Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
“We Own the World”
Originally published on TeleSur English, September 20, 2014. A “Routine” U.S. Coast Guard “Mission” in “the Gulf” Just when I thought the news couldn’t get any stranger three weeks ago, I saw the following Associated [...]
And Then Came Sharpton: Keeping Black Americans in Their Place
First published on ZNet, September 14, 2014, and Black Agenda Report on September 17, 2014. The Black residents of Ferguson, Missouri, a predominantly Black St. Louis suburb, were injured and insulted in at least eight [...]
Deadly Drums of War and Oil
The nation and world are in dire straits as US president Barack Obama prepares to address “the homeland” (a revealingly imperial term) tonight (I am writing on the morning of Wednesday, September 10, 2014). As [...]
An Idée Fixe and a Vicious Circle
TeleSur English, September 11, 2014 Unmentionable Blowback History has a nasty way of repeating itself when its lessons go unprocessed. Take the US Global War on Terror, formally sparked by the al Qaeda jetliner attacks [...]