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Commentary Street: Profits System 101

Commentary, April, 19 2013 Paul Street
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There’s no mysterious paradox – no hint of a “riddle” – in all of this. It’s American State Capitalism 101, working for the rich and powerful as always

Commentary Street: The Golden Rule: Theirs and Ours

Commentary, April, 05 2013 Paul Street
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Our task as “dangerous Samaritans” and revolutionaries is to more properly align our institutional and ideological order with our underlying human and caring nature

Commentary Street: Obama’s Drone War Meets Homeland Resistance

Commentary, March, 30 2013 Paul Street
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If the Age of Obama has taught us anything on progressive change and how it happens, it should be that it’s not about politicians and their calculations

Commentary Street: Imperial Times: The Narrow Spectrum of “Iraq War” Reflection

Commentary, March, 21 2013 Paul Street
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“Mistakes” and “strategic blunders” don’t really cut when evaluating the criminal and brazenly petro-imperialist (and richly bipartisan) U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq

Commentary Street: Ecocidal Times

Commentary, February, 22 2013 Paul Street
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It appears that Superstorm Sandy did not direct enough of its global warming-fueled fury at the headquarters of The New York Times last October

Commentary Street: A Keystone Moment: How Will Obama Decide?

Commentary, February, 16 2013 Paul Street
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It is relevant that Obama made no mention of Keystone in the address

Commentary Street: Dead Last: Depressing Health Facts From Exceptional (United States of) America

Commentary, January, 12 2013 Paul Street
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Americans experience higher rates of disease and injury and die sooner – yes, die sooner – than people in other high-income countries

Commentary Street: The Vile Maxim, the Deficit Fetish, and the Unelected Dictatorship

Commentary, December, 13 2012 Paul Street
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It’s useful to step back from the dominant terms in political play to examine what’s really going on behind misleading language

Commentary Street: “Americans Want Leadership”: On Fiscal, Ecological, and Employment Cliffs

Commentary, November, 17 2012 Paul Street
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The urgency of action on the climate issue has become clearer than ever thanks to this year’s extreme weather

Commentary Street: The Presidential Election and the Prospects for a Decent Future

Commentary, November, 02 2012 Paul Street
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If we accept periodic U.S. elections as an adequate expression and spectrum of democratic politics and popular voice, we’re done for

Commentary Street: “There’s No Economy on a Dead Planet”: Reflections on a Missing Election Issue

Commentary, October, 09 2012 Paul Street
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There’s something missing from the presidential campaign, including the first presidential debate last week – the fate of the Earth

Commentary Street: Obama, Romney, and the Washington Generals: Reflections on Class Rule and Theater Politics

Commentary, September, 30 2012 Paul Street
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Romney is taking “out of touch” to a new level. He seems straight from central casting when it comes to helping Obama easily beat the Republicans

Commentary Street: The 1% and the 47%

Commentary, September, 23 2012 Paul Street
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As the rich never admit, they aren’t really anti-government. They are for big government that serves elite interests and punishes the rest

Commentary Street: Striking Neoliberalism in Chicago

Commentary, September, 14 2012 Paul Street
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Teachers unions and indeed public schools have become perfect foils for misdirecting legitimate popular anger over the failings of the educational system

Commentary Street: Economic Fact as Thought Crime: Reflections on Rubio, the RNC and Inequality

Commentary, September, 03 2012 Paul Street
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Richly bipartisan policies increased poverty and suppressed wages at the bottom and concentrated wealth at the top

Commentary Street: Killer-Cops and the War on Black America

Commentary, August, 17 2012 Paul Street
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The list of Black Americans killed by white cops this year goes on and on. It’s an epidemic

Commentary Street: Psycho-Killer Nation, Part II

Commentary, August, 11 2012 Paul Street
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America’s culturally celebrated military slaughters untold millions of innocents, freely dispatching masses of officially designated distant others to early graves

Commentary Street: Romney, Obama, and the Darwinism That Substitutes Culture for Genes

Commentary, August, 05 2012 Paul Street
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Democratic Obama supporters might want to reflect on the unpleasant fact that Romney’s racist “cultural” explanation of inequality is as American as apple pie

Commentary Street: Reply to Obama: On Money, Politics, History, and Bullshit

Commentary, June, 29 2012 Paul Street
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Like many Americans, I am concerned about the corrosive impact of big money election investors on what passes for “democracy” in the U.S.

Commentary Street: The Real Problem With Obama’s “Rosy Claim”

Commentary, June, 12 2012 Paul Street
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Manufacturing a deficit panic is a pretext for dismantling social programs and rolling back public workers’ wages, benefits, and union rights

Commentary Street: John Edwards’ Forgotten Sin

Commentary, June, 05 2012 Paul Street
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If nothing else, crazy John Edwards deserves a little credit at least for having tried to buck corporate wealth in the primaries

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

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