Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
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 [...]
Look Home Obama
TeleSur English, March 19, 2015. In justifying his recent absurd declaration that Venezuela poses an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States” – a threat so great [...]
The IS Shock, the ‘New Cold War,’ and the Unmentionable History of US Empire
Thanks to the childishly ahistorical and amnesia-inducing narratives disseminated by dominant US corporate media, the origins of contemporary issues and dilemmas go back much further in time than is generally understood in the United States. [...]
Barack Obama, Monty Python, and the U.S. Threat to Venezuela
ZNet, March 11, 2015 As I’ve always said about Barack Obama, you’ve almost got to admire his cynical Orwellian chutzpah. Reading some talking points of Empire, the United States President recently told his fellow US-of-Americans [...]