Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
Thank an Anti-War Veteran
Counterpunch, November 17, 2017 Big Brother in the Aisles of HyVee Repeat a lie often enough, the conventional Nazi propaganda wisdom ran, and it will become an accepted truth. This last Veterans Day weekend, I [...]
A Book Review of Benjamin Page and Martin Gilens, Democracy in America? What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It
New York Journal of Books, November 2017 Benjamin Page and Martin Gilens, Democracy in America? What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, November 2017). Americans are [...]
A Book Review of Alfred W. McCoy, In The Shadows of the American Century
New York Journal of Books, November 2017 In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power (Chicago: Haymarket, 2017). This is a remarkable and dazzlingly original account of the [...]
An Insubordinate President
Truthdig, November 14, 2017 “Insubordinate elites,” as the distinguished American foreign policy historian Alfred W. McCoy calls them, have long been a problem for the United States empire. They privilege their own personal interests and/or [...]