Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
No Comparison: Thoughtcrime Reflections on the Latest Imperial Smackdown of the Nation’s Best Congressperson
Counterpunch, June 23, 2021 United States political culture is an Orwellian nightmare. Two plus two equals five in the propaganda spectacle that passes for “democratic” news and debate here. Take the latest bipartisan establishment disciplining [...]
That Little Power Elite Moment is Already Over
Counterpunch, June 18, 2021 Concerns over the white-supremacist neofascism of the Republican Party were overblown, a “Marxist” told me last January, because Trump had never won the allegiance of all but a small fraction of [...]
American Backstory, While Biden Struts Abroad
Counterpunch, June 16 2021 France’s vacuous to repressive neoliberal president Emanuel “Hot for Teacher” Macron says that “America is back,” by which he means that the United States has returned, post-Trump, to its leadership role atop the world’s rich [...]
We are So Not Out of the Woods, and We Might Want to Take Our Heads out of the Sand
Counterpunch, 6-11-2021 A Childhood Memory When I was a grade-schooler in the mid-late 1960s my parents used to rent a lake cottage in the Indiana Dunes for a month or so each summer. Somewhere in [...]