Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
Health Care as a Commodity: On the Irony of the Hudson Decision
So a key part of U.S. President Barack Obama's not-so "liberal" health insurance "reform" bill was declared "unconstitutional" last week by the right-wing federal district court judge Henry E. Hudson in Virginia. In a 42-page [...]
Obama Isn’t Spineless, He’s Conservative: Reflections on Chutzpah, Theirs and Ours
Chutzpah Oh boy – so now he’s really gone and done it. President Barack Obama has (as widely predicted) “caved-in” to Republican demands for the preservation of George W. Bush’s arch-plutocratic, deficit-driving tax cuts for the wealthy [...]
The Sorry Surrender of “the So-Called Radical Left” (May 2010)*
*The essay below is extracted from the May 2010 postscript to my book The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2010) – the perfect Christmas gift for [...]
“Lives at Risk Around the World”: Reflections on the Empire’s Latest WikiLeaks Episode
Two days ago the warmongering U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman voiced broad elite American opinion when he called for Internet companies to refuse to provide hosting for the WikiLeaks Web Site. “No responsible company – whether American [...]