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Roaming Charges: Grave Disorders

More than half of new ICE recruits failed an open-book test after taking a course on Immigration and the Fourth Amendment. This pervasive...

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Let the Work Speak for Itself

So my appeal to you in these desperate hours for the Republic is an appeal to reason, an appeal to the importance of facts, an appeal to political...

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Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: an Appeal in a Time of Darkness

We're not afraid, we're not trembling and our objective as journalists remains the same as it was in the 1990s when the first CounterPunch newsletter...

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The Mirror Stage of US Politics

The US has been transformed into a mirror world, the mirror world of a pathological narcissist, a world of reverse images where victims are flipped...

23.10.2025 20

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Roaming Charges: Aspirations to Omnipotence

Maria Greeley was on her way to work at the Beach Bar in Chicago, when she was accosted by three ICE agents. Fearing she might be targeted by ICE,...

17.10.2025 4

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Roaming Charges: United States of Emergency

The fatal flaw in Donald Trump's scheme to whitewash American history of its most depraved and embarrassing episodes is that his administration is...

10.10.2025 20

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Roaming Charges: He Loves a (Thin) Man in Uniform

When Ralph Nader campaigned on"cutting fat" from the Pentagon, he was referring to the budget, and big ticket weapons systems like SDI and the F-35,...

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Roaming Charges: What’s the Frequency, Donald?

I gave up long ago on the utility of psychoanalyzing Trump. His pathologies seem so all-encompassing and theatrical as to defy interpretation, even by...

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Strange Things

X-ray of Mira, a four-year-old Palestinian girl, shot in the head by an Israeli sniper. Photo: Mimi Sayed. X-ray of Mira, a four-year-old Palestinian...

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An Occurence in Orem: Notes on the Murder of Charlie Kirk

Back in 2003,  during peak post-9/11/Iraq War patriotic fever, when, as Dylan said of the McCarthy Era, “as long as you don’t say nothing, you...

16.09.2025 6

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Roaming Charges: The Broken Jaws of Our Lost Kingdom

Many of those righteously condemning the rise of "political violence" have supported two years of genocidal violence in Gaza and recently celebrated...

12.09.2025 40

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The NYT, Hurricane Ishmael and the Reputation of Lin-Manuel Miranda

Last weekend, the New York Times ran an excerpt from a forthcoming biography of Lin-Manuel Miranda under the headline: “How Lin-Manuel Miranda...

09.09.2025 20

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Roaming Charges: Multiple Megalomaniacs

There is no legal justification for Trump's military strike on an alleged "drug boat" off the coast of Venezuela. The boat, a simple speedboat, posed...

05.09.2025 10

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Defender of the Backwoods: The Good Life of Andy Mahler

Andy Mahler, the valiant defender of America’s backwoods, lived in and learned from the forests he spent much of his life fighting to protect from...

01.09.2025 10

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Gaza Diary: Can You Imagine?

Can you imagine being a reporter in Gaza, knowing that you're on a target list by Israel simply because you are a reporter and feeling compelled to...

29.08.2025 10

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Roaming Charges: From of the Mouths of Madness

ack in April, Jesús Escalona Mújicas was on his way to his job at a construction site when he was pulled over by federal immigration officers and...

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Can’t Quit the Blues: the Electrifications of Otis Rush

In 1969, after nearly 14 years of constant gigging in small blues clubs and cutting scorching singles for obscure labels, songs that received limited...

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Evil Under the Sun

Saif Helles, a child from Gaza City, died of starvation. This image of young Saif’s emaciated body, as striking as Mantegna’s Lamentation of the...

16.08.2025 3

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Evil Under the Sun

At some point in Israel’s starvation of Gaza, hunger stopped being just physical, and started to erode the mind. You would see people wandering...

16.08.2025 3

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The Mirror Stage of US Politics

The US has been transformed into a mirror world, the mirror world of a pathological narcissist, a world of reverse images where victims are flipped...

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Roaming Charges: From Police State to Military Police State

DC was a much rougher place and poorer, though more vibrant, city in the 70s and 80s than it is now that it's been almost completely gentrified. I...

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Through the Eyes of Lee Miller

When the US entered the war, Miller went back to work for American Vogue and followed the D-Day landings into France. She was no embedded reporter. In...

10.08.2025 10

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Roaming Charges: Empire of the Downpresser Men

Just days after a federal appeals court upheld a ban on ICE using roving patrols and racial profiling to target immigrants, Trump’s secret police...

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A World in Search of Its Conscience

Living in Gaza now requires a choreography of absence. We don’t walk; we drift. We don’t eat; we search. We don’t sleep; we remain alert, ears...

02.08.2025 4

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Through the Eyes of Lee Miller

When the US entered the war, Miller went back to work for American Vogue and followed the D-Day landings into France. She was no embedded reporter. In...

02.08.2025 10

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Roaming Charges: Something’s Gone Wrong Again

This was the week the worms turned. Some of them, anyway: A super majority of Americans now oppose Israel’s genocide in Gaza; Bari Weiss and Donald...

01.08.2025 10

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What is a Palestinian-American’s Life Worth?

And why would the Israelis aggressively pursue holding the killers to account? The settlers are agents of the regime. Indeed, they are the leading...

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The Mob Murder of Saif Musallet

His family and friends called him Saif. He was affable and gregarious. He was kind and generous. He was handsome and athletic. He helped run the...

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Roaming Charges: Masked and Anonymous

George Retes was pulled over by ICE as he was driving near the violent raid on farm workers outside of Camarillo last Thursday. The ICE agents broke...

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What Would You Wear to Celebrate a War Criminal?

What would you wear to the feting of a man wanted for war crimes, who is currently supervising a genocide? Jackie Rosen wore pink. Amy Klobochar chose...

12.07.2025 5

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Roaming Charges: Heckuva Job, Puppy Slayer!

While offering his “thoughts and prayers” for the families of those drowned in the Texas floods, JD Vance referred to the killer torrents that...

11.07.2025 10

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Sound Grammar: Francis Davis and the Best Jazz of 2025, So Far

I bought my first jazz LP in 1974 at a headshop called Karma on the southside of Indianapolis, thinking it was a rock record: Birds of Fire by the...

09.07.2025 10

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When the Helping Hand Holds a Machine Gun

These killings weren’t accidents. They weren’t provoked. They didn’t come about as an attempt to quell riots. The people killed were not...

04.07.2025 5

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When the Helping Hand Holds a Machine

These killings weren’t accidents. They weren’t provoked. They didn’t come about as an attempt to quell riots. The people killed were not...

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When the Helping Hand Holds a Machine Gun

There’s no precise number for how many Palestinians have been starved to death by Israel’s embargo on food entering Gaza. But there is a number...

28.06.2025 20

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Roaming Charges: After Midnight

Trump mega-bombed a mountain in Iran and called it peace. Unfortunately, he didn’t bomb what was beneath the mountain. If anything. If the...

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Tears of Rage, Tears of Grief

June 1 to June 6 Here’s a U.S. senator urging Israel to sink a boat bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza and kill activist Greta Thunberg. This is no...

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Roaming Charges: Neo-Conned Again!

Using Israel's logic for attacking Iran (to protect itself from (non-existent) Iranian nuclear weapons), every country in the Middle East (and beyond)...

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Roaming Charges: From the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Venice Beach

The last time a President deployed the National Guard to a state over the objections of the governor was in 1965, when LBJ sent them to protect Civil...

13.06.2025 20

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Roaming Charges: The Delicate Sound of Plunder

Back in March, the Trump administration bragged about raiding a big Tren de Aragua gathering" in the Texas hill country outside of Austin. Forty-five...

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When the Dead Speak and the Living Refuse to Listen

In this time of silence, many of the words that are spoken have lost all meaning. In fact, their meaning has been inverted, twisted inside out....

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Roaming Charges: White Lies About White Genocide

White genocide? There were 27,621 murders in South Africa in 2023, more than 80 percent of them young, black males, who were poor or unemployed....

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Roaming Charges: White Lies About White Genocide

White genocide? There were 27,621 murders in South Africa in 2023, more than 80 percent of them young, black males, who were poor or unemployed....

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Return to Alcatraz: a Photo Essay

Trump, ever in search of sadistic pleasures, wants his own CECOT-like prison to intern what he calls America’s “most vicious and violent...

21.05.2025 20

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Roaming Charges: Sturm und Drang Warnings

As a parable from the past to help us come to grips with our perilous present, you could do worse than screen Storm Warning, the 1951 noir that may be...

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A Silence That Kills

The problem with writing about Gaza is that words can’t explain what’s happening in Gaza. Neither can images, even the most gut-wrenching and...

10.05.2025 3

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Roaming Charges: 100 Days of Turpitude

America finally got its Pope, but not the reactionary, the Opus Dei wing was furiously lobbying for. And not an anti-abortion zealot like Cardinal...

09.05.2025 20

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Roaming Charges: Judge Not, Lest Ye be…Jailed

What if the remarkable string of federal court decisions against Trump’s policies (several rendered by his own appointees) isn’t evidence of an...

02.05.2025 40

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Roaming Charges: Show Us Your Papers!

American citizens are being routinely caught in Trump’s deportation dragnet, detained, jailed, and threatened with deportation, even a four-year-old...

28.04.2025 6

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Living on the Cliff’s Edge: the Ruins of Puyé, Pope Francis and the Fate of the Earth

On the day Pope Francis released his encyclical on the fate of the Earth, I was struggling to climb a near vertical cliff on the Parajito Plateau of...

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