Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
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 [...]
Sleepy Woke Joe, Coal Mine Manchin, the Holy Charter, and the Color and Gender of Faces in High Places
CounterPunch, 2.3.2022 Joe “Never Called me Boy” Biden is now poised to fulfill his campaign promise to “put a Black woman on the US Supreme Court.” Biden will do so with undeniable symbolic justice and [...]