Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
Looking for “Good Guys” on Ukraine?
CounterPunch, 4.1.2022 US Americans, as products of television and Hollywood, want good guys and bad guys. So who have been the good guys in the Ukraine War and the politics surrounding it? Not Putin and [...]
Thinking About the Unthinkable
CounterPunch, 3.25.2022 I’ve been darkly amused by the large number of people I’ve seen and heard dismissing the possibility of nuclear World War III emerging from the Ukraine War: “That’s unthinkable, it would never happen.” [...]
On Putin, the Ukraine War, the United States and Fascism
CounterPunch, 3.24.2022 It has been darkly amusing to watch one Pavlovian “Enemy of Enemy is my Friend” buffoon after another among what CounterPuncher Eric Draitser calls those “terminally online leftists who push a pro-Kremlin narrative about [Ukrainian] Nazis” [...]
Let Us Not Talk Falsely Now: Reflections on War, Peace, and Ukraine
CounterPunch, 3.18.2022 *This essay is an updated version and partial reconfiguration of a presentation I gave online to the Chicago chapter of the national organization Refuse Fascism last Monday night. Thanks to the war in Ukraine, we [...]