Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
Shut Down Reflections
First published on ZNet, October 2, 2013. Why Now? The “non-essential” federal government is shut down, throwing more than 700,000 public employees out of work, for a number of interrelated reasons. For more than four [...]
From Daley Plaza to Syria: Obama’s Forgotten, Fading Imperial Promise
First published on ZNet on September 27, 2013. Some liberals and progressives who opposed Barack Obama’s attempted attack on Syria seemed taken aback and surprised at the president’s readiness to make brazenly illegal, unilateral war on [...]
Disdain: On Perry Anderson’s America
First published on ZNet on September 20, 2013. Academic leftism left can be fun and informative. In some of its professional practitioners’ hands, it can also seem alienating and dismissive towards working class people and [...]
Liar-in-Chief
First published on ZNet, September 14, 2013. I could barely make out Barack Obama’s Syria speech to the nation on my old car radio as I negotiated the narrow curves of Route 79 on the western [...]