Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
Real News or Fake News?
Counterpunch AUGUST 30, 2019 by PAUL STREET Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair You can’t make shit like this up. Well, sometimes you can make shit like this up. Three of the nine news items below are [...]
Notes on Inauthenticity in a Creeping Fascist Nuthouse
Counterpunch, 8/23/2019 Among the suggestions I would have made to the Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley had I been an editor of his important book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Random House, [...]
The White Right’s Race Denial Meets Trump the Redeemer
Truthdig, August 20, 2019 Liberals have been understandably aghast at Donald Trump’s recurrent claim that he doesn’t “have a racist bone in [his] body.” Who is the white-nationalist president trying to kid? His politics and [...]
Uncle Sam was Born Lethal
Counterpunch, August 16, 2019 For revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival. – Frederick Douglass, July 4, 1852 One of the occupational and intellectual hazards of being a historian is that current [...]