Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
The “American Experiment” is a Savage Nightmare
CounterPunch, February 4, 2022 Your celebration is a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. -Frederick Douglass, 1850 Men make their own history, but they do not make it [...]
Sleepy Woke Joe, Coal Mine Manchin, the Holy Charter, and the Color and Gender of Faces in High Places
CounterPunch, 2.3.2022 Joe “Never Called me Boy” Biden is now poised to fulfill his campaign promise to “put a Black woman on the US Supreme Court.” Biden will do so with undeniable symbolic justice and [...]
A Communist Intervention: Reflections on Crisis, Revolution, and Personal Responsibility
Counterpunch, 1.28.2022 The End of Bourgeois Democracy This is a communist intervention. It’s time to pull our heads out of our asses. Along with an ongoing fascisation process, capitalism-imperialism has brought the related and ever [...]
This Happened Here: The Fascist Trump Presidency as Living American History
Counterpunch, 1.21.2022 To speak of “fascism” in American political discourse has long been one of the great taboos of political life – the wise opinion-leaders ritually insisting that this nefarious reference, like dictatorship, tyranny, and [...]