Beware False Claims of Victory Over Fascism: A Response to Indivisible’s Ezra Levin

The Paul Street Report, 1.19.2023 Have you heard?  Joe Biden's Antifa armed militia units have just entered Washington DC. Subcommadante Kamala Harris has ordered new elections for the US House of Representatives. The far-right Supreme Court Justices Clarence “I Married a Nazi” Thomas, Sam “Medieval Justice” Alito, Neal “Roe is Precedent” Gorsuch, Brett “Roe is Settled Law” Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney-“Handmaid”-Barrett [...]

By |2023-02-07T14:27:47-06:00February 7th, 2023|Articles|

The Long Bourgeois Doctrinal Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Paul Street Report, 1.16. 2023 This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a good time to contemplate not just the physical assassination (or execution) of Dr. King on April 4, 1968, but also and above all King’s subsequent and ongoing moral, intellectual, and ideological assassination. I am referring to the conventional, neo-McCarthyite, and whitewashed narrative [...]

By |2023-02-24T17:01:07-06:00February 7th, 2023|Articles|

Latin Americans Can Call Fascist Coup Attempts Fascist but US-Americans Can’t

The Paul Street Report, 1.12/2023/CounterPunch, 1.19.2023 Behold last January 8th’s mob assault on Brazil’s top government offices by “protesters” claiming that their nation’s most recent presidential election was “stolen” from its last chief executive Jair Bolsonaro. The rioters hoped to provoke the Brazilian military into intervening to carry out a coup that would put Bolsonaro, [...]

By |2023-02-07T14:08:44-06:00February 7th, 2023|Articles|

Keep Down the Fascism Detectors: Elise Stefanik, the New York Times, and the Appeasement-by-Deletion of Fascism

CounterPunch, 1.6.2023 Never underestimate the often subtle, smooth, and sophisticated complicity of liberal journalists in normalizing and appeasing the fascisation and the related lethal farceification (I apologize for making up words) of US American politics. Take New York Times’ “Pulitzer Prize-winning political reporter” Nicholas Confessore’s recent 8100 word-plus Times report on the “MAGA transformation” of Elise Stefanik (R-NY), the number three [...]

By |2023-02-03T16:02:21-06:00February 3rd, 2023|Articles|

Alexis McGill Johnson Pisses Down the Backs of Girls and Women and Then Tells Them “It’s Raining, so Send Us Your Money”

The Paul Street Report, 12.30.2022 The end of the year fundraising letter I got from Planned Parenthood’s “Action Fund” a couple of weeks ago  reminds me of an old saying:  “Don’t Piss Down My Back and Then Tell me it’s Raining.” I might add this: “and then tell me to send you some money to [...]

By |2023-02-03T15:52:15-06:00February 3rd, 2023|Articles|

Underwhelmed: Some Predictable Silences in the U.S. House Select Committee Report on January 6th

CounterPunch, 12.30.2022 What to make of the Final Report of the US House Select Committee on the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol (hereafter “the report”)? Let’s start with the good news – the discovery, telling, and re-telling of some basic truths. The report shows beyond serious doubt that the wannabe fascist strongman  Donald Trump [...]

By |2023-02-03T15:42:56-06:00February 3rd, 2023|Articles|

Tell Your Anti-Science Fascist Uncle to F-Off

12. 24. 2025 I am still on holiday break but did want to send out the following warm message to all my readers and friends on a bitterly cold US-Midwestern Christmas Eve: Your right-wing Tucker-watching Trump-approving feminism-hating white supremacist socialism-hating uncle/father/grandfather/brother/brother in law/friend of the family/neighbor/football coach thinks this extreme cold disproves the "radical left" [...]

By |2023-02-03T15:35:33-06:00February 3rd, 2023|Articles|

Do Your Multiplication and Get on Board With Socialist Revolution

CounterPunch, 12.19.2022 All I’ve got left, writing-wise, for 2022 is six reflections on one of the smartest things I’ve heard this year: Noam Chomsky’s recent comment to the effect that humanity today is up against four apocalyptic “horsemen”: ecocide, pandemicide, potentially nuclear war, and fascism: 1. Please note the gender of horsemen. Patriarchy runs richly through each [...]

By |2023-02-03T15:30:50-06:00February 3rd, 2023|Articles|

Anymore Late Bulletins From Noam Chomsky? On Class Reductionist Economism, the “Road to Neofascism,” and White Male Privilege

The Paul Street Report, 12. 12.2022 Last week a fellow communist and anti-fascist sent me the self-described “anarchist” Noam Chomsky’s latest Truthout interview by C.J. Polychroniou. “Maybe,” she added, “if you named your book This Neofascism Could Maybe Happen Here Sometime in the Future it would sell to the ‘progressive’ crowd.” The first thing that grabbed me was the interview’s [...]

By |2023-02-03T15:24:31-06:00February 3rd, 2023|Articles|

“Amerika”: Republi-Fascism, Despicable De-Railing Dems, Constitutional Termination, Lucy and Charlie, and Revolution

CounterPunch, 12.9.2022 Did you know that Adolph Hitler named his special personal World War II train Amerika? I ran across this interesting fact while leafing through the British historian Martin Gilbert’s massive history of the Second World War. Some might find this strange, given the fact that Hitler’s Third Reich was formally at war with the United States [...]

By |2023-02-03T15:15:08-06:00February 3rd, 2023|Articles|
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