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Back to the National-Kiss-the-Ring-of-Power Death Ritual for Gerald Ford. There's so much to find offensive in the ongoing memorial, which culminated (thankfully) in the Ford funeral today. There's the revolting praise heaped again and again – in ...
Street: Climate Change and Corporate Media
Blog Post, December, 29 2006
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I opened my last Empire and Inequality Report (Issue # 5, titled "Missions Accomplished") by questioning liberal New York Times columnist Frank Rich's claim that the war in/on Iraq is the “greatest tragedy of our age.” Operation Iraqi ...
Street: "To Show the World that Giant America Was Still Powerful and Resolute:" Pardoning Ford and the Mayaguez Affair
Blog Post, December, 29 2006
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Pardon me for making a few comments on the short and undistinguished presidential record of the recently departed Gerald Ford. I have not done an exhaustive search on how "mainstream" United States media is reflecting Ford's legacy, ...
Street: On Liberals
Blog Post, December, 23 2006
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I might as well just admit it: I can't stand liberals. Recently a regular reader wrote me to ask if I really disliked “liberals” and Democrats as much as “conservatives” and Republicans. The reader noticed that I had written numerous essay...
Street: Deleting Irony, Hiding Truth: More Reactionary Nonsense at Our Times
Blog Post, December, 19 2006
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Yikes, more reactionary bullshit over at the "liberal" New York Times. Below I've pasted in a recent ZNet piece I did on missing irony and deleted truth in some recent Times coverage and commentary regarding U.S. foreign policy, Lat...
Street: Bad Ground Karma Buried Beneath Baker Hamilton
Blog Post, December, 12 2006
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The U.S. news last week was dominated by the release of the “elite” Iraq Study Group (Baker-Hamilton) Report. With all the outwardly polite, grave, and elevated discussion surrounding the ISG's limited and conservative recommendations, it was all...
Street: From The Empire and Inequality Report: "Nobody's Leaving Right Now"
Blog Post, December, 11 2006
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Here (pasted in below) are the last three (and relatively quotation-saturated) sections of the fourth number (titled "Nobody's Leaving") of my recently launched Empire and Inequality Report. Here are links for no. 1 ("Victory W...
Street: The Ground Truth
Blog Post, December, 02 2006
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I've just seen a documentary film that blew me away. The flick is called “The Ground Truth.” It's a study of the war on Iraq with particular reference to the experience of U.S. GIs and abundant interview footage from troops who have turned again...
Street: Note to Nancy Pelosi and John Conyers: Do Your Damn Constitutional Jobs
Blog Post, November, 28 2006
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Listen up Nancy Pelosi and John Conyers: were talking to you. It's already – I said already – past time to stop the doh-see-doh square dancing with the War Criminal in Chief. It's time to start the rocking and rolling. We want to see some ...
Street: Obama: "They Have Seen Their Sons and Daughters Killed or Wounded in the Streets of Fallujah."
Blog Post, November, 22 2006
Paul Street
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Okay, I took a look at the November 20th Obama "Way Forward in Iraq" speech. There's a line at the bottom of page 2 (if you go to the printable version) that ought to seal the deal for any "progressive" who cares about U.S....
Street: Obamanable National Narcissism: Hating a War Because it's a Strategic "Mistake" v. Hating it Because it's an Imperial Crime*
Blog Post, November, 21 2006
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I recently dove back into my borrowed copy of presidential candidate Barack Obama's sickening book The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (New York, 2006). Somewhere on this blog I said that I'd be knocking this thing ...
