July 19, 2024 The Biden Exit plan is underway. As reporting from NBC today shows, Joe Biden and his family are moving through the grieving process over the coming conclusion of his campaign for a second term. In order to induce the declining old man Biden to admit that he’s a catastrophic loser bringing down [...]
CounterPunch, 4.10.2023 “Fascists, Fascists!”: Racial and Political Eliminationism in Tennessee Even as the Republi-fascist Party regularly and absurdly excoriates the Democrats as “socialist” and “Marxists” (supposedly terrible things to be), Democrats can hardly ever bring themselves to reasonably call the Republican Party fascist. Sometimes, however, young folks say out loud the fascist nature of the [...]
The Paul Street Report, 4.8.2023 It’s easy to dismiss the fascist menace stalking the United States by focusing on the outrageous wackiness and buffoonery of national-level Republi-fascist politicos like the Republicans’ leading 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump, his US House of Representatives friends Marjorie Taylor-Greene (MTG), Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, and Lauren Boebert, and national [...]
CounterPunch, 4.7.2023 *As I tried to finish this this essay Thursday afternoon, I kept being distracted by the spectacle of the Republi-controlled state legislature of Tennessee potentially and likely carrying out the expulsion of three democratically elected representatives: a Black man from Nashville, a Black man from Memphis, and a white woman from Knoxville. The [...]
The Paul Street Report, 4.6.2023 Dear readers: Two things: (1) as I put this essay up I am watching the Republi-fascist-controlled state legislature of Tennessee potentially and likely carrying out the expulsion of three democratically elected representatives: a Black man from Nashville, a Black man from Memphis, and a white woman from Knoxville. The representatives’ [...]
The Paul Street Report, 4.4.2023 The Capitalist Democrats… The Democratic Party is a militantly capitalist entity and always has been – and not just in the neoliberal era. The much beloved New Deal Democratic president Franklin Roosevelt, himself a wealthy member of the capitalist establishment, boasted that he had saved the US American profits system by overseeing [...]
The Paul Street Report, April 3, 2023 Today’s essay is adapted and expanded from an antiwar speech I gave at an antiwar rally held by the Revolution Club of Chicago yesterday. The title is taken from one of the main slogans advanced at this rally and march, which faced off in Chicago’s Millennium Park with [...]
CounterPunch+, 4.2.2023 The most remarkable thing about the news related to the historic indictment of Donald “Take Down the Metal Detectors” Trump by a New York state grand jury in Manhattan last Thursday afternoon so far is the unhinged nature of reaction from the Republi-fascist (Rf) Party. From House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Rf-CA) to House Majority Leader [...]
The Paul Street Report, 3.30.2023 “You want a woman to carry around a dead fetus as she goes septic? That’s your vision of freedom for the state of Florida? That’s despicable…Where is the uprising? Where is the outrage? Where are people…Why aren’t all the women walking out and saying ‘fuck you’?” - Florida Senate Minority [...]
CounterPunch, 3.31.2023 Recently I was slightly surprised to hear an old Marxist friend and Bernie Sanders fan declare her “unqualified love” for Charles Dickens. I’m no great fan of the anti-communist snitch George Orwell, but the future author of 1984 got it right on the famous and much-adored 19th Century British novelist in a 1940 essay that properly ridiculed the then [...]