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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…
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).
An abbrievated version of these comments was presented at the Illinois Welfare Symposium I want to open with five quotations, all from…
Muddling Class: Populist Plutocracy and Millionaire Proletarians One of the more disturbing and dangerous aspects of American political discourse is its tendency…
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…
The second chapter is titled ‘Compassion.’ Compassion, Bennett argues, ‘comes close to the very heart of moral awareness, to seeing in one’s…
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…
You can learn much about the toxic and authoritarian role of the American “mainstream†(corporate-state) media by asking a representative sample of…
People who wonder why a majority of African Americans do not support George W. Bush’s illegal and immoral invasion and occupation of…
1. Even during the Second World War, military forces made efforts to preserve “cultural wealth.” In the Iraq War, we saw that…
“A country’s identity, its value and civilization resides in its history,” says Raid Abdul Ridhar Muhammed, an Iraqi archaeologist. “If a country’s…