The Paul Street Report, 3.6.2023 Will Bunch, After the Fall of the Ivory Tower: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics – and How to Fix It (William Morrow, 2022) The Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch wants you to know that the extreme cost and class exclusiveness of higher education is driving the polarization of [...]
The Paul Street Report, 2.27, 2023 “Beyond Anything Orwell Could Have Imagined” Because of his American education and the kindergarten he ran in Xingjiang that taught the Uyghur language, the linguist Tahir Hamut was incarcerated by the Chinese government for fifteen months in 2013 and 2014. “China tortured me,” Hamut told the journalist and author [...]
CounterPunch, 2, 24, 2023, The Paul Street Report, 2, 25, 2023 Here we are one year after Russia’s blood-drenched invasion of Ukraine, the country that has always been the leading tripwire for a global nuclear war in the post-Soviet era. The subsequent United States (US)-Russia proxy war that has unfolded and escalated there is a [...]
The Paul Street Report, January 26-March 2, 2023 Call me an American revolutionary Marxist, socialist, and/ or communist. Just don’t tell me I’m “on the [US-American] left.” Part of the problem here is that the dominant US media politics culture has let the neo-McCarthyite right dilute the term “the left” so far as to mean [...]
The Paul Street Report 2.23.2023; CounterPunch, 3.1.2-23 Let’s have a look at the latest development in the Christian fascist Amerikaner campaign to re-impose the full pre-Roe v.Wade female bondage of forced motherhood, paying special attention to the sickening “Weimar” role of the Democratic Party and its allied “choice” organizations/NGOs. Recall how the dismal Dems and their [...]
The Paul Street Report, 2.20.2023 Thinking about the problem of US-Amerikan fascisation, my mind often conjures the notion of an ailing person who finally goes to the doctor for a check-up long after cancer has spread across much of their body. The fascist malignancy is already horribly present in the US body politic. There are [...]
The Paul Street Report, 2.17.2023 Eighty-six House Democrats were right to reject the insane United States House of Representatives resolution that denounced the alleged “horrors of socialism” two weeks ago. The measure was introduced by a far-right Florida representative and backed by the entire Republikaner House caucus. It is yet another sign that the Republican [...]
The Paul Street Report, 2.13.2023 Here are four overlapping forms of denialism in US-American political life today: denial of how militantly authoritarian/fascist the Republican Party has become; denial of how undemocratic the US political system is; denial of how determined the Republi-fascist “Amerikaners” (I’ll explain my use of this term below) are to defy majority [...]
The Paul Street Report, 2.8.2023 I have been told by liberals and progressives that the nation’s leading strikebreaker Joe Biden “knocked it out of the park” with his State of the Union Address last night. It was “Joe’s FDR moment,” marked by populist attacks on the under-taxed super-rich, a defense of Social Security and Medicare, [...]
CounterPunch, 2.3.2023 There is no end of parliamentary cretinism among the liberals. + Lenin, 1912 The dispossessed of this nation – the poor, both White and Negro – live in a cruelly unjust society. They must organize a revolution against that injustice. + Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967 And so a leader who arguably owes his presidency to [...]