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As Trump’s approval plummets, besieged by the fiasco in Iran and his bizarre attempts to deify himself, instead of reassuring the nation, he’s...
The Economist gave us a classically sloppy piece last week, telling us that we need the mega-wealthy types like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. The...
Writing more than 2,000 years ago, the Greek historian Plutarch gave us an eloquent description of what modern historians now call...
The Chornobyl Dome, now damaged by a Russian drone attack, and a memorial at the site. (Photo: Hnabel/Wikimedia Commons) Probably the most heinous...
The world is its hottest in modern human history (circa 1500-present). Yet, fossil fuel CO2 emissions continue unabated, effectively creating an...
“Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you bunch of crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell,” the President of the United States wrote on Truth Social...
Given that Donald Trump conceives of the presidency as a casino—why else would he be trying to makeover the White House to look like the...
As Allied forces crossed the English Channel during the D-Day invasion of June 1944, some 10,000 intelligence officers known as T-Forces were right...
The large-scale US airstrike on Venezuela was unprecedented in modern history. The surprise attack forcibly kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro and...
In a time of war, resurgent authoritarianism, and an escalating assault on higher education, the language of “institutional neutrality” has...
The image of a youthful Donald Trump, laying his hand on the forehead of a sick or dying man has by now been interred in the meme graveyard. By the...
Beef has a double meaning. On the one hand it is meat, and on the other a feud. The latter definition holds sway in “Beef 2,” an eight-episode...
Many US residents around my age, especially men, have a story regarding the first time they read Rolling Stone magazine. Mine goes something like...
Presidents release their federal spending priorities annually in the form of a federal budget proposal. This is a moral rather than a practical...
On April 21, a majority of Virginia voters said “yes” to a ballot measure allowing the state’s US House districts to be redrawn for the benefit...
Every now and then a book gets published that offers a Big Picture critique of how things have gotten so messed up along with a proposal for...
The current failing effort to make Iran out to be a major threat to world peace starts the clock at 1979 in its propaganda effort to justify U.S....
Take it from a veteran who’s been homeless: Just because you see me in the streets doesn’t mean I’m not working. After their service, many...
While Donald Trump’s request for a $1.5 trillion military budget has dominated the headlines, significantly less attention has been paid to the...
There are moments in public discourse that do not surprise by their content—because they belong to well-established ideological patterns of the...
Among this writer’s rather expansive range of acquaintance is a young woman who periodically accesses a website where she meets wealthy men, and...
Amidst yet another year of startling declines for democracies everywhere, Hungary has seemingly defied the odds. Despite being the poster boy of the...
“We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster’s whim and the...
Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first and only left-leaning president, leaves office soon. First round voting takes place on May 31. Iván Cepeda,...
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank welcome back Ramzy Baroud to discuss his new book, Before the Flood, a...
Reports of food shortages on naval ships deployed to the Middle East. Video footage of disabled military veterans—some in wheelchairs, others...
The market for oil is global, which is why events like the war in Iran affect oil prices – and prices of the wide range of products made from oil...
No matter how much Teflon Trump seeks to let nothing stick, it is now quite clear that the United States has suffered an ignoble defeat in Iran. His...
Back in February, the Trump administration announced sweeping overhauls that would radically weaken the Operational Test for the 2030 Census. The test...
In Cuba, hardship is not abstract. On my most recent visit, I watched residents use metal rods to probe beneath the pavement for water lines because...
When we look at data on life expectancy, that seems like a reasonable question to ask. We can argue over the causes and mechanisms, but it is an...
On April 14, President Lula submitted a bill to Congress that, if passed, will reduce Brazil’s work week to 40 hours. It was submitted under the...
It is tempting to argue that Israel’s new military doctrine is predicated on perpetual war—but the reality is more complex. Not that Israeli Prime...
Presidents have been perverting "consent of the governed" for centuries. “Consent of the governed” was a signature line of the Declaration of...
2025 was a year in which the ten wealthiest did quite well for themselves as did the rest of their cohorts among both the wealthiest .1% and the...
Jack Evans’ bid for DC Council chairman has ended with a whimper. Unable to collect enough signatures to get on the ballot, Evans dropped out of the...
The Earth is in a fine mess, but human beings sealed in laboratories full of energy and vigour, attached to screens, and running tests about...
The Trump administration has been working fervently to silence political dissent. The State Department has revoked the visas of students who have...
When he’s on full blast, Donald Trump (not so long ago the “drill, baby, drill” candidate for president) is distinctly a furnace. And he seems...
Prologue: Trump and the Pope The US-Israeli war against Iran / Persia did more than rain bombs on Iran, Lebanon and throughout the Middle East. It...
The invisible forest is made up Of trees (of beeches/books Made up of leaves Turning Invisibly, this forest Through which we walk Determining our...
Last month, on March 24, Idris Robinson, a philosophy professor at Texas State University, filed a lawsuit against the university for wrongful...
Depending on which historical sources you care to consult, the Pope has been a figure of obloquy, ridicule and abomination. This mediator between the...
Imagine a neighborhood that resulted from a Commune-ity of efforts and, is now, filled with distrust, accusations, monetary hoarding, spying, and...
I’m going back to harping on one of my favorite topics, because it is really necessary right now. The $1.5 trillion that Donald Trump is asking for...
I have sought out the following to show that peace can be mutual across warring sides. The key is not to drift into maudlinness or sentimentality....
Much of the criticism aimed at Trump for taking the United States into the ruinous Iran war concerns his alleged authoritarian departure from...
Vijay Prashad and Tings Chak’s article in Monthly Review, “The Idea of the ‘Uyghur Genocide’ and the Realities of Xinjiang,” is among the...
The Ludlow Massacre in 1914 on this site brought congressional attention to miners’ labor rights in Colorado. Denver Public Library On a spring...
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