The Paul Street Report, 9.29.2022 War and Spy Masters for Democracy It’s instructive to look behind the veil of people that liberal media bring forward as champions of democracy on cable news. Look at some of the imperial war and spy masters that MSNBC has long featured in denouncing the crimes of Donald Trump and [...]
The Paul Street Report, 9.19.2022 Impunity feeds on itself. The more a transgressor gets away with the more he feels emboldened to transgress again. And the more he transgresses without punishment the more others in the same mold feel free to transgress. It Still Walks Free Take the cases of the orange-hued fascist maniac and [...]
The Paul Street Report, 9.15.2022 So, are they really going to get Trump, at long last? Donald J. Trump, that is. You know, the textbook malignant narcissist and no-so “semi-” fascist ex-president who tried to subvert and cancel the 2020 presidential election, who has three-fourths of the nation’s Republicans preposterously believing that the last election [...]
CounterPunch, 9-7-2022 Some Serious Soul-foolishness Joe Biden’s big speech last week to save the nation’s soul from the “MAGA Republicans” was (of course) deeply flawed. His reference to the United States as “the greatest nation on Earth” has long been contradicted by a giant mass of data on US inequality, poverty, health, violence, incarceration, and much more. [...]
CounterPunch, 9.9.2022 Two weeks ago, the leading mainstream political journal The Hill ran a story titled “Threats to Democracy Top List of Issues Facing US: Poll.” The lead ran as follows: “Threats to democracy clocked in as the most important issue facing the country for a plurality of registered voters, according to an NBC News poll. The poll found [...]
CounterPunch, 9.2.2022 There’s Nothing “Semi-” About It The term “semi-fascism” has entered US American political discourse courtesy of Joe Biden two Thursdays ago. “What we’re seeing now,” Biden told Democratic donors in Maryland on the evening of August 25th, “is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy. It’s not just Trump, it’s [...]
CounterPunch, 8.26.2022 A year and half after the attempted physical coup that marked the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, I am still lectured by certain older white and male “leftists” on how it is childish wolf-crying to say that a fascist menace stalks the United States. The lectures hold that “the American ruling class is [...]
CounterPunch, 8.19.2022 Liberals and moderates complain endlessly about the awfulness of Trumpian Republifascists in their families, workplaces, and communities and of course in United States politics. It’s understandable given the boundless vicious stupidity of the Trump era Amerikaners – the vast mass of MAGAts whose demented voices are so disproportionately over-represented in.US politics thanks to the right-tilted Minority Rule [...]
CounterPunch, 8.18.2022 So eager to please, peer pressure decrees Chickenshit conformist like your parents – Dead Kennedys, “Bedtime for Democracy,” 1986 I have no clue… – David Brooks, August 11, 2022 The Scary Orange Victim Narrative The Republican New York Times moralist David Brooks is such a chickenshit conformist. Last Thursday, Brooks responded to the Justice Department and FBI’s [...]
CounterPunch, 8.12.2022 Never underestimate the cynical, fascism-complicit depravity of the dismal, disingenuous and dollar-drenched Dems – the Weimar Democratic Party of “inauthentic opposition” and passive resistance. It’s bad enough that Democrats function as the Republi-fascists’ enabling partner in numerous ways (see this, this, this, and this): demobilizing the majority working-class non-Republican electorate though cringing subordination to corporate, financial, and [...]