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CounterPunch was founded in 1994 on a simple principle: independent journalism must be accountable only to its readers. For more than 30 years, that has remained unchanged. We have no corporate sponsors, no government funding, and no support from foundations with strings attached. Our allegiance is solely to our readers. But these are unprecedented times – the game has changed on a massive scale. In the early days, we occasionally faced lawsuits, but our most persistent enemy was errant mail machines, which would chew off corners or crumple the newsletters. Welcome to the 2020s: we’re up against virtual BOTS. Daily. Hourly. Bots harvesting the CounterPunch archives. Bots attacking our ecommerce. Bots trying to find a way in to take us down.

Then there are the intentional hackers who want to disable the website. But the biggest enemy of all: those who want to see the left media dissipate into ancient history, and........

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