Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
Identity Rules: A Report from Reddening Chicago
Counterpunch, APRIL 5, 2019 Fake-Progressive Identity Cloaking Beyond the identity-politicized excitement of Chicago electing its first Black female chief executive and becoming the largest U.S. city to have a Black female mayor (and to have [...]
Russiagate: A Trump-Boosting Triumph of Diversion and Inauthentic Opposition?
Counterpunch, March 29, 2019 Did the Russian government make some efforts to intervene on Donald Trump’s behalf in the 2016 United States presidential election? Has Trump’s behavior toward Russia been odd, to say the least, [...]
Trump and McCain: A Pox on Both Their Houses, Huxleyan Media, and the Myth of “The Vietnam War”
Counterpunch March 21, 20019 “You’re going to have to shut up or I’ll call the police…Get out of here you low-life scum.” — John McCain’s statement to peace activists calling for the arrest of epic [...]
Socialism Curiously Trumps Fascism in U.S. Political Threat Reporting
By Paul Street Counterpunch, March 19, 2019 “I Have the Tough People” Recently Donald Trump, the orange mother of all assholes, said this in an interview with the proto-fascistic alt-right Website Breitbart News: “You know, [...]