Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
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 [...]
Colin Powell and Imperial Crimes That Happen But Don’t
Counterpunch, 10.27.2021 From My Lai to WMD Lie In dominant capitalist-imperialist media, America’s imperial crimes are airbrushed out of historical memory, like they never took place. Thus it is that CNN can without the slightest [...]