Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
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 [...]
America’s Instinctive Fascism Creeps On
Counterpunch, 10.15.2021 Recently Norman Ornstein told Salon’s Chauncy de Vega that the United States is mired in a crisis of democracy that shows parallels with Germany’s descent into Nazism during the 1930s. Ornstein is right to worry about [...]