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Why Thoreau Deserves Your Admiration

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James Glover

Three Dead Boys

Ahmed Samra (17), Ahmed Elawdan (16), and Seifalla Elbeltagy (15) weren’t just dead. Between December 27 and 29 they were left to die, made to die...

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Julie Wark

Giving No Ground

Like the Biblical Job (Ayyūb in Arabic, where he is revered as a prophet), every possible misfortune has been visited upon the Palestinians of Gaza...

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Jeffrey St. Clair

Roaming Charges: America on Droogs

While contemplating the incipient collapse of our Republic from an inside job, I dipped back into the six-volume edition of Edward Gibbon's The...

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Jeffrey St. Clair

Capitalism’s Frankenstein Climate

“Climate change is the monster we made. We are Victor Frankenstein.” (Climate Change: The Monster of our own Making, WashU, October 16, 2017,...

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Robert Hunziker

Trump’s Obsession with Greenland Is All About China

In early January, Donald Trump Jr.’s private plane landed on a snowy airfield in Greenland. There was little fanfare upon his arrival, but his 14...

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Joshua Frank

The Counterculture That Sprang From San Francisco

Paul McCartney heard rumors of the wild goings-on in the Haight and visited on April 4, 1967. At the Fillmore Auditorium, he listened to a...

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Jonah Raskin

Profiles in Cowardice, Courage, and a Scarlet Letter

Are you keeping lists? Years from now, when the dust settles on this Trumpian insanity, historians will look back upon this Archimedean tipping...

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Daniel Warner

American Revolutions: 9 Parts Locke, 1 Part Hobbes

The unceremonious end of the "end of history” - which has unfolded steadily since 9-11 – and the fading of the Obama era’s alluring but naïve...

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Mark Medish

Guantánamo Needs to be Shutdown Not Expanded

Shrouded in secrecy, the U.S. continues to capture and detain asylum seekers fleeing Haiti, Cuba, and other Caribbean countries at Guantánamo. Last...

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Farrah Hassen

The Many Hands that Hold Up Billionaires

We have deep needs for connection, purpose and egalitarianism. The first contact with native peoples in the Americas clearly indicated many offered...

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Kathleen Wallace

Action on Climate Change May Look Different Than You Expect

Talk a walk through the Los Angeles’ Arts District, and you’ll learn that there’s nothing contradictory about trying to save the world and living a...

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Vijay Kolinjivadi - Aaron Vansintjan

Eight Ways Trump Can Tank the Economy

President Biden handed off the best economy to an incoming president since at least the 2001 handoff from Clinton to Bush II. In his last quarter...

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Dean Baker

The New Plutocracy

The United States is not a democracy.  It is a plutocracy.  It is not simply a plutocracy  because  of Donald Trump’s presidency and the likes...

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David Schultz

A Liberal Veneer

An article appeared in an online newspaper that serves the southern Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts: “Fighting a hate with no boundaries:...

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Howard Lisnoff

Letter from London: Transatlantic Drift

‘Just got back from London,’ comedian Toby Foster posted online last week in a rare but welcome moment of jocularity for the capital: ‘No one...

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Peter Bach

Trump, Nukes and Cartoons

Wouldn’t it be nice if the war in Ukraine were entirely one side’s fault, if the U.S. had one political party that did everything perfectly, if...

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David Swanson

Another Blackrock? Nearly 100 U.S. Mercenaries are in Gaza Right Now

Armed to the teeth with M4 rifles and Glock pistols and pockets stuffed with their $10,000 advance plus some, 96 former U.S. special forces...

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Nuvpreet Kalra

Stephen Miller & Trump’s Presidency

On January 30, 2025, Pres. Donald Trump issued “Executive Order to Combat Anti-Semitism” in which he “promised” that the U.S. government will “[p]...

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David Rosen

Learning From Trump: How Progressives Can Become The Party Of Change

Politically, this is surely a strange and disturbing time, but one of its oddest, most discouraging features is to watch Donald Trump operate as an...

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Richard Rubenstein

The Hidden Sculpture

I recently came across a photo of a sculpture by one of Oregon’s most renowned artists, Bruce West. He has created many pieces of public art around...

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Nathaniel St. Clair

Reclaiming Environmentalism w/ Vijay Kolinjivadi & Aaron Vansintjan

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk to Vijay Kolinjivadi about their Aaron Vansintjan new book, The...

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Josh Frank

Martin’s Dream Has Become Malcolm’s Nightmare

Dr. Martin Luther King had a dream, and it sounded pretty fucking sweet on the radio. Even a bitter post-everything anarchist like me gets a little...

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Nicky Reid

Architecture of Cities: Lives Not Seen; the Home Within the House; How We Dream to Live

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, “Our House” “Our house is a very, very, very fine house.” Every lens needs an imperative: My eyes follow: My heart...

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Richard Schulman

Gay People Are “Lesser” in Alabama Prisons

In another interview in late January, the prisoner in Bullock referred to as “Zach” in these articles discusses the treatment of gay prisoners in...

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Matthew Vernon Whalan

The Use of Deadly Sarin Nerve Gas During the Secret War on Laos

Operation Tailwind Revisited after CIA Report to Kissinger Released Picture this scenario: It is September 11, 1970. American commandoes wearing...

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Peter Byrne

How to Find Climate Data and Science the Trump Administration Doesn’t Want You to See

Government scientists at NOAA collect and provide crucial public information about coastal conditions that businesses, individuals and other...

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Eric Nost – Alejandro Paz

How to Create a New World Without Elons

Just how concerned about billion-dollar fortunes have Americans become? Nearly half of us overall, Harris polling found last summer, would like to...

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Sam Pizzigati

Trump to Gaza: We Will Replace You

“They are coming to replace us.” It sounds like the tagline of a horror movie. And indeed, what the far right whispers into ears, chants at hate-...

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John Feffer

A Prayer for Leonard Peltier

Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier finally returns home. In the last moments of his presidency, Joe Biden commuted his two consecutive...

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Nick Estes

From Tariffs to Turmoil

Donald Trump announced 25 percent tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum imports on February 10, doubling down on his protectionist agenda to...

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Imran Khalid

Why Education “Reformers” Will Find a Home in the Trump Administration

During Donald Trump’s first presidential term and the Joe Biden presidential administration, proponents of education reform declared their movement...

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Jeff Bryant

A Whole Lot of Nuclear Madness in One Week

Remember that 1963 comedic caper movie, “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”? Okay, maybe not. It was director Stanley Kramer’s escape from his more...

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Linda Pentz Gunter

How Trophic Cascades Devastate Ecosystems and Endanger Human Health

All organisms in an ecosystem are interconnected, and any imbalance in this complex relationship can have irreversible consequences for both humans...

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Leslie Alan Horvitz

Trump’s Gaza Plan: A Green Light for Ethnic Cleansing?

Let’s be clear: the forced displacement of Palestinians is not a new idea. US President Donald Trump’s latest proposal to take “long-term...

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Ramzy Baroud

Real Corruption that Could Meet Republican Cost-Saving Targets

The news has been filled with stories in recent days about Republicans desperately hunting for $2.0-$2.5 trillion (2-3 percent of the budget) in...

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Dean Baker

Feeling Very Fine: Picasso the Printmaker at the British Museum

This is Pablo Picasso the way he is rarely seen – at least in so far as the hundred or so pieces at the British Museum’s Picasso: Printmaker have...

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Binoy Kampmark

Trump International Hotel and Tower, Gaza

Donald Trump spoke to reporters for over three hours on Air Force One on his way to see the Super Bowl in New Orleans on 9 February 2025. It was...

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Vijay Prashad

Making Old-Style Imperialism Great Again

A few years ago, I came across an old book at an estate sale. Its title caught my eye: “Our New Possessions.” Its cover featured the Statue of...

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William Astore

Foreign Companies Driving the Global Privatization of Domestic Infrastructure

On February 4, 2025, Chicago’s business community pushed back against Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposal to raise real estate transfer taxes, adding...

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John P. Ruehl

JD Vance Against Democracy: Munich Security Conference, or Munich Beer Hall?

America’s Vice-President, JD Vance’s comments this week on democracy ring nicely to the ear of some, but are off key on the musical score of facts....

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Jeffrey Sommers

Donald Trump: The Most American President

The rise of Donald Trump has been met with a large chorus of voices that proclaim him to be profoundly un-American, from the ‘Russiagate’ days...

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Peter Bratsis

How We Distribute Power Will Influence Our Future

Power in human societies is often viewed as hierarchical, meaning that it’s tiered and ranked. This view doesn’t fully capture the complexity of...

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Carole Crumley

Palming Off Climate Disaster to the Next Generation

My house located in southeastern Pennsylvania about nine miles north of Philadelphia, in which my wife and I have lived and raised a family over...

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Dave Lindorff