Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
Campus Town Amnesia
First published on ZNet, December 4, 2014, Last October I attended a small rally held outside Iowa City’s City Hall in solidarity with Michael Brown and those protesting his killing last August by a white [...]
No True Justice in St. Louis County
First published on TeleSur English, December 5, 2014. Note from author (December 6, 10 AM, CST): This essay was written before news came out of the decision of a Staten Island Grand Jury not to [...]
When Words Don’t Mean Anything Anymore: Reflections on the Life and Rhetoric of Barack Obama
Z Magazine, December 2014. Nothing mocks disingenuous, power-serving politicians more than their own past words. President Barack Obama is a remarkable case in point. On the presidential campaign trail in 2007 and 2008, for example, [...]
How They Police vs. What They Police: Reflections on Ferguson, Race, and “the Rule of Law”
First published on ZNet, November 27, 2014. How Throughout its coverage of the drama sparked by the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, US corporate media has framed the basic racial issue at [...]