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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...
About two months ago, an agreement was reached to establish several distribution centers in Gaza for food and humanitarian aid, supervised by a...
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....
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...
“John Marshall has made his decision” regarding relations between the Cherokee Nation and the United States, US president Andrew Jackson...
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...
People are asking about my reaction to Zohran Mamdani’s spectacular and decisive upset in the Democratic primary victory for Mayor of New York...
In Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, orangutans swing through the treetops, rhinos roam free, and elephants share the land with tigers. It is the last...
Israel’s siege on the Palestinians is leaving the population starving, and Albanese lambasts other nations for not stepping up and completing their...
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:...
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...
Zohran Mamdani. (Photo: Bryan Berlin, via Wikimedia Commons) Zohran Mamdani. (Photo: Bryan Berlin, via Wikimedia Commons) Zohran Mamdani. (Photo:...
Berlin. Yasemin Acar is a Berlin-based activist who was aboard the Freedom Flotilla’s ship “Madleen”, a mission followed by millions on social...
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...
For Said, intellectuals--those who are alive to thinking critically and acting bravely-- must engage critically with the world, confronting its...
Donald Trump has all the symptoms of Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); trouble paying attention, impulsive behavior, acting without...
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.”...
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...
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...
I’ve conducted an unfortunate and unwanted experiment over the past eight months. I’ve mentioned death and grief to friends, family, and...
From Los Alamos to Kwajalein (the Bechtel-built Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Test Site in the Marshall Islands) to Iraq, war, preparation for...
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...
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank are joined by Kathleen Brown and Michael Mueller to discuss the violent...
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...
(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...
In an interview on Wednesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada would only accept a “Zionist Palestinian state”. Two weeks earlier, foreign...
Imagine a day melding into mankind’s entire history: A lone child; lithe, black (not white), and Congolese- – bent: Atop the Congo-Savanna two...
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....
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,...
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...
Donald Trump is not the first president to unleash the terror of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers on immigrant communities across...
For the past several months, the Trump administration has been trying to deport immigrants to countries they are not from – despite an April 2025...
Federal officials, then-Governor of Indiana Eric Holcomb, union leaders, company representatives, and dozens of guests assembled at Heidelberg...
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...
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,...
Two days before those B-2s flew, a moment of diplomacy—some said hypocrisy—still lingered. Leading Hezbollah commander Mohammad Ahmad Khreiss had...
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On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank are joined by Kathleen Brown and Michael Mueller to discuss the violent...
Andrew Hartman, Karl Marx in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025. 572pp, $39.00 Back in the 1890s, when American Marxism was young,...
Brooke Rollins, Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture, recently announced the administration’s plan to repeal the 2001 Roadless Rule and open an...
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...
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...