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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...
As the recently announced truce between the U.S.-Israel and Iran hobbles along, one must wonder if the two-week cease-fire will hold, let alone lead...
After being out of fashion since the beatnik-hippie era of the 1950s through early ‘70s, beards, mustaches and the perpetual 5 o’clock shadow are...
When the U.S. goes to war, it goes to win – and to win, it kills and kills. The U.S-Israel war against Iran began on February 28, 2026. On March...
On December 1, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) initiated “Operating Metro Surge” in Minneapolis, MN. It deployed personnel from...
There are two wars taking place in Iran – one being fought by the United States, the other by Israel. For the U.S., the war against Iran is a war of...
Jules Dassin’s classic film noir of New York, The Naked City, was released in 1948. It’s a police investigation of a young woman’s murder and...
When was the last time you watched a porn flick? It doesn’t matter whether you are a woman or a man, whether straight or gay, whether you watched...
CounterPunch recently republished two compelling articles about Herbert Marcuse. Charles Reitz’s study, “When Marxist Intellectuals Collaborated...
Thank you, Ken Klippenstein. Kippenstein’s recent discussions of Att. Gen. Pam Bondi’s Memo “Ending Political Violence Against ICE” and...
For regular viewers of Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! Program, she and her team recently reported from the COP30 conference in Belém,...
Since the nation’s founding, those in authority have sought to promote a morality of “family values” anchored in a belief in the patriarchal,...
Donald Trump secured the presidency by forging a scary coalition of conservative forces and effectively playing upon many Americans worst fears. His...
Old New York The New York City that Zohran Mamdani will likely take responsibility for as the next mayor is a different city than it was in the 1975...
Are Donald Trump and his associates planning a coup if they lose control of Congress following a possible Democratic victory in the 2026 elections? ...
The current presidential administration has become a “manosphere,” a growing cult championing male supremacy. Its champions are led by: •...
Pres. Donald Trump is imposing a right-wing political ideology and practice that increasingly resembles what Christ Hedges has dubbed “Christian...
On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk, a Christian nationalist activist and superstar MAGA organizer, was fatally shot while addressing an audience on...
The concept of “utopia” has essentially disappeared from the American vocabulary. Amidst all the 2024 electoral clamor and Donald Trump’s call...
In 1895, Theodor Herzl, the founder of the Zionist movement, asserted: “We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by...
What if Zohran Mamdani, the Social Democratic candidate, wins the November 4th general election and becomes New York’s next mayor? Pres. Donald...
Donald Trump successfully championed anti-immigrant hysteria during his 2024 (re)election campaign … and it worked. Once in office, immigration...
Young people like watching pornography. In 2023, an estimated 68 percent of U.S. adolescents viewed online pornography. A 2022 survey of more...
Donald Trump is a dangerous president. His rallying slogan, “Make America Great Again,” bespeaks a crisis that not only defines the nation but...
In May 1979 Jerry Falwell invited a select group of Christian conservative leaders to a strategic planning retreat at his Lynchburg, VA,...
On January 29th, newly installed Pres. Donald Trump issued the following Executive Order: “I hereby direct the Secretary of Defense and the...
Nearing the end of his first term, on September 18, 2020, Pres. Donald Trump invoked the “racehorse theory” at a campaign rally in Bemidji, MN,...
On January 30, 2025, Pres. Donald Trump issued “Executive Order to Combat Anti-Semitism” in which he “promised” that the U.S. government...