Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
Sorry, Bernie, We Need Radical Change
Counterpunch, July 27, 2018 One of the more darkly amusing narratives in current establishment Democratic Party positioning for the 2018 mid-term elections and the 2020 presidential contest is the claim that the Bernie Sanders tendency [...]
Same Old Obama: The First Black Presidential Library and Gentrification on Chicago’s South Side
Black Agenda Report, August 3, 2018 Until he was tapped as a shiny new national and global asset by the white American ruling-class and catapulted to rock star status in the summer of 2004, then Illinois state [...]
Reflections on Media Gone Russia-Wild
Counterpunch, July 24, 2018 Flipping through the cable news stations last Saturday morning, I came across an amusing sight at Russia- frenzied MSNBC. There was the stern host Joy Reid (“#AM Joy”) giving a concerned [...]
‘Putin’s War on America’ Is Nothing Compared With U.S. War on Democracy
Truthdig, July 22, 2018 Paul Street’s column will appear in Truthdig each Sunday through Aug. 12. Its regular schedule will resume when Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges returns from vacation. The noted North Korean political commentator [...]