Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
A Revolutionary Reform Called Single-Payer
Truthdig, 10-4-2017 Being a socialist (which I’ve been since age 19) committed to the democratic transformation of society doesn’t mean rejecting all reforms that fall short of thorough societal reorganization. Serious and substantively progressive reforms [...]
The NRA’s Latest Terrorist Attack on U.S. Soil
Counterpunch, 10-4-2017 It’s long past time to start understanding the giant mass shootings that have become part of the new-normal fabric of life in the United States as terrorist attacks on the U.S. populace conducted [...]
Capitalism: The Nightmare
Truthdig, 9/20/2017 A worker in a costume representing world capitalism during a 2017 May Day rally in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Dita Alangkara / AP) The neoliberal, arch-capitalist era we inhabit is chock-full of statistics and stories that [...]
White America Prefers “Good” Blacks: On Morgan Freeman, Colin Kaepernick, and Trump
Black Agenda Report, September 27, 2017 White America, for the most part, makes a critical distinction between “good” and “bad” Black Americans – and a related distinction between “good” and “bad” Black behavior. It goes [...]