Paul Street, Iowa City, IA, September 13, 2011. Published at ZNet (Septembe 14, 2011) Sarah Palin: “To Kill Corporate Capitalism” Comrades, what are we supposed to make of the fact that the fading presidential candidate and Tea Party celebrity Sarah Palin called for the death of corporate capitalism after a recent Tea Party event in [...]
Paul Street, Iowa City, IA, September 11, 2011 Published on ZNet on September 11, 2011 We are Good “We must never forget.” So proclaims a solemn parade of United States politicians, pundits, and propagandists preparing for an orgy of narcissistic national self-righteousness, self-pity and patriotism to mark the ten-year anniversary of 9/11/2001. “We must never forget” [...]
I do not gently contemplate the possibility of an evangelical proto-fascistic dolt like Texas Governor Rick Perry walking into the White House. That is not a pretty prospect for anyone with hopes for the future. Ditto for Michelle Bachman and others in the Republican presidential field. As the Princeton political scientist Sheldon Wolin noted three [...]
Notes for Paul Street and Anthony DiMaggio’s new book CRASHING THE TEA PARTY: MASS MEDIA AND THE CAMPAIGN TO REMAKE AMERICAN POLITICS Contact: paulstreet99@yahoo.com 773-653-0941 Brief Description Crashing the Tea Party challenges conventional dogmas related to the most recent “movement” of choice of right wing America and the mass media. Street and DiMaggio uncover details [...]
David Cameron and the Broken Conservative Record of Not-so Anti-Government Victim Blaming ZNet August 19, 2011 You’ve got to hand it to Britain’s Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron. He’s got ruling class chutzpah and a sound politicians’ instinct for whom to beat up on – those who can least defend themselves. He isn’t too proud [...]
From CounterPunch, August 12-August 14, 2011 Obama and the Business Culture The Economics of Barack O'Hoover By PAUL STREET Pity the poor, powerless, increasingly unpopular president – a pitiful pawn of the plutocrats and the profits system he has done so much to serve and protect. Nearly five years ago, in the misleadingly titled book [...]
Who Hijacked America? Bad Journalism and the Tea Party Myth From ZNet (August 12, 2011) By Paul Street The low quality of American political journalism – no small problem for democratic prospects – is on shocking display in regard to the Tea Party phenomenon (2009-20??). Consider Malcom Cowley’s recent high-profile Time Magazine story on (as Time’s [...]
From Counterpunch on August 5, 2011: Nation-Crushing Here at Home Empire and Inequality Win Again By PAUL STREET Recall the conservative U.S. President Barack Obama’s televised speech to the nation on the evening of June 22, 2011 – the one where he announced the removal of 33,000 troops from illegally invaded Afghanistan by September 2012. [...]
CounterPunch, July 28, 2011. Consider the following quote from Progressive Magazine editor Matthew Rothschild last October: “With economic pain at the highest level ever seen by most Americans, and with minorities especially hard hit, we’re seeing a revolt not by people of color, not the unemployed, nor the foreclosed upon. Instead, we’re seeing a revolt [...]
CounterPunch Weekend Edition, July 22 / 24, 2011 How Pundits and Politicians Miss the Real Source of Madness in Washington Blaming the Tea Party By PAUL STREET and ANTHONY DiMAGGIO It’s easy to blame “the Tea Party” for the ever more insane rightward drift of American politics and policy that is on such ugly display [...]