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The first major swell of the year pummeled Southern California this week, and onlookers flocked to Balboa Peninsula in ritzy Newport Beach to watch...
The first major swell of the year pummeled Southern California this week, and onlookers flocked to Balboa Peninsula in ritzy Newport Beach to watch...
A steering committee led by the South African Communist Party convened the ‘Conference of the Left’ in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, from 29 to 31 May...
In the wake of the passage of the 2018 farm bill legalizing hemp, the Volunteer State saw an explosion in sales of intoxicating hemp-derived...
“I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody. I think about one thing: We cannot let Iran have a nuclear...
Waxworks have nothing to say, but when incarnated in the form of former Fox News anchor and, at a pinch, “personality”, Pete Hegseth proves to be...
I lie in bed listening to the birds in the trees. Living with a true artist means no art on the bedroom walls, only in the studio. In the background...
Many consumers assume that food labeled organic is grown without pesticides. The reality is more nuanced. Organic farmers can and do use pesticides,...
The first major swell of the year pummeled Southern California this week, and onlookers flocked to Balboa Peninsula in ritzy Newport Beach to watch...
In the words of Morgan State University Journalism and Communications Professor, Dr. Jared Ball: “How do you know what you know? And, why do you...
Suddenly my cynicism vanished and things started making sense. America started making sense, from past to present. I was already in the process of...
As I close out another school year as a US History and Government teacher on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence,...
A song for the Fugs’ upcoming reunion concerts in Woodstock, New York. Oh, sometimes the Ship of State seems to face a shaky fate But you know our...
Silicon Valley has encountered little public opposition in its 50-year history. — the NY Times, May 26, 2026 One could not invent a more diabolical...
If there is any place on the map that captures the depth of the global revolt over AI data centers, it might well be little Socorro County, New...
Scientists have located the Garden of Eden. It is in Botswana. This was reported not in the theology section of any publication but as a science...
U.S. President Donald Trump, Reuters reports, is “looking into” a US government stake in leading artificial intelligence firms. “There’s...
Of the three countries involved in AUKUS, that most draining, useless and even pernicious of security pacts, Australia has been the only country...
The climate catastrophe not only kills people with fires and floods, it also bankrupts them by annihilating their homes – many uninsured. Why no...
Bats move through desert night skies with a purpose that is easy to overlook and difficult to replace. As they travel from plant to plant, feeding on...
The May Jobs report was stronger than most people, including me, had expected. The 172,000 jobs created is not exactly earth-shattering, but in a...
Woody Guthrie proudly sang “This land is your land, this land is my land / From California to the New York island,” but, in fact, the conversion...
Is war simply part of human nature? It’s been absurdly “ordinary” throughout my lifetime, and continually expanding its power and psychological...
Prologue Mikis Theodorakis was an internationally recognized Greek symbol of resistance to capitalism and foreign influence in Greece. When I left...
We’ve heard a lot about political realignment since the Donald Trump era began, but even more now that we’re confronted with the brutality and...
The live broadcast of Saturday’s friendly between the US and German national soccer teams in Chicago was quite the eye-opener for international fans...
Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald Trump presidency, but they are not protesting it. Despite an unpopular Iran war and an even more...
Last year the major anomaly in the labor market seemed to be that we were seeing very weak job growth and only a limited rise in the unemployment...
Historically speaking, consider it strange beyond compare. There may, in fact, be nothing like it in the imperial history of this planet. The United...
If we are to understand the conditions facing vulnerable children, we have to begin with a difficult truth: poverty remains the central force shaping...
The climate crisis is worsening many of the economic and social inequalities already faced by women and girls, making it harder to access health care,...
President Donald Trump hates to lose, but he is on a losing streak in the Middle East—not just in Iran, where his illegal, unprovoked war has been a...
If I’d gone to see Morgan Bassichis’s show “Can I Be Frank?” when I meant to, when it premiered at La Mama in 2024, or even at the SoHo...
The massive aerial assault unleashed upon Kyiv and its surrounding regions this week offers a sobering window into the raw, industrial nature of...
The unexpected finally happened, and we may be the better for it. The small Caribbean Island of Mamboland, for many years ruled by a pair of despotic...
“He’ll do whatever I want him to do,” Donald Trump declared recently about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This may be one of the...
The US, with Donald Trump as president, has become a bizarre place. The country is at the moment in a sort of lull in a major war that Trump and his...
America’s 2025 National Security Strategy calls for gaining control of the world’s oil trade. Toward this end, Donald Trump’s Oil War aims at...
The founding insight of the socialist tradition was that the central conflict of modern society is a relation, not a sentiment, between those who own...
Cancelling Billion: Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us: The Urgent Case for a Wealth Tax By Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks Dundurn Press...
Call it a repeating script, a rusty template, or simply a creaky model to emulate time and again. The structural and homicidal destruction of Gaza...
The most corrupt president and cabinet in U.S. history are now stealing fees from national parks and federal recreational lands and waters to fund...
Public support for the Impeachment of Donald J. Trump is growing by the day. A March 9, 2026, Task Force report by the New York City Bar – dominated...
Artificial intelligence will almost certainly be the most transformational technology in the history of the world. It will profoundly affect the life...
Over the past couple of years, a hybrid type of activist has emerged in Washington, D.C. To get a paycheck and pay the bills, they toil away inside...
The Trump administration’s appetite for cruelty and its wanton disregard for wasting taxpayer funds has shown itself again – this time in its...
Samcam’s former home in Jinotepe, Nicaragua, daubed with graffiti labelling him a “murderer.” Photo: Confidencial. InSight Crime, a think tank...
In justifying the American attack on Iran a few weeks ago, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth admitted it had nothing to do with nukes, ballistic...
In this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with Dr. Nadine Ortega, co-founder of Tagnawa Hawai’i, about grassroots...
A sampler, with apologies to Ambrose Bierce. African Americans: an anthropological abstraction; any ethnic grouping or race that can be deleted from...
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