Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
Against Outrageous Stupidity: From WMD to Woman Erasing “Wokeness”
CounterPunch, 6.10.2022 What has been happening in Germany is a matter of the gravest portent for the whole civilized world…The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure [...]
American “Democracy” as a Dead Parrot: Constitutions, Killing Floors, an Unhatched Egg, and Forced Motherhood
CounterPunch, 6.7.2022 Remarkable bird, id’nit, squire? Lovely plumage! – Michael Palin in the Monty Python “Dead Parrot Sketch,” December 7, 1969 I shoulda quit you, baby, long time ago …If I had’a followed, my first [...]
Seven Days in May
CounterPunch, 6.3.2022 Seven days in the drought (the “worst the West has seen in 1200 years”) -, war-, and inflation-plagued month of May 2022 were emblematic of US-American fascitization – the self-described “world’s greatest democracy’s” creeping descent into [...]
This Happened Here: A Draft Dystopian Movie Script
CounterPunch, 5.27.2022 Imagine this as a draft dystopian script for a Netflix series or a Hollywood movie: An orange-hued ex-United States president who was accurately described as “the most dangerous criminal in human history” by [...]