Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
Anti-Plutocracy is as American as Apple Pie: A Short of History of American Populist Anger
First published on ZNet, May 3, 2013. Yesterday (I am writing on May 2, 2013), millions around the world hit the streets to protest state-capitalist austerity, plutocracy, and exploitation on a planet where the world’s [...]
Profits System 101
First published on ZNet, April 19, 2013. When you hear corporate media news broadcasters talk about “the economy” and “recovery,” always ask yourself whose economy and whose recovery they have in mind. According to the [...]
The Golden Rule: Theirs and Ours
Gary Olson, Empathy Imperiled: Capitalism, Culture, and the Brain(New York: Springer, 2012) Think of the values and ideas we left progressives tend to identify with and defend and advance against those rapacious “1%”’ masters of [...]
Obama’s Drone War Meets Homeland Resistance
First published on ZNet on March 30, 2013. “This is Not Dick Cheney We’re Talking About” Questioned by a handful of Senate Democrats on his secret killer drone program earlier this month, Barack Obama said [...]