Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
Racial Oppression Will Not be Overcome Under Capitalism
Counterpunch, 4-16-2021 Much of America’s chatterbox class is aghast at the authoritarian racism on ugly display on the white-nationalist Amerikaner FOX News right. The Don Lemons, Anderson Coopers, Rachel Maddows, and Joy Reids et al. [...]
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 [...]