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Commentary Street: Left Invisible

Commentary, May, 11 2012 Paul Street
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The experience of being told that you don’t officially exist can be more than a little chilling

Commentary Street: Left Educational Tasks in a Capital-Occupied Nation

Commentary, May, 09 2012 Paul Street
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Perceiving that strong class conflict exists is simply not the same as thinking that America’s harsh class inequality is a problem that should be overcome

Commentary Street: Three May Day Meanings

Commentary, May, 02 2012 Paul Street
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The signs of hardship have intensified under Barack Obama

Commentary Street: Ozzie, Fidel, and the U.S. Media Double Standard

Commentary, April, 13 2012 Paul Street
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So what was Ozzie Guillen's great sin? He said something nice (sort of) about somebody you are ordered to loathe in Miami

Commentary Street: The Real Polarization and the Manipulation of Populism

Commentary, April, 11 2012 Paul Street
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We can be sure that Obama is not about to seriously buck the masters with the bucks, who determine success or failure in the nation’s incredibly expensive elections market

Commentary Street: Dewey’s Shadow, Chomsky’s Cloud, and the Health Care Debate

Commentary, April, 07 2012 Paul Street
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No U.S. president is about to defy the nation’s real power centers by advancing a vision of health care that transcends the narrow “horizons of property and enterprise”

Commentary Street: Biden’s Sordid Metaphor: “Bin-Laden is Dead, General Motors is Alive”

Commentary, April, 05 2012 Paul Street
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The White House’s restructuring plan for the auto industry in 2009 included letting the company raid union pension funds to pay off wealthy Wall Street investors

Commentary Street: Obama, Trayvon, and American Racism

Commentary, March, 31 2012 Paul Street
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In 35 large U.S. cities the official joblessness count for blacks rose to between 30 and 35 percent – levels like those suffered at the depths of the Great Depression

Commentary Street: The Deeper Crime: the Invasion Itself

Commentary, March, 19 2012 Paul Street
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The United States' attack on Afghanistan met none of the standard international moral and legal criteria for justifiable self-defense

Commentary Street: Nobody Home: Money, Politics, and Betrayal

Commentary, March, 18 2012 Paul Street
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Obama will do everything he can to pose as a champion of “the 99%” against “Mr. 1%” (actually Mr. .025%) Romney

Commentary Street: The Luck of O’Bama: Will it Continue?

Commentary, March, 08 2012 Paul Street
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The Republicans might reside on the “distant right of American politics” but they retain a very real shot at the White House next fall

Commentary Street: The Great Obama Auto Bailout: Saving the Earth is Off the Agenda

Commentary, March, 02 2012 Paul Street
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With just 5 percent of the world's population but 30 percent of the world's automobiles, the U.S. accounts for nearly half the world's automotive CO2 emissions

Commentary Street: Two Bubbles That Went Pop: Reflections on the Manipulation of Populism

Commentary, February, 25 2012 Paul Street
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Ironically, Obama now gets to channel the populist Occupy spirit in fashioning his campaign for re-election against (in all likelihood) the spectacularly wealthy Mitt Romney

Commentary Street: Megabus and Private Jets: Super Bowl Reflections

Commentary, February, 05 2012 Paul Street
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Why should the parasitic Fat Cats get to celebrate, preen, and gorge themselves without disruption

Commentary Street: Reflections on the Quadrennial Extravaganza

Commentary, January, 25 2012 Paul Street
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What you do or don’t do on Election Day is a tiny matter compared to what we can and must do together to build left movement capacity and presence

Commentary Street: Fascist America? Not Exactly

Commentary, January, 04 2012 Paul Street
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The American elite already gets the basic regressive and authoritarian outcomes of fascism without having to unleash the full brutality of fascist dictatorship

Commentary Street: Tea Party Republicans are Petit-Bourgeois Militarists

Commentary, December, 27 2011 Paul Street
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The first error was to think that many if not most of the Tea Party supporters came largely from the working class progressive base

Commentary Street: “The Price is Worth It”

Commentary, December, 23 2011 Paul Street
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Before their deaths can be called “worth it” in some venues, most of America’s officially unworthy victims are sent down Orwell’s memory hole

Commentary Street: Obama’s Sinister Silence in the Year of the Protestor

Commentary, December, 21 2011 Paul Street
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Is Obama aware that his silence on the great popular, grassroots struggles for change sends a deafening message of corporatist, fake-progressive hypocrisy

Commentary Street: A Deal With the Devil: A Happiness That Harms

Commentary, December, 16 2011 Paul Street
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There is, of course, nothing new about the false and noxious notion that the rich have “earned” their wealth through merit

Commentary Street: Public Health Concerns? Urban Neoliberal Racism, Mass Poverty, and the Repression of Occupy

Commentary, December, 02 2011 Paul Street
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Four of every ten black Americans experienced unemployment during the 2008-09 Great Recession

Commentary Street: Repressing Occupy as Corporate Welfare: Reflections on Corporate Media and “the Costs of the Occupy Movement”

Commentary, November, 28 2011 Paul Street
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One can only guess at the taxpayer expensive involved in the quasi-totalitarian crackdown conducted in the name of public safety

Commentary Street: “It’s People Who Have the Time to Do This”: A Banker Speaks on the Democratic Danger of Leisure

Commentary, November, 24 2011 Paul Street
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Sometimes the most chilling authoritarian thoughts take a seemingly innocent form

Commentary Street: The Empire Strikes Back in Futility: Reflections on the Occupy Movement and the Repression it has Sparked

Commentary, November, 22 2011 Paul Street
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Occupy has changed the air of the nation’s political discourse

Commentary Street: Intellectuals and Occupy: Seven Reasons to Reject Condescension

Commentary, November, 16 2011 Paul Street
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Ultimately, OWSers want a world turned upside down

Commentary Street: Reflections on OWS, the Profits System, and Wisconsin

Commentary, October, 19 2011 Paul Street
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The occupy movement has struck a radically democratic populist chord that resonates with tens of millions across the restrictive red-blue map of U.S. political geography

Commentary Street: “This is Three Years Late”: In Praise of Occupy Wall Street

Commentary, October, 09 2011 Paul Street
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Here’s to the OWS activists and supporters and the wisdom and energy they are bringing to current American history in an age of savage empire

Commentary Street: Ozzie’s Icy Water Spills on Sentimental Sox Memories

Commentary, October, 03 2011 Paul Street
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I’ve never understood greed. I never will

Commentary Street: What a Difference Four Years Makes

Commentary, September, 29 2011 Paul Street
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Will dread of the GOP will be enough to the get Obama a second term?

Commentary Street: Tea Party Brand Spoils: Does it Matter?

Commentary, September, 22 2011 Paul Street
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The totalitarian minority that has “hijacked America” is big capital

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