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The Worst Bill in Modern US History

President Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill,” now on the floor of the Senate, is the most dangerous piece of legislation in the modern...

yesterday 20

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Bernie Sanders

Death Traps: “The American Aid”

About two months ago, an agreement was reached to establish several distribution centers in Gaza for food and humanitarian aid, supervised by a...

yesterday 30

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Amira Al-Zaneen

Unhoused and Then Displaced Like Me

I’m a native Oregonian. The central part of the state has been my home for more than a quarter century. It’s where I expected to build my life....

yesterday 20

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Mandy Bryant

The Wretched History of Regime

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is planning to come to Washington in the next week or so, and probably will make his case for regime change in...

yesterday 10

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Melvin Goodman

Regarding Ken Paxton: “Now Let Him Enforce It”

“John Marshall has made his decision” regarding relations between the Cherokee Nation and the United States,  US president Andrew Jackson...

yesterday 10

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Thomas Knapp

The Five Percenters: NATO’s Promise of War

The confidence trickster was at it again on his visit to The Hague, reluctantly meeting members of the overly large family that is NATO. President...

yesterday 10

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Binoy Kampmark

Mamdani’s Magnificent Primary Win—What Follows

People are asking about my reaction to Zohran Mamdani’s spectacular and decisive upset in the Democratic primary victory for Mayor of New York...

yesterday 10

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Ralph Nader

Conservation Innovations: How Sustained Resistance Is Saving One of the Earth’s Most Critical Rainforests From Corporate Greed

In Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, orangutans swing through the treetops, rhinos roam free, and elephants share the land with tigers. It is the last...

yesterday 10

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Laurel Sutherlin

Starvation and Profiteering in Gaza: Talking with Francesca Albanese 

Israel’s siege on the Palestinians is leaving the population starving, and Albanese lambasts other nations for not stepping up and completing their...

yesterday 10

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Chris Hedges

The Failure to “Obliterate” Iran’s Nuclear Sites

Damage Control President Trump’s childish and out-of-touch message following US strikes on Iran is now, properly, a matter of contention. He said:...

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Mel Gurtov

Continuing Unemployment Claims Rise Again

The number of new unemployment insurance claims edged down last week to 236,000. This brought the four-week average to 245,000, just over 4.0...

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Dean Baker

The Meaning of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory

Zohran Mamdani. (Photo: Bryan Berlin, via Wikimedia Commons) Zohran Mamdani. (Photo: Bryan Berlin, via Wikimedia Commons) Zohran Mamdani. (Photo:...

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Pete Dolack

On Board the Madleen, Trying to Break the Seige of Gaza

Berlin. Yasemin Acar is a Berlin-based activist who was aboard the Freedom Flotilla’s ship “Madleen”, a mission followed by millions on social...

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Jan Ralske

When the Helping Hand Holds a Machine Gun

There’s no precise number for how many Palestinians have been starved to death by Israel’s embargo on food entering Gaza. But there is a number for...

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Jeffrey St. Clair

Unmasking Fascism: Edward Said’s Pedagogy of Wakefulness in an Age of Educational Repression

For Said, intellectuals--those who are alive to thinking critically and acting bravely-- must engage critically with the world, confronting its...

27.06.2025 4

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Henry Giroux

With All Eyes on Iran, Where are Gaza, Ukraine and Elsewhere?

Donald Trump has all the symptoms of Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); trouble paying attention, impulsive behavior, acting without...

27.06.2025 3

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Daniel Warner

Erik Prince vs Barbecue: Haiti is Trapped Between Two Occupations 

Okap (Cap Haitien), Haiti. On May 28th, the New York Times announced: “A Desperate Haiti Turns to Erik Prince, Trump Ally, in Fight Against Gangs.”...

27.06.2025 2

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Danny Shaw

Demilitarizing the Brooklyn Navy Yard

There are military manufacturers hiding in Brooklyn on city property. It’s time to evict them. On Wendesday, June 18th, I was one of four activists...

27.06.2025 4

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Sophie Shepherd

Roaming Charges: After Midnight

Trump mega-bombed a mountain in Iran and called it peace. Unfortunately, he didn’t bomb what was beneath the mountain. If anything. If the...

27.06.2025 30

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Jeffrey St. Clair

In the Candyland: American Neuroses and the Indifference to Suffering

I’ve conducted an unfortunate and unwanted experiment over the past eight months. I’ve mentioned death and grief to friends, family, and...

27.06.2025 30

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David Masciotra

Doubleplus Unsmart: Mixing Profits and Nuclear Weapons

From Los Alamos to Kwajalein (the Bechtel-built Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Test Site in the Marshall Islands) to Iraq, war, preparation for...

27.06.2025 20

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Bill Hatch

A Nation of Immigrants Under Attack

There’s mounting evidence of ICE using racial profiling. “We have U.S. citizens who are being asked for their documents and not believed when they...

27.06.2025 10

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Farrah Hassen

The Crime of Opposing Genocide w/ Kathleen Brown & Michael Mueller

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank are joined by Kathleen Brown and Michael Mueller to discuss the violent...

27.06.2025 3

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Youth Rights Are Queer Rights

2025 has been a hard year to be Queer in this necrotic empire but it has been a downright horrific year to be a Queer kid and tragically, in many...

26.06.2025 10

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Nicky Reid

Song of the Tenured Radical

(Apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan … and also to my grad school teachers who had at least a modicum of ambivalence toward the velvet prison of...

26.06.2025 2

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Hugh Iglarsh

Prime Minister Mark Carney Calls for “Zionist Palestinian State”

In an interview on Wednesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada would only accept a “Zionist Palestinian state”. Two weeks earlier, foreign...

26.06.2025 7

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Yves Engler

Architecture of Cities: Gorillas in the Midst

Imagine a day melding into mankind’s entire history: A lone child; lithe, black (not white), and Congolese- – bent: Atop the Congo-Savanna  two...

26.06.2025 2

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Richard Schulman

Why the Gaza Freedom Flotilla Was Still a Success

Frustration is at an all-time high. The streets of America and Europe are filled with people who care about the plight of the Palestinians....

26.06.2025 1

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Chloe Atkinson

The Real Winners: The Strategic Fallout of the Israel-Iran War

On June 24, US President Donald Trump announced a truce between Israel and Iran following nearly two weeks of open warfare. Israel began the war,...

26.06.2025 20

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Ramzy Baroud

When Will Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Show Up in the Data?

Just as we are waiting for more evidence on where the tariffs are hitting, we are also waiting for clearer evidence of the impact of Trump’s mass...

26.06.2025 3

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Dean Baker

What it Will Take to Stop Trump’s ICE Raids

Donald Trump is not the first president to unleash the terror of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers on immigrant communities across...

26.06.2025 2

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Sonali Kolhatkar

Supreme Court Rules Trump Can Rapidly Deport Immigrants to Libya, South Sudan and Other Countries They Aren’t From

For the past several months, the Trump administration has been trying to deport immigrants to countries they are not from – despite an April 2025...

26.06.2025 9

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Eleanor Paynter

How Trump Betrayed Workers by Gutting the Inflation Reduction Act

Federal officials, then-Governor of Indiana Eric Holcomb, union leaders, company representatives, and dozens of guests assembled at Heidelberg...

26.06.2025 2

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David Mccall

Hop Out of the Boiling Pot, if Only for a Bit

Well, I took time off from writing (and from following major news for that matter) . A detox of sorts. Mine was somewhat required due to life...

26.06.2025 2

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Kathleen Wallace

Against Israel’s New Middle East Vision

On the same day that Israel’s genocidal army issued an evacuation order for Tehran for the first time, after having done so repeatedly in Gaza,...

26.06.2025 2

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Rahman Bouzari

This Is Not a Drill: Why the UK had to Say No to War with Iran  

Two days before those B-2s flew, a moment of diplomacy—some said hypocrisy—still lingered. Leading Hezbollah commander Mohammad Ahmad Khreiss had...

26.06.2025 7

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Peter Bach

“No Sleep for ICE”

The post “No Sleep for ICE” appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

26.06.2025 1

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Joshua Frank - Ted Griswold

The Crime of Opposing Genocide w/ Kathleen Brown & Michael Mueller

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank are joined by Kathleen Brown and Michael Mueller to discuss the violent...

25.06.2025 2

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Josh Frank

Marx in America

Andrew Hartman, Karl Marx in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025. 572pp, $39.00 Back in the 1890s, when American Marxism was young,...

25.06.2025 3

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Paul Buhle

Why We Meed the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act Now More Than Ever

Brooke Rollins, Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture, recently announced the administration’s plan to repeal the 2001 Roadless Rule and open an...

25.06.2025 2

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Mike Garrity

Cracking My Shell: Thoughts on Emotional Detachment & the Gaza War

Every spring, someone in my town posts hand-drawn TURTLE CROSSING signs near the roads where turtles lay their eggs. I’d never actually seen one...

25.06.2025 1

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Sarena Neyman

Brian Nesvik is the Wrong Choice to Lead the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

The nomination of Brian Nesvik to lead the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service should alarm anyone who values science-based conservation. His tenure as...

25.06.2025 1

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Kristin Combs - Nick Gevock