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Are You On a Secret TSA Watchlist?

In 1999, the Supreme Court recognized in that the “‘constitutional right to travel from one State to another’ is firmly embedded in our...

yesterday 10

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James Bovard

No Fascist USA

The post No Fascist USA appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

yesterday 10

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Joshua Frank

Great American Anti-Fascists

I always scoffed at “First They Came,” the often quoted, 1946 poem by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller. There are several versions of...

yesterday 10

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Stephen F. Eisenman

Celebrating Lenny Bruce’s 100th Birthday: “The World is Sick and I’m the Doctor”

At the time of his death, Bruce was blacklisted by almost every venue in the United States, as owners feared that they too would be arrested for...

yesterday 10

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Bruce E. Levine

The More Americans See of Trump’s Immigration Crackdown, The Less They Like It

For a nation of immigrants, the Trump administration’s attacks on immigration are nothing short of heartbreaking. Each day, we’re seeing neighbors ...

yesterday 10

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Alliyah Lusuegro

Roaming Charges: United States of Emergency

The fatal flaw in Donald Trump's scheme to whitewash American history of its most depraved and embarrassing episodes is that his administration is...

yesterday 10

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Jeffrey St. Clair

A History of Deception: US-Israeli Pacts and the Gaza Proposal

The history of Zionism is fundamentally one of deception. This assertion is critically relevant today, as it contextualizes the so-called ‘Trump...

yesterday 10

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Ramzy Baroud

Eating Global Warming

A new report by EAT-Lancet Commission (EAT 2.0) explains how we are eating global warming, and what to do about it. This is the second go around by...

yesterday 10

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Robert Hunziker

As Chair of the Gaza Peace Board, “King Donald” Should Not Be Allowed to Expand His Domain

Now that Donald Trump has secured domination in the United States with control of both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court, similar foreign...

yesterday 30

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Daniel Warner

Trump Wants Martial Law: A Report and Reflections from Chicago

Chicago is now ground zero in the Trump fascist regime’s assault on democracy, the rule of law, social justice, decency, and the common good....

yesterday 30

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Paul Street

From Turtle Island to Palestine w/ Ramzy Baroud and Janene Yazzie

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, we are excited to present a panel discussion featuring Ramzy Baroud and Janene Yazzie, which took place last...

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Estranged Realities: Israel and the Global Sumud Flotilla

Showing that cloddishness that we have come to expect from them, Israel’s detention of the activists on the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) was a...

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Binoy Kampmark

Self Determination is Black Liberation

In his book The Return of Black Nationalism and the Death of White Supremacy, Vincent Adejumo defines Black power as self-determination: “What...

previous day 30

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Ron Jacobs

Elon Musk Should Pay the Same Social Security Tax That You Do

My life goals have never included making a lot of money… and I’ve certainly succeeded in that regard. Yet I do consider myself rich. Not Wall...

previous day 10

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Jim Hightower

Trump’s Everywhere War: An Insurrection Against the Constitution

When the government can label anyone or anything an enemy in order to wage war, we are all in danger. That danger is no longer theoretical. In the...

previous day 10

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John W. Whitehead – Nisha Whitehead

Privatizing the VA Will be a Disaster for Rural Vets

James Jones is a 54-year-old disabled Army veteran. After four years of active duty and four in the reserves, Jones says he has a “multitude” of...

previous day 10

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Steve Early - Suzanne Gordon

The Trump Gaza Plan & the Politics of Coercion

In this interview, international legal scholar Richard Falk breaks down Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan. He discusses its coercive nature and the politics...

previous day 10

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Daniel Falcone – Richard Falk

On Liberal White Supremacy and the Democratic Party: A Response to Ezra Klein’s Call for “Big-Tent” Politics

I argue in my book, Liberal White Supremacy: How Progressives Silence Racial and Class Oppression, that the divides among the political left can be...

previous day 10

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Angie Beeman

Christian Nationalism is Neither Christian Nor Patriotic

His memorial may be over, but the message is not. The political assassination of Charlie Kirk was a tragedy and reminder that political...

previous day 10

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Rev. Dr. Caleb Lines - Rev. Dr. Mark Sandlin

Ten Exercises You Can Do to Resist Fascism

1. NAME IT U.S. Fascism is not sneaking up on us, it is here, manifest in Trump’s authoritarian decrees; mass deportations, firings, and government...

previous day 10

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Ben Rosenfeld

The Return of the KKK?

Pres. Donald Trump is imposing a right-wing political ideology and practice that increasingly resembles what Christ Hedges has dubbed “Christian...

wednesday 10

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David Rosen

MAGA Men, Rage, and the Road to Nowhere

One strangely hot November afternoon, I waited for my elementary-school-aged kids to arrive at their bus stop. The quiet in our rural area was...

wednesday 1

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Andrea Mazzarino

Explosive Nuclear Weapons Testing, the CTBT, NewSTART and the Doomsday Clock

Donald Trump feigned ignorance about Project 2025 during the last presidential campaign. Since Trump’s election, the 900-page blueprint for a...

wednesday 20

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Mark Muhich

Are We Waking Up Fast Enough to the Dangers of AI Militarism?

AI is everywhere these days. There’s no escape. And as geopolitical events appear to spiral out of control in the Ukraine and Gaza, it seems clear...

wednesday 20

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Tom Valovic

Fighting for Fair and Fast Contracts

Nearly 10,000 Michigan nurses at Corewell Health East voted to unionize in November 2024, forming Teamsters Local 2024. It was the easiest...

wednesday 10

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Sarah Johnson – Jason Fratangelo

Gaza and the Iranian Domino

With the bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites at Natanz, Isfahan, and Fordow, the United States risked becoming “plugged … into some of the fiercest...

wednesday 7

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Mir Alikhan

America is Overdue for a General Strike

“May Day 2028 will be the defining moment of our generation,” United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain declared in a recent Jacobin essay. That...

wednesday 7

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A.j. Schumann

General Pinochet and the Vans of Death

Pinochet and his generals. Detail from the cover of 38 Londres Street. Early in the afternoon of March 24, 1999, my wife, Angélica, and I were...

wednesday 8

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Ariel Dorfman

Will Teachers Save Our Democracy?

With nearly every day presenting more evidence of America’s eroding democracy, it’s understandable to wonder whether a countervailing force will...

wednesday 8

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Jeff Bryant

Italy In Revolt: Mass Protests Spread Throughout Europe and the Genocide in Gaza Continues

After the general strike on the 22nd of September, the mass uprising for an end to the genocide in Gaza, for an end to the Italian government’s...

wednesday 3

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Michael Leonardi

Pure Evil

I haven’t seen a family friend, Steve, for a few decades, but we’ve kept up a conversation over the past several years. Steve recently returned to...

07.10.2025 10

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Howard Lisnoff

The Second Coming: Our Metamorphosis

My friend the late Very Rev. James R. Morton, Dean of the cathedral of St John the Divine in New York City, declared that “Ecology is the science...

07.10.2025 3

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Dr. Michael Fox

Between Myth and Muzzle: Press Freedom in the US and UK

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple,” wrote Oscar Wilde. That observation holds true for press freedom on both sides of the Atlantic. The US...

07.10.2025 20

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Peter Bach

Green Capitalism in the Americas: False Solutions, Real Threats

In the Americas, old forms of extractivism and accumulation are being rebranded under the guise of “green” development. But beneath the surface,...

07.10.2025 10

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Sabrina Fernandes – Breno Bringel 

In the Autumn of America’s Empire

In his novel The Autumn of the Patriarch, which is eerily evocative of our current political plight, Gabriel Garcia Marquez described how a Latin...

07.10.2025 5

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Alfred W. Mccoy

“We Will Blow You Out of Existence:” Trump’s Caribbean Spectacle

On 23 September 2025, US President Donald Trump delivered a dramatic address, explicitly threatening those allegedly involved in drug trafficking...

07.10.2025 2

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Carlos Ron

Resistance and Reckoning: The Student Movement for Palestinian Liberation and the Future of American Civil Liberties

At the time of this report, over 3,100 students and faculty at American universities have been arrested at protests since October 7 in support of...

07.10.2025 10

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Aliya Bashir

America’s Bread and Circuses: Faux Populism and the Spectacle of Control

It is not unusual to hear America’s talking heads—those oracles of the 24-hour news cycle and syndicated radio chatter—invoke the specter of...

07.10.2025 8

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William Matthew Mccarter

What is It: Peace Plan or Ultimatum?

The Washington Post and its leading national security columnist, David Ignatius, have labeled the so-called “peace plan” for Gaza the “real deal.” ...

07.10.2025 20

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Melvin Goodman

Two Years of Genocide in Gaza, Seventy-Seven Years of Denial

Following the revolt of the besieged against their jailors on October 7, 2023, the Zionist hasbara machine mobilized across the world to impose a...

06.10.2025 2

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Jamal Kanj

Health Care Cost Growth Slowed Sharply After Obamacare

The Trump gang, who invented pet-eating immigrants to help win the election, are also inventing crazy stories about Obamacare wrecking the health...

06.10.2025 2

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Dean Baker

The American Nakba

Silencing Dissent on U.S. Campuses to Gaza’s Streets Desperate to silence dissent and critics of Israel, the Trump Administration made its appeal...

06.10.2025 3

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Jonathan Urmeneta

Displacement: An Inherent Problem of a Divided World

More than 120 million people have been displaced from their homes due to war, climate change, political instability, and oppression in the past few...

06.10.2025 10

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David Gallup

The Dangers of Misleading Statements on Acetaminophen

When President Donald Trump adamantly proclaimed in a press conference on Sept. 22, 2025, that pregnant women should not take Tylenol, I...

06.10.2025 1

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Tami S. Rowen

The Trump ‘Peace Plan’ is Itself a War Crime 

Much has been written and debated since Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu jointly unveiled Trump’s 20-point ‘peace plan’ earlier this week. As of...

06.10.2025 9

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Jeff Cohen – Richard Eskow

Putin’s UnPeaceful Atom

Russian Dictator Vladimir Putin last week eagerly confirmed that all “Peaceful Atom” nuclear power plants are fair game for military destruction...

06.10.2025 10

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Karl Grossman - Harvey Wasserman

Teamster Head Sean O’Brien vs. Everybody

Teamsters’ union General President Sean O’Brien will be speaking at the annual convention Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) this coming...

06.10.2025 10

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Joe Allen