Paul Street
Former ContributorPaul Street was a former contributor at Truthdig.
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The Establishment’s ‘Fear’ Is Different From Yours
Sep 24, 2018 Political and media elites from both major parties may now consider Trump a threat, but their reasons and potential fixes are in line with their own interests.
Creeping Fascism No Problem for Trump’s Durable Base
Sep 5, 2018 Nothing the president does seems to rattle this crowd enough to make it lose faith. Here’s why.
Trump, Corporate Media Are Both Enemies of the People
Aug 23, 2018 The mainstream media should be taken to task, but not for the same reasons the president uses in his attacks on the press.
So, How’s That Major-Party Election Madness Working for Us?
Aug 12, 2018 The Republicans and Democrats are two faces of the same failure. And there will be no real hope of rescue by third parties until the American system of electoral politics is rebuilt from the ground up.
The American Sea of Deception
Aug 5, 2018 Presidential lies are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to a political, media, intellectual and educational culture that has long been drenched in propagandistic lies.
Our ‘Rentier Capitalism’ Is One More Nail in Earth’s Coffin
Jul 29, 2018 The U.S. and other "advanced" nations have created a global class structure shaped by shocking inequality and poverty. Worse, it’s accelerating the race to ecological disaster.
‘Putin’s War on America’ Is Nothing Compared With U.S. War on Democracy
Jul 22, 2018 In the wake of Helsinki, missing from "Russiagate" media hysteria is the question of who will protect us from the influence of U.S. oligarchs.
Scott Pruitt Got Off Easy: Ecocide Is No Small Matter
Jul 11, 2018 The former EPA chief’s career has been dedicated to two things: filling his family bank account and bending energy policy toward the extraction and burning of every last hydrocarbon on earth.
Why Work Isn’t Working in Trump’s America
Jun 26, 2018 The U.S. employment picture is not as positive as the government is spinning it.
The Chomsky Challenge for Americans
Jun 13, 2018 Monstrous U.S. war crimes since the early 1950s have gone down George Orwell's "memory hole." Now, we have no concept of empathy—or reality.
Needed Now: A Real and Radical Left
May 30, 2018 Despite what we may hear from the media, Republicans and Democrats themselves, the Democratic Party is not "the left" but just another slave to the corporate capitalism that is leading us to destruction.