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Street: The Gerald Ford Deference Ritual
Blog Post, January, 02 2007
Paul Street
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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
Paul Street
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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
Paul Street
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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
Paul Street
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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
Paul Street
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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
Paul Street
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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
Paul Street
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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
Paul Street
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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
Paul Street
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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
Paul Street
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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 ...
Street: Reading Between the Lines at the New York Times
Blog Post, November, 19 2006
Paul Street
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The reactionary, power-worshipping bullshit never stops over at the "liberal" New York Times. Just look at the "Week in Review" section in today's Times. On the first and third pages you can read about a "New Class War...
Street: Clarifications: Republican Defeat as Better Than Republican Victory
Blog Post, November, 14 2006
Paul Street
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I have had some very critical things to say about the Democrats and some related "cynical" comments on the meaning of the Democrats' 2006 mid-term elections victory. See my two relevant reflections on the mid-terms by linking "V...
Street: They Lied: A Letter to the Troops in Iraq
Blog Post, November, 10 2006
Paul Street
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This is a letter to United States military personnel stationed in occupied Iraq: Dear Soldiers in Iraq: They LIE. They LIED to You. And they LIED to us. And they are still LYING to all of us. Today some of you heard...
Street: To the Killing Floor: Mid-Term Reflections
Blog Post, November, 07 2006
Paul Street
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So it's Election Day and you are a progressive living in a Red (Republican) district. Will you go up into the killing floor and cast your vote against the vicious Republican bastard currently serving as the foreman in your gerrymandered congressi...
Street: Kerry's Comment and the Democrats' Class Problem
Blog Post, November, 02 2006
Paul Street
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At some point during the 2004 presidential (s)election, the satirical newspaper "The Onion" did a funny piece in which John Kerry gave a campaign speech to blue-collar workers from the deck of a rolling yacht. The sailing vessel was dock...
Street: Who Stole Our Cheese (and Killed Our Democracy and Poisoned Our Planet)?
Blog Post, November, 01 2006
Paul Street
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In May of 2005, on the pages of this blog, I said that I would produce an article on the the best-selling corporate-Orwellian fable "Who Moved My Cheese?" Then I tragically misplaced the notebook in which my reflections on that noxious neoliberal ...
Street: Against Obamania
Blog Post, October, 24 2006
Paul Street
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A specter haunts liberal and progressive America: Obamania. With BaRockstarObama appearing on Oprah, the Today Show, the covers of Men's Vogue and Vanity Fair, conducting a 13-city book tour, being featured in New York Times op-eds by (a fawning)...
Street: Trivial Media in "the Nation that Stands Taller and Sees Farther"
Blog Post, October, 14 2006
Paul Street
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Hey, remember when NBC News reporter David Gregory finally lost it and became visibly angry during a White House press conference last winter? It wasn't about the administration's numerous and continuing deceptions on Iraq. It wasn't a...
Street: The Arrow on the Doorpost:A Victory for Creeping Homeland Fascism
Blog Post, September, 28 2006
Paul Street
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There's something happening here What it is ain't exactly clear There's a man with a gun over there Telling me I got to beware I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound Everybody look what's going d...
Street: Motoko Rich and the New York Times Should Be Ashamed
Blog Post, September, 23 2006
Paul Street
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Motoko Rich should be ashamed of hersef. In a front-page New York Times story yesterday, the former residential real estate reporter (recently promoted to the Times' publishing beat) Rich noted that Noam Chomsky's book Hegemony or Survi...
Street: "The Same Opportunities as a Kid from the United States"
Blog Post, September, 20 2006
Paul Street
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The latest issue of The New Yorker contains an article by David Remnick on Bill Clinton's career as an ex-president. On page 49 of this essay, Remnick reproduces part of a dialogue he overheard earlier this summer between Clinton and philanth...
Street: Past 9/11 Retrospectives
Blog Post, September, 11 2006
Paul Street
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Here (beginning three paragraphs below) are two pieces I did in late 2004 on 9/11/2001. I have just sent a short five-year 9/11 retrospective out for publication and so will not paste it in here. If and when it goes up I'll wait a while and link i...
Street: "Who Controls the Past:" Some Historical Quotations For Bush
Blog Post, September, 01 2006
Paul Street
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In a press conference 11 days ago, Yale History Major George W. Bush told a reporter that Iraq actually had “nothing” to do with the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. This brief and quickly qualified acknowledgement of an aspect of the truth w...
Street: "Where Government Responds to the Will of the People"
Blog Post, August, 23 2006
Paul Street
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In his White House press conference earlier this week, George W. Bush told a reporter that "the only way to defeat" the authoritarian ideology of the "terrorists and extremists" who are resisting U.S. military forces in the Mid...
Street: Lebanon, Israel, and Mass American Infantilization
Blog Post, August, 04 2006
Paul Street
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I've had three small sets of numbers, one photograph, and one television show running through my head all day. The first set of numbers is 540/55. The first number in that pair is the quantity of Lebanese people, “mostly civilians,” killed b...
Street: Selective War Photography: Worthy and Unworthy Victims
Blog Post, July, 22 2006
Paul Street
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Here is a short piece I did for the excellent radical-democratic newsletter Dissident Voice: “A picture,” the old saying goes, “is worth a thousand words.” When it comes to eliciting support for, or revulsion against, a policy, it is often t...
Street: The Ward Churchill Dismissal: "A Political Lynching"
Blog Post, July, 10 2006
Paul Street
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I suspect that a few of this blog's readers know that the University of Colorado at Boulder has informed the prolific left ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill of its intent to dismiss him for "research misconduct." Take a l...
Street: "That's Absurd:" Dubya Speaks on Europeans' Fear of Washington
Blog Post, June, 22 2006
Paul Street
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My fellow Americans, our Liar in Chief certainly gave Europe and the world an up-close look at the authoritarian idiocy that passes for democratic “leadership” in our glorious nation-state, the self-proclaimed homeland and headquarters of human fr...
Street: "Punishment Intended to Drive Men to...Suicide"
Blog Post, June, 13 2006
Paul Street
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Regarding the recent suicides at Guantanamo, here are three well-crafted letters to the editor in today's New York Times: 1. To the Editor: Re "Three Prisoners Commit Suicide at Guantanamo" (front page, June 11): Amnesty International,...
