Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
Merrick Garland’s “Existential” Choice
CounterPunch, 6.15.2022 Nobody on the Left should deride as insignificant the current public US House hearings on Donald Trump’s effort to stay in power ultimately through violent means in the wake of Joe Biden’s clear [...]
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 [...]