Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
Story Time: U.S. State Financial Capitalism, Presidential Politics, and the Management and Manipulation of Expectations
First published on ZNet on July 19, 2012. “You Can’t Be Neglecting of Marketing and P.R.” It doesn’t get much more emblematic of the plutocratic nothingness of what passes for a democratic political culture in [...]
Ray Bradbury’s Nightmare Vision
First published on ZNet on July 11, 2012. Learning recently that Ray Bradbury had just died at 91, I started looking through my bookshelves for an old copy of Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury’s great dystopian novel [...]
Stinking Hot Plutocratic Mess
First publlished on ZNet on July 4th. As July 4th arrives amidst raging forest fires in Colorado and across the U.S. (CBS reported 50 fires in 30 states two nights ago) during an epic drought in [...]
Reply to Obama: On Money, Politics, History, and Bullshit
First published on ZNet on June 29, 2012. I never cease to be amazed by the boundless hypocrisy of the U.S. political class and the related amnesia of U.S. political culture. Look, for example, at [...]