Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
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 [...]
Bernie and the Donald
teleSur English, September 12, 2015 United States voters could provide bases for more than the nation’s two reigning state-capitalist political organizations – the Republicans and the Democrats – if the country moved to a multiparty [...]
Notes from a Campus/Company Town
Counterpunch September 9, 2015 Embarrassed and Horrified Upon hearing that the Johnson County Board of Supervisors recently voted to begin a process of approving Iowa first’s countywide minimum wage ordinance and thereby raising the local [...]
Bi-Polar Disorder: Obama’s Bait-and-Switch Environmental Politics
Counterpunch, September 4-6, 2015 We live in strange Orwellian, Islamophobic, and eco-cidal times. A comrade from the great burning Northwest tells me the following story: “I had a Sunday dinner a few weeks ago at [...]