Counterpunch MARCH 13, 2020 “You Have Owners” “Mr. [Bernie] Sanders,” the New York Times reported last Tuesday, “has built a following of voters who want and expect more from their [Democratic] party, from their government, and from their country.” That’s true enough, with some key qualifications: it’s not “their party” any more than it’s “their government” or [...]
Counterpunch, March 9. 2020 Photograph Source: Matt Johnson – CC BY 2.0 I suppose the politically correct thing is to pretend that corporate-imperialist Joe Biden winning the Black vote isn’t like the late Jeffrey Epstein being hailed as a mentor of teenage girls. Sorry, I don’t do politically correct. Biden helped author and worked to pass the racist [...]
Counterpunch, March 6, 2020 A Witch Out of Dickens Former MSNBC (MSDNC) talk show host Chris Matthews’ execution by the Bernie Sanders campaign today was quick and painless. A guillotine was set up near Central Park’s Pond & Gapstow Bridge. A crowd of 15,000 applauded politely after Matthews’ head was held up and placed inside [...]
Truthdig, March 3, 2020 Don’t blame the Trump presidency on the white proletariat. The real responsibility for this epically transgressive administration — headed by an individual Noam Chomsky rightly describes as “the most dangerous criminal in human history” — lies with the billionaire class. According to a mainstream media myth long believed by intellectuals who ought to [...]
Counterpunch, March 3, 2020 12 noon: Just to be clear, the Dem establishment will gladly enable a second fascistic and ecocidal Trump term before it will get behind a progressive Dem/Sanders nomination. The neoilberal Dem masters will do everything they can, including sabotage of Sanders, to sustain the party’s status as a thoroughgoing ruling class [...]
Counterpunch, February 28, 2020 The So-Called Party of the People: From Nevada to South Carolina by PAUL STREET My thesis on the Democratic Party’s corporate-imperialist establishment had been consistent for years: it would rather lose to the right-wing party, even to an increasingly apocalyptic and fascistic right, than to the progressive, moderately social-democratic and environmentalist left [...]
More Real-Time Reflections from Your Friendly South Loop Marxist by PAUL STREET Counterpunch, February 21, 20120 Sunday 2/16 Monday, 2/17 Nina Simone 1968: “Ain’t got no class, ain’t got no culture, ain’t got no faith, ain’t got no water, ain’t got no money, ain’t got no country…ain’t got no God.” Stirring the Caldron So the demented [...]
Truthdig, February 13, 2020 I’ve been as focused on the Trump impeachment and presidential primary dramas as any other American political commentator in recent months and weeks. At the same time, I’ve been keeping notes on developments overshadowed by the nondefenestration of Donald Trump and the candidate contests in Iowa and New Hampshire. The Trump-led march to apocalypse has been [...]
FEBRUARY 14, 2020 Things Said in Confidence to 4000 Close Friends This Week by PAUL STREET Counterpunch A medical issue on the [L] tracks (I’m guessing someone collided with a front-car) kicked me and others off the CTA Red Line. A toothless old white woman who spoke like a poor Black woman cursed out loud for [...]
Counterpunch FEBRUARY 11, 2020 About Last Week – and the Accelerated Drives to Extinction and Fascism by PAUL STREET Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair If, as some observers worry, the United States is undergoing an accelerated transition to full authoritarian class rule in the Donald Trump years, then the events of last week may be considered [...]