Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
Disappear the System: A Critical Hegemonic Function of Capitalist Media
Counterpunch 4-9-2021 Something stinks in the wall-to-wall broadcast of every detail in the Derek Chauvin trial. The hegemonic (in a Marxian sense) result of drilling down so microscopically on one racist cop’s super-transgression, treating the [...]
Lying is as American as Cherry Pie
Counterpunch, 4 -6-20201 A few weeks ago, someone going as “R. Tillman” spent a chunk of change to place a small add in The New York Times saying that “LYING IS UN-AMERICAN.” I had to laugh. [...]
Some Standard Cynical CIA-Style Cuba Covid Reporting at The Washington Post
Counterpunch, 4 -2 -2021 Never underestimate the cynicism of American corporate media. As the Scotland-based historian Helen Yaffe recently observed on Counterpunch, the socialist state of Cuba currently has five COVID-19 vaccines in clinical trials “and [...]
Unless the Power of the People Asserts Itself
Counterpunch 3-12-2021 The COVID-19 pandemic and recession and the political realignment in Washington after the defeat of the malignant fascist Trump and the two former Republican Senators in Georgia have opened the door for some [...]