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Znet Article Street: Inequality, Deep Poverty, and Moral Vision

Znet Article, November, 16 2004 Paul Street
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Comments to Work, Welfare and Families Annual Summit on Low-Income Families Chicago, IL November 11, 2004 I want to thank Work, Welfare, and Families for inviting me to speak today. I'd also like to thank the Institute for Women's Policy Resea...

Znet Article Street: Rich White Protestants: You Rocked...Us Further to the Right

Znet Article, November, 11 2004 Paul Street
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We’ve been having an interesting discussion within and beyond my ZNet blog (which you can access off this page) about how and why many lower-middle and working-class Americans now vote for the Republican Party, which happens to be more mil...

Znet Article Street: Frank Discussion

Znet Article, November, 06 2004 Paul Street
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 It is interesting to see how centrist Democratic types (who ought to be heading to the hills in the wake of yet another centrist disgrace) are spinning the disturbing capture of many white working-class/lower-middle-class votes by a party (the Re...

Znet Article Street: The Planet is Melting

Znet Article, November, 05 2004 Paul Street
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Many of us are understandably depressed over the perilous return engagement obscenely granted to our Messianic Militarist Fortunate Son President and hiscorporate-fascist Uncle Darth Cheney. We are naturally demoralized to see yet another sorry ...

Znet Article Street: Why Didn't We Attack Sweden?

Znet Article, October, 31 2004 Paul Street
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What do Osama bin-Laden and the owners and top editors of the gigantic corporate media outlet the Chicago Tribune have in common? They both want George W. Bush to return for a second term. The Tribune’s masters want Bush back because they ...

Znet Article Street: Campaign Reflections

Znet Article, October, 25 2004 Paul Street
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The election is too close to call. Last time I looked (yesterday), the fellow who runs http://www.electoral-vote.com had Bush with 254 electoral votes and Kerry with 253 and listed Florida, yes Florida, as an absolute tie. The count changes ev...

Znet Article Street: Bush, Kerry, and

Znet Article, October, 12 2004 Paul Street
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This is an actual letter to the editor that appeared in yesterday's New York Times (p. A 28):  "To the Editor: Re 'Best Defense: More Offense" (news analysis, front page, Oct,9): "Your statement that John Kerry 'often seemed to be more in command ...

Znet Article Street: Sorry Dennis, Al Qaeda's Voting for Bush

Znet Article, September, 20 2004 Paul Street
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There's a segment called "Who You Crapping" that plays occasionally on a local sports talk radio show in Chicago. During this segment, callers phone-in to rip some local sports or media personality for saying or doing something preposterous, endin...

Znet Article Street: Sorry Dennis, Al Qaeda's Voting for Bush

Znet Article, September, 20 2004 Paul Street
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There's a segment called "Who You Crapping" that plays occasionally on a local sports talk radio show in Chicago. During this segment, callers phone-in to rip some local sports or media personality for saying or doing something preposterous, end...

Znet Article Street: Nine-Eleven Retrospective

Znet Article, September, 10 2004 Paul Street
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The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers abroad. - James Madison, 1799 The process of transformation is likely to be a long one, absent s...

Znet Article Street: Pretending Not to Love 9/11 at the RNC

Znet Article, September, 01 2004 Paul Street
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So many Republicans, so many lies. It's hard to keep up with the deceptions of Bush, Rove, Cheney, and company. You could write an entire book just about the Republicans' false statements. In fact, left-liberal journalist David Corn did precisel...

Znet Article Street: Insult to Injury

Znet Article, September, 01 2004 Paul Street
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As the Republican National Convention approaches its nauseating climax, it's worth noting and remembering how much the Republicans deserve to regret their decision to hold their celebration of bad political faith in New York City. In the early...

Znet Article Street: An American Hiroshima

Znet Article, August, 12 2004 Paul Street
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You won't often read a more chilling opinion piece than today's commentary by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristoff. In an editorial titled "An American Hiroshima," Kristoff cites leading establishment academic, intelligence, and policy aut...

Znet Article Street: Keynote Reflections

Znet Article, July, 29 2004 Paul Street
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I come from the same Chicago neighborhood (Hyde Park) as the nation's official new political rock star Barack Obama. I work in urban policy and civil rights and I've recently been telling leftists to engage in "tactical" presidential voting - for ...

Znet Article Street: Day After July 4th

Znet Article, July, 05 2004 Paul Street
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According to the American right, studying the Founders of the United States and their charter documents inspires simple patriotic respect for the nation's supposedly "exceptional" commitment to "freedom" and "democracy." But the founders' legacy...

Znet Article Street: We Do Killing Right

Znet Article, June, 22 2004 Paul Street
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President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Secretary of State Colin Powell have recently gone out on the political limb by denouncing the "barbarism" of the latest terrorist decapitation of an American hostage in the Middle East. Yes, of course...

Znet Article Street: Reagan and Amnesia

Znet Article, June, 16 2004 Paul Street
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It's not for nothing that the elimination and distortion of popular historical memory has always been a central project of totalitarianism. The accurate and widespread understanding of the past is critical for effective popular government. Like ...

Znet Article Street: Bill Cosby and White America

Znet Article, June, 01 2004 Paul Street
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Bill Cosby's decision to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision by proclaiming that poor black people deserve their fate at the bottom of America's steep socioeconomic pyramid has delighted many white American...

Znet Article Street: Slaves Had Jobs Too

Znet Article, May, 26 2004 Paul Street
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"I don't know if they are trying to find a way into the city," black Chicago West Side pastor Joseph Kyles told the Chicago Tribune three weeks ago, "or if they are genuinely wanting to take the lead in dealing with the city's social ills" (Dan Mi...

Znet Article Street: Penn State's

Znet Article, May, 21 2004 Paul Street
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Penn State's

Znet Article Street: Brown v. Board Fifty Years Out

Znet Article, May, 16 2004 Paul Street
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Brown v. Board Fifty Years Out

Znet Article Street: Predictable Prison Atrocities

Znet Article, May, 09 2004 Paul Street
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Being left, knowing some history, and paying reasonable attention to United States policy and society and current events mean rarely being surprised at egregious violations committed by people who command and wear the uniform of the United States....

Znet Article Street: Let them eat cakewalk

Znet Article, May, 04 2004 Paul Street
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Let them eat cakewalk

Znet Article Street: Big City Columnist Rejects Chance to Tell the Truth About U.S. Policy

Znet Article, April, 30 2004 Paul Street
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If only more American journalists would fulfill the mission of their profession by consisitently working to discover and tell the truth, then maybe more young American soldiers can be saved from needless deaths. For a case in point, I recommend a ...

Znet Article Street: Thought Control

Znet Article, April, 27 2004 Paul Street
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Thought Control

Znet Article Street: Killing Us Softly

Znet Article, April, 21 2004 Paul Street
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"Ease Your Pain" The other day I was in the grocery store waiting to check out, with my local newspaper in hand. The front page carried a graphic photograph of a United States Marine breaking down a door in "a house-to-house search for weapons ...

Znet Article Street: Scholars to Working America:

Znet Article, April, 13 2004 Paul Street
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"We're Not Supposed to Be Doing This to Our Kids" Ordinary working people without advanced degrees and professional titles in Griffith, Indiana get it: the United States occupation of Iraq is a reckless mission that is costing young Americans t...

Znet Article Street: They Call This A Debate?

Znet Article, April, 11 2004 Paul Street
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I hate to say it but the current big Richard A. Clarke/Condaleeza Rice debate on what might have been done to prevent 9/11 is straight out of Chomsky. By this I mean it’s taking place within an incredibly narrow set of moral, ideologi...

Znet Article Street: Kerry is Coke, Bush is Crack

Znet Article, March, 24 2004 Paul Street
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Support Kerry Doesn't Deserve John Kerry is pretty hard for any leftist to take. There's the painful conflict between his super-privileged, Harvard pedigreed background and his comically stiff attempts to sound like a working peoples' populist. ...

Znet Article Street: Don't Play With Our Dead

Znet Article, March, 17 2004 Paul Street
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Beyond Good versus Evil: an Unwelcome Surprise for the White House The United States could learn a thing or two about politics, media, public morality and the meaning of democracy from Spain. Jolted by an apparent al Qaeda terror attack, the Spa...

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