Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
Weather Report: Normalizing the Unthinkable at the Petroleum Broadcasting System
First published on ZNet. Friday, November 22, 2013. The Left commentator Edward S Herman once (applying a phrase from the anthropologist Lisa Peattie) usefully described a key function of the corporate mass media as “normalizing [...]
For Intelligent Civilization – on Earth
First published on ZNet, November 11, 2013. It appears distinctly possible, even likely that intelligent life exists on other planets. According to the leading University of California at Berkeley astronomer Geoff Marcy, an official NASA [...]
The “New JFK”: Nothing Great to Be
First published on ZNet, November 7, 2013 “He’s the President Kennedy of Today” Explaining why his hero Barack Obama was not invited to a liberal rally honoring the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington [...]
Budget Slavery, Budget Freedom Past and Present
Z Magazine (print), November 2013, online version available at http://www.zcommunications.org/budget-slavery-budget-freedom-past-and-present-by-paul-street.html As the fog of Barack Obama’s frustrated air war on Syria receded from the headlines in mid-September of 2013, the most recent round of plutocratic austerity [...]