Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
No Liberal Rallies Yet for the Children of Yemen
Counterpunch, 7-20-2018 Hundreds of thousands of people showed up across the United States at more than 600 gatherings three weeks ago. They came out to protest Donald Trump‘s “zero tolerance” immigration policy in highly choreographed, Democratic Party-affiliated “Families Belong Together” [...]
Time to Stop Playing “Simon Says” with James Madison and Alexander Hamilton
Counterpunch, July 13, 2018 The People as a Problem to be Contained As the United States’ depressed, distracted, disorganized, and demobilized populace watches the vicious white-nationalist and authoritarian Donald Trump and the arch-reactionary Republican Party [...]
Scott Pruitt Got Off Easy: Ecocide Is No Small Matter
Truthdig, July 11, 2018 Scott Pruitt, the now-former, scandal-plagued Environmental Protection Agency chief in the Trump administration, got off easy. The spoliation of the commons by those who pursue private profit and what Western economists call “development” is no [...]
Fifty* Great United States Lies
Posted August 2, 2018, as a supplement to what was then a forthcoming Truthdig essay in which I examined U.S. President Donald Trump's epic and pathological lying and misstatements against the backdrop, and in the [...]