Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
Name That System — or Overthrow it
TeleSur English, April 1, 2015. Like many who write for ZNet, Telesur English, and other Left venues, I suspect, I often feel torn between (A) more activist and positive, change and action-oriented energies (relating to [...]
Beyond Manufacturing Consent
TeleSur English, March 27, 2015 I am still occasionally asked by readers and others what I think of Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky’s 1988 text Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. My answer [...]
Bernie Dreaming and the Hillary Money Machine
First published on Counterpunch, March 27-29, 2015 The Violin Model The late and formerly Left provocateur Christopher Hitchens once usefully described “the essence of American politics” as “the manipulation of populism by elitism”: the cloaking [...]
Beyond False Dichotomies: Toward a New American Left
Beyond False Dichotomies: Toward a New American Left, Z Magazine (April 2015) Paul Street I have long registered my agreement with the brilliant socialist philosopher Istvan Merszaros’s dark, environmentally informed 2001 judgment that: “many of [...]