Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
Cuba’s Socialist Spirit Level
TeleSur English, April 10, 2015 Having just visited Cuba to deliver a paper on the dangers of United States corporate media, one impression I took from my trip is that we should never underestimate the [...]
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 [...]