Counterpunch, August 11, 2020 The American ruling class says it is opposed to “big government.” It isn’t. The wealthy Few are only against what the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu called “the left hand of the state” – those parts of government that reflect the victories of past and ongoing social movements by serving the common [...]
Counterpunch, August 7, 2020 Sorry, Trump's Not Conceding I have been hearing liberals and lefties fantasizing that Donald Trump is conceding the presidency to Joe Biden. The evidence for this curious thesis? 1. Biden’s significant polling lead over Trump not just nationally but in the battleground states where the presidency is contested. 2. The real [...]
Counterpunch, August 5, 2020 New Age Racists Anyone who thinks it was fine and proper for the Jeffrey Epstein pal Bill Clinton to be a featured speaker at the funeral of John Lewis, a former Black Civil Rights icon, ought to read Elaine Brown’s brilliant 2002 book The Condemnation of Little B. In this classic radical Black text, [...]
Counterpunch, July 31, 2020 Better late than never, I suppose. I am referring to the flood of recent references in liberal mainstream media to Donald Trump as a fascist. It is remarkable. In the last two months, I’ve read essays and seen television segments and online posts by numerous liberal luminaries describing Trump as an [...]
Counterpunch, July 27, 2020 When the men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom, and your mind is moving low Go ask Alice, I think she’ll know When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead And the White Knight is talking backwards And [...]
Counterpunch, July 23, 2020 “What He Wishes He Had: Total Power” This is a supremely dangerous moment. The White House is occupied by a rogue fascist regime whose malignant leader Donald Trump has recently made it clear yet again that he will not honor the results of an election that does not go his way [...]
Counterpunch, July 17, 2020 The Orange Fascist Death Machine Donald Trump is a fascist death machine. He’s proved it again and again in numerous ways, including but not limited to these: the separation and caging of migrant children, hailing Nazi white supremacists as “fine people,” pardoning sociopathic fascists and war criminals, holding regular white nationalist [...]
Counterpunch, July 14, 2020 “Fast Getting Rid of Those Demons in Human Shape” The great Sauk warrior Black Hawk, called Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak (“Black Sparrow Hawk”) in the Algonquian language of his people, was born in 1767 in the glorious village of Saukenuk in the northwestern section of what later became the state of Illinois. In 1829, [...]
Counterpunch, July 10, 2020 The biggest of the many moral blind-spots that mar the politics of the Democratic Party is American imperialism. Biden Helped Lead the Charge into Iraq Look at the Inauthentic Opposition Party’s[1] presumptive presidential nominee. Biden recently chided Donald Trump in not-so veiled terms for failing to overthrow the democratically elected socialist Maduro government of [...]
by PAUL STREET Counterpunch, July 3, 2020 This essay originally appeared six years ago on Telesur English as a review of Gerald Horne’s important book The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America (New York, 2014). I offer it for re-publication and hopefully wider readership in the wake of the great 2020 George [...]