Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
They Rule: No Easter Bernie
Counterpunch, March 6, 2020 A Witch Out of Dickens Former MSNBC (MSDNC) talk show host Chris Matthews’ execution by the Bernie Sanders campaign today was quick and painless. A guillotine was set up near Central [...]
Trump’s Real Base: The Ruling Class
Truthdig, March 3, 2020 Don’t blame the Trump presidency on the white proletariat. The real responsibility for this epically transgressive administration — headed by an individual Noam Chomsky rightly describes as “the most dangerous criminal in human [...]
Primary Notes from a Shit-Hole Superpower: Crashing the Party from the Top Down
Counterpunch, March 3, 2020 12 noon: Just to be clear, the Dem establishment will gladly enable a second fascistic and ecocidal Trump term before it will get behind a progressive Dem/Sanders nomination. The neoilberal Dem [...]
The So-Called Party of the People
Counterpunch, February 28, 2020 The So-Called Party of the People: From Nevada to South Carolina by PAUL STREET My thesis on the Democratic Party’s corporate-imperialist establishment had been consistent for years: it would rather lose to [...]