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The annual climate summits attended by government officials and fossil fuel representatives have long been a farce. Lots of talking, followed by vows...
Israeli leaders’ game plan for wiping out southern Lebanese society is more or less the same one they’ve followed in Gaza and the West Bank. They...
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, host Tori Tsui talks to Sean Adams, founder of Drowned in Sound. Tori and Sean talk about Spotify, AI,...
The U.S. military has been carrying out extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean and Pacific over the past nine months with impunity. On May 8, the...
We are living through an era in which truth is under siege, where the language of justice has been emptied of meaning, where cruelty is too often...
General Michael Flynn, Trump’s former National Security advisor, boasted to the Young America Foundation soon after Trump’s first election victory...
As we still try to come to terms with Israel’s countless barbaric crimes in its genocide in Gaza, as well as its cruelty in the occupied West Bank,...
The film operated according to a different logic altogether. Not frivolous, exactly, but curiously unanchored. It was as though the relationship...
“Journalism is an essential pillar of democracy,” observed Irene Khan, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression on May 3,...
The dismantling of the Voting Rights Act begun by the Supreme Court in the case of Shelby County v. Holder in 2013 was completed this last month by...
We often laud China for its boom in renewable energy projects, but seem to ignore the fact that it’s still building coal-fired power plants at a...
The economic war on Cuba, which has been going on in one form or another for more than six decades, has increasingly become a war waged on Cuban...
That the Trump lawsuit is frivolous is beside the point, just as it was when the former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn sued the U.S....
From Beijing this week, the first US state visit to China in nine years is being staged for the world to see. The Great Hall of the People is open to...
On May 8, the Republican-controlled legislature of Tennessee passed new redistricting maps that divide Memphis’s 63 percent Black population across...
In May, 2025, a restaurant worker in Thailand asked an Israeli tourist to remove her shoes before entering the establishment, a traditional cultural...
Back when George W. Bush was doing his big drive to privatize Social Security, I got upset because he was using bogus numbers that grossly exaggerated...
As a Palestinian born in the 21st century, I am the generational product of Nakba survivors and the trauma that came with it. As distant as it may...
Late last month, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. testified that he was making Long COVID a top priority, noting that...
The United States government, under first Biden and now Trump, has launched a full-scale assault on one of the most courageous and honest voices at...
Guns or butter. Butter or guns. Can we have both? If not, which should come first? Consider it one of those chicken-and-egg conundrums of modern...
What would it take for tens of millions of US-Americans to take to the streets on a regular basis, rising in a sustained mass movement to cancel...
In recent weeks and months, Washington has intensified its long-running campaign of collective punishment against the Cuban people. Escalating...
So, another motherfucker took a shot at the president; another bored kid with a gun and an iPhone looking for immortality in all the wrong places. The...
The video is horrifying, though it is the kind of horror now synonymous with the behavior of Israel, its military, its armed settlers, and society...
It’s hard to avoid noticing, and internally screaming over, the Trump administration’s proposed military budget upgrade to $1.5 trillion annually...
In Baltimore on Oct. 20, 2025, a 17-year-old student named Taki Allen was sitting outside his high school after football practice when an artificial...
Three brave men took their seats in front of 12 Honey Buns and one cup of water each. Close by was a triple-lined garbage can, just in case....
When I spoke with Palestinians, the things that they were most afraid of, the things that they were most fearful of, was what the Israelis would do to...
One of the most common misconceptions about aquaculture is that it reduces pressure on wild fish populations. In reality, fish farming often...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Review Council finally released its recommendations last week, and they were a mix of what most close...
They make you do it – they, in this case, being the folly-fouled leaders of educational institutions – because it’s all in the name of...
At the end of Caroline Fraser’s disturbing discussion of three books on the waste crisis that is harming the poor and destroying the globe, she...
There is widespread concern that AI will lead to mass unemployment in the years ahead. As I and others have pointed out, we have yet to see any...
Senate Republicans, the Associated Press reports, plan to give the Secret Service $1 billion for “security upgrades” to president Donald Trump’s...
The CBS Sunday Morning program, “Next: Cuba?” which aired on April 26th, presented a discussion of the recent intensification of sanctions on and...
Tearing down old, affordable housing in the name of progress is an old story. Oregon Public Broadcasting details a slice of mid-20th-century Portland...
We are living, indubitably, in an age of post-truth — an era in which falsehoods, distortions, and manufactured narratives often prevail over facts...
Yes, I’m still trying to write a book. Meanwhile, horrific wars rage and the outrage I feel quietly morphs into helplessness and then, after a...
The apparent widespread popularity of Nayib Bukele’s government (regime) acts as a sophisticated media smokescreen. Under the guise of effectiveness...
Appalachia has been here before. Not the lithium part, but the part where something valuable gets discovered underneath people who have been poor for...
The war resides mostly in the background here in the aggressor nation. Most of those who think about it at all tend to oppose it and seem to think...
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum posted this cartoon of himself with ‘Coalie,’ a lump of coal. Interior Secretary Doug Burgam/X If you follow the...
Call it what it is: a heist. The corruption, cronyism, and self-dealing that now define the American government—under Donald Trump in...
Since Trump began his war on Iran, there have been a number of occasions where the price of oil futures tumbles just before Trump issues one of his...
A Universal Basic Income (UBI) has long been proposed as a way to cushion the blow of jobs lost to automation. Under that model, everyone receives a...
He has blockaded Cuba, and now he’s expanded the sanctions. Donald “Uber-Capitalist” Trump is relentless in his war on this tiny nation of 11...
Last week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth urged Congress to pass a 2027 Pentagon budget of 1.5 trillion dollars. He justified the increase by saying we...
After British troops had beaten German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s tank forces at the Second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt on November 4, 1942,...
Earlier this year, when ICE invaded Minneapolis in a horrific siege that is no longer discussed but is absolutely ongoing, my home in the heart of...
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