Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
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 [...]
Race v. Class? More Brilliant Bourgeois Bullshit from Ta-Nehesi Coates
Counterpunch, 9-22-2017 Numerous correspondents sent me the latest lengthy Atlantic essay by the brilliant and eloquent but bourgeois Black Identitarian Ta-Nehesi Coates and asked for my reflections. I reluctantly agreed to read and comment on Coates’ long treatise. “The [...]
Hillary Hates Again
Counterpunch, September 9., 2017 When “mainstream” (corporate) media talks about the terrible role that hate is playing in American political life the discussion is usually about partisan contempt between Democrats and Republicans or heated conflicts [...]
Eco-cidal Madness & Moronic Farce
ZNet, September 9, 2017 In the late summer of 2017, the United States was hit by two epic hurricanes, each of which took lives and caused hundreds of billions of dollars in damage. Record-setting wildfires [...]