Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
Our ‘Rentier Capitalism’ Is One More Nail in Earth’s Coffin
Truthdig, July 29, 2018 “Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains.” This famous socialist slogan, adapted from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ “The Communist Manifesto,” struck Noam Chomsky as [...]
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 [...]