CounterPunch, 3.24.2023 Once you look beyond the ‘chaos’ in Washington, what you see is the work not of nihilists, but committed ideologues fully determined to impose their reactionary vision of what America should be on as many people as possible and to punish those who dare to deviate from that vision or dissent. * Thomas [...]
The Paul Street Report, 3.21.2023 “They’re Killing Our Nation” The fascist blood-libel QAnon fan and twice-impeached putschist Donald “Take Down the Metal Detectors” Trump last week responded in predictable asinine but lethal fashion to the possibility that he may be indicted by a New York grand jury in lower Manhattan* for violating campaign finance laws. Consistent with [...]
The Paul Street Report, 3.19.2023 Sweet child in time You'll see the line The line that's drawn between Good and bad See the blind man Shooting at the world Bullets flying Oh, taking toll If you've been bad Oh, Lord, I bet you have And you've not been hit Oh, by flying lead You'd better [...]
CounterPunch, 3.17.2023 Sometimes it is hard to know who is worse: the Christian white nationalist neofascists who keep pushing the nation further right or the hollow and passive resistance of the fake-opposition Weimar Democrats who keep accommodating the ever more mainstreamed far right. But we don’t have to choose. The fascisation of US politics and [...]
The Paul Street Report, MAR 11, 2023 Dear Readers: here, below, is a speech I gave (in somewhat shorter form) at a rally held by the Chicago Revolution Club and Rise Up for Abortion Rights (RU4AR) Rights on International Woman’s Day in downtown Chicago last Wednesday: Women, Life, Freedom! The Paul Street Report is a [...]
The Paul Street Report, 3.10.2023 I want to add to my list of false Western narratives on the Ukraine War. In previous essays[1], I – with no love for the fascist war criminal Vladimir Putin – have critiqued eight such narratives so far: (i) “Russia’s criminal and unjustified invasion of Ukraine was completely unprovoked by the [...]
The Paul Street Report, 3.7.2023 Dear readers: I am doing a Tuesday piece instead of a Thursday one this week due to some travel. Beware of distraction. Look for the shit that’s going while they’ve got you looking at something else. Case in point: the dominant US media wants you to think that human civilization [...]
The Paul Street Report, 3.6.2023 Will Bunch, After the Fall of the Ivory Tower: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics – and How to Fix It (William Morrow, 2022) The Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch wants you to know that the extreme cost and class exclusiveness of higher education is driving the polarization of [...]
The Paul Street Report, 2.27, 2023 “Beyond Anything Orwell Could Have Imagined” Because of his American education and the kindergarten he ran in Xingjiang that taught the Uyghur language, the linguist Tahir Hamut was incarcerated by the Chinese government for fifteen months in 2013 and 2014. “China tortured me,” Hamut told the journalist and author [...]
CounterPunch, 2, 24, 2023, The Paul Street Report, 2, 25, 2023 Here we are one year after Russia’s blood-drenched invasion of Ukraine, the country that has always been the leading tripwire for a global nuclear war in the post-Soviet era. The subsequent United States (US)-Russia proxy war that has unfolded and escalated there is a [...]