Empire and Inequality

Paul Street is an urban social policy researcher and teacher in Chicago. He writes regularly for Z Magazine and Black Commentator. His books include Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics (2009) and Empire and Inequality (2005).

• Part I Our Tears, Their Opportunity; intro1; Chapter 1 Misunderstanding Power: Explaining the Popularity of 9/11 Conspiracy Theories June 6, 2002; Chapter 2 Defending Civilization and the Myth of Radical Academia July 15, 2002; Chapter 3 Toward a “Decent Left”? Liberal-Left Misrepresentation and Selective Targeting of Left Commentary on 9/11 July 1, 2002; Chapter 4 Who Is the Real Criminal: Johnny Taliban or Donny Pentagon? October 18, 2002; Chapter 5 Our Tears, Their Opportunity October 21, 2002; Chapter 6 Who Hates America? April 9, 2003; Part II Masters Marching to War; intro2; Chapter 7 Big Brother Bush, “Suicidal” Saddam, and the Homegrown Threat to Liberal Democracy January 22, 2003; Chapter 8 State of Deception: How Stupid Does the Bush Gang Think We Are? January 28, 2003; Chapter 9 Citizens or Spectators? Democracy Versus Empire on the Eve of “Inevitable War” February 7, 2003; Chapter 10 It’s the Empire, Stupid February 13, 2003; Chapter 11 Broadcast Priorities: Corporate Media Versus Democracy in the Streets February 15, 2003; Chapter 12 “Ungrateful”? America, France, Hitler, and Debts of History February 20, 2003; Chapter 13 Moments of Truth, Masters of War March 17, 2003; Chapter 14 Resist Despair March 25, 2003; Chapter 15 Bad War: Read “All About It” in the Establishment Press March 30, 2003; Chapter 16 “Down the Memory Hole” with Weapons of Mass Destruction April 11, 2003; Chapter 17 Rachel Corrie, Jessica Lynch, and the Unequal Worthiness of Victims May 12, 2003; Chapter 18 It Hurts to Kill: “Like I Just Did What the Lord Says Not to Do” May 12, 2003; Chapter 19 Systematic Distortion: Nonrandom Material Falsification and the White House Agenda August 27, 2003; Part III “The Beacon to the World of the Way Life Should Be”; intro3; Chapter 20 The Readily Available Reality of American Policy in an Age of Empire and Inequality January 9, 2003; Chapter 21 Just Don’t Call It “Class Warfare”: Invisible Neighborhoods, Irrelevant People from Chicago to Baghdad January 16, 2003; Chapter 22 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall … March 8, 2003; Chapter 23 Deep Poverty, Deep Deception: Facts That Matter Beneath the Imperial Helicopters (Comments to the Illinois Welfare Reform Symposium) June 17, 2003; Chapter 24 Forbidden Connections: Class, Cowardice, and War July 24, 2003;

This is an impressive collection: well-informed, well-written, covering highly important topics over an impressive range, with no hesitation about taking an honest stand that gets right to the heart of the matter in case after case.