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Nicaragua’s co-president, Daniel Ortega finally came right out and said it: “Forget about it—there won’t be any more elections here!” He was...
Kalshi recently announced that it will offer gambling opportunities to bet on whether the FDA will approve individual drugs as reasonably safe and...
On July 19, 2026, in the working-class Pilastro neighborhood of Bologna, a 42-year-old Moroccan-origin man named Abderrahim Fakir died face-down on...
The State Department’s recent report alleging Cuba’s support for left-wing “terrorism” in the United States signals a chilling escalation, as...
On the right corner of my desk, next to my laptop and always in eyeshot, sits a metal model of an atom bomb I assembled from a kit, a model of...
Picture what is likely a typical day for most of us: the alarm on your smartphone rings in the morning. Your hand reaches out to tap the touchscreen...
Florida is the nation’s barometer of climate change. It’s on the cutting-edge of climate at latitude 24.5°N-to-31°N in-line with Egypt, Saudia...
One aspect of the current clash of civilizations that goes largely unnoticed in the US is that there is only one civilization, if we can call it that,...
On 22 July, the United States and Saudi Arabia signed what Washington calls a ‘peaceful nuclear cooperation agreement.’ The agreement has been...
John McWhorter is so valuable to the enemies of Blacks that he has survived wishing the president were assassinated. Or has he? I first heard of John...
In the studio, the visual artist may bring to the activity of picture making some awareness of the larger space outside the studio. Since Venice is a...
India wants to become the world’s next manufacturing superpower and an indispensable leader of the Global South. It seeks to attract global supply...
In prison, they call it count time, and every inmate has to be counted. In Florida, it feels like it happens all damn day. An officer steps into the...
In 1950, the match between Brazil and Uruguay was the final of the 1950 FIFA World Cup. In the final game of the tournament, Brazil needed only a draw...
A widening war After nearly three weeks of resumed warfare, it is safe to say not only that the cease-fire is over but so is the Memorandum of...
This week, Egyptian journalist, blogger, photographer, and author Hossam el-Hamalawy joins CounterPunch’s Eric Draitser to discuss his new book...
The architecture of international justice was built upon a single uncompromising promise: never again. It was forged in the ashes of 20th century...
If you think of France as a place to see the Eiffel Tower, sip wine, and eat confit de canard or escargot in chic cafés with old zinc bars and woven...
As colleges prepare for the fall, yet again they are under political attack. Some say that its standards are eroding. Or a college degree does not...
Before the last presidential election, Adolph Reed Jr. argued that “electoral politics has captured too much of the political imagination of the...
For decades, terrorism researchers have generally distinguished terrorism from other forms of violence by one defining feature: the intention to...
One of the most dangerous falsities about American morality is that it exists outside human interest, power and comfort. We like to believe morality...
The Israelis had their jaws dropping and dragging on the grounds. The Saudis were cock-a-hoop. The Trump administration remains, as it always does,...
In 2024, a US Customs and Border Protection agent at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport stole, and completely erased all data from,...
Donald Trump does so many awful things: wars, inflationary taxes (tariffs), and disease promotion, that many of his actions do not draw nearly the...
The Israeli military’s Orwellian use of artificial intelligence for surveillance, targeting, and execution of attacks against Palestinians in Gaza...
In his farewell address, Washington warned of the danger of political parties. He believed that loyalty to a party over the nation would divide the...
On July 20, 2001, in the historic port city of Genova, the global ruling class met behind the Red Zone while the Italian state showed the world...
There was something oddly disorientating about hearing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps mention RAF Fairford last week. Fairford is hardly a...
Trump’s initial proposal last week to allow the sale of nuclear reactors to Saudi Arabia could spark a round of nuclear proliferation that threatens...
It seems clear, in retrospect, that the Russiagate allegations were hardly more substantial than Trump’s subsequent insistence that the election of...
If you want to discover how people feel about the way the world is going, don’t look to language to tell you, not to articles like this one, or even...
Yes, it’s happening and by “it” I distinctly mean climate change. No question about it, this planet is simply getting hotter (and hotter, and...
Peter Marra, Georgetown University and Nathan W. Cooper, Smithsonian Institution Every year, billions of migratory birds connect the world’s...
Excerpted from War Is Still A Lie. Since I wrote War Is A Lie in 2010 and updated it in 2015, the lies used to prop up wars have varied but continued....
In 2017, I traveled to the Catholic University of Lublin in Poland as a visiting Erasmus professor from the International University of Sarajevo....
On July 16, 2026, the Trump administration launched the Red Scare 3.0. In a press release, the White House proclaimed in bold type: “an...
In August 2026 Icelanders will vote in a referendum whether Iceland should open accession talks with a view to joining the European Union[1]....
Dharmendra Pradhan, the Education Minister of India resigned on July 25! The government finally succumbed to the demands of the Gen Z. The protest...
Could it be put down to a measure of confidence on his part? On this occasion, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had, in the Wing of Zion,...
On Monday, a federal court in Montana issued a preliminary injunction against an illegal logging project in occupied grizzly bear habitat in the...
Last weekend, I was sitting by the river, talking to a stranger about how our proximity to others, physical or sociological, determines the extent to...
I. Seymour Hersh reported yesterday that the White House has an operational plan for November, and that the plan does not depend on persuading anyone....
Born in 1942, a month after Pearl Harbor, I was unable to experience the Thirties directly, but I experienced it vicariously in the afterglow of an...
On Tuesday, as American aircraft struck Iran for a tenth consecutive night, Iran’s interior minister Eskandar Momeni flew to Islamabad. He was...
In November it will be 30 years since California voters passed Proposition 215, legalizing cannabis for medical use. Last Sunday at the state fair...
One of the key factors in understanding Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not to view the United States as a homogeneous bloc standing united behind...
The continued electoral success of the Democratic Socialists of America–whose candidates run for Democratic Party nominations rather than as...
When I spoke with renowned professor, activist, scholar and writer Angela Davis for the inaugural episode of Laura Flanders & Friends in 2024, decades...
When House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries sent out a recent “dear colleague” letter, its second sentence cited “the position articulated...
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