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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...
Street: "It's Up to Us"
Blog Post, November, 02 2005
Paul Street
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The following speech was delivered in the "Martin Luther Kings Jr. Commons" at Northern Illinois University. It's a small part of the November 2nd national day of action against the Bush-Cheney administration (see http://www.worldcantwait.net/inde...
Street: The Surveillance Tax: A Potential New Factor in the Rising Costs of College Tuition
Blog Post, October, 27 2005
Paul Street
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I'm sure many of this blog's readers know about the pressing issue of rising college tuition costs in America. It's a big problem. Long story short: many millions of young Americans and working class Americans especially are being priced out of ...
Street: The Corporation and Frankenstein
Blog Post, October, 20 2005
Paul Street
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Here are some brief comments I'll make before the public showing of the excellent documentary "The Corporation" by the Labor Rights Alliance at Northern Illinois University (DuSable Hall, Room 461 at 7 PM). Here is the URL for the flick: http://w...
Street: Radical Democratic Education is "as American as Apple Pie"
Blog Post, October, 16 2005
Paul Street
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I have now published a book titled Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in Post Civil Rights America (Routledge, 2005). Here is a link at www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/041595116X/qid=1129415390/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/103-7906517-...
Street: "We Had a Different Policy": Clinton Was No Champion of the Poor
Blog Post, September, 30 2005
Paul Street
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Here is the text of an article I just did for the excellent left newsletter Dissident Voice (www.dissidentvoice.org): It's interesting to see former Democratic President William Jefferson Clinton speaking for the poor and against those who would...
Street: "Please Stop Talking About Race," II
Blog Post, September, 16 2005
Paul Street
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Here (below) is the next and only other chapter from my aborted past race manuscript (see my last post) that I want to put up. It's about the loaded class-race issue of affirmative action and you will notice again I do not think you can fully un...
Street: "Please Stop Talking About Race" I
Blog Post, September, 16 2005
Paul Street
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A "left" commenter on my blog (see last post) has asked me to "please stop talking about race" and basically to speak only about class. Funny, but this is my last day at the black civil rights agency where I've worked for the last five years and...
Street: A "Racist Country" With "Perveted Priorities"
Blog Post, September, 14 2005
Paul Street
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Speaking of declining U.S. hegemony, how's this for an editorial headline from France's right-wing and historically pro-American newspaper Le Figaro: "The Superpower is forced to call for help" (Le Figaro, September 3, 2005) "The French," the c...
Street: Declining U.S. Hegemony: A Brief Exchange
Blog Post, September, 12 2005
Paul Street
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Here (below) is an exchange that may or may not interest this blog's readers. It was sparked by the recent Howard Zinn interview on Tomdispatch and ZNet..... A reader wrote as follows: Hey Street: Have you read Howard Zinn's interview with T...
Street: The All-Too American Tragedy of New Orleans
Blog Post, September, 06 2005
Paul Street
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Here (below) is a piece I did for an excellent left internet newsletter --- Dissident Voice. It's about class, race, capitalism, oil, empire, and Katrina. Driving across Illinois on I-80 this evening, I tuned in briefly to Republican-dominated t...
Street: Natural Calamity and Human Folly
Blog Post, August, 29 2005
Paul Street
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Below, I have pasted in a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) press release from nearly a month ago. It reports the findings of MIT meteorologist Kerry Emmanuel, who learned that hurricanes have been becoming considerably more destructive...
Street: George W. Bush's "Life to Live": on Dubya, Defoe, Cindy Sheehan, the Personal, and the Public
Blog Post, August, 22 2005
Paul Street
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This article I did (see below) went up on the ZNet top page last week. I thought I'd give people a chance to comment on it if they wish. Looking back, the main problem I have with the article is that it's perhaps over-focused on boy-King Bush, for...
Street: Comon Sense Clairvoyance and Some Lessons of History
Blog Post, August, 16 2005
Paul Street
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Scrambling to prepare some formal reflections on my original academic field, United States History, I recently found my notes from a 20th Century US History class I taught in the Fall of 1998. Here are my exact notes --- talking points really ---...
Street: THE VICTOR WOOD & DMX 9/11 CONSPIRACY POST
Blog Post, August, 10 2005
Paul Street
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Notes from 9/11 conspiracy theorist Victor Wood and (perhaps) "Dmx" and (possibly) some of their fellow 9/11 conspiracy theorists: 1. "Why am I a Kook?" The following Victor comment was posted on the Street blog on April 21, 2007: Conspirac...
Street: Bush, China, Two Deficits, and the Ongoing Decline of U.S. Hegemony
Blog Post, July, 25 2005
Paul Street
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How about that wild and wacky world capitalist system? The United States (U.S.) is clearly the world's “hegemonic” military power. The U.S. government's capacity for “forward global force projection” is stupendous and its imperial “defense” budge...
Street: "Right Down the Middle...How Sweet Would That Be:" Dark Reflections From Some New American Moms
Blog Post, July, 19 2005
Paul Street
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In political conversations with friends and family of left-liberal, vaguely progressive inclination, I often find myself telling them they don't know the full radical pre- and proto-fascist extent of what they are up against on the authoritarian n...
Street: Terror Attacks are a Price of Empire that Bush and Blair are Willing for Us to Pay
Blog Post, July, 07 2005
Paul Street
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There are many reasons to condemn the vicious non-state terrorists who conduct murderous operations like the ones that took place in London this morning. ... One reason that is not commonly mentioned in our Permanent War and Entertainment Medi...
Street: Live From Fort Bragg: "Fortunate Son" Dubya Calls for "More, More, More"
Blog Post, June, 30 2005
Paul Street
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Here's a critique of some parts of George W. Bush's “Buck Up America” war speech, given to revealingly mild applause at Fort Bragg. This post takes its theoretical inspiration from Credence Clearwater Revival's Vietnam-era antiwar rock anthem "Fo...
Street: Good Morning America: Did Your Civilian Democracy Come Home Last Night?
Blog Post, June, 29 2005
Paul Street
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Monday, I had a day off. It was great. I was in DeKalb. I had time to watch a television show while I ate breakfast. It was mostly commercials. I headed for the YMCA out on Bethany Road but I stopped for coffee and newspapers in the local Barne...
Street: On Facts and Frames
Blog Post, June, 24 2005
Paul Street
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I have a forthcoming ZNet Sustainer Commentary (see http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2005-06/23street.cfm) in which I make some serious criticisms of George Lakoff's much-debated... book Don't Think of It as an Elephant: Know Your Values an...
Street: Obedience Rule Number One in the Hidden Workplace Abode: Care Only About Yourself
Blog Post, June, 15 2005
Paul Street
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I once worked in a largely glass building with an ancient, outworn heating and cooling system. In some of this building's offices, temperatures were regularly in the high 70s and 80s. On some afternoons, my office hit 90 degrees.... I had the h...
Street: Deeper Than Palast on the "Deep Throat" Revelation
Blog Post, June, 07 2005
Paul Street
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I've been on the road so here are some belated comments on the Mark Felt “Deep Throat” revelation. On at least four occasions (twice on television and twice on the radio) during the last week, I've had to endure listening to dominant media outle...
Street: Memorial Day Apology (One Day Late)
Blog Post, May, 31 2005
Paul Street
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I spent inordinate parts of the Memorial Day weekend doing my part for global climate change by driving across the nation's interstate highway system. Occasionally I would turn on the car radio, to check the news, listen to... the other Chicago ...
Street: “Impossible to Sell to Any Adult Human Being"
Blog Post, May, 24 2005
Paul Street
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An interesting article (see the full text below) appeared in the New York Times yesterday. Why is the United States working behind the scenes to get the Organization of American States (O.A.S.) to form a new committee “to monitor the quality of d...
Street: "They Want Us To Die"
Blog Post, May, 15 2005
Paul Street
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How bad is it in the United States, the leading homeland and headquarters of global Empire and Inequality? For a small part of the answer, check out the two short items I have pasted in below (including intervening commentary in the second piece)....
Street: Slightly Revised Reflections on History, Impeachment, "Safety Net Nation," Chomsky and Cheese
Blog Post, May, 13 2005
Paul Street
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Some semi-random notes and reflections that may or may not deserve extensive comment. First (first things first), the piece on Why Study History that I blogged for two hours (and then took down because I found out it was in fact a forthcoming pu...
Street: A Little Respect, Please
Blog Post, May, 02 2005
Paul Street
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I am a little offended by neo-Stalinist North Korea's description of my nation's president as a "hooligan" and "a philistine." See http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/04/30/northkorea.ap/. Our big bad boy King George merely (following We...
Street: Wall Street, War, and Revolution
Blog Post, April, 27 2005
Paul Street
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Please look back at a tax-day piece I did on the United States' harshly regressive and militarist (imperial) priorities, where I quoted Martin Luther King. Jr. on the need for a "radical restructuring of those priorities. I broke down the ...
Street: Taxing Reflections: National Priorities Past and Present
Blog Post, April, 15 2005
Paul Street
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It's tax day. So let's say you are paying Uncle Sam $1,000. This is how your expenditure will be used: $299.68 will go the military. $202.74 goes to health care: all health spending by the federal government, including federal spending on Me...
