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Paul Street
Feeding the Frenzy: The Sanders Syndrome Hits Home Court
10 Jun 2015
by Paul Street Attending an Iowa event for Bernie Sanders, Paul Street notes that his crowd is mostly aging left white Democrats who shunned the 2012 Occupy movement, that Bernie Sanders denounces…
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A Racially Blind Night in the Life of the “P”BS Newshour
13 May 2015
by Paul Street The rich son of the owner of a major league baseball team seems to have a better understanding of race and class in America than the Black co-anchor of Public Television’s premier news…
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Beyond Twelve Years a Slave
11 Mar 2015
by Paul Street At the heart of American history lies an essential truth: the U.S. became an economic superpower based on the super-exploitation of Black slaves, to whom it owes reparations. In his…
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Capitalist Cotton Slavery and a Case (One Would Think) for Reparations
04 Mar 2015
by Paul Street Black chattel slavery made the United States an economic powerhouse and a beacon to European immigrants. “By 1836 nearly half the nation’s economic activity derived directly and…
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Mass Killings of Blacks by Cops: An Absence of Outrage
28 Jan 2015
by Paul Street After two generations of mass Black incarceration, hyper-surveillance and police militarization as national policy, a nascent movement has finally arisen to demand that Black Lives…
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Nutty Professor Dyson’s Ridiculous Apology for Eric Holder
08 Oct 2014
/*-->*/ by Paul Street Shameless Obama apologist Michael Eric Dyson claims it was too politically dangerous for a Black attorney general to prosecute white Wall Street executives. “But the basic…
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And Then Came Sharpton: Helping Keep Blacks in Their Place
17 Sep 2014
/*-->*/ by Paul Street Al Sharpton polluted the air of Ferguson, Missouri, on a mission to restore peace and tranquility, i.e., the racist order. He castigated Blacks for indulging in self-pity, “…
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Age of Liberty, Age of Slavery
23 Jul 2014
by Paul Street The “Age of Liberty” for whites was an age of expanding slavery and genocide for the New World’s Black and Native American victims. “Of the known 10,148,288 Africans put on slave ships…
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Obama Ticket Prices and the Invisible Ruling Class
12 Mar 2014
by Paul Street Frederick Harris’ very useful book on the “high price” – to Black folks – of the nation’s First Black President has been reissued in paperback. However, Harris gives Obama too much…
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Deleting Corporate Power: Dominant Media’s Superficial Coverage of Problems with Obamacare
04 Dec 2013
by Paul Street Corporate media criticism of ObamaCare is mainly limited to the failures of its website. But the whole machinery has been rotten from its conception in a right-wing think tank.…