“My God, they’re killing us”: On May 4, 1970, heavily armed National Guard soldiers used live ammunition to slaughter unarmed students on an American university campus who were protesting against the US invasion of Cambodia. Just after noon that day, 28 National Guard troops fired 67 rounds from their M-1 rifles into a crowd of [...]
Counterpunch, April 29, 2020 As the global coronavirus public health and economic crisis of 2020 approaches the international workers’ day May 1st, let us consider 23 ways in which it is a crisis of and by capital and its class rule profits system: +1. The Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back. United States capitalism was [...]
Counterpunch, April 24, 2020 The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each [...]
Counterpunch, April 17, 2020 Recently in an online urban studies discussion, a young white man expressed his desire for his fellow Chicagoans and Americans more generally to get over all this COVID-19 trauma and “return to normal life in my great city and country.” I was a little surprised and disappointed he didn’t use Warren [...]
Counterpunch, APRIL 13, 2020 Wisconsin: Electoral Politics Gone Lethal by PAUL STREET I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anything more depressing in United States political history than last Tuesday’s election in Wisconsin. Following days of legal wrangling and in cold-blooded defiance of the grim warnings of public health experts, Wisconsin held an in-person vote in the [...]
Counterpunch, April 10, 2020 Listen to Paul Street on this week’s edition of CounterPunch Radio. One of the reasons to have joined Refuse Fascism and other activists in the streets demanding the end of the lethal Trump-Pence regime for the last three years and three months was the danger that the demented president and his [...]
Counterpunch, APRIL 3, 2020 Image Source: Leonilo “Neil” Dolirocon’s socialist art at National Gallery Manila – CC BY 2.0 The COVID-19 crisis is confronting U.S.-Americans with yet more undeniable evidence of the complete craziness and cruelty of American capitalism and class rule more broadly. The demented viciousness of the possessing class’s parasitic profits regime and many [...]
Counterpunch, MARCH 27, 2020 Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The Antichrist vs. Jesus Last Sunday night, in his latest weird Twitter rant, the demented fascistic oligarch (DFO) and level-one malignant narcissist Donald Trump hinted that he may be moving towards blowing off medical scientific opinion by dropping the social distancing recommendations that are so critical to blocking [...]
MARCH 23, 2020 We live in an age of Orwellian untruth where falsehood is the norm. One key falsehood worth unmasking is the claim that the current COVID-19 stock market decline, soon to usher in a full-on recession, is a “black swan” – an unpredictable (and supposedly unpredicted) “surprise” event with great and negative consequences [...]
Counterpunch, MARCH 20, 2020 “I Don’t Take Responsibility at All” Millions of U.S. -Americans are no doubt aghast over the Supremely Dangerous Asshole (SDA) Donald Trump’s statement about the coronavirus crisis in the country: “Yeah, no, I don’t take responsibility at all…” None. Zero. Nada. No accountability. At all. Remember Harry Truman’s little much beloved line, [...]