Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
Obama’s Good Republican Week
teleSur English, July 7, 2015 I’ll never forget the night of January 3, 2008. It was the evening of the Iowa Democratic Party Presidential Caucus. Iowa City High School’s cafeteria was packed. Old-timers couldn’t remember [...]
The Birthplace (Greece) v. the Farce (the United States) of Democracy
CounterPunch, July 2, 2015 Democracy is among other things the rule of majority public opinion. Plutocracy is the rule of the wealthy few over and against the popular majority. To understand the different meanings of [...]
Beyond the Real Time Catastrophe of Capital
Counterpunch, June 26, 2015 In a recent column on Pope Francis’ latest encyclical, Laudato Si, the conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat says that “After this document, there’s no doubting where Francis stands in [...]
Democracy Wrecked Again: On the Fast Track of Corporate Authoritarianism
ZNet, June 26, 2015 Public Opinion: So What? In a recent telephone survey of more than 1100 randomly selected U.S. adults, the New York Times recently reported, the paper and CBS found that the U.S. [...]