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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...
Street: Not-So Epic Differences Between Obama and Bush-Cheney
Blog Post, May, 21 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
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...
Street: An Exchange On Obama
Blog Post, May, 21 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
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...
Street: Wrong Campus Protest/Sign of the Totalitarian Times
Blog Post, May, 17 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
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...
Street: Imperial Morality and Selective Apology
Blog Post, May, 09 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
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...
Street: "I Have Got Two Wars I Gotta Run Already"
Blog Post, April, 29 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
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 ...
Street: Obama Defeats Antiwar Movement
Blog Post, April, 17 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
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...
Street: Just 53 Percent of Americans Now Say Capitalism is Better Than Socialism
Blog Post, April, 09 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
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 ...
Street: Broken Windows and Dominant Media's "Coverage" of London Protests
Blog Post, April, 02 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
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...
Street: Exceprts from Anti-War Speech: "Get Your Populist Rage On"
Blog Post, March, 30 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
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...
Street: Pascal's Wager
Blog Post, March, 07 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
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, ...
Street: News From the Capitalist Nuthouse: A 90 Year-Old Man's Triumphant Return to Wage Slavery
Blog Post, February, 21 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
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
Street's ZSpace page
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
Street's ZSpace page
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
Street's ZSpace page
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
Street's ZSpace page
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
Street's ZSpace page
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
Street's ZSpace page
"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
Street's ZSpace page
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
Street's ZSpace page
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
Street's ZSpace page
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
Street's ZSpace page
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
Street's ZSpace page
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
Street's ZSpace page
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
Street's ZSpace page
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
Street's ZSpace page
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
Street's ZSpace page
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
Street's ZSpace page
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
Street's ZSpace page
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.
