Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
The President and the Climate: Reflections on Progressive Obama Delusion and a Curious Line in Bill McKibben’s Eaarth
Just what did Barack Obama and his spinners do to the critical faculties of so many leading American progressives? Some of my regular readers might be surprised to know that I often bring a significant [...]
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 [...]