Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
“An Idiot Surrounded by Clowns”: Why Trump (Still) Sits in the White House
Counterpunch, 1/5/2018 Most of the media’s attention on journalist Michael Wolff’s “explosive” new book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House has focused on the disclosure that Trump’s former political strategist Steve Bannon used [...]
Against Identitarian and Generational Divide and Rule
Counterpunch, December 29, 2017 The Occupy Wall Street movement that spread across the country six-plus years ago lacked proper organization and strategy, but it deserves credit for having the right enemy – the corporate and [...]
American-Style Totalitarianism in the Age of Trump
Truthdig, 12/22/2017 I rode a Trailways bus from Iowa City to Chicago’s Near West Side Greyhound station two weekends ago. I was traveling to my past and future home city to give a presentation on [...]
Masha Gessen’s Warning Ignored as Dreams of Trumpeachment Dance in Our Heads
Counterpunch 12/22/2017 In an important commentary in The New York Review of Books last March, the anti-Putin Russian dissident Masha Gessen tried to warn U.S. liberals and progressives against putting their anti-Trump eggs in the [...]