Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
The Nature and Mission of U.S. Corporate Mass Media
ZNet, September 30, 2015 A significantly shorter version of this paper was delivered in Havana, Cuba on April 7, 2015 “Homeland” Distortion Consistent with its possession as a leading and money-making asset of the nation’s [...]
Bad History: Bernie Sanders’ Specious Take on Barack Obama’s “Big Mistake”
Counterpunch, September 25, 2015 Leftish Democrats can’t seem to stop quoting something the nominal “democratic socialist” and (to use an old but in this case accurate Lenninist term) “social chauvinist” Bernie Sanders has been saying [...]
What Color is Your T-Shirt? Race, Class, Empire, and White Democrats in a Liberal Campus Town
Black Agenda Report, September 22, 2015 “Join the Political Revolution” American liberal and “progressive” Democrats often inhabit insular, white, and middle class worlds that dull their appreciation of the broader oppression systems of class, race, [...]
America’s “Good” Black Syndrome: Race, Class, and Somebody-ness
Counterpunch, September 16, 2015 “The United States,” the left historian Lawrence Shoup reminds us, “is a particular type of class society, a racialized one, where some groups are stigmatized as inferior because of their race, [...]