Counterpunch, August 20, 2020 Record-Setting Absurdity and Mendacity The malignant fascist sociopath Donald Trump lies so voluminously and absurdly that many Americans will believe he said or Tweeted almost anything, no matter how offensive and ridiculous. Every few months for the last three years I’ve been making up off-the-wall Trump statements and sending them out [...]
Counterpunch, August 14, 2020 Hollow Resistance: The Antidote to Obama Nostalgia Syndrome The deadly ObamaLust Virus is ironically intensified by the fascist Amerikaner presidency the corporate-imperial Barack Obama helped hatch and empower. Here is an antidote that has passed with flying colors through all the testing trials: Paul Street, Hollow Resistance: Obama, Trump, and the Politics [...]
Tired of reading Paul Street? Listen to him instead! Rising Up with Sonali (Kolhatkar), Pacifica Radio and Free Speech TV, September 24, 2020: https://vimeo.com/461576221, September 24, 2020. Counterpunch Radio with Eric Draitser, October 2, 2020: https://store.counterpunch.org/category/counterpunch-radio-podcasts/ Green and Red with Bob Buzzanco and Scott Parkin, October 2, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CP4BPPzh9I&fbclid=IwAR3Ll2mG-XeHWZPnmwspsv2KWuRvfhb0aJYjjDzxKD0Ejk6YwBvFCT9WvIA Rob Johnson, Institute for New Economic [...]
Stolen Poker Chips Still in Play Don’t get me wrong. I have long felt that there is considerable justice in the demand for the payment of reparations to the American black community in (at best pathetically partial) compensation for the two-century plus crime of North American black chattel slavery, whose savage legacy continues until this [...]
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (New York: New Press, 2010). Early in her courageous and important new book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (New York: New Press, 2010), Ohio State University law professor Michelle Alexander offers a painful and poignant memory from [...]