Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
Glenn Greenwald is Not Your Misunderstood Left Comrade
Counterpunch, 9.24.2021 I have, as expected, received numerous emails defending Glenn Greenwald against a recent CounterPunch essay in which I, among other things (all of which were ignored by the emailers), criticized his mocking presentation of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s instantly infamous “Tax [...]
The Frontier is Closed: Capitalist and Constitutional Chickens Coming Home to Cancerous Roost
Counterpunch, 9.6.2021 Much of the United States (US) is in crisis as capitalist-imperialist chickens are coming home to roost. Multiple Interrelated Crises Rooted in Bourgeois Evil Millions of acres on the onetime US Western frontier [...]
A 9/11 Reflection: Remember “Their” Crimes, Forget “Ours”
Counterpunch, September 11, 2021 So much we are supposed to forget or not know and/or care about, so little we are supposed to remember. “We must never forget” 9/11, when “America was attacked” (when, as [...]
Reflections on a Double Standard: the Right Absurdly Calls Democrats Socialists, but Liberals Can’t Correctly Call the Right Fascist
Counterpunch, 8.31.2021 I hope I am not the only one who has noticed a curious double-standard in American media-politics culture: right wing politicians and commentators are free to inaccurately and routinely describe corporate Democrats as “socialists,” [...]