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Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Street: The Rape of Mesopotamia

Znet Article, April, 14 2003 Paul Street
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"A country's identity, its value and civilization resides in its history," says Raid Abdul Ridhar Muhammed, an Iraqi archaeologist. "If a country's civilization is looted, as ours has been here, its history ends. Please tell this to President...

Znet Article Street: Who Hates America?

Znet Article, April, 09 2003 Paul Street
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A Terrorist Recruiting BonanzaAs American armed forces tighten the freshly minted War Criminal George W. Bush’s bloody grip on Baghdad, some interesting answers emerge to the question of who really “hates America.” &nb...

Znet Article Street: Bad War

Znet Article, March, 31 2003 Paul Street
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More than some left commentators may like to acknowledge, the claims of the Bush War Party and its warmongering friends at the Fox News Network regarding “Operation Iraqi Freedom” are significantly contradicted by findings and comm...

Znet Article Street: Resist Despair

Znet Article, March, 25 2003 Paul Street
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Our Streets, Their Telescreens For two straight nights, we filled the streets of downtown Chicago, tens of thousands for peace, justice and democracy - for life. "What do we want? Peace! When do want it? Now!" "Tell me what democracy looks like....

Znet Article Street: Making Connections

Znet Article, March, 19 2003 Paul Street
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Questioning Domestic Hierarchy United States policymakers were encouraged to scale back and finally call off their military crucifixion of Southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s by realization that their actions overseas were feeding a rebelli...

Znet Article Street: Moments of Truth, Masters of War

Znet Article, March, 18 2003 Paul Street
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Moments of Truth, Masters of War

Znet Article Street: People Profit From Trade

Znet Article, March, 10 2003 Paul Street
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George W. Bush: "Trade is Good" As the task of resisting the George Orwell Bush administration's "imminent" attack on Iraq absorbs the lion's share of global peace and justice energies, it becomes easy to forget the contributions and continuing ...

Znet Article Street: Mirror Mirror

Znet Article, March, 08 2003 Paul Street
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"People Are Going To Die" So that's it then.  George W. Bush can put his hand on his Holy Bible and repeat as often as he likes that "war" is his "last option" in his obsession with "disarming Saddam." Truth is, the people who matter most in...

Znet Article Street: Mass Incarceration and Racist State Priorities At Home and Abroad

Znet Article, March, 04 2003 Paul Street
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* A slightly abbreviated version of the following speech was delivered at The National Community Building Network's 2003 Policy Conference, Creating a Connected Community: Strategies for Overcoming Social and Economic Isolation, Seattle Washington...

Znet Article Street: Serving Power

Znet Article, March, 03 2003 Paul Street
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Downplaying Dissent USA TODAY calls itself "The National Newspaper." America does not in fact possess a single national paper, thankfully, but anyone who travels regularly in the United States can tell you that USA TODAY has certainly become the...

Znet Article Street: Who is

Znet Article, February, 20 2003 Paul Street
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“We Saved Their Butts” It is difficult to imagine the bitter irony with which many French people must be receiving the American charge of “ingratitude.” For the last two weeks at least, leading United States Congre...

Znet Article Street: Broadcast Priorities

Znet Article, February, 19 2003 Paul Street
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Strange Expectation Let’s start with four basic observations. First, by the widely accepted and often passionately embraced description of its own citizens, media and elected officials, the United States is a democracy. Second, a functi...

Znet Article Street: Anti-Empire

Znet Article, February, 19 2003 Paul Street
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It is hard not to notice the shift in the emphasis of American left protest and activism since 9-11. The so-called “new New Left” is looking a bit more like the old New Left as the struggle against corporate globalization makes way...

Znet Article Street: Citizens Or Spectators

Znet Article, February, 05 2003 Paul Street
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The White Man’s Burden: "To Shock and Awe" We are drifting quickly downstream towards a terrible historical waterfall. In "a matter of weeks, not months," America is reported likely to unleash world’s history most lethal milita...

Znet Article Street: State Of Deception

Znet Article, January, 28 2003 Paul Street
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New Uses for Duct Tape What’s the old saying - "a picture is worth a thousands words?" I’ve always been a little skeptical about that phrase, but it was born out last Wednesday when George W. Bush’s "Boxgate" incident hi...

Znet Article Street: Big Brother Bush, "Suicidal Saddam", And The Homegrown Threat To Liberal Democracy

Znet Article, January, 22 2003 Paul Street
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Beyond Democratic Constraint? It is hard to avoid the chilling conclusion that the corporate plutocrats and arch-imperialists in and around the Bush administration do not think they are required to speak or act with even moderate respect for the...

Znet Article Street: The Readily Available Reality of American Policy in an Age of Empire and Inequality

Znet Article, January, 09 2003 Paul Street
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Empire Abroad, Inequality at Home   The harsh realities of American life and policy ...

Znet Article Street: A Whole Lott Missing

Znet Article, December, 22 2002 Paul Street
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The most disturbing aspect of the recent national melodrama over Senate Majority Leaders Trent Lott’s offensive declaration of retrospective support for the race-segregationist 1948 Presidential campaign of Strom Thurmond is not the conten...

Znet Article Street: Empire Abroad, Repression At Home: Notes From Chicago

Znet Article, November, 08 2002 Paul Street
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Think back to a time when you were taken aback by the shameless hypocrisy of an authority figure in your community, school or workplace: the married minister who preached about family values on Sunday and hit on your sister in the privacy of his w...

Znet Article Street: Playing Dumb? Dan Rather's Curiously Clueless Take on Why Americans Don't

Znet Article, November, 06 2002 Paul Street
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Let's start with two elementary precepts relating to the proper role of the media in a democratic society. First, key media personalities in such a society should never lie to the people, whose capacity for making intelligent and informed policy a...

Znet Article Street: Beacon To The World

Znet Article, October, 18 2002 Paul Street
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Those who think the super-rich are smarter than the rest of us might want to take a look at the foreign policy speeches given in the millionaire-laden United States Senate last week. In one thick headed oration after another, the pro-war majority ...

Znet Article Street: Iraq War Debate

Znet Article, September, 28 2002 Paul Street
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Iraq War Debate

Znet Article Street: Welfare Reform and the Limits of Acceptable Debate in the United States

Znet Article, July, 31 2002 Paul Street
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Welfare Reform and the Limits of Acceptable Debate in the United States

Znet Article Street: The Biggest Scandal of Corporate America: What Happens on Its Best Behavior

Znet Article, July, 23 2002 Paul Street
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A recent column by popular Chicago business writer David Greising speaks volumes about the limits of recent "mainstream," well, corporate media commentary on the sins of corporate America. In an amusing July 12th piece in the Chicago Tribune, Grei...

Znet Article Street: Defending Civilization And The Myth Of Radical Academia

Znet Article, July, 15 2002 Paul Street
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I know it is no laughing matter when America's thought police control go on patrol. Still, even if it is just as a defense mechanism, I couldn't help but laugh when I finally read the by-now notorious report on alleged academic anti-Americanism pu...

Znet Article Street: The Case Against School Vouchers

Znet Article, July, 01 2002 Paul Street
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In an ominous 5-4 decision yesterday, the United States' right-wing Supreme Court used disingenuous claims of concern for poor inner-city children to remove a major roadblock to a leading goal of the conservative movement: letting parents use publ...

Znet Article Street: Misunderstanding Power

Znet Article, June, 06 2002 Paul Street
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Thanks in part to recent disclosures that a minimally competent federal security establishment would have had reasons to know and act on intelligence predicting something like what occurred last September, conspiracy theorists are having a field d...

Znet Article Street: Liar Liar

Znet Article, May, 24 2002 Paul Street
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It's been quite an interesting experience hearing United States Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tell us that more Americans are probably going to perish in future terror attacks. It's "inevitable," they say, and th...

Znet Article Street: Towards a "Decent Left"

Znet Article, April, 30 2002 Paul Street
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The Liberal-Left Attack Among the many dark aspects of September 11th's aftermath we might include the intensification of internal division within an American left that was already rather snippy with itself. This latest intra-"progressive" unplea...

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