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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

Commentary Street: Never Forget Their Crimes, Always Deny Ours

Commentary, September, 11 2011 Paul Street
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Bad things are done by “them,” never by “us”

Commentary Street: David Cameron and the Broken Conservative Record of Not-so Anti-Government Victim Blaming

Commentary, August, 19 2011 Paul Street
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The repressive arm of the state grows in proportion to government’s shedding of its social-democratic protection

Commentary Street: Beyond the Ballot Mania: Wisconsin Reflections

Commentary, August, 14 2011 Paul Street
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The Democratic Party has broken with its historic conservatism, its pandering to the rich, its predilection for war, only when it has encountered rebellion from below

Commentary Street: Empire and Inequality Win Again: Debt Ceiling “Deals” and Nation-Crushing Here at Home

Commentary, August, 05 2011 Paul Street
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“Defense” (military empire) spending has increased significantly under the supposedly antiwar president

Commentary Street: Obama’s Golden Rule and the Myth of the President’s Onetime “Small-Donor Base“

Commentary, June, 29 2011 Paul Street
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Team Obama 2012 has devised a new money-tapping entity called the Obama Victory Fund

Commentary Street: History as Prop v. the Original Destruction of British Tea

Commentary, June, 10 2011 Paul Street
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The modern day “Tea Partiers” are right to steer clear of the real history of the event they have sought to appropriate

Commentary Street: A Nightly Orwellian Ritual: the “P”BS NewsHour

Commentary, May, 19 2011 Paul Street
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The new “public” system was “set up in such a way as to ensure that it was feeble, dependent, and marginal”

Commentary Street: Were the Anti Iraq War Demonstrations of 2003 Too Good to Be True?

Commentary, May, 10 2011 Paul Street
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It is going to require independent action from below to achieve real change

Commentary Street: How Much Arab Democracy Can America Stand?

Commentary, May, 04 2011 Paul Street
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Obama, the Middle East, and the Re-Branding Game at Home and Abroad

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