Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
The Empire’s New Clothes*
August 29, 2010 ZNet: http://www.zcommunications.org/the-empires-new-clothes-by-paul-street-1 By Paul Street * A shortened version of this talk (below) was given at Bluestockings Bookstore (NYC), the Wooden Shoe Bookstore (Philly), Busboys and Poets (Washington DC), Barnes and Noble [...]
Revealing Moments: Obama, WikiLeaks, the “Good War” Myth, and Silly Liberal Faith in the Emperor
War Crime Whistleblower in Obama’s Sights, War Criminals Not Private First Class Bradley Manning, a 22-year-old U.S. Army intelligence analyst stationed in Iraq, is being prosecuted by the Obama administration for disclosing a classified video showing [...]
A Preview of “The Empire’s New Clothes”
From Chapter 1, titled “Business Rule as Usual”: Two and a half weeks after Barack Obama’s victory in the 2008 presidential election, David Rothkopf, a former Clinton administration official, commented on the President elect’s corporatist [...]
A Callous Nation: Reflections on the Obama-McChrystal-Rolling Stone Saga
We Americans must seem to much of the world a callous and superficial people. Look at the recent media-politics soap opera that briefly distracted us from (among other things) the ongoing state-capitalist eco-tastrophe in the [...]