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The Roading of the Last Wild Places

The Trump administration is plotting to undo a quarter-century of policy for the protection of national forests against new road building. This is...

yesterday 10

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Christopher Ketcham

How Zohran Mamdani’s Video Team Reinvented the Visual Art of Political Conversation and Storytelling

Drawing from sources as audacious as Bernie Sanders, to the savvy street-smarts of a New York City film production team, Mamdani has given voice to...

yesterday 9

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Stclair

The UN Turns 80, a Critical Age for People and the UN’s Relevance

Amid the brouhaha over Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Russia’s threatening drones in Poland, Israel’s now confirmed genocide in Gaza and aggression...

yesterday 9

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Daniel Warner

Censorship Is a Structural Problem: If We’re Blaming Presidents for Muzzling Comedians, Let’s Include Clinton Along with Trump

As corporate media accelerate their censorship of comedians and journalists, we must realize that we got to this dire situation because of old-...

yesterday 1

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Jeff Cohen

Senator Whitehouse: “It May Be Too Late”

It May Be Too Late is a climate change idiom that is gaining recognition because global warming is bringing the threat of irreversible climate...

yesterday 10

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Robert Hunziker

American History is Black History – We Will Not Be Erased

The Trump/MAGA/White Supremacist administration is ordering the removal of information and depictions of the era of slavery in the United States....

yesterday 40

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Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler

The Gaza Genocide: Another Massacre to Add to Britain’s List, With 15 Million Deaths Since 1945

Britain is no stranger to genocide. It has carried out many in the past, and today it is enabling another by being a willing participant in...

yesterday 20

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Paul Cochrane

Trump’s Destruction of the US Economy

Trump has created a crisis for U.S. agriculture with his Cold War weaponization of foreign trade with China and Russia, for manufacturing as a...

yesterday 10

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Michael Hudson

King on King: A Masque in Fog

Most Londoners had half-forgotten about Trump’s state visit until Air Force One touched down. The capital was that distracted by the Mandelson...

yesterday 10

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Peter Bach

The Senator, the Gold Mine and the Sundance Kid

My two journalistic encounters with Robert Redford both involved trout streams and internationally known professors of literature at the University...

yesterday 10

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Jeffrey St. Clair - Alexander Cockburn

Hoplophobes Say The Strangest Things

On September 10, Florida’s 1st District Court of Appeal looked at the state’s law against “open carry” of firearms, looked at the US Constitution’s...

previous day 1

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Thomas Knapp

Shrimp Sold at Walmart, Kroger and Elsewhere Across 29 States Recalled over Radioactive Contamination

In a story unprecedented in my memory, multiple cargo containers carrying shrimp from Indonesia to U.S. grocers were found contaminated with...

previous day 10

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John Laforge

Welcome to the Eros Effect, Gen Z

Nepal’s Gen Z uprising erupted suddenly and dispersed just as quickly, but it did not come out of nowhere, and it will certainly imprint what comes...

previous day 10

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George Katsiaficas

The Obstacles to India’s Superpower Ambition

A strong economy is essential for becoming a superpower, a proven historical formula. India is projected to be the world’s second-largest economy...

previous day 20

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L. Ali Khan

The Epstein Files and the 5-Count Felon Bank: The Untold Story

As the summer from hell fades to an anxious autumn, Americans’ worst dystopian nightmares have evolved into their daily reality. A 34-count felon,...

previous day 20

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Pam Martens - Russ Martens

The Truth and Fiction Regarding US Military Aggression toward Venezuela

On September 2, President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio separately reported that a U.S. attack on a small boat off Venezuela’s...

previous day 40

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W. T. Whitney

Trump Cannot Stop the Collapse of the Epstein Coverup

Epstein’s case exemplifies how federal law doesn’t apply to the financial elite. In 1970, Congress enacted the Bank Secrecy Act, making it a crime...

previous day 20

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James Bovard

In the Disunited States, Conflict and Uncertainty Rule – Time to Come Home

In the U.S. these are days of dread. The air is filled with uncertainty. What comes next? Who can tell? The states increasingly divide, signified...

previous day 10

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Patrick Mazza

Suspending Courses, Washing Delicates and Baking: A University Justifies Harming Staff and Students

These people are a charming, lynch worthy bunch.  In claiming they are short of cash, the managerial dunderheads at the University of Technology...

previous day 10

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Binoy Kampmark

A Tale of Two Charlies

Charles Edward Coughlin was an ultra-right Catholic priest, Christian nationalist and fascist sympathizer in the 1930s and 1940s. Although he began...

previous day 2

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Ron Jacobs

It is Genocide

Genocide is defined as actions taken with the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” The...

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Bernie Sanders

Cheap Advice for the Fed

The question for the Fed is whether it has to worry more about inflation or a weak labor market. Last week’s data indicate both are real concerns,...

wednesday 10

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Dean Baker

Farmers are in Trouble: How to Turn Things Around

Farmers may be the proverbial “canaries in the coal mine” when it comes to the effects of Trump’s grand tariff experiment. Point in fact – corn and...

wednesday 2

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Anthony Pahnke

How the Rich and Their Right-Wing Cronies Plot to Break Working People

John “Tiny” Powell grew up in a union household, attended school with other kids who hailed from union families, and learned early on that worker...

wednesday 3

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David Mccall

China’s Electric Vehicle Influence Expands Nearly Everywhere, Except the US and Canada

In 2025, 1 in 4 new automotive vehicle sales globally are expected to be an electric vehicle – either fully electric or a plug-in hybrid. That is a...

wednesday 10

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Jack Barkenbus

Flawed Assumptions About Wildfires Lead to Poor Public Policies

The starting assumption about wildfire that dominates public policy is that “fire suppression” has created abnormal “fuel build up” in forests,...

wednesday 2

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George Wuerthner

More Than a Boat: The Gaza Flotilla as a Symbol of a Growing Global Movement

One needs only to examine the actions and rhetoric of the Israeli government to fully appreciate the profound significance of the solidarity...

wednesday 6

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Ramzy Baroud

Stopping the Genocide Requires an Armed Protective Force

At this stage of the Gaza genocide, the Israelis’ ostensible goals are (a) to free the captives who remain in Gaza, all of whom are soldiers (that...

wednesday 10

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Stan Cox

CA Lawmakers Back Censorship Disguised as Antisemitism Prevention

Despite educator opposition to AB 715 (Zbur/Addis), the California Senate and Assembly passed a bill in the middle of the night on Saturday,...

wednesday 5

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Marcy Winograd

Five Theses on the Situation in Nepal

The crisis in Nepal escalated in early September, bringing down the center-right government of Prime Minister KP Oli. The immediate spur was the...

wednesday 5

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Vijay Prashad – Atul Chandra

Fakery Is Part of US Assault on Venezuela 

On September 2, President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio separately reported that a U.S. attack on a small boat off Venezuela’s...

wednesday 4

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W. T. Whitney

Housing Ethnic Cleansing: How Airbnb Legitimizes Occupation

It seems like just yesterday, I was on my school’s campus having meetings with administrators, voicing demands to cut ties with Israel. Whether...

16.09.2025 20

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Jenin M.

Yes, This is Who We Are: America’s 250-Year History of Political Violence

The day after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University, commentators repeated a familiar...

16.09.2025 10

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Maurizio Valsania

Racism Ain’t Punk w/ Punks Against Apartheid

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt talks with members of Punks Against Apartheid to discuss the history of the...

16.09.2025 1

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Counterpunch Radio

“Unity Not Trump’s Mission”: Any More Late-Breaking Bulletins from The New York Times?

Last Sunday’s New York Times featured the paper’s top White House correspondent Peter Baker’s late-breaking discovery that “In an Era of Deep...

16.09.2025 5

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Paul Street

Australia Excludes the Pacific Island Press Corps

Bullies, never able to hit upwards, always kick down.  The United States beats their vassals in the Indo-Pacific and Europe with vulgar...

16.09.2025 2

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Binoy Kampmark

Trump, Pulte, and Lisa Cook: Rich People Lie, Consequences are for Others

A few weeks back, Bill Pulte, the Federal Housing Finance Agency Director (FHFA) and the billionaire heir to a housing construction firm, claimed...

16.09.2025 5

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Dean Baker

Is Utopia Dead?

The concept of “utopia” has essentially disappeared from the American vocabulary.  Amidst all the 2024 electoral clamor and Donald Trump’s call...

16.09.2025 4

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David Rosen

How Student Loans Became America’s Financial Catastrophe

With the student debt crisis spiraling out of control, some media outlets have called it a “national emergency.” Outpacing most other borrowings by...

16.09.2025 3

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Alan Michael Collinge

Narco-State Myth Used to Attack Venezuela

A big Cadillac limo with Jersey plates was parked down the block. Few locals in East Harlem even owned cars, let alone new ones. Curious, I asked...

16.09.2025 2

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Roger Harris

The Wider Benefits of Choosing Life Off the Grid

So, is living off the grid worth it? If you asked me on that particular night, maybe not. If you asked me today, after not having had a power bill...

16.09.2025 2

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Ryan Mitchell’

Back to 1984?

“We’re No. 1 and they’re No. 2 in the world.” That was President Trump’s blunt assessment of global power politics when it came to the...

15.09.2025 6

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Michael T. Klare

The Doha Assassination Plot, Emergency Summit, and Trump’s Double-Cross

Last week’s failed assassination attempt of the Palestinian negotiating team in Doha, Qatar, raises critical questions that extend far beyond the...

15.09.2025 20

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Jamal Kanj

Manufacturing Excuses: Why Does David Ignatius Give Apologizing for Israeli Atrocities?

“Israel’s strike on Hamas’s political leadership in Qatar’s capital, aimed at forcing an end to the Gaza war, looks like a rare Israeli tactical...

15.09.2025 10

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Melvin Goodman

Japan and Korea Should Hand Money to their Exporters Rather than Donald Trump

Donald Trump has been boasting about his trade deals with Japan and Korea, where in exchange for buying down the taxes on their imports from 25...

15.09.2025 2

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Dean Baker

Brazil Reacts to Bolsonaro Verdict

On Thursday, one day earlier than planned, the first panel of the Brazilian Supreme Court* issued guilty verdicts for former President Jair...

15.09.2025 5

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Brian Mier

The Limits of India/China Rapprochement

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin offered the kind of optics global diplomacy excels at: smiling leaders, carefully...

15.09.2025 1

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Imran Khalid

Charlie Kirk: This Too Shall Pass, Unfortunately

If there’s one thing we should all be able to agree on, it’s that no one should be murdered for speaking. In the aftermath of Charlie “Prove Me...

15.09.2025 4

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Thomas Knapp

Strife

Prologue Writing about climate change / chaos in 2025 is like writing fiction or describing Eris / strife. Not that climate chaos is unreal or that...

15.09.2025 1

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Evaggelos Vallianatos

Nuke Power is Trump/Fascist Power…and an Epic Global Failure

Donald Trump has torched atomic power’s last illusion of credible regulation. He’s destroyed the last shreds of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory...

15.09.2025 10

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Karl Grossman - Harvey Wasserman