Trump’s Real Base: The Ruling Class

Truthdig, March 3, 2020 Don’t blame the Trump presidency on the white proletariat. The real responsibility for this epically transgressive administration — headed by an individual Noam Chomsky rightly describes as “the most dangerous criminal in human history” — lies with the billionaire class. According to a mainstream media myth long believed by intellectuals who ought to [...]

By |2020-03-20T09:38:05-05:00March 20th, 2020|Articles|

Primary Notes from a Shit-Hole Superpower: Crashing the Party from the Top Down

Counterpunch, March 3, 2020 12 noon: Just to be clear, the Dem establishment will gladly enable a second fascistic and ecocidal Trump term before it will get behind a progressive Dem/Sanders nomination. The neoilberal Dem masters will do everything they can, including sabotage of Sanders, to sustain the party’s status as a thoroughgoing ruling class [...]

By |2020-03-13T11:27:53-05:00March 13th, 2020|Articles|

The So-Called Party of the People

Counterpunch, February 28, 2020 The So-Called Party of the People: From Nevada to South Carolina by PAUL STREET My thesis on the Democratic Party’s corporate-imperialist establishment had been consistent for years: it would rather lose to the right-wing party, even to an increasingly apocalyptic and fascistic right, than to the progressive, moderately social-democratic and environmentalist left [...]

By |2020-03-13T11:03:13-05:00March 13th, 2020|Articles|

More Real-Time Reflections from Your Friendly South Loop Marxist

More Real-Time Reflections from Your Friendly South Loop Marxist by PAUL STREET Counterpunch, February 21, 20120 Sunday 2/16 Monday, 2/17 Nina Simone 1968: “Ain’t got no class, ain’t got no culture, ain’t got no faith, ain’t got no water, ain’t got no money, ain’t got no country…ain’t got no God.” Stirring the Caldron So the demented [...]

By |2020-03-13T10:54:52-05:00March 13th, 2020|Articles|

Is Trump the Worst of the Worst?

Truthdig, February 13, 2020 I’ve been as focused on the Trump impeachment and presidential primary dramas as any other American political commentator in recent months and weeks. At the same time, I’ve been keeping notes on developments overshadowed by the nondefenestration of Donald Trump and the candidate contests in Iowa and New Hampshire. The Trump-led march to apocalypse has been [...]

By |2020-03-09T15:48:31-05:00March 9th, 2020|Articles|

About Last Week – and the Accelerated Drives to Extinction and Fascism

Counterpunch FEBRUARY 11, 2020 About Last Week – and the Accelerated Drives to Extinction and Fascism by PAUL STREET Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair If, as some observers worry, the United States is undergoing an accelerated transition to full authoritarian class rule in the Donald Trump years, then the events of last week may be considered [...]

By |2020-03-09T15:26:19-05:00March 9th, 2020|Articles|

The Game is Rigged

The Game is Rigged by PAUL STREET Counterpunch, February 7, 2020 Photograph Source: Office of Public Affairs – CC BY 2.0 Let’s not beat around the bush. The game is rigged. The fix is in. I’m not just talking about the neofascistic Donald Trump, the Republican Party, the Republican-controlled United States Senate and the fake-impeachment trial that [...]

By |2020-03-09T12:03:07-05:00March 9th, 2020|Articles|

How Not to Remove a Fascist

How to Not Remove a Fascist by PAUL STREET Counterpunch, February 4, 2020 Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Danger, danger, there are fascists in the White House, it’s up to us to drive them out. – A chant heard at Refuse Fascism marches in Chicago, 2019 and 2020 “America[ns] First” As we know from a recently [...]

By |2020-03-09T11:51:37-05:00March 9th, 2020|Articles|

Two Wings, Four Despotisms

Two Wings, Four Despotisms by PAUL STREET Counterpunch, January 31, 2020 Republican Tyranny, Orange Menace Democracy is trumped in the United States by multiple, overlapping, interrelated and mutually reinforcing forms of despotism. The Trump administration and the Trumpified Republican Party, backed by a cult-like base, embody a creepy, neofascistic variant of the disease. The Republican White [...]

By |2020-03-09T11:48:29-05:00March 9th, 2020|Articles|
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