Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
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, [...]
ISIS is US: the Empire and the Evil Genie It Released
Counterpunch, September 14, 2015 Picturing Papal Petrification The reigning politics and media culture of the United States is not without moments of high comic relief. Three weeks ago, for example, CNN’s Chris Cuomo presented the [...]