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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…
Paul Street
Paul Street is an independent radical-democratic policy researcher, journalist, historian, author and speaker based in Iowa City, Iowa, and Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of more than ten books and numerous essays.
Street has taught U.S. history at numerous of Chicago-area colleges and universities. He was the Director of Research and Vice President for Research and Planning at the Chicago Urban League (from 2000 through 2005), where he published a highly influential grant-funded study: The Vicious Circle: Race, Prison, Jobs and Community in Chicago, Illinois, and the Nation (October 2002).
One year ago, I wrote a ZNet article originally titled “All About US: Missing Persons in the Great Iraq War Debate.” The…
‘Economic globalization,’ John Pilger has written, is ‘a project as old as gunboats’ (‘Humanitarian Intervention’ is the Latest Brand Name of Imperialism,’…
Fetters at Home, Dangers Abroad I’ll always remember the day I tried to engage in that silly exercise called “speaking truth…
‘Close to Perfect:’ A Different, Bloodier Nine-Eleven The events of September 11th were horrific, tragic, and criminal on a monumental scale. Planes…
As George W. Bush sets new campaign fundraising records, reflecting dedicated service to the wealthy few, the threat of being removed from…
No Class Analysis Beneath myths of equal opportunity and rampant upward mobility, the United States is a savagely unequal society with a…
“Managing Freedom” Among the many unpleasant aspects of the American Empire, few are more disturbing than the way it reflects and reinforces…
Knowledge of history is a tool for democracy. It contains great lessons, both positive and negative, on how best to proceed in…
Among the many unpleasant aspects of the American Empire, few are more disturbing than the way it reflects and reinforces many Americans’…