CounterPunch, 2, 24, 2023, The Paul Street Report, 2, 25, 2023 Here we are one year after Russia’s blood-drenched invasion of Ukraine, the country that has always been the leading tripwire for a global nuclear war in the post-Soviet era. The subsequent United States (US)-Russia proxy war that has unfolded and escalated there is a [...]
The Paul Street Report, January 26-March 2, 2023 Call me an American revolutionary Marxist, socialist, and/ or communist. Just don’t tell me I’m “on the [US-American] left.” Part of the problem here is that the dominant US media politics culture has let the neo-McCarthyite right dilute the term “the left” so far as to mean [...]
The Paul Street Report 2.23.2023; CounterPunch, 3.1.2-23 Let’s have a look at the latest development in the Christian fascist Amerikaner campaign to re-impose the full pre-Roe v.Wade female bondage of forced motherhood, paying special attention to the sickening “Weimar” role of the Democratic Party and its allied “choice” organizations/NGOs. Recall how the dismal Dems and their [...]
The Paul Street Report, 2.20.2023 Thinking about the problem of US-Amerikan fascisation, my mind often conjures the notion of an ailing person who finally goes to the doctor for a check-up long after cancer has spread across much of their body. The fascist malignancy is already horribly present in the US body politic. There are [...]
The Paul Street Report, 2.17.2023 Eighty-six House Democrats were right to reject the insane United States House of Representatives resolution that denounced the alleged “horrors of socialism” two weeks ago. The measure was introduced by a far-right Florida representative and backed by the entire Republikaner House caucus. It is yet another sign that the Republican [...]
The Paul Street Report, 2.13.2023 Here are four overlapping forms of denialism in US-American political life today: denial of how militantly authoritarian/fascist the Republican Party has become; denial of how undemocratic the US political system is; denial of how determined the Republi-fascist “Amerikaners” (I’ll explain my use of this term below) are to defy majority [...]
The Paul Street Report, 2.8.2023 I have been told by liberals and progressives that the nation’s leading strikebreaker Joe Biden “knocked it out of the park” with his State of the Union Address last night. It was “Joe’s FDR moment,” marked by populist attacks on the under-taxed super-rich, a defense of Social Security and Medicare, [...]
CounterPunch, 2.3.2023 There is no end of parliamentary cretinism among the liberals. + Lenin, 1912 The dispossessed of this nation – the poor, both White and Negro – live in a cruelly unjust society. They must organize a revolution against that injustice. + Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967 And so a leader who arguably owes his presidency to [...]
The Paul Street Report, 1.30.2023 Ask yourself: how long are you willing to put up with this?… This country's police continue to kill more and more and more people, every single year… Even for a unit full of Black cops, the humanity of Black people counts as nothing. Because… THIS IS AMERICA. THIS is the [...]
CounterPunch, 1.27.2023 “It seems to be easier for us today to imagine the thoroughgoing deterioration of the earth and then of nature than the breakdown of late capitalism” – Fredric Jameson, The Seeds of Time, 1994 What kind of culture is it which pushes distraction, in its ordinary selection even of news, to the point where [...]