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Dystopia Nears

Jan 10, 2025 | counterpunch.org | Paul Street

Who needs dystopian political science fiction in Amerika today? Real time nonfiction feels dystopian enough. The other morning I was awakened by the sound of Interstate 80, two miles north. The constant dull shrieks of the trucks merges into one never-ending scream of engines and tires. This death roar can be heard in every corner of this country.
Manufacturing Consent 101: The New York Times and "What [NOT] to Know" About the Genocide in Gaza

Jan 3, 2025 | counterpunch.org | Paul Street

Listen for the silences in the imperialist press. Last Saturday’s New York Times included a story it billed online as “What to Know About Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis.”The Times relayed some of the horrific suffering being inflicted on the people of Gaza. It reported that Israel’s bombs have “turned [Gazan] cities into rubble-filled wastelands” and displaced 90% of Gaza’s population.
It’s Not About What Class Your From: It’s About What Class System You Serve

Dec 27, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Paul Street

New York Times columnist Bret Stephens recently published a widely read that Brian Thompson, the United Health Group insurance CEO that Luigi Mangione assassinated, is the “real working-class hero” in the story of Thompson’s murder. By Stephen’s reckoning, Thompson and not Mangione deserves the label because the murder victim came from a working-class family of origin and his killer comes from an elite background and possesses Ivy League degrees.
Capitalists Should Be Removed From All Our Systems, Not Just Health Care

Dec 19, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Paul Street

Imagine that your household was regularly broken into by a sadist who systemically beat-up everyone in your home. He’d start by punching folks in the stomach. Then he’d smack people on the both sides of their heads. Then he’d kick your legs out from underneath you and pound you all on your backs and necks before kicking you all in the jaw and punching your noses. The Paul Street Report is a reader-supported publication.
Why Luigi is Not a Hero at FOX but Kyle Is

Dec 12, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Paul Street

Fatherland/FOX News and the post-republican Republican party of the insurrectionist Donald “Poisoning Our Blood” Trump embrace the legitimacy and necessity of political violence. They look forward to the Trump’s pardoning of fascist thugs who tried to carry out a Trump-sparked coup on January 6, 2021.
Adam Gopnik’s “Going There With Donald Trump” Eight and a Half Years Later

Nov 29, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Paul Street

The idea that it can be bounded in by honest conservatives in a Cabinet or restrained by normal constitutional limits is unsupported by history. — Adam Gopnik, “Going There With Donald Trump,” The New Yorker, May 11, 2016“It Can Happen Here”In May of 2016, after the Monster of Mar a Lago secured the Republican presidential nomination for the first time, the liberal New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik published a brilliant and early essay on the nominee’s fascism.
Capitulation: The Weimar Dems on Bended Knee

Nov 22, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Paul Street

Behold the craven post-election capitulation of the dismal Weimar Democrats to the Hitler-channeling fascist Donald “Poisoning Our Blood” Trump.
Trump, the Dems, and the "Seven Stages of Grief"

Nov 15, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Paul Street

The crushing defeat of the dismal Democratic Party (DDP) by the fascist Republican Party (FRP) across the two elected branches of the United States federal government – the presidency and Congress – ten days ago Tuesday (the fascists already had a super-majority lock on the un-elected Supreme Court atop the third and final branch) has thrown many of the vanquished party’s leaders, spokespersons, and supporters into different parts of what the medical community calls “the seven stages of...
Ten Principles for the Coming Resistance to MAGA

Oct 18, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Paul Street

The entire US system must be dismantled if burning children in a hospital is the lesser evil. – Hadi Nasrallah, October 15, 2024Note to readers: The author is aware that the coming election’s outcome is uncertain and that Kamala Harris could squeak out a highly contested victory in a process that seems likely to include and elicit considerable political violence.
Manufacturing Enurement to the End of the World

Oct 11, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Paul Street

The country has seemingly chosen not to be prepared as much as grow inured. -David Wallace-Wells, “Sleeping Through Hurricane Helene,” New York Times, October 2, 2024Live-streamed genocide inflicted by Israel and its sugar daddy the United States in Gaza, replete with regular images of dead Palestinian children being pulled from the rubble produced by American-made bombs, and now a vicious Israel-US assault on Lebanon possibly spiraling into a mass murderous regional war across the Middle East?