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Street: Those Who Deny the Crimes of the Past
Znet Article, March, 11 2004
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The U.S. Marines stood by and did nothing while the library at the Aristide Foundation was burned. With my own eyes I saw the American Marines stand and watch while rebels cut a woman and shot her. I yelled at them, "Do something!" and they swung ...
Street: To the "Frontline" and Back
Znet Article, February, 28 2004
Paul Street
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Traveling across the mainstream American corporate-state television broadcast spectrum with an eye for the sickening truth of United States policy is like watching the stars for certain astronomical occurrences. Most of your time is spent pe...
Street: Education Case Study
Znet Article, February, 27 2004
Paul Street
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Sometimes the masters of policy and opinion speak most loudly through their silences. In such cases, it's what they fail to mention and what they choose to delete that says the most about who they are and what they are generally about: preserving ...
Street: Smiling Under the Names of the Dead
Znet Article, January, 30 2004
Paul Street
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Smiling Under the Names of the Dead
Street: Dean, Democrats, and Democracy
Znet Article, January, 26 2004
Paul Street
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A Screaming Nut Maybe…. Left democrats should not mourn the Iowa debacle and possible unraveling of Howard Dean’s supposedly populist Democratic presidential campaign. There are at least two reasons for them to hold back the tears...
Street: Saddam's Living Service to Empire
Znet Article, December, 20 2003
Paul Street
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Before Desert Storm Lacking the decency to commit suicide before he could be made into a caged public relations tool for American occupation, Saddam Hussein is functioning in captivity as he did through much of his lethal career: a tool for the i...
Street: The Political Consequences Of Racist Felony Disenfranchisement
Znet Article, December, 16 2003
Paul Street
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In a period of painfully close presidential elections, with the most dangerous White House in history hoping to extend its criminal reign, every American vote in 2004 is potentially a matter of life and death for masses of people at home and abroa...
Street: Racist Felony Disenfranchisement
Znet Article, December, 16 2003
Paul Street
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In a period of painfully close presidential elections, with the most dangerous White House in history hoping to extend its criminal reign, every American vote in 2004 is potentially a matter of life and death for masses of people at home and abroa...
Street: Blood, Contracts, and the Costs of Empire
Znet Article, December, 15 2003
Paul Street
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Governing Absurd What's the most disturbing thing about the latest White House and Pentagon fiasco, sparked by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz's announcement that only countries who supported the United States invasion of Iraq can ...
Street: "Bush Wins on Security"
Znet Article, November, 27 2003
Paul Street
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When it comes to the arrogant, elitist science of political and media spin, there's no place quite like the United States. A recent opinion piece by Republican strategist Rich Tafel on the front page of the Chicago Tribune's Sunday "Perspectives" ...
Street: "Bush's Best Speech"
Znet Article, November, 13 2003
Paul Street
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Shunning the Mirror According to the Buddhist writer Pema Chodron, "not harming ourselves or others is the basis of enlightened society. It is how there could be a sane world." In Chodron's view, "the first and most fundamental harm" is done...
Street: Starve the Racist Prison Beast
Znet Article, November, 08 2003
Paul Street
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Let me start by quoting quote my favorite historical personality from Indiana - the great democratic Socialist Eugene Debs, from Terre Haute. "While there is a lower class," Debs once said, "I am of it. While there is a criminal element," he added...
Street: Politics and Entertainment I
Znet Article, October, 29 2003
Paul Street
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Many years ago I sat in the home a misguided radical history professor who had invited the local branch of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) to tell 20 students about "the American Road to Socialism." The Party made a mis...
Street: Sell Us a Story
Znet Article, October, 15 2003
Paul Street
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A Truly Terrible Record If there was true democratic decency at the heart of the American political system, George W. Bush's defeat in 2004 would be practically a foregone conclusion. During its narrowly and illegally attained reign, the Bush Wh...
Street: Honest Mistakes?
Znet Article, September, 30 2003
Paul Street
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We should be pleased, I suppose, that American "mainstream" (corporate-state) media has seen fit to recognize the incorrectness of the Bush administration's leading case for invading and occupying Iraq. As that media now generally acknowledg...
Street: Why They Might Hate US
Znet Article, September, 23 2003
Paul Street
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One year ago, I wrote a ZNet article originally titled "All About US: Missing Persons in the Great Iraq War Debate." The thesis of this commentary was that last fall's mainstream controversy over the White House's apparent decision to invade Iraq ...
Street: Urban Race Relations
Znet Article, September, 17 2003
Paul Street
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Urban Race Relations
Street: Remembering Chile's 9/11
Znet Article, September, 10 2003
Paul Street
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"Close to Perfect:" A Different, Bloodier Nine-Eleven The events of September 11th were horrific, tragic, and criminal on a monumental scale. Planes flew low over an American nation's leading city. Buildings erupted in flames. ...
Street: "Systematic Distortion"
Znet Article, August, 27 2003
Paul Street
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As George W. Bush sets new campaign fundraising records, reflecting dedicated service to the wealthy few, the threat of being removed from office ought to be the least of his worries. Title 18, part 1, chapter 47, and section 1001 of the United St...
Street: Forbidden Connections: Class, Cowardice, and War
Znet Article, July, 25 2003
Paul Street
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No Class Analysis Beneath myths of equal opportunity and rampant upward mobility, the United States is a savagely unequal society with a rigidly hierarchical and authoritarian class structure. As a reflection of that harsh structural reality, it...
Street: Shocking New York Times Revelation: Democracy Requires A Level Playing Field
Znet Article, July, 12 2003
Paul Street
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"Managing Freedom" Among the many unpleasant aspects of the American Empire, few are more disturbing than the way it reflects and reinforces many Americans' dangerous and self-satisfied indifference, ignorance, and/or denial as to the nature of...
Street: A Dark Independence Day For American Historians
Znet Article, July, 10 2003
Paul Street
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Knowledge of history is a tool for democracy. It contains great lessons, both positive and negative, on how best to proceed in making a just and democratic society. It provides standards, models, values, and examples of resistance to deploy agains...
Street: "Managing Freedom"
Znet Article, July, 04 2003
Paul Street
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Among the many unpleasant aspects of the American Empire, few are more disturbing than the way it reflects and reinforces many Americans' dangerous and self-satisfied indifference, ignorance, and/or denial as to the nature of their own society and...
Street: "No Justice No Peace": A Police Killing and a Riot in Benton Harbor
Znet Article, June, 30 2003
Paul Street
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Bush: Extend Hope to “Every Corner of America†Like many politicians and policymakers past and present, George W. Bush likes to make big claims, promises, and commitments. “Since I was [last] here,†George W. Bush...
Street: Deep Poverty, Deep Deception: Facts That Matter Beneath The Imperial Helicopters
Znet Article, June, 16 2003
Paul Street
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An abbrievated version of these comments was presented at the Illinois Welfare Symposium I want to open with five quotations, all from Texas Republicans, three from the president of the United States, that speak to the dark and dubious times in w...
Street: No Class
Znet Article, June, 03 2003
Paul Street
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Muddling Class: Populist Plutocracy and Millionaire Proletarians One of the more disturbing and dangerous aspects of American political discourse is its tendency to muddle class. For a host of reasons that have provided rich material for generat...
Street: Bennett
Znet Article, May, 26 2003
Paul Street
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The first chapter of leading right-wing moral-crusader, Republican political strategist, and educational magnate William J. Bennett's The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Moral Stories (NY: Simon and Schuster, 1993) is titled "Self-Discipline." "The...
Street: Rachel Corrie, Jessica Lynch, And The Unequal Worthiness Of Victims
Znet Article, May, 12 2003
Paul Street
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You can learn much about the toxic and authoritarian role of the American “mainstream†(corporate-state) media by asking a representative sample of Americans to identify and tell you what they know and think about two young women r...
Street: Behind The Smoking Gun
Znet Article, May, 07 2003
Paul Street
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People who wonder why a majority of African Americans do not support George W. Bush's illegal and immoral invasion and occupation of Iraq might want to talk to a black gentleman and fellow Chicagoan I know named Tony. They should also review some ...
Street: The Looting Of Iraq
Znet Article, May, 04 2003
Paul Street
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1. Even during the Second World War, military forces made efforts to preserve "cultural wealth." In the Iraq War, we saw that US-British forces had no respect for history. What is your opinion? Remembering that all versions...
