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Street: Ghettoizing Iraq

Blog Post, May, 22 2006 Paul Street
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According to the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and other agents of imperial United States "democracy promotion," the development of a strong middle-class is a leading social-historical condition for "modern" (bourgeois) representative go...

Street: The Fading Global Distinction Between the Good U.S. People and the Bad U.S. Government

Blog Post, May, 17 2006 Paul Street
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In the sixth chapter (titled "Who Hates America?" ) of my book Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2004 www.paradigm publishers.com), I suggested that the U.S. citizenry's initial apparent willingness (a...

Street: Immigration Doesn't Have to Be a Zero Sum Game Pitting Natives Against Newcomers

Blog Post, May, 10 2006 Paul Street
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My visiting-professorial year in and around in one of the nation's many academic islands of indfference (and confusion) was a little demoralizing, but the Spring semester ended on a wonderful and inspiring note. A much-shortened version of the fol...

Street: "Suffer the Consequences" of the Great Disconnect

Blog Post, April, 27 2006 Paul Street
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It's good to see people more influential than me saying something that needs to be said and which I've been saying for a while: it's the dominant U.S. institutions and powers that be --- the corporate-state media, the two U.S. Chamber of Commerce ...

Street: Mission Accomplished

Blog Post, April, 24 2006 Paul Street
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I just walked down to my local town's public library and on the way I saw the same bumper sticker on three cars sitting in the driveways of three houses. The sticker says (if I remember correctly): "George W. Bush: 'Mission Accomplished.'" Wel...

Street: The Power of Positive Thinking

Blog Post, April, 21 2006 Paul Street
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If you are reading this blog, the chances are good that you are some kind of left-leaning soul. And if you are a (United-States-of) American and your left sentiments are more than a purely private matter, the chances are decent that you&un...

Street: WHICH WMD Lie Do You Mean?

Blog Post, March, 25 2006 Paul Street
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Recently a self-described "conservative" and "pro-war" intellectual stopped me in the hallway to say that I was "right on one thing --- Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction." "It's...

Street: We Should Leave If They Want Us Out... and They Do

Blog Post, March, 23 2006 Paul Street
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Speaking of polling data (the subject of my last post) on Iraq, here are a couple of important findings from recent history: * Seventy-two percent of Americans surveyed by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations in 2004 (...

Street: Occupation Soldiers Agree: We Invaded Iraq "to Avenge September 11"

Blog Post, March, 19 2006 Paul Street
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Never underestimate the power of war propaganda. Don't forget the danger to democracy posed by the existence of a separate mercenary military caste within an ostensibly democratic society. "WE INVADED IRAQ...

Street: Time to Knock the Table out from Under President Pinocchio's Elbows

Blog Post, March, 02 2006 Paul Street
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According to the Associated Press (AP) today (March 2, 2006), George Bush II received explict advance warnings about Hurricane Katrina's monumental scale and impact late last summer. "In dramatic and sometimes agonizin...

Street: Talk on U.S. War Airms

Blog Post, February, 26 2006 Paul Street
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Here are some comments I made to the University of Iowa Antiwar Goup yesterday. .......Good afternoon. Thanks for asking me to speak. I want to say a few things about why the American Empire is in Iraq, why it’s going to...

Street: Addicted to Empire, Not Middle Eastern Oil

Blog Post, February, 06 2006 Paul Street
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Addicted to Empire: Bush, Iraq, Oil, Candor, and American Global Dominance I am in the middle of my usual George Orwell-inspired dissection of the George W. Bush’s “State of the Union” address (SOUA). A recently publi...

Street: The Recurrent Doctrinal Hitlerization and Rhetorical Nazification of Everybody the American Empire Hates

Blog Post, February, 05 2006 Paul Street
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Here's a clever topic for a doctoral dissertation or at least an academic article: "The Recurrent Doctrinal Hitlerization and Rhetorical Nazification of Everybody the American Empire Hates." It's quite recurre...

Street: Justifying Hiroshima: Ken Burns, "Saving Lives," and Atomic Crimes

Blog Post, January, 28 2006 Paul Street
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This (below) was on the ZNet top page last week and got a fairly wide readership; thought I'd put it up here and let folks have at it if they wish. If I have time and there's any interest, I can post (anonymously) some of the outraged responses I ...

Street: Speaking Tomorrow Night in Chicago: You've Read the Blog, Now Hear the Writer

Blog Post, January, 28 2006 Paul Street
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I am speaking tomorrow tonight in Chicago at the In These Times building, second floor, at 2040 N. Milwaukee. I am being hosted by the Open University of the Left (OUL), which is (I quote from its Web Site) "a cooperative educational project ...

Street: "All Out October 27 to End This War": You Need to Fight Back

Blog Post, January, 28 2006 Paul Street
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I just got an e-mail from an old comrade and occasional ZNet commentator: "All out October 27 to end this fucking war. Please watch and distribute widely. http://youtube.com/watch?v=76lZC_o95gE." Here's a direct hyperlink of the v...

Street: Project Talking Head: Shocking Revelations and Ongoing Investigations

Blog Post, January, 28 2006 Paul Street
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Sparked by recent revelations that Public Broadcasting System (PBS) News hour host Jim Lehrer died more than four years and seven months ago, political and medical investigators are closely monitoring the appearance, life signs, and behavior of a ...

Street: Money Talks, BUSH Walks

Blog Post, January, 20 2006 Paul Street
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The title of this post is from an old U.S. working-class slogan meant to capture the disproportionate legal influence exercised by people of means relative to those without the financial resources to hire good lawyers and work the political and ju...

Street: On The Ideological Role of Maury Povich, Jerry Springer, and Judge Judy et al.

Blog Post, January, 10 2006 Paul Street
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As some of this blog's readers may know, I occasionally undertake common-sense left content analysis of America's corporate-crafted "popular culture." I also think that "entertainment" media is loaded with richly ideological messages that may be ...

Street: Worthy and Unworthy Victims: Twelve Dead in Sago Mine Versus Twelve Dead in Baiji, Iraq

Blog Post, January, 06 2006 Paul Street
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Americans are properly mourning the tragic and unnecessary deaths of 12 West Virginia coal miners in a terrible mine explosion that reflects inadequate public and private investment in worker safety. In the "mainstream" (dominant corporate-state) ...

Street: Bush to America: "I Dare You to Do Something About It"

Blog Post, December, 30 2005 Paul Street
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I am guessing that some of this blog's reader's saw Doug Ireland's excellent call for the initiation of impeachment proceedings against George W. Bush: "A Time to Impeach" (http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=9376§ionID=72). ...

Street: "The Face of Sacrifice": Another Example of The New York Times' Service to Imperial Power

Blog Post, December, 29 2005 Paul Street
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Here's a little new wrinkle in the story of the corporate-liberal New York Times' servility to imperial power. Last Monday's Time's contained an outwardly progressive item: a two-page photo essay on civilian casualties (what the paper calls "The ...

Street: Never Mind: The Recent Spin on Why Bush Invaded Iraq

Blog Post, December, 20 2005 Paul Street
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Are any other Americans out there shaking their head in dumb amazement over George W. Bush's latest statements about why he ordered a war of aggression on Iraq in March, 2003? The Bush administration initially sold that war on the grounds that it ...

Street: Freedom's TALON

Blog Post, December, 16 2005 Paul Street
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Now here is some shit that might give you pause. Even some news managers at General Electric Television (NBC) are worried that Bush and Rumsfeld's Messianic Military may be going too far in turning 9/11 and the terrorist war on terror into a pret...

Street: "You Seem Like a Good Candidate to Live in Norway"

Blog Post, December, 13 2005 Paul Street
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Perhaps some of this blog's readers (and yes, it's getting hard to read this blog...I am afraid the system will collapse before I get this post entered...) saw the piece I did on how local media supports and "normalizes" the death of US ...

Street: On a Mission From God: Bush's Messianic Militarism and a Call for New Elections

Blog Post, December, 05 2005 Paul Street
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I'm currently in the middle of writing a long article on how the Iraq War is not a repetition of the Vietnam War. I'll be arguing (not all that originally) that Iraq is a much bigger fiasco than Vietnam for United States imperialism.....stay tune...

Street: Shameless Orwellian War Pigs and Their Dominant Media Enablers

Blog Post, December, 01 2005 Paul Street
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Here's my latest piece (below) from the excellent radical-democratic newsletter Dissident Voice: "'Dishonest' and 'Reprehensible?'" It's got the standard leftist bluster on Bush-Cheney, I suppose (I'm a master practicioner in that realm), but the ...

Street: "Why Don't You Leave the Country?"

Blog Post, November, 27 2005 Paul Street
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Perhaps some of this blog's readers saw my recent ZNet article, titled "The 'Cowardice' Card: Militarism's Last and Self-Fulfilling Refuge." You can read the original piece at www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=9175§ionID=15 or see...

Street: John Murtha Calls Out Bush and Cheney

Blog Post, November, 19 2005 Paul Street
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I'm not a big fan of the Democratic Party, as anyone who reads my articles and postings knows. I thought one of the non-opposition's party's lowest points came in 2002, when Democratic War Hawks like John Murtha (D-Pa.) voted for Bush's illegal a...

Street: Why Do So Many Americans Believe in God and Fundamentalist "Christianity"?

Blog Post, November, 04 2005 Paul Street
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I'm guessing that some of this blog's readers have already purchased the latest Noam Chomsky book - Imperial Ambitions (Metropolitan, 2005) a remarkable set of interviews with Chomsky (2003-2005) conducted by the award winning radio journalist Dav...

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