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Perhaps Trump will now replace Joe Kent with Newt Gingrich, who is very, very strong on security. So strong that Newt, the Edward Teller of our...
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?...
Eleven months. That’s how long it took DHS to admit that one of its immigration agents killed Ruben Ray Martinez as he sat in his car on South Padre...
Sick of watching, reading and writing about yet another war, Lola and I took off for one of my favorite retreats in the Pacific Northwest, variously...
Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons. Iran has none. If Iran were really planning a preemptive strike on Israel, that would pretty much invalidate...
Trump has done the world a service. He has abandoned pretense and clarified the true nature of American power. There is no longer any need to...
The relentless exploitation of victims of tragedies and their families to advance his fascist policies is one of the most grotesque set-pieces in...
Jesse Jackson’s two runs, in 1984 and 1988, were the last Democratic presidential campaigns I had any interest in joining. Those campaigns, which,...
let’s venerate the brave souls of the Twin Cities, who came together to protect their neighbors from an invading force of masked paramilitaries....
By the time Klaus Barbie went on the payroll of an American intelligence organization in 1947, he had lived several lifetimes of human vileness....
By the time Klaus Barbie went on the payroll of an American intelligence organization in 1947, he had lived several lifetimes of human vileness....
If the ranks of ICE had been filled by a draft, we wouldn't be seeing this kind of mass brutality. Normal human beings would recoil from committing...
For the past 20 years, Juan Hernández has run his own tree-trimming company. He has his own crew. He pays them more than minimum wage and provides...
I started getting press calls about Chomsky and Epstein yesterday, before I’d looked at the new revelations and saw just how deep the relationship...
Now that white people in the northern states are being shot, gassed, beaten and killed, there is an eruption of national outrage over the...
Here’s what I saw after watching multiple videos of the execution of Alexi Pretti: VA nurse Alex Pretti, whom Gregory Bovino said wanted to do...
Trump left for the elite meet-and-greet at Davos in one of his manic phases. He’d just spent the previous two days trash-talking, bragging about his...
It's revolting, but hardly surprising, that a woman (Kristi Noem) who thought bragging about the time she shot her puppy in the head for disobeying a...
Jazz is music made in the moment and our moment is an increasingly perilous one. As a writer trying to keep up, I often feel as if I’ve exhausted...
Many of the people who have spent the last five years denouncing the killing of Ashli Babbitt for raiding the Capitol in an attempt to overturn an...
The cocksure boast that the US will "run" Venezuela appears to be another Trumpian fantasy. It’s impossible to “run a country,” if you don’t...
A year into Trump’s mass purge of immigrants from the United States, it’s beyond debate that the people orchestrating and conducting the raids,...
2025 will go down as the second or third hottest year on record. The last decade has been the hottest decade in human history. Driven by drought...
Donald Trump often doesn’t know what he’s talking about and no one else does either. But when he talks, people still listen, trying to make sense...
America, América: A New History of the New World Greg Grandin (Penguin/Random House) Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea...
…A dream I had Of a world all mad. Not a simple happy mad like me, Who am mad like an empty scene Of water and willow tree, Where the wind hath...
Reiner was a liberal Democrat to the core. Blinded by party loyalty, he became a hardboiled Russiagater and offered excuses for many inexcusable acts...
A synecdoche is a figure of speech where an individual event is used to represent the whole story. You’d be hard-pressed to find a more exact and...
The double-tap strikes are appalling and illegal, but Hegseth is merely following the bloody path Barack Obama blazed. Obama's drone assassination...
The CIA’s role in assassination is one of those topics handled gingerly by the press or Congress from time to time and then hastily put aside, with...
So it's no surprise thatTrump did more than receive MBS with diplomatic niceties. He lavished praise on the smirking Prince with the eagerness if a...
So it's no surprise thatTrump did more than receive MBS with diplomatic niceties. He lavished praise on the smirking Prince with the eagerness if a...
After sweeping the elections last week, the Democrats agreed to a deal to end the shutdown that gave them almost nothing and could have been made...
The bipartisan whitewashing of Dick Cheney is as much of a perversion of US history as Trump's eliding any mention of the horrors of slavery, the...
There’s no more pungent symbol of the corrupt nature of the Bush administration’s invasion and occupation of Iraq than Halliburton, the Houston,...
CounterPunch went online just in time for Clinton’s war on Serbia. Clinton’s war was premeditated; our transit to the World Wide Web was...
CounterPunch went online just in time for Clinton’s war on Serbia. Clinton’s war was premeditated; our transit to the World Wide Web was...
CounterPunch went online just in time for Clinton’s war on Serbia. Clinton’s war was premeditated; our transit to the World Wide Web was...
More than half of new ICE recruits failed an open-book test after taking a course on Immigration and the Fourth Amendment. This pervasive...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
The fatal flaw in Donald Trump's scheme to whitewash American history of its most depraved and embarrassing episodes is that his administration is...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Many of those righteously condemning the rise of "political violence" have supported two years of genocidal violence in Gaza and recently celebrated...
Last weekend, the New York Times ran an excerpt from a forthcoming biography of Lin-Manuel Miranda under the headline: “How Lin-Manuel Miranda...
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