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Street: "Diversion" and "Good Faith Distraction": On the Use Value of Conspiracy Data for the Power Elite
Blog Post, April, 19 2007
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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...
Street: Virginia Tech Tragedy
Blog Post, April, 17 2007
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I took a look at some of the morning shows (“Good Morning America” and “Today”) today. I'm sorry but I was reminded of vultures feasting on the dead. The dominant media's birds of doom are in full feeding frenzy. NBC's Matt Lauer looked hung...
Street: "Doctrinal Questions": Foreign Policy Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Blog Post, April, 15 2007
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The liberals I know need to stop being childishly surprised by the Democratic Party's failure to (a) respond progressively to the progressive antiwar sentiment expressed by U.S. voters last November (b) develop a nonimperialist foreign policy ...
Street: "This Isn't a Game"
Blog Post, April, 12 2007
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Let me share one of the the most depressing passages I've ever read in the annals of political journalism. It can be found on the first page of last Sunday's New York Times, at the end of an Adan Nagourney story about Barack Obama's l...
Street: War Tax Resistance and "Spiritual Death"
Blog Post, April, 08 2007
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So it's early April, Easter Sunday to be exact and perhaps - given the Christian holiday - you are thinking about the absolute opposition to violence (including imperial state violence) espoused by the Jesus portrayed in the New Testament (see...
Street: Links on Soldier Resistance
Blog Post, April, 05 2007
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GI and veteran resistance is growing and critical to the struggle against the illegal United States war on Iraq. Here is a list of links - it is not exhaustive - for a number of groups doing important work in this key area: Military...
Street: Obama's Wonderful Wealth Primary and "The Essence of American Politics"
Blog Post, April, 03 2007
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In his 1999 book on Bill and Hillary Clinton, No One Left to Lie To (Verso), the still Left Christopher Hitchens wrote something interesting about “the essence of American politics. This essence, when distilled," said Hitchens, "consist...
Street: "I Know How Black Folks Think”: Reflections on a Widely Ignored Comment by Bill Clinton
Blog Post, March, 28 2007
Paul Street
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Imagine that George Bush Senior was heard to say this about why the Jewish-American vote went a certain way in a New York City mayoral election: “well, that doesn't surprise me because I know how Jews think.” Imagine that Jimmy Carter was o...
Street: "If 'Totalitarianism' Has Any Meaning"
Blog Post, March, 26 2007
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Readers interested in the United States' splendid commitment to freedom should consult Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcars's remarkable book Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy (Paradigm, 2006). It contains some very useful a...
Street: On Selection by Lot, Obama, King and the Right Not to be ruled by Narcissistic, Power-Mad Shitheads
Blog Post, March, 19 2007
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One of the distinguishing features of early Athenian democracy was the “selection by lot” – the random appointment – of ordinary citizens for government offices and courts. One of the ideas behind this practice was very interesting from a radical ...
Street: "Cause the Only Ones that Wanna Scrap Ain't Never Deployed...We Murder for Oil"
Blog Post, March, 14 2007
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Maybe (see my last post) I'm looking in the wrong place for the American fascism that matters most. I went to one of my local city Recreation Centers to shoot some baskets and swim yesterday. On the way out I noticed a United States Army Recrui...
Street: I am Contacted by a White Nationalist/American Fascist
Blog Post, March, 11 2007
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With all my emphasis on what I call "level-two" - covert and institutional or societal and "state-of-being" - racism (see this for just one recent example), I occasionally forget how many full-blown, flat-out bigoted "sta...
Street: Imperial Vocabulay
Blog Post, February, 28 2007
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The prolific left intellectual Edward S. Herman reminds us that United States imperialism relies on “Orwellian language” as well as “guns, tanks, missiles, and bombs.” The distortion of words and phrases to put the use of state violence “in a good...
Street: More Than Entertainment and Diversion
Blog Post, February, 20 2007
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I've been arguing for some time that it's a key mistake to see dominant media's entertainment component as little more than childish diversion and amusement. That was sort of how the late, brilliant liberal-left neo-Luddite Neil Postm...
Street: What "the Better People" Get From Charity: A Response to Goldberg
Blog Post, February, 19 2007
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As promised or (depending on your perspective) threatened some time ago, I'm putting up (after a decent two-week interval) a ZNet Sustainer piece I did in response to creepy Jonah Goldberg's widely read column attacking the "secular&q...
Street: Reflections on Republican War Politics
Blog Post, February, 15 2007
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The White House's and Republicans' disingenuous Iraq politics would almost be amusing if there weren't so many Iraqi civilians and U.S. troops dying because of the criminal, mass-murderous occupation George W. Bush continues to execute in braz...
Street: Looking for Pretexts to Assault Iran and a Chilling Reminder from the not-so Distant Past
Blog Post, February, 12 2007
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The main reason to pick up the New York Times anymore is to look for Paul Krugman's column. I am to his left, but Krugman's information and analysis are often excellent. Today Krugman published a very useful commentary on the Bush admini...
Street: The "Biggest Profits Ever" Under "the Worst President Ever"
Blog Post, February, 09 2007
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Here are some selected passages from the next and tenth issue of my semi-weekly Empire and Inequality Report, titled "Profit Surge": Beneath all the welcome popular disgust with George W. Bush, it is easy to forget – and importan...
Street: "Kill Us So Anybody Who Wants the Oil - the Core of the Problem –Can Come and Get It:" On Apes, Cowards and Bad Commercials
Blog Post, February, 06 2007
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I was driving in my car today and had the radio on some sports talk show out of Chicago. A lot of guys in and around the city are depressed. The big thing, of course, is that the Chicago Bears lost the Super Bowl yesterday. It was terrible. ...
Street: "Who is 'Us'?"
Blog Post, February, 01 2007
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It is interesting that the most intelligent commentaries in the New York Times opinion section (the last two pages of the front section) are commonly found in the readers' short letters. Here's a good example from yesterday's Times: ...
Street: Let's Get Past the Obama Illusion
Blog Post, January, 31 2007
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Please run to your local independent book store (or if you have no alternative) to your local Borders or Barnes and Noble and buy the latest (February) Z Magazine, in which (in an article titled simply "The Obama Illusion") I demonstrate...
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
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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
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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
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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...
