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Blog Post Street: A Bad Conversation and the Democratic Primaries

Blog Post, February, 07 2008 Paul Street
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And now I will comment on a brief conversation I overheard in college-town coffee shop in Iowa yesterday, one day after the big Super Tuesday primaries. The conversation took place between two Caucasian undergraduate students at a Big Ten Universi...

Blog Post Street: On the Elections Tomorrow and Politics More Broadly

Blog Post, February, 04 2008 Paul Street
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I’ve been getting a number of e-mail messages pretty much along the following lines: “Dear Paul Street, you intrepid Left political analyst you, I live in a Super Tuesday Primary state and I just don’t know what to do tomorrow. I know you follow ...

Blog Post Street: Resources and Inspiration Against the Occupation

Blog Post, January, 18 2008 Paul Street
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Here is a killer musical video from the wonderful left English folk-singer Billy Bragg: "The Loneseome Death of Rachel Corrie," adapted from a famous Dylan song. In 2003, Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer while seeking...

Blog Post Street: Stephen Zunes on Obama on the Middle East

Blog Post, January, 12 2008 Paul Street
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Here (pasted in below) is a simply first-rate analysis of Barack Obama's imperial foreign policy statements and actions regarding the Middle East. It is by the Left foreign policy expert Stephen Zunes. It is so important and well done that I have...

Blog Post Street: David Brooks is a Little Slow

Blog Post, January, 04 2008 Paul Street
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Blog Post Street: Greenspan Speaks:

Blog Post, September, 17 2007 Paul Street
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Here (pasted in below) is an interesting story from the Sunday London Times. Leftists are regularly mocked in the halls of American intelllectual and political power for daring to think that (imagine) the invasion of Iraq was about oil (as in the ...

Blog Post Street: NYC Transport Workers Union Snubs Clinton By Endorsing John Edwards, the Most Electable Democratic Presidential Candidate

Blog Post, September, 07 2007 Paul Street
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 AP Photo: TWU Local 100 president Roger Toussaint smiles while speaking to the Transit Workers By JESSE J. HOLLAND, AP Labor Writer Thu Sep 6, 7:31 PM ET WASHINGTON - The Transport Workers Union of America endorsed John Edwards on T...

Blog Post Street: Where All Those "Beggars and Bums" Come From

Blog Post, August, 22 2007 Paul Street
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During a recent and ongoing stay in Chicago, one thing that I've been noticing is an especially large number of people begging on the streets of the downtown (what is called “the Loop”).  There's always a lot of panhandling in the city but this su...

Blog Post Street: The New Becomes Old: the Historical Normalization of Sudden Madness

Blog Post, August, 18 2007 Paul Street
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I am concerned about the speed with which many people can be convinced that astonishing recent injustice and criminality are normal and "just the way things are." It's amazing how quickly new atrocity can become old and normal for some. ...

Blog Post 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 ...

Blog Post 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&...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post 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 ...

Blog Post 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 -- ...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post 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 ...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post 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.   ...

Blog Post 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 ...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post 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 ...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post 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...

Blog Post Street: "Diversion" and "Good Faith Distraction": On the Use Value of Conspiracy Data for the Power Elite

Blog Post, April, 19 2007 Paul Street
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The following went out as a ZNet Sustainer Commentary on April 8th. It's about the conspiracy to feed conspiracy thinking...  Booz Allen Hamilton is a leading global consulting firm that "has more than 18,000 employees serving clien...

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