Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
Ben Carson and the Vicious, Victim-Blaming Circle of Neoliberalism and Gun Violence
ZNet, October 16, 2015 The presidential candidate Ben Carson should be relegated before long to the dunce-bin of political history. Before he disappears, however, we might take a closer look at his bone-chilling and tone-deaf [...]
Hope in Abandonment: Cuba, Detroit, and Earth-Scientific Socialism
Counterpunch, October 9, 2015 In their historic 1848 Communist Manifesto, the great radical thinkers Karl Marx and Frederick Engels offered a curious dialectical celebration of rapacious industrial capitalism. To be sure, Marx and Engels had [...]
Yes, There is an Imperialist Ruling Class
Counterpunch, October 6, 2015 Contemporary history is neither a series of random occurrences nor the predetermined plaything of a small cabal of super-empowered conspirators. The truth is somewhere in-between. A sizeable cadre of class- and [...]
Wellhead and Tailpipe
teleSur English, October 2, 2015 This is an age of eco-Orwellian cognitive dissonance. Three years and three months ago, then United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Norway to negotiate increased U.S. access to the [...]