Counterpunch, September 18, 2020 “There Has to be Retribution” It’s getting even more insane than usual to pretend that Donald Trump and his backers aren’t fascist and otherwise existential menaces well beyond the usual right-wing and neoliberal norm. In applauding the extra-judicial paramilitary execution of the anti-fascist Michael Forest Reinoehl outside Olympia, Washington two weeks [...]
Counterpunch, 9-11-2020 The wannabe fascist dictator Donald Trump, his personal attorney general William Barr, and the rest of the broader right-wing United States political and propaganda machine absurdly portray the remarkable anti-racist and anti-police violence protest wave that arose across the nation after the lynching of George Floyd as “radical Left terrorism.” A federal whistleblower [...]
Trump Law, Trump Order, and the Danger Ahead Counterpunch, September 9, 2020 The calling card of fascism is lawlessness in the name of law and order Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley Insofar as Donald Trump is campaigning in, as opposed to subverting, the 2020 presidential election, his main selling point is Law and Order. That [...]
Trump Knows What He's Doing - He Needs to Go Now Counterpunch, September 4, 2020 Black Lives Matter is Not Marxist This is an actual statement from the President of the United States in a recent interview with his fellow far-right white nationalist Laura Ingraham of Fatherland (FOX) News: “Black Lives Matter is a Marxist [...]
Take to the Streets Counterpunch, September 1, 2020 Running for Fuhrer and Loving It It doesn’t look great for Slow Joe Biden, belatedly rising from his basement while the Orange Malignancy takes its white nationalist hate show on the road. Donald Trump is in fighting shape, throwing out one fascistic jab and neo-McCarthyite hook after [...]
Counterpunch, August 28, 2020 There is little to be surprised about by recent events in Kenosha, Wisconsin given: + The deepening crisis of Black life in the COVID-19 period. + The persistent problem of murderous and racist policing. + The possession of video-capable smart phones by tens of millions of Americans. + The ongoing existence [...]
Counterpunch, August 20, 2020 Record-Setting Absurdity and Mendacity The malignant fascist sociopath Donald Trump lies so voluminously and absurdly that many Americans will believe he said or Tweeted almost anything, no matter how offensive and ridiculous. Every few months for the last three years I’ve been making up off-the-wall Trump statements and sending them out [...]
Counterpunch, August 14, 2020 Hollow Resistance: The Antidote to Obama Nostalgia Syndrome The deadly ObamaLust Virus is ironically intensified by the fascist Amerikaner presidency the corporate-imperial Barack Obama helped hatch and empower. Here is an antidote that has passed with flying colors through all the testing trials: Paul Street, Hollow Resistance: Obama, Trump, and the Politics [...]
Tired of reading Paul Street? Listen to him instead! Rising Up with Sonali (Kolhatkar), Pacifica Radio and Free Speech TV, September 24, 2020: https://vimeo.com/461576221, September 24, 2020. Counterpunch Radio with Eric Draitser, October 2, 2020: https://store.counterpunch.org/category/counterpunch-radio-podcasts/ Green and Red with Bob Buzzanco and Scott Parkin, October 2, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CP4BPPzh9I&fbclid=IwAR3Ll2mG-XeHWZPnmwspsv2KWuRvfhb0aJYjjDzxKD0Ejk6YwBvFCT9WvIA Rob Johnson, Institute for New Economic [...]
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/497418-biden-racist-obama-voters-black/ Black bourgeois misleaders like James Clyburn, Barack Obama, Al Sharpton and Joy Reid should be ashamed of themselves for promoting the racist corporate and imperial clown Joe Biden as the answer to Donald Trump. RT.com. Aug 10, 2020 During Biden’s first failed White House bid in the 1980s, he bragged about receiving an award [...]