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Street: April 9th: "A Day In Which One Tyrant Fell So That Another Occupying Tyrant Could Take His Place."
Blog Post, April, 11 2005
Paul Street
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On Saturday tens of thousands of Iraqis celebrated the second anniversary of Saddam Hussein's fall by marching to demand the departure of the American "liberators." "The 9th of April," the Iraqi Islamic Party said in an official statement, "is ...
Street: April 4th: The Day King Was Shot
Blog Post, April, 04 2005
Paul Street
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April 4th is emblazoned on my mind. It's the day in 1968 when Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot dead on a balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.... King was leading a poor- people's campaign for economic justice at the time of his assassinatio...
Street: Dominant Media's Selective Morality
Blog Post, April, 01 2005
Paul Street
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Some of this blog's readers may know that I published a piece in Black Commentator last week under the title "Savage Morality: Selective Concern and Dominant Media in an Age of Empire and Inequality (see www.blackcommentator.org/131/131_think_sava...
Street: "Demonstrably at Odds with our Founding Fathers' Blueprint for the Governance of a Free people"
Blog Post, March, 31 2005
Paul Street
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Check out the language of the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in smacking down the radical right Bushcon assault on judicial autonomy in the Schiavo matter. .... The historically conservative Eleventh Circuit Judge Stanley F. ...
Street: Repeal the Racist Higher Education Act Drug Provision
Blog Post, March, 30 2005
Paul Street
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I took some time out from the great proletarian revolution today to join some smart student activists in lobbying some key Chicago media authorities to oppose the Drug Provision that was added to the Higher Education Act in 1998..... Under this n...
Street: "It's All About the Grease"
Blog Post, March, 18 2005
Paul Street
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Perhaps you have seen (to see again look at the H. Joseph AP story below – Story 1) that the Senate recently voted basically to allow oil drilling in the precious Arctic Wildlife Refuge – something that the... masters of imperial corporate pet...
Street: To "Contain" Chavez
Blog Post, March, 16 2005
Paul Street
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The Bushcons are paying some new attention to Latin America, which they fear has been slipping out of Yankee neoliberal/necolonial control during the recent American campaign to deliver "peace" and "freedom" to the Arab world ---a wonderful exp...
Street: A New Stage in Forward State-Propagandistic Vertical Integration
Blog Post, March, 14 2005
Paul Street
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Want to get a chilling new glimpse of your emergent totalitarian future in the "home of the free?" Then go to.... http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/politics/13covert.html?ei=5070&en=2d48dec4b53dff33&ex=1111381200&pagewanted=print&position= Ther...
Street: Money Doesn't Matter? Let Rich School Districts Show the Way
Blog Post, March, 13 2005
Paul Street
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Imagine if you will that you are a parent of a public school student in one of the United States' affluent Caucasian school districts – say the Roundout School District in the 94-percent white North Shore Chicago suburb Lake Forest, which spends $...
Street: "Because We Are America!"
Blog Post, March, 11 2005
Paul Street
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In 1994, Madeleine Albright, then UN Ambassador, informed the UN Security Council during a 1994 discussion about Iraq that America "will behave, with others, multilaterally when we can and unilaterally when we must" (Middle East International [Lon...
Street: Life Expectancy, Inequality, Overwork, Insurance, and Empire
Blog Post, March, 06 2005
Paul Street
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Ever get tired of American "leaders" like George W. Bush and others saying again and again that the United States of America is the “greatest country in the world”? For an especially asinine version of this standard patriotic cliché, see Dinesh ...
Street: Bush's Primary Sin? According to The American Prospect, It's Dropping the Noble Ball of Empire
Blog Post, March, 03 2005
Paul Street
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Remember how certain folks on the left (e.g. Alexander Cockburn and Gabriel Kolko) argued that "messianic militarist" (Nader's desctiption) neocon Bush might actually be “the lesser evil” in the 2004 election? This thesis was based on the notio...
Street: "I'm Putting Two in the Chest of Every Ah-La-La-La-La I see"
Blog Post, March, 01 2005
Paul Street
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In all the intra-leftist debate that took place over Michael Moore's movie Fahrenheit 9-11, one of the film's contradictions escaped notice. I am referring to the interesting tension between Moore's repeated declarations of heartfelt, patrioti...
Street: "We Want No Castes or Classes"
Blog Post, February, 22 2005
Paul Street
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I work at a civil rights organization, possess a doctorate in US History (for what that's worth), and tend to field phone calls from community members and journalists in February, officially designated as Black History Month. As a result, this ...
Street: Death by Taser: Lazy Cops and a Lazy Reporter
Blog Post, February, 11 2005
Paul Street
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In Chicago today, WLS TV (Channel 7, the ABC affiliate) reported (see below), a man became so "deranged" that he started "ripping off his clothes." Fortunately the police were there to "subdue" him. Unfortunately, one of the tools our courage...
Street: Talk About Your "Fetishism of Commodities": a Priest, a Truck, a Girl, and an Idiot Nation
Blog Post, February, 09 2005
Paul Street
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This story (below) is interesting on numerous levels. It tells the curious and disturbing tale of a Super Bowl advertisement that didn't happen. ... In a proposed Ford commercial that never saw the light of kick-off, it turns out, a priest was d...
Street: Crazy "Cryofan"/Raging "Randy" Gets His Own ZNet Page
Blog Post, January, 27 2005
Paul Street
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In the three years I've kept a blog at ZNet I've run across no single commenter more bizarre and unbalanced than "cryofan" (whose real first name may be "Randy"). "cryofan's" most consistent theme is that I should ne...
Street: An Opportunity to Reflect on Ruling Class Vulgarity and Extreme inequality in Washington DC
Blog Post, January, 20 2005
Paul Street
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The pompous, corporate-plutocratic re-coronation of New Imperial War Criminal Bush will "cost tens of millions of dollars - $40 million alone in private donations to the balls and invitation-only parties" (Will Lester, Associated Press... [see h...
Street: Martin Luther King. Jr. and "The Triple Evils That Are Interrelated"*
Blog Post, January, 17 2005
Paul Street
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As the United States experiences its second Martin Luther King. Jr Day to occur with Iraq under American occupation, it's an opportune moment to remember King as a border crosser who refused to restrict his focus to just one city or one nation or ...
Street: "Five Dead" in "Military Error": A Barely Noticeable Example of War Crime Journalism
Blog Post, January, 12 2005
Paul Street
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Imagine that a Canadian Air Force jet on a military exercise accidentally crossed into US airspace and mistakenly dropped a bomb that killed, say, 14 US residents. On what page of your local U.S. newspaper do you think THAT story would appear? Ho...
Street: Geneva Conventions? They're Leaving on a Jet Plane...Don't Know When They'll Be Back Again
Blog Post, January, 08 2005
Paul Street
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Here, pasted in below, are two items from today's newspapers on some of the fascist machinations of the U.S. global police state. The first story, from the New York Times, relates soon-to-be bipartisanally approved right-authoritarian Attorney Ge...
Street: Carlos Beltran v. the People of South Asia: Radio Reflections on American Compassion
Blog Post, January, 01 2005
Paul Street
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I recently spent 5 evening hours on U.S. Interstate Highway 80, the semi-trailer-packed “main street of America.” Meanwhile, people in Indonesia, Thailand, India, and Sri Lanka were experiencing the worst natural human disaster to take place in a...
Street: Bush's Christmas Budget: Guns Over Butter
Blog Post, December, 24 2004
Paul Street
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Tomorrow morning and afternoon, I expect, George and Laura and mom and fellow war criminal Dad and the twins and Jeb and the rest of the misbegotten hyper-aristocratic and necrophyilic Bush brood will open presents and enjoy a sumptous meal prepar...
Street: "There's Nothing You Can Do"
Blog Post, December, 23 2004
Paul Street
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It's always nice to hear that considerable numbers of Americans tell nice and progressive things to public opinion pollsters. But when I see the happy data showing that the United States populace supports peace, justice, and democracy, not emp...
Street: The Manly Scent of The Hummer
Blog Post, December, 16 2004
Paul Street
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I know a young lady in Chicago who has a curious reaction whenever she sees a HUMMER while driving in the city: she raises her middle finger and screams "go to Hell you rich gas-guzzling imperialist pig" at the top of her lungs. She's about 5 fo...
Street: "To Counter the Enemy's Perception Management"
Blog Post, December, 14 2004
Paul Street
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Today's prize for bad Orwellian prose goes to chief Pentagon spokesman, Lawrence Di Rita. "In the battle of perception management, where the enemy is clearly using the media to help manage perceptions of the general public," Di Rita says in today...
