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Tourism workers in Southern California just won a historic battle for the highest minimum wage in the nation—a perfect counterpoint to the ...
The belief that Russia is a country with an unpredictable past is a common one, frequently cited in academic and cultural studies. Now the Trump...
Throughout its long history of ethnic cleansing and occupation, Israel has remained consistent in its tactics: lie, deny, and distort the...
Donald Trump’s offer of U.S. sanctuary to white South Africans is rightly considered a racist gesture not justified by any serious discrimination...
Alejandro thought that driving full-time for Uber offered freedom — flexible hours, quick cash, and time to care for his young son. But that...
On May 15, 2025, Logan Rozos was the selected student speaker at NYU’s Gallatin School commencement. Briefly addressing the large crowd of faculty,...
Call it what it is: a panopticon presidency. President Trump’s plan to fuse government power with private surveillance tech to build a centralized,...
Two children – a nine-year old boy and his six-year old sister – are playing at “house”, pretending to be their father and mother. Absorbed in the...
Impossible. It’s never happened before. Are you kidding? That’s how most political commentators – virtually across the spectrum – describe the...
It hasn’t been a good week for the guy who decided he was going to be a king and spent his first four months in office ignoring the law, declaring...
Underground films, transvestites, hippies and freaks, businessmen and secretaries checking out the other side of life, plastic people and people...
Most of Trump’s second term declarations and executive orders have been unwise (tariffs) or just plain silly (Gulf of America). Some of them have...
It is now imperative to acknowledge what people of conscience the world over know to be true: The State of Israel is operating a Death Camp for the...
Should a healthy 52-year-old woman with a normal BMI who has had Covid-19 three times and has received six previous doses of a Covid-19 vaccine get...
Since “abundance” is apparently the in-thing, I thought I should get in on the act. At the onset, I will admit I don’t have much new to offer to...
Believe it or not, I had a transcendent experience at this year’s Border Security Expo, the annual event that brings Customs and Border Protection...
Remember when Donald Trump was worried about our trade deficit? Yeah, that must have been days ago. But anyhow, as I and others have pointed out,...
Opposition by former high officials in Israeli’s military and national security establishment and Israeli allies – France, England, and Germany...
Marco Rubio is the uber-mensch of the Trump administration. He is the secretary of state, the acting national security adviser, the acting...
Introduction On October 24, 1970, in writing for the Amsterdam weekly, Vrij Nederland, Dutch journalist and Trotskyite Igor Cornelissen,...
Those five days in November were cold, and seemed colder inside the gates of Auschwitz and of Birkenau. We were 90 retreatants from many nations –...
A storm is brewing in U.S.–Mexico relations, and its epicenter is the newly appointed U.S. ambassador: Ronald Johnson, a former Green Beret and CIA...
“We woke up to the horrifying news that over 100 children had been killed in Gaza that very night. The four of us—myself, Amit, Alma, and Danielle—...
Five years ago, George Floyd, an African American, was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made after a...
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg talk to Sim Kern, author of the brand new, New York Times bestseller,...
Still from The Invisible Doctrine. Still from The Invisible Doctrine. Still from The Invisible Doctrine. Still from The Invisible Doctrine. Still...
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In an age where culture is the primary battlefield, authoritarianism thrives on ignorance, historical amnesia and the brutal aesthetics of cruelty,...