Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
A Dystopian Hellscape Beckons: 21 Dark Clouds Over 2021 Amerika
Counterpunch, 11.12.2021 Some of those willing to look may have noticed that dark clouds of fascism are forming over the United States like never before. How so? Let me count the ways – 21 to [...]
Give Capital What It Wants…or Else
Counterpunch, 11.1o.2021 The Orange Beast Runs Free, Dreaming of Vengeance Two seemingly separate news stories are darkly and intimately related to each other in ways that you will not see intelligently discussed on “Meet the [...]
Carol Anderson’s Haunting History of America’s Racist Double Gun Standard
Counterpunch, 11.5.2021 Carol Anderson, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America (Bloomsbury, 2021) Get it right: in Amerika, guns, self-defense, and political violence are for white Whiskey Rebels, racist white mobs, racist white cops, [...]
On Mass Political Inattention
Counterpunch, 10.29.2021 “Most People Don’t Pay Attention to What’s Going On” Speaking to Salon’s Chauncy de Vega about how the United States is mired in a crisis of democracy that shows parallels with Germany’s descent into [...]