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Civil War on the Horizon? The Ashkenazi-Sephardic Conflict and Israel’s Future

The phrase “civil war” is one of the most dominant terms used by Israeli politicians today. What began as a mere warning from Israeli President...

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Ramzy Baroud

The Tenderloin: A People’s History of San Francisco’s Most Notorious Neighborhood

“Any city that doesn’t have a Tenderloin isn’t a city at all” – Herb Caen, longtime San Francisco Chronicle columnist Few San Francisco...

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Steve Early

Why More Environmental Justice Organizations Must Join the Call for a Militarism-Free Future

As the world braces for another Earth Day, the environmental justice movement is at a critical juncture. While much of the climate conversation...

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Aaron Kirshenbaum - Melissa Garriga

Musk’s Social Security Administration Cuts: Longer Wait Times, More People Will Die Waiting for Disability Benefits

Minority Staff Report, United States Senate, SUBCOMMITTEE ON SOCIAL SECURITY, PENSIONS, AND FAMILY POLICY, Bernie Sanders, Ranking Member, March...

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Bernie Sanders

That’s Somebody Else’s Car

“Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations”  Nikola Tesla wrote in 1905, “invariably result from misunderstandings in the...

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Thomas Knapp

Plastics in the World’s Oceans and Food:  No Longer an Invisible Killer

In recent years, heart-rending images of dead or dying sea mammals and fish, their stomachs stuffed with plastic, have shocked citizens around the...

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Stewart Lawrence

Trump and His Impossible Return to the Past

The radical return to protectionism is not only possible but necessary for an empire facing an undeniable decline. It has been denounced by...

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Atilio A. Borón

Wouldn’t It Be Better, Cheaper Just to Rent Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and Panama?

President Trump’s latest hint of using the U.S. military to annex Greenland if its leaders and 55,772 (2025) violently disagree (anti-U.S...

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Barbara G. Ellis

Why “Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace” Advocates Cling to Genocide Denial

Israel’s renewed assault on Gaza comes several months after both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued reports concluding without...

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Norman Solomon

Secrecy and Virtue Signalling: Another View of Signalgate

There has been a fascinating, near unanimous condemnation among the cognoscenti about the seemingly careless addition of Jeffrey Goldberg of The...

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Binoy Kampmark

The Fruits of Trump Tariffs: Closer Ties Between Canada and China

With Donald Trump seemingly determined to push the US economy on a path towards autarky, our major trading partners will need to make alternative...

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Dean Baker

Can Our Richest Dodge the Climate-Change Bullet?

So where do you see yourself living the rest of your life? The richest among us are keeping their options all open. On the one hand, our deepest...

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Sam Pizzigati

The Washington Post’s David Ignatius Remains the Leading Apologist for the CIA

For the past 20 years, the Washington Post’s David Ignatius has been the mainstream media’s leading apologist for the Central Intelligence Agency,...

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Melvin Goodman

The Costs of Trump’s War on Federal Workers

The second administration of President Donald J. Trump has already started working its special magic across the Washington, D.C. capital region....

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Andrea Mazzarino

How Trump Could Try to Stay in Power After His Second Term Ends

President Donald Trump told an NBC interviewer on March 30, 2025, that he was “not joking” about a third term as president, despite such a term...

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Philip Klinkner

Bernie’s Memory Needs a Tune Up

Senator Bernie Sanders has been holding public meetings about what he calls “Fighting Oligarchy.” There is much good about this. At the same time,...

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Nate Holdren

Who Pays the Price for the Return of German Militarism?

Driven by geopolitical interests and the scramble for resources, the Ukrainian conflict has already claimed countless lives and displaced millions....

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Peter Mertens

The Collapse of Liberalism

I attended Rashid Khalidi's course, History of the Modern Middle East, 20 years ago and still think about it. Amid Columbia's sea of polished and...

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Joshua Sperber

Freedom of Speech: Keeping Sanity Alive

Freedom of speech is kind of like eggs nowadays – too expensive! For Columbia University, the cost imposed on it by the Trump administration was...

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Robert Koehler

Netanyahu’s War on Israeli Institutions

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is waging a war on many fronts.  He has ended the tense ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza in spectacularly...

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Binoy Kampmark

Five Alarm Fire on SignalGate

Sorry to step away from my usual economics beat, but this is important. And to be clear, I am not at all a fan of the war on the Houthis, but that...

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Dean Baker

Surviving a Political Dark Age

The news of Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest surprised me. It’s not that I doubted the former leader of the Philippines was guilty of the horrific crimes...

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John Feffer

Another Heinous War Crime: Israeli Army Kills 15 First Responders in Gaza

In yet another brazen war crime, the Israeli army has murdered eight medics, six civil defense responders, and a United Nations employee. The...

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Jamal Kanj

How Worker-Owned News Outlets Are Changing the Media Industry

The arrival of COVID-19 in the United States kicked off an ongoing period of job insecurity within the media industry. In April 2020, the New York...

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Damon Orion

Fascism in the United States?

Many Americans felt anxious and fearful about the Trump administration long before it assumed power in January. Three months after Trump’s...

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Michael Slager

Dr. Kildare, He Dead

Dr Kildare is dead. The actor who played him in the series during the 1960s, Richard Chamberlain–and who I met briefly on a plane ride from LA to...

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Fawzia Afzal-Khan

Lost Sons: On the Release of 10-year Hostages Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed

Amidst the orchestrated, ceremonial releases of the October 7th Israeli hostages from Gaza, we also witnessed the freeing of Avera Mengistu, an...

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Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt - P.

The Passing of Ted Beedy, a Visonary Ornithologist

At a time when nihilistic bullies glory in doing perverse damage to the environment and to our ability to think and learn about the environment, it...

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Bill Julian – Robin Robin Kulakow

The Passing of Ted Beedy, a Visionary Ornithologist

At a time when nihilistic bullies glory in doing perverse damage to the environment and to our ability to think and learn about the environment, it...

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Bill Julian – Robin Robin Kulakow

Five Things Elon Musk Doesn’t Want You to Know About Social Security

Elon Musk’s DOGE has taken a particularly keen interest in Social Security – and not in a good way. Musk called the program  a Ponzi Scheme and has...

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Dean Baker

The Illusion of Ceasefires

Israel has resumed its aerial bombardment of Gaza. The latest ceasefire, which lasted two months and led to the release of 33 Israeli hostages and...

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John Feffer

The Real Outrage in Yemen

Beginning in March of 2017 and for the following eight years, at 11:00 a.m. on every Saturday morning, a group of New Yorkers has assembled in...

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Kathy Kelly

Shirley DuBois and Scholars of Color Resistance Efforts Parallel 2025 Visa Struggles

March 27, 2025, marked 48 years since the death of Shirley Graham DuBois, the prominent African American writer, scholar, and social activist. She...

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Daniel Falcone

The Only Minority Destroying This Country Are Billionaires, Bernie. Not Migrants.

Terminus, the Roman god of borders and boundary stones, had a motto: I Yield to No One. In the old days, lambs and piglets died in blood sacrifices...

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Lee Hall

Islamic Ninja Fighters and the Syrian Janus

The face is a mirror of the mind. Ovid The General Security Administration in Syria has issued an executive order prohibiting its personnel from...

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Osama Esber

War, Doublethink, and the Struggle for Survival: Geopolitics of the Gaza Genocide

In a genocidal war that has spiraled into a struggle for political survival, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition and the global...

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Ramzy Baroud

The Vast Gaza Death Undercount

The vast undercount of Israeli-caused deaths in Gaza is regularly reported as 50,000. The actual toll from violent military action and the indirect...

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Ralph Nader

Senator Whitehouse and Congresswoman Dean Introduce the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act

On Thursday, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Representative Madeleine Dean reintroduced the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act in the U.S....

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Carole King - Mike Garrity

Shadows of Empire: Africa and the Middle East’s Struggle Against Foreign Oppression

The struggle of Africa and the Middle East against foreign oppression did not end with the fall of colonial empires. Instead, it evolved into new...

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Abubakar Isah

Diagramming the Contradiction

The post Diagramming the Contradiction appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

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Elliot Sperber

As Nuke Power Dies, Lithium Must Not Be the New Plutonium

Atomic Energy’s death spiral has spawned a run to green power. But the toxic mineral lithium has become a critical pitfall…with clear ways around...

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Harvey Wasserman

Columbia’s Profile in Cowardice is Nothing New

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Pete Dolack

Yemen in Flames: From Depraved Spectacle to SignalGate

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Troy Nahumko

Lisette’s Brother Is in Prison

Recently in New York State, prison guards, largely to counter media exposés of their brutalities—like the beating death of Robert Brooks at Marcy...

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Susie Day