Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
An Historical Row Over “Selma”
In the wake of the recent release of the powerful movie “Selma,” an intra-Democratic debate of sorts has emerged over the history of a key triumph of the Civil Rights Movement half a century ago [...]
The Chicago Blackhawks and the American Empire
I am not one of those bookish and arrogant leftists or liberals who self-righteously denounces mass spectator sports as inherently authoritarian and proto-fascistic. I’m in the David Zirin camp, you might say – a relatively [...]
Charlie I am NOT
TeleSur English/ZNet, January 14, 2015 Selective Sympathy and Scale The murder of seventeen French civilians including five cartoonists at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris was a horrific crime. It must, of course, [...]
Climate Change and “Everything Else,” Including Capitalism
In an important Occupy-inspired essay published on Tomdispatch.com in May of 2012, the leading US Left intellectual Noam Chomsky argued that if the global environmental catastrophe created by anthropogenic climate change “isn’t going to be averted” soon, then “in [...]