Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
A 9/11 Reflection: Remember “Their” Crimes, Forget “Ours”
Counterpunch, September 11, 2021 So much we are supposed to forget or not know and/or care about, so little we are supposed to remember. “We must never forget” 9/11, when “America was attacked” (when, as [...]
Reflections on a Double Standard: the Right Absurdly Calls Democrats Socialists, but Liberals Can’t Correctly Call the Right Fascist
Counterpunch, 8.31.2021 I hope I am not the only one who has noticed a curious double-standard in American media-politics culture: right wing politicians and commentators are free to inaccurately and routinely describe corporate Democrats as “socialists,” [...]
Things Have Changed
Counterpunch, 8.27.2021 The near octogenarian Joe Biden may well already be toast. He is on the economy and COVID-19 as the white supremacist Amerikaner Party of Trump (the APoT, formerly known as the Republican Party) [...]
Eight Key Points on America’s Defeat in Afghanistan
Counterpunch, 8.24.2021 The humiliating defeat of the American Empire in Afghanistan – replete with “near identical images” of frantic evacuation helicopters atop a US Embassy as in Saigon in 1975 – poses a dilemma for [...]