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On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Eric Draitser talks with Yassamine Mather about the Israel/US war on Iran, its geopolitical ramifications,...
President Donald Trump’s imperialist assault on Iran, which has claimed countless innocent lives, and will take many more before it’s finished, is...
The closure of virtually all commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz occasioned by the Iran War is not merely a matter of oil and gas, the...
The Summit in Miami On 7 March 2026, at the Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami, Donald Trump inaugurated the “Shield of the Americas” summit,...
Last week, we watched a U.S.-made Tomahawk missile murder more than 160 Iranian school children. We watched in horror, helpless to stop the incoming...
Even when -- if -- tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz can get back to normal, we'll be feeling the economic after-effects for a long time....
A bit less than 20 years ago, a nationwide housing bubble collapsed, giving us the Great Recession. Millions of homeowners had their houses...
Iran is not Venezuela: knowing the threat of nuclear-armed Israel to Iran, the Iranian leaders have been preparing for foreign attack for many years,...
We have all come across those in our lives who display the characteristics now known as Dark Triad Personality. It's a combination of narcissism,...
Years ago, I made it to the big time and was interviewed for a segment on one of the primetime television “news magazines.“ I spruced myself up,...
The Cooke City area of Montana has one of the healthiest whitebark pine forests in the region. Yet now, the Forest Service wants to apply an...
I have previously commented about the strategic blunders the Trump regime has made in its war on Iran. Add this one: the gains both China and Russia...
Long before Trump would transform himself into a messianic figure for the American right, Trump was the creator of one of the most grotesque...
The Algerian-born French novelist, Albert Camus, a pied-noir, began his existentialist classic, The Stranger, with the now memorable words, “Mother...
In the aftermath of Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy’s repeated and dangerous misinformation campaign inaccurately linking vaccines to...
On December 1, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) initiated “Operating Metro Surge” in Minneapolis, MN. It deployed personnel from...
Recently, commentators from various places on the US political spectrum have discussed and even called for the reinstitution of mandatory...
The head of a prominent U.S.-funded nongovernmental organization has recently acknowledged years of involvement in subversive operations in Cuba and...
President Donald J. Trump is ignoring this widely-held sentiment — including among his MAGA supporters — and has just ordered 2500 troops to the...
Three months before taking power in 1949, Mao Tse-tung wrote of the solidarity required for the Chinese people’s revolution, remarking that a...
Jeffrey Epstein was not only a rapist and a child predator, but also — wait for it — a White supremacist. While some speculate that the Epstein...
Long before Trump would transform himself into a messianic figure for the American right, Trump was the creator of one of the most grotesque...
Americans who love the great outdoors are witnessing Trump’s “Plunder America First” public forest liquidation program – up close and...
I’m traveling to Cuba for the first time on March 21 to be in Havana with the Nuestra América Convoy, in which people from dozens of countries...
Joe Kent’s resignation is not an anomaly but an alarm: elite dissent is surfacing early because this war is built on deception. Joe Kent’s...
One of the things that should bother economists more than it seems to is the loud chorus of complaints about affordability. Since wage growth has...
The war, now a regional war affecting the entire world, has already claimed thousands of lives and it will kill many more. Many of the victims are...
The morning of my departure from José Martí Airport, named after the father of the nation, I hugged everybody: the woman who checked me in, the man...
It’s difficult to imagine a greater U.S. strategic mistake than to align itself in any fashion with Israel. The United States and Israel have...
While Trump’s Iranian War may continue to capture our much-needed attention, it is essential that the public see this conflict as representative of...
It’s time for the so-called new left to wake up to the existential threat posed by AI. The only U.S. politician cognizant of this stupendous danger...
The big drain on military resources has begun. A war apparently already won (and not), against an adversary supposedly without means to fight back,...
When Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu launched their military aggression against Iran on February 28, they appeared convinced that the war would be...
A sweeping rollback of U.S. environmental protections is moving through Congress with remarkably little public attention. In December 2025, the House...
Prologue I recently came across with an unpleasant memory from the past – chemicals that last so long in the environment that are now known as...
Tyrant Trump’s favorite snarl is “You’re Fired!” That was his bellow on The Apprentice television program. Subsequently, he told hundreds of...
The post Is the Trumpster Losing It? A Glyph appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
In the second year of Donald Trump’s second term, beginning with the kidnaping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on January 2, 2026, followed...
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will go down in history for their respective failures in regime change. Both Trump and Putin overestimated their...
Bryan Goode and his coworkers perform demanding, hazardous jobs producing oil in one of the most unforgiving places on earth. They work on Alaska’s...
“The geopolitical genie is out of the bottle: by capitalizing on geography to disrupt global trade, countries can strengthen their strategic...
Doubtless, the war launched by US President Donald Trump is not popular among ordinary Americans. According to the latest public opinion poll, only a...
I’m going to give our “Secretary of War” a little credit. I will assume that even someone as openly bloodthirsty as Hegseth would not...
In the second year of Donald Trump’s second term, beginning with the kidnaping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on January 2, 2026, followed...
Just as Egypt snatched a diplomatic victory from the jaws of military defeat in 1956 by shutting the Suez Canal, so Iran has now closed off the Middle...
The Iran war is a war of choice. But that doesn’t tell us much, does it? All wars are wars of choice. The questions are: was it a necessary choice?...
The Trump White House is refusing to rule out a draft, and also won’t rule out sending current all-volunteer troops into Iran, and look at the hue...
So here’s another St. Patrick’s Day, reminding me of a place where I’d once belonged. My ancestors left me no memories, but I can imagine why...
I’ve been asked by multiple readers (which is a lot for me) if I have watched the recently released HBO documentary The Alabama Solution, and if so,...
There’s not much ambiguity in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. It reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of...
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