Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
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 [...]
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s “Vietnam War”: Some Predictions
Counterpunch 9/22/2017 This Essay is an Experiment How Ken Burns and Lynn Novick became the semi-official film documentarians of United States history is an interesting question. Part of the answer lay in the way they [...]