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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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Street: Brown v. Board Fifty Years Out
Znet Article, May, 16 2004
Paul Street
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Brown v. Board Fifty Years Out
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....
Street: Let them eat cakewalk
Znet Article, May, 04 2004
Paul Street
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Let them eat cakewalk
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 ...
Street: Thought Control
Znet Article, April, 27 2004
Paul Street
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Thought Control
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 ...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...


