Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
White Tears Trump Justice: On the Persistence of the Racist Police State
CounterPunch, 2.25.2022 *This essay, like my forthcoming CounterPunch+ review of Andreas Malm and the Zetkin Collective’s book White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism, was written before the news cycle was taken over by [...]
The “World’s Greatest Country” is Swirling Down the Drain
CounterPunch, 2.11.2022 The United States’ descent into pandemicist and neofascist Hell (something I have been documenting for some time here at CounterPunch and recently in a new book titled This Happened Here) under the eco-cidal command of capital continues apace. [...]
The Nightmare Continues
CounterPunch, 2.8.2022 Last week I wrote a CounterPunch piece about some dark sides of US-American history and the nightmarish fascisation process underway in the USA today. It’s one of the harshest and most alarming essays I’ve ever [...]
The “American Experiment” is a Savage Nightmare
CounterPunch, February 4, 2022 Your celebration is a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. -Frederick Douglass, 1850 Men make their own history, but they do not make it [...]