- + The West Bank’s Men of the CIA – Why is the PA Killing Palestinians in Jenin? —Image by Tahir osman. Following a ten-day siege, the Palestinian Authority began, on December 14, a violent raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the ...
- + Raise a Glass With William Hazlitt!—Self-portrait by William Hazlitt, 1802. Public Domain. This is an editoed version of Alexander Cockburn’s 2010 Xmas essay for CounterPunch....
- + A Note on Trade and Inequality—Trans-oceanic cargo ship on the Columbia River. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Oren Cass, the head economist of Compass, had a column in the New York...
- + The Massacre of the Innocents Goes On —Massacre of the Innocents by Peter Paul Rubens. (1612) The biblical narrative of Herod’s decision to butcher some 3,000 innocent children inspired...
- + Perp Walk 101: Don’t Make the Guy Look Amazing—A depiction of Mangione as a Christ figure with the Sacred Heart, as seen hanging in a pizzeria near his hometown of Towson, Maryland – Public D...
- + What If Jesus Had Been Born into the American Police State?—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are hom...
- + Solstice, Bloody Solstice: Thoughts on the Darkest Day—Photograph Source: Summer Solstice Sunrise over Stonehenge – CC BY-SA 2.0 What the Romans called “the new sun” has risen. The seed catalog...
- + Booked Up: the 15 Best Books of 2024—If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose Refaat Alareer (OR Books) The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888 Robin Blackburn ...
- + The West, Gaza, and the Global Majority: A Relationship Reshaped by Genocide and the End of His-Story—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Since the beginning of this century, triggered by the US’s illegal invasion of Iraq, its occupation of Afghanist...
- + Take Me to Your Leader—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Strong, visionary, decisive leadership has been missing for so long in America, we don’t even know what it looks...
- + A Global Minimum Wage Would Reduce Poverty and Corporate Power—Image by Arno Senoner. In today’s world of widespread poverty and unprecedented wealth, how about raising the wages of the most poorly paid worker...
- + The Future of Our Food is Not in Vast Factory Farms—Comic strip mocking George Orwell’s Animal Farm. UK Foreign Office copy of the comic strip by Norman Pett. UK National Archives, 1950. Wikipedia Commo...
- + Napoleon Trump? A Glyph—The post Napoleon Trump? A Glyph appeared first on CounterPunch.org . [Category: articles 2015]
- + Three Declarations of Genocide and the U.S. Responses—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Three recent reports by respected international humanitarian organizations have generated global approbation;...
- + Palestinian Authority: Protecting the “Homeland,” or a New Zionist Bantustan—Image by Planet Volumes. Since the 1993 Oslo Accord, Israel has invaded Jenin Camp numerous times. The City of Jenin and the nearby camp are in wh...
- + After the Fall of Assad: The Struggle for a Free Syria—Syrians have overthrown Bashar al-Assad’s brutal dictatorship, liberated cities, freed political prisoners, and opened space to struggle for an ...
- + Catching Pegasus: Mercenary Spyware and the Liability of the NSO Group—The NSO Group, Israel’s darling of malware infection and surveillance for the global security market, was the brainchild of three engineers drawn fr...
- + Happy Holidays (There Ought to be a Law to Help With That)—Photograph Source: Corey Coyle – CC BY 3.0 It’s “year in review” time for most political columnists, so here’s my opinion on 2024, along w...
- + Is Russia’s Mutual Defense Pact With North Korea Truly Mutual?—Photograph Source: Kremlin.ru – CC BY 4.0 Against the backdrop of nearly 11 years of total war in Ukraine, Russia and North Korea are incr...
- + Israelis Invade Syria: Who Will Stop Israel?—Image by Alex Shuper. The United States, Turkey and Israel all responded to the fall of the Assad government in Damascus by launching bombing camp...
- + On the Consciousness of Cephalopods—A deepwater octopus investigates the port manipulator arm of the ALVIN submersible research vessel. NOAA, CC BY. We named him Squirt – not becaus...
- + The Syrian People Have Freed Themselves, Who Will Wake the Amnesiacs?—Thousands and thousands of Syrians of all ages dancing and embracing, weeping and singing, waving the country’s new flag and celebrating the end...
- + Political Economy Contradictions as We Lurch Into 2025—Photograph Source: Office of Speaker Mike Johnson – Public Domain The Republicans (GOP), traditionally the U.S.’s anti-tax party, now promis...
- + Schools are No Place for the ADL—November 15, 2023. Jewish Voice for Peace shuts down Hollywood Blvd. to protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Launched in 1913 to counter antis...
- + The Strike at Kaiser Permanente: California Mental Healthcare Workers Demand Parity—The behavioral healthcare workers in Kaiser Permanente’s vast empire of hospitals, clinics medical offices, and homecare settings are on strike today ...
- + Israel to Annex the West Bank – Why Now? And What are the Likely Scenarios?—Image by Ash Hayes. Israel is getting ready to annex the occupied Palestinian West Bank. The annexation will be a major step backward on the road ...
- + OpenAI is Using its Technology to Kill—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Earlier this month, the company that brings us ChatGPT announced its partnership with California-based weapo...
- + Swallowing Syria—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the summit of Mt. Hermon in Syria, Dec 17, 2024. (Photo: Screenshot/GPO). I am finding it very hard to swallo...
- + Fixing the Media and Campaign Spending by the Rich—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Virtually everyone, except Elon Musk, agrees that the rich have too much political power these days. When a sing...
- + The Strawman of Antisemitism: Banning Protests Against Israel Down Under—Photograph Source: Byron Wu – CC BY 4.0 Of late, a spate of incidents has taken place in Australia giving sheer delight to the simian-rese...
- + Enrollment in Nature Schools Soars as Families Rediscover the Benefits of Outdoor Learning—Photo by Annie Spratt Author, journalist, and child advocacy expert Richard Louv famously coined the term “nature deficit disorder” to describe...
- + Besieged and Bombed Amid Famine, Hundreds of Thousands of IDPs Struggle to Survive in Darfur—Zamzam Refugee Camp is located in Sudan. Image Source: TUBS – CC BY-SA 3.0 The lives of hundreds of thousands in the famine-struck Zamzam ...
- + Looking Backward, Autobiographically—It’s reached that time again, a time to look forward but also, for an old geezer like me, to look backward. Being 96 for a while yet (until March), I...
- + Long Island’s Station of Intolerance.—The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a private research laboratory, is located on Long Island, New York, where I live. Its outrageous history is detaile...
- + A Nation of Immigrants?—Image by Tim Mossholder. Image by Tim Mossholder. Image by Tim Mossholder. Image by Tim Mossholder. Image by Tim Mossholder. Image by Tim Mossholder. ...
- + Mexico’s Dirty War, 50 Years Later—“We’ve shown that this struggle is not in vain. We are here, the relatives and survivors of the Dirty War, and thanks to our relatives who...
- + “We Just Do What the Israelis Want Us to Do”—+ On December 15, an Israeli missile struck the third floor of a UNRWA school in al Mawasi camp outside Khan Younis, killing more than a dozen Palesti...
- + US China Policy: Too Late, Too Little to Offer—Biden’s meeting with Xi Jinping in Woodside, California, November 15, 2023. Photo: US State Department. U.S. presidents nearing the end of t...
- + “Está Cabrón”: An End-of-Year Reflection on a World at the Crossroads—Lake Toronto in central south Chihuahua. If you look closely you can see the water line on the embankment and just how far it’s gone down. Photo: Todd...
- + Hell and High Water: the Year in Climate Chaos—Industrial plants, Port of Longview. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. 2024 will be the warmest year on record, the year warming topped 1.5 degrees Celsiu...
- + Silky Shah & Eman Abdelhadi: The Battles Ahead—Photograph of Silky Shah (left) and Eman Abdelhadi (right) On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Silky Shah and Eman Abdelhadi join Joshua Frank ...
- + Did Putin Make a Deal Over Syria?—Putin meeting with Bashar al-Assad. Photo: Valery Sharifulin, TASS. The lightning collapse of the Assad government in Syria in recent weeks made i...
- + The West’s Romance With Elections Is Dead…the Rules-Based Order Killed It—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair It’s been a bad few months for democracy. Election results offensive to the European Union were annulled in Ro...
- + My Hunger Strike for Gaza: A 31 Day Experience—Leslie Angeline. When Northern Gaza was placed under a complete siege, the Biden Administration issued a warning that if conditions didn’t improve...
- + Kill the Non-Profit Killer Bill—This fall, shortly after the election, the House passed a dangerous piece of legislation that many are calling the “nonprofit killer” bill. The b...
- + Dismantling the ‘Climate Alarm Industry’ Per Project 2025—Image by Mika Baumeister. The definition of alarm: “A warning of danger” (Merriam-Webster) according to The State of the Climate Report 2024 , ...
- + Part Two: Resisting Authoritarian Populism—Image by Pau Casals. The illusion that the Democratic Party could be transformed into a workers party has kept the Left, social movements, and uni...
- + The Never-Ending Legacy of the War on Terror—Image by Aidan Bartos. Post-election America finds itself in a panic. Voices from across a wide political spectrum warn that the country stands on...
- + The Infant Revolution in Bach’s Christmas Music—Albrecht Dürer, Adoration of the Magi, 1504.Uffizi, Florence. (public domain) Christmas is a dangerous time, for it threatens social instability, ...
- + The Genocide Drags On—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair It has become background noise. We know it is happening, but we can almost forget that it continues at a barbari...
- + Sweeps Don’t Solve Homelessness—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair This summer, the Supreme Court’s Grants Pass ruling made it much easier for local governments to criminalize...
- + Poetry and Revolution: Audre Lorde’s Prayers to the World—Photograph Source: K. Kendall – CC BY 2.0 Sometime in the 1970s, probably at an event in the San Francisco Bay Area, I heard Audre Lorde r...
- + The Annihilation of a Nation—Photo by Mohammed Ibrahim The bombardment of Gaza is relentless, indiscriminate and all encompassing, and whilst weak Western governments refuse...
- + A Solstice Meditation: Out of the Darkness Comes the Light—Approaching the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice, it is a time for reflection. These are the darkest days of the year, but the light will...
- + Leaving Trumpsylvania—Art by Sue Coe, American photo books, Breuer tables in apartment in Norwich, U.K. December 2024. Photo: The author. Initial reconnaissance I’...
- + How the Establishment Press Bolster Genocide: News Abuse in Corporate News Coverage of Israel’s Assault on Gaza—Since October 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel, news coverage by the most prominent US outlets of Israel’s assault on Gaza and its Palestinia...
- + Polarizing Brain-Rot Enshittification—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Dictionaries have selected enshittification , brain-rot and polarization as their 2024 Words of the Year ....
- + Feeding Chaos: Israel Cripples Syria’s Defence—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The justifications are always the same. We are moving into territory for security reasons. We are creating a ...
- + Trump’s 2017 tax cuts Made Income Inequality Worse, Especially for Black Americans—The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act , a set of tax cuts Donald Trump signed into law during his first term as president, will expire on Dec. 31, 2024. As Trump...
- + New Jersey Drones: Policy Follows Panic…Ineffectually —Photo by Jonathan Martin Pisfil On December 18, the Federal Aviation Administration issued an alert banning drone flights over parts of New Je...
- + The State and the Schoolhouse: Reviving the Dialectic and Critical Pedagogy —Sculpture, Wayne State University. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Cybernetic Society and the Descent of Dialectical Thought We lack the tools to c...
- + How AI’s Energy Demands Fuel the Climate Crisis—Google data center in The Dalles, Oregon. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 . Texas’ electrical grid made national headlines in the winter of 2021 w...
- + Trump is Stoking His Admininstration With Self-Dealing Billioinaires—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Howard Lutnick wants to have his cake and eat it, too. Then, he intends to eat your cake. Lutnick is ano...
- + Ghastly Glimpses of America’s Most Rich-People-Friendly Year—Ally Financial Tower, Detroit. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The good times — for America’s super wealthy — are now rolling way past good. Our richest...
- + Bring Back Normalization With Cuba—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Ten years ago, the U.S. and Cuba announced the start of normalization between our two countries. Americans and C...
- + An Emerging U.S. Health Care Politics?—Photo by Tim Cooper In his new Netflix special, entertainer Jamie Foxx shares that he suffered a debilitating stroke. The $4.5 trillion U.S. h...
- + Napoleon by Bike—This is the fifth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some time in worlds beyond the ...
- + Government as Weapon: Nixon’s “Official Acts” Against His Enemies List—John Mitchell, Richard M. Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover, John D. Ehrlichman. Photo: White House, National Archives. The Nixon administration’s enemies l...
- + The Other Abduction of Europe—In the mid-1990s, Václav Havel, then president of the Czech Republic, hosted a reception at Prague Castle to celebrate the anniversary of Czechoslovak...
- + We are Number One, Especially Our Centibillionaires—As the world’s greatest democracy and freest country, the U.S. being number one in many areas should come as no surprise. We lead the world by a wide ...
- + The Return of Odysseus to Ithaca—The Trojan War by Evi Sarantea. Astronomical phenomena during the Trojan War. In the first half of the image, starting from left, we see the death of ...
- + Architecture of Cities: Birds of Prey, Birds of a Feather—Norman Foster: Hearst Tower: New York City My eyes torn: Ruptured celluloid sprockets play before my mind’s eyes like a re...
- + Burning Witches and Torching American Democracy—On December 1, President Joe Biden announced that he was pardoning his son Hunter for all the crimes he committed from January 1, 2014 through Decembe...
- + Trump Confronts a Rising China—Image by Jason Leung. Gaza, Haiti, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Russia, Syria, Ukraine, and Venezuela: President-elect Donald Trump will face no shortag...
- + Capitalists Should Be Removed From All Our Systems, Not Just Health Care—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Imagine that your household was regularly broken into by a sadist who systemically beat-up everyone in your home...
- + Two People Claim to be President of Venezuela: Will US Militarily Intervene?—Ten days before Donald Trump will be inaugurated in Washington DC on January 20, there will be another inauguration in Caracas. Two contenders claim t...
- + Bitcoin Won’t Put Food on the Table—Photo by Traxer Bitcoin also won’t put gas in your car or provide medical care for your family. To be clear, I mean this literally. I realize pe...
- + Slow Motion Genocide and Resistance in Haiti—Map of Haiti – Public Domain A little over a week ago, on December 6th and 7th, at least 184 people were massacred in Wharf Jeremi, par...
- + Last Acts: Time for Biden to Pardon Assange —Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair Since making what was likely a life-saving plea deal to spare himself from the medieval barbarities of the US pri...
- + Pam Bondi Is Far More Dangerous a Nominee Than Matt Gaetz—Photograph Source: Voice of America – Public Domain Angry and horrified Democrats anxious to stall Donald Trump’s efforts to consolidate h...
- + Iran Faces a Sobering Recalibration of its Regional Ambitions—The dramatic sequence of events that began on October 7, 2023, with Hamas’s strike in Israel, has cascaded through the Middle East, toppling regimes a...
- + Murdering Birds to Save the Climate?—Image by Andrew Schultz. Like many roads that cut through Wyoming, the highway into the town of Rawlins is a long, winding one surrounded by rolli...
- + President Biden, Release Simón Trinidad From Prison Now! Let Him Return to Colombia!—Simón Trinidad. President Biden recently pardoned his son Hunter Biden and commuted the sentences of 1499 drug offenders. Analyst Charles Pierce ...
- + Notes on Drafting a Manifesto—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “And even in their lies, pain which cannot forgive falls manifesto by manifesto upon the insurance industry,...
- + Give Us Strength, We’ll Need it—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair We are descending into another four years of what, will be bad news– and of course, the effects of the upc...
- + Foiling Rupert Murdoch: Project Harmony Misfires—Photograph Source: World Economic Forum – CC BY-SA 2.0 The case that began on September 17 concerning the control of the Murdoch family ...
- + Christmas Carnage: Netflix’s Black Doves—Image Source: Netflix – Fair Use Crime series all boast violence, and, while some of the violence is abhorrent and gratuitous some of it i...
- + Why There Won’t Be a Nuremberg 2.0—View from above of the judges’ bench at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. In opening the Nuremberg Criminal Trial on 21 st...
- + The Moral Shame of U.S. Foreign Policy—Image by Israel Palacio. “A new study has found that almost half of children in Gaza wish to die, as a result of the trauma they have been for...
- + How the Faircloth Amendment Blocks Affordable Housing—Randall Irvin has been waiting for public housing in Chicago for six years , and his situation is not that unusual . For example, there are over 10...
- + Letter from London: You’d Better Watch Out, You’d Better Not Cry—London News’s illustration of the Christmas Truce by A. C. Michael. An example of just how challenging Christmas can be, even when away from...
- + Only 0.16% of All US Charitable Giving Supports LGBTQ+ Groups—Photo by Nikolas Gannon In an era marked by both significant advances and setbacks for LGBTQ+ people, charitable giving to LGBTQ+ organizati...
- + An Antiwar President?—Image by John Cameron. In at least three separate elections, Donald J. Trump was portrayed by his supporters and right-wing intellectuals as an ‘a...
- + —The post appeared first on CounterPunch.org . [Category: New Books]
- + —The post appeared first on CounterPunch.org . [Category: New Books]
- + Syria: Will the United States Try to Stop Israeli Militarism in the Middle East?—Photograph Source: Shark1989z – CC BY-SA 4.0 For the past several decades, the United States and Israel have tried to isolate Syria in the...
- + Need for Anticipatory Strategies for Oncoming Trumpism—Image by Tim Gouw. Now is the time to prepare anticipatory strategies against what the vengeful, avaricious, lawless Trump and his Trumpsters have...
- + Trump, Christian Fundamentalism and Lemmings—Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain Lemmings are small rodents who live in underground tunnels in far northern climes. Th...
- + The Democratic Party Faces Its Day of Reckoning—Photograph Source: Gage Skidmore – CC BY-SA 2.0 Following its crushing defeat in the 2024 election, the Democratic Party might finally fac...
- + I Heartily Agree With Donald Trump (and It’s About Time)—Photograph Source: Qwexcxewq – CC BY 4.0 On December 13, president-elect Donald Trump pledged on Truth Social that in his coming term th...
- + The Public Anger at Corporate Health has Never Been Higher—Photograph Source: zombieite – CC BY 2.0 Over 8,000 Americans, on average, die every day. Many of these Americans die unnecessarily. The...
- + How Predatory Energy Developers Harassed Honduras—Photo by Héctor Emilio Gonzalez The impoverished country of Honduras pays some of the highest electricity prices in Latin America, which adds to...
- + Framing the Narrative in Post-Assad Syria—Photograph Source: khamenei.ir – CC BY 4.0 Unlike many privileged kids around the globe, including those who had or have the luxury to be ...
- + Quincy Jones Should be Prominently Featured in US Music Education − His Absence Reflects How Racial Segregation Still Shapes American Classrooms—Quincy Jones at his recording studio in 1980. Photo: LA Times archival photo collection, UCLA. Quincy Jones, who died on Nov. 3, 2024 , at the ag...
- + The Teamsters and “Operation Wetback”—Newly re-elected President Donald Trump pledged in a recent interview that, “On day one, I will launch the largest deportation program of criminals ...
- + Protect Medicaid!—Image by Hush Naidoo Jade. Catastrophic cuts are in the offing for Medicaid, the nation’s largest single source of health coverage, serving primar...
- + Silky Shah & Eman Abdelhadi: The Battles Ahead—The post Silky Shah & Eman Abdelhadi: The Battles Ahead appeared first on CounterPunch.org . [Category: CounterPunch Radio - podcasts] [Link to...
- + Unity Above All Else: The Only Road to the Liberation of Palestine—Image by Ian Hutchinson. A new kind of unity around Palestine is finally finding its way to the Palestine solidarity movement worldwide. The re...
- + Unity Above Else: The Only Road to the Liberation of Palestine—Image by Ian Hutchinson. A new kind of unity around Palestine is finally finding its way to the Palestine solidarity movement worldwide. The re...
- + International Law à la Carte—Photograph Source: Suzie Tremmel – CC BY 2.0 International law is by nature multilateral. Its ontology is universal and cannot be interpr...
- + Time to Boycott the US?—Image by Alisdare Hickson. Liberals hate Trump, no question about it. He’s the definition of illiberal: authoritarian, racist, sexist, and downrig...
- + How Community Solar Can Liberate You From Fossil Fuels—Photograph Source: ItaliaCalcio2008 – CC BY-SA 4.0 Energy is the lifeblood of opportunity and economic development and a pillar of human c...
- + What is Driving State-Sponsored Attacks on Citizens Abroad?—Photograph Source: Sr. Maria Louise Edwards – CC BY 2.0 In July 2020, Iranian dissident Jamshid Sharmahd was visiting Dubai when he was su...
- + Finding the Unmentionable: Amnesty International, Israel and Genocide—Photograph Source: 7C0 – CC BY 2.0 It was bound to happen. With continuing operations in Gaza, and increasingly violent activities being c...
- + Health Insurance Killing: Economics Does Have Something to Say—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair I’m not one to generally tout the wisdom of the economics discipline, but it actually does offer some useful ins...
- + By Any Means Necessary?—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Trump is a pestilence, an abomination. Really. He is. No more debate. It is as evident as a cloud of locusts. It...
- + Got a Spare Room for Grandma?—Image by Mariia Chalaya. Adult children need to prepare for taking in their elderly parents or in-laws if President-elect Trump’s unofficial Depa...
- + Violence in Healthcare: Profit over Care—Image by Alexander Mills. Following the murder of United Healthcare’s CEO, social media has been flooded with outrage, mostly directed against ins...
- + The New Jersey Drone Flap: Why None of the Explanations are Acceptable—Photo by Leo_Visions The military expenditures for the US every year come in at around 820 billion. I won’t lie and say I truly understa...
- + Trump Recruits Regulatory Rulebreakers—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The new Trump Administration will not be the first to staff many of its top positions from the private sector; T...
- + The Wrongs of the Rights—Extremely dangerous ground which requires the most scrupulous prudence and caution, language also constitutes a powerful weapon through which the succ...
- + Get Rid of the Commies: A Blacklisted Boyhood—In October 1947 19 screenwriters, directors and producers were summoned from Tinseltown to Washington to testify before the House Un-American Activiti...
- + Children of the Grave—Israel’s war on Gaza is increasingly a war on childhood, a war on the future of Palestinian life on the Strip. An assessment by the Community Training...
- + Washington’s Third World War Scores Another “Victory”—US troops deployed to Syria, November 2020. Photo: U.S. Army by Spc. Jensen Guillory. While I am certainly not one to begrudge those residents of ...
- + Syria at the Crossroads—Map of Northwestern Syria offensive (2024) Syria, known throughout history as the “crossroads of civilization,” now finds itself at a crossroads o...
- + Roaming Charges: All a Friend Can Say is, “Ain’t It a Shame?”—Baseball glove George “Spike” Washington returned to me at the hospital after spiking me in a collision at second base in 1974. Set ou...
- + The Fall of the Assad Government in Syria—Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, military leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. Screengrab from CNN interview. As the rebel forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (S...
- + Who Gets Burnt in the Politics of Passion?—Broderick Crawford as Willie Stark in All the King’s Men, 1949. “The Indians, whom we call barbarous, observe much more decency and civil...
- + On the Syrian Revolution—Photograph Source: Shark1989z – CC BY-SA 4.0 I don’t remember when I began studying the Syrian revolution in any detail. I know that in...
- + A Return of Anti-Capitalist Vigilantism is Proving Surprisingly Popular—Youtube screenshot. Suppose a company is operating on a business model that demonstrably depends on letting people die through intentional neglect...
- + Climate Change Trial at The Hague—Getty Images and Unsplash+. The stakes are extremely high as the impact of fossil fuels on climate change goes to The Hague for hearings December ...
- + The Return of War to the Home Front—Image by Pauline Loroy. In the early 1990s, doctors in Hiroshima, Japan, discovered a stress-induced syndrome they called Takotsubo cardiomyopat...
- + Washington’s Third World War Scores Another “Victory”—US troops deployed to Syria, November 2020. Photo: U.S. Army by Spc. Jensen Guillory. While I am certainly not one to begrudge those residents of ...
- + Shattered Lands: A Short History of the Syrian Conflict—Image by Levi Meir Clancy. This piece was first published on CounterPunch in March 2021. When the Arab Spring came to the Middle East ten yea...
- + Holiday Season Nostalgia: Are We All on Fascism’s Side?—Photo by Element5 Digital The re-election of Donald Trump raises a simple question: Are you willing to protest? With the new year approaching ...
- + Why Americans Appear to Love the UnitedHealthcare Assassin—Luigi Mangione. On X, Luigi Mangione’s been dubbed the Claims Adjuster, or simply the Adjuster. The memes suggest a Punisher-style comic-book hero...
- + Syria: Hopes and Pitfalls—Image by Mahmoud Sulaiman. The rapid collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime has taken both intelligentsia and analysts by surprise. It was a r...
- + Biden Aims to Go Out With a Bellicose Bang—Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain Having failed thus far to ignite Nuclear Armageddon, what’s up next for the U.S. milita...
- + New Boss, Same as the Old: Brian Mast as Foreign Policy Indicator—Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain In 2016, Donald Trump ran for president as a kinda-sorta, maybe-a-little-bit, “antiwar” c...
- + Anger Explodes at Health Care CEOs—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Over 8,000 Americans die every day, many of them unnecessarily. Why? Because the United States still doe...
- + Nearly Half of Older Americans Can’t Afford Basic Needs—Photo by Bruno Martins I worked hard my whole career and retired feeling secure. Then I lost every last dime in a scam. I was left with $1,300 a...
- + Reflections on Pancho Villa and the Fall of Dictators—General Francisco (Pancho) Villa, D. W. Hoffman, ca. 1912. Dictators – whether in Spain, South Africa, Romania or Syria —retain power for decades....
- + With Martial Law Defeated, Now Is a Decisive Moment for Change in South Korea—Photograph Source: 기여자 – CC0 Late at night on December 3, soldiers stormed into South Korea’s National Assembly in armored vehicles and co...
- + Did Netanyahu set a Trap for Genocide?—Photograph Source: Chenspec – CC BY-SA 4.0 We are told by the mainstream media as well as Israeli sources that October 7 came as a complet...
- + On Rafael Barrett: A Radical Voice in a Dispossessed Land—Rafael Barrett was born in Torrelavega in northern Spain, close to the Bay of Biscay. Eldest of two sons, he grew up in a well-to-do, though not extre...
- + Mocking the Disabled is Cruel and Immoral, Especially When a President Does It—For most people, verbal communication is a seamless, unthinking act. But for individuals with communication disorders — such as stuttering, aphasia...
- + A Great Trump Escape on Night Trains to Armenia: A Habsburg Suicide—This is the fourth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some time in worlds beyond the...
- + The Wilderness Act’s Next 60 years: Elevating Earth’s Community of Life—Bull of the Woods Wilderness, Willamette National Forest, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. This fall, Wilderness Watch and other wilderness advoc...
- + Corporate Income Tax Collections Rise When They are Not Voluntary—Big Pink, Portland, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. As Donald Trump prepares to embark on another round of MAGA tax cuts it is worth a quick rev...
- + Arab Writers: Pain, Perseverance and Prizes—Arab writers have a tough job these days. Here, I’m talking only about those of us in the US. (Although this affects us all.) Whether poets, journalis...
- + Part One: Resisting Authoritarian Populism—Image by Rob Walsh. For the last four years, Joe Biden and his anointed but defeated successor, Kamala Harris, attempted to refurbish U.S. capital...
- + The International Monetary Fund: an ABC 2.0 —Like the World Bank , the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was created in 1944 at Bretton Woods. Its official purpose was to stabilize the interna...
- + The Old Country New Again: Revisiting Keith Jarrett—Back in the mid-70s I had a friend who attended the New England Conservatory, a school for future musicians of all ilks — jazz, classical, guita...
- + Silenced Night: The Unheard Lesson of Lessons and Carols—King’s College Chapel, University of Cambridge, c. 1907. The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols fills King’s College Chapel at Cambridge Universi...
- + Covid Ends?—Photo by kevin laminto Watching season two of “Sprint” on Netflix recently, American sprinter Noah Lyles says from the 2024 Paris Olympics that ...
- + Architecture of Cities: The Yellow Rolls Royce and Philip Johnson—Philip Johnson in his Sculpture Gallery. The perch: It is a place where the eyes capture worlds colliding and dreams shaping: The perch ...
- + Joe Biden: A Resumé of War Crimes—Photograph Source: David Lienemann – Public Domain A flurry of commentary has followed Joe Biden’s decision to invoke his presidential privi...
- + Our Man in Damascus: When Syria Deployed Its Torture Chambers and Torturers for the CIA—Sednaya prison, where more than 100,000 Syrians, many of them political dissidents, some of them children of dissidents, were tortured and held in wre...
- + The High Price of Pretty Feet: Addressing the Plight of Nail Salon Workers—Photo by Gabriela Nail salons are often hailed by labor economists as an immigrant success story . Well over half of the 200,000 salons natio...
- + Not as Simple as 1, 2, 3: Humanity Has a Surprisingly Diverse Understanding of Numbers—Photo by Jon Tyson Numeracy or numerosity, the ability to think about and use numbers, varies among human cultures and within populations, much ...
- + Prisoner Discusses Living Incarcerated With HIV and Violence—Image by Emiliano Bar. (I) Bullock Prison in Union Springs, Alabama, opened in 1987 and is designed to hold 919 prisoners. 1 Alabama Departm...
- + Fukushima: Disaster Response is to Spread Radioactive Waste to the Commons—Workers at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station work among underground water storage pools on 17 April 2013. Photo Credit: Greg Webb ...
- + Trump Uses Three Jacksonian Strategies to Rule: Define Citizenship, Use the Military, Hire Loyalists—Photograph Source: Sean Spicer – Public Domain Presidents Andrew Jackson and Donald Trump are not just changemakers or disruptors but revolu...
- + SpaceX Wants to Increase Launches at Boca Chica Without a Full Environmental Review—Image by Sven Piper. On April 20, 2023, SpaceX’s Starship—the largest and most powerful rocket ever built— exploded just four minutes after...
- + The Attack on Birthright Citizenship—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair As President-elect Donald J. Trump prepares to implement sweeping policy changes affecting American immigration...
- + Resisting Buekele’s Iron Fist—Photograph Source: Casa Presidencial – CC0 Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele had a huge (though controversial ) electoral victory in Febr...
- + US Military Meddles in Venezuela-Guyana Dispute, on Behalf of Imperialism—Photograph Source: Neil Palmer/CIAT – Flickr – CC BY-SA 2.0 Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro warned recently that “the Southe...
- + Jim Williams’s Quest for Justice—Jim Williams, one of a handful early Students for a Democratic Society members still active politically, was also a founder of the Southern Student Or...
- + The Emperor Has No Clothes: COP29—Image by Li-An Lim. The ability to see and accept things as they are is difficult for us humans. We tend to repeat behaviors that fail to yield th...
- + Christmas Truck —The garbage truck With all its lights looks like a Christmas tree Blinking down the street And the Christmas tree, just as much, looks like ...
- + “Deny,” “Defend” and “Depose”: Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto—Luigi Mangione Below is the alleged short manifesto written by Luigi Mangione, the suspected killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New ...
- + ‘Tis the Season to Talk Climate Collapse, Nuclear Colonialism, and Freeing Leonard Peltier—Leavenworth Federal Prison, 1992. I don’t know about you, but personally, the whole festive holiday thing seems to be falling a bit flat this year...
- + From South Africa to Syria, Rising Perils for Palestine Solidarity—Photograph Source: Voice of America News: Scott Bobb reports from Azaz, Syria – Public Domain The sudden regime overthrow in Syria and the l...
- + The Ousting of the Brutal Assad Regime Brings Euphoria and More Questions—Image, Youtube screenshot. “There are indications that it was unarmed civil resistance led by the resurgent popular committees and local councils...
- + When Rights Become Privileges: Is the Constitution Becoming Optional?—Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States on September 17, 1787, a 1940 portrait by Howard Chandler Christy “Rights aren’t ...
- + The Need for an Enemy—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Authoritarian leaders, like many others, need an enemy. Hitler’s enemy was the Jews (among others); for Netanya...
- + Chilling Warnings for Syria: When Foreign Interventions Go Bad—Photograph Source: Voice of America – Public Domain The reports through Western presses read rather familiarly. Joyful residents taking s...
- + Tate Artist Excluded from Tate for Turner Prize Leaflet—The Tate Modern has barred artist, Edgeworth Johnstone from entering the gallery because of leaflets about the Tate Turner Prize in his bag. Vi...
- + Today’s Science Skepticism Goes Back to the Scientific Revolution—Nikolaus Kopernikus beim Beobachten der Gestirne (Detail von Jan Matejkos Gemälde) Most of us are aware of the deep problems in the current US pha...
- + Letter from London: Striking Home and Away—Theatrical poster for Taxi Driver – Fair Use I don’t know if it was murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson or not, but I saw Taxi Driv...
- + Trump Takes Aim at BRICS and the Global Economy—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Donald Trump, a man who never shied from bold declarations, has once again turned the global stage into a theate...
- + Leaf Blowers: An Invisible Source of Climate Chaos and Harm to Human and Environmental Health—Gardener with his leaf blower at work in Claremont, California. Photo: Evaggelos Vallianatos Prologue One of the reasons I moved to Claremont...
- + Understanding the Rebellion in Syria—Syrian rebels, Youtube screenshot. The rebellion in Syria has taken the world by surprise and led to the fall of the Assad family dictatorship, w...
- + Humanity Imperiled—Image by Laurentiu Morariu. What is the future likely to bring? A reasonable stance might be to try to look at the human species from the outside...
- + Israel and the United States: Who Rules the Roost?—“We had several other people in the country [USA}, even among the Jews, the Zionists particularly, who were against anything that has to be done if t...
- + Israel and the United States: Who Rules the Roost?—“We had several other people in the country [USA}, even among the Jews, the Zionists particularly, who were against anything that has to be done if t...
- + The “Silent Violence” of Corporate Greed and Power—Image by Jon Tyson. For decades consumer groups have been sounding clarion calls for action against the “silent violence” causing massive casualti...
- + A Nation of Immigrants—Photo by Aaron Burson The New York Times article about the mass deportation of about 11 million people begins with an analogy of those people ...
- + FIFA’s Cooked Findings: Saudi Arabia’s World Cup Bid—Photograph Source: albinfo – CC BY-SA 4.0 FIFA has done it again. With its usual sparkle of inventive interpretation, amoral reasoning, a...
- + Can Recycling Save the Green Energy Revolution?—Photo by Nareeta Martin The industrial revolution depended on fossil fuels. The current transition to clean energy aims to leave coal, oil, and ...
- + The Myth of The Iron Dome—Photograph Source: Ashton Carter – CC BY 2.0 The proper way of understanding the two serious Iranian missile barrages on Israel is as a de...
- + Twelve U.S. Billionaires Now Have a Combined $2 Trillion—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The collective net worth of America’s top twelve billionaires has surpassed $2 trillion as of December 3. Thi...
- + “Gas on a Dumpster Fire:” Immigration Under Trump 2.0—Photo by Stephen Radford The right to seek asylum or refuge from danger is a fundamental human right. It’s protected by both international and U...
- + The Fall of the House of Assad—Photograph Source: Krokodyl – CC BY 3.0 Remember the Biden pier off Gaza’s coast? It is perhaps the best metaphor for Genocide Joe...
- + If They Can Take Away My Rights Today, They Can Take Yours Tomorrow—Photo by Samuel Regan-Asante Most days in my depraved, transsexual lifestyle start the same: I wake up at 5:15 a.m. to pet my cat, have some cof...
- + Time for Truthful Narratives on Immigration—Photograph Source: Tomascastelazo – CC BY-SA 4.0 A quiet panic has broken out within immigrant communities across the United States ahead ...
- + The Fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad: What it Means—Syrian rebels celebrate the toppling of Bashar al-Assad. Youtube screenshot. The overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, marking the end of more th...
- + Mysterious Global Hotspots—Image by Anne Nygård. A worrisome trend in the global climate system has popped up. Specific regions of the world are experiencing repetitive seve...
- + Biden! Do the Right Thing: Exonerate Ethel Rosenberg!—Ethel Rosenberg. It didn’t take any courage for outgoing President Joe Biden, in the last few weeks of his White House residency, to pardon his so...
- + How Republics Succeed, Falter, and Fail—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The U.S. enjoys many strengths that give it an edge over other republics, such as a decentralized and innovative...
- + The Sectarian Risk: Turkey’s Syrian Mission—Photograph Source: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores – CC BY-SA 2.0 Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan must be delighted about what is unfold...
- + What a Podcast Killed by Houston Public Media Reveals About the State Takeover of the City’s Schools—Photo by Jonathan Velasquez A podcast about the state takeover of the Houston Independent School District (HISD), which Houston Public Media (HP...
- + Proxy Conflicts and The Neo-Cold War—Photograph Source: Vyacheslav Argenberg – CC BY 4.0 “I don’t mind paying for the police and for streets and sanitation, or road wor...
- + The Fascist Threat Becomes Clearer With Milei’s Call for a Brown International—Photograph Source: Vox España – CC0 “It is our moral duty to defend the legacy of our western civilisation. The West is in danger…...
- + Assad Leaves Behind a Fragmented Nation—Photograph Source: Hosein Zohrevand – CC BY 4.0 The brutal 54-year reign of the Assad family in Syria looks to be over . In a matter o...
- + Democracy Doesn’t End on Election Day—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Earlier this year, the Pew Research Center reported that a majority of Americans felt worn out by political cov...
- + The “Delay and Deny Killer”: Dialogue Overheard in a Midtown Manhattan Coffee Shop—Photo released by NYPD of man suspected of shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson The following dialogue was overheard in a coffee shop n...
- + Just Let Me Flip This Chromium Switch Here …The Comedy of Firesign Theater—Group shot of the Firesign Theatre (Philip Proctor, David Ossman, Peter Bergman and Phil Austin) performing at the Magic Mushroom, circa 1967. “A ...
- + Of Critical Minerals and Atomic Bombs: The Conquest of the Congo—Image by Victor. Image by Victor. Image by Victor. Image by Victor. Image by Victor. Image by Victor. Image by Victor. Image by Victor. Image by Victo...
- + What to Take Underground—Assuming you’d wanted things to get better, the year 2024 has got to be a major disappointment. We, who’ve spent years — especially the last one — try...
- + The Gravest of International Crimes—Amnesty International has become the latest human rights group to conclude that Israel’s war crimes in Gaza amount to genocide. In a meticulously deta...
- + Biden’s Moral Failure Was Israel and Not the Pardon of His Son—The mainstream media is largely ignoring President Joe Biden’s moral failure regarding Israel’s genocidal bombardment of Gaza, but piling on unreasona...
- + Roaming Charges: Delay and Deny, Deny, Deny—Two Sick Old Men from the Black Paintings by Francisco Goya. “Deny, deny, deny. That’s how you hit your numbers. If you take a breath or think ab...
- + Roaming Charges: Delay and Deny—Two Sick Old Men from the Black Paintings by Francisco Goya. It appears that the killer of Brian Thompson left his manifesto etched on the spent c...
- + Rethinking Paulo Freire and Postcolonialism in the Age of Disposability—Reclaiming Freire Across the globe, many societies deeply rooted in colonial practices and systemic racism are once again invoking the dehumanizin...
- + Trump, International Norms and the Growth of “Law-Free Zones”—Are we now entering a period where no laws exist? My lawyer friends keep telling me that there is a rule of law. They argue that the indictments of Do...
- + Piers Morgan – Normalizing Israel’s Genocide—Piers Morgan, Youtube screenshot. Since October 7, 2023, white settler propaganda has ramped up through two insidious tactics targeting western au...
- + The Tectonic Shift: The Gaza Genocide and the Limits of Israeli Hasbara—Image by Dylan Shaw. The ongoing war and genocide in Gaza is unprecedented. Nothing that Israel and its supporters can say or do will avoid the hi...
- + On Assisted Dying—I have always been for women’s participation in the military. I think the military should accept gay people too. I think it should be trans-inclusiv...
- + Big Oil Told 70 Years Ago That Fossil Fuel Emissions Could Impact ‘Civilization’—Getty and Unsplash+. April 6, 1955, was a perfect spring day in Los Angeles. Downtown, the skies were unusually smog-free as Lauren B. Hitchcock, ...
- + Netanyahu’s Diabolical Undeclared War Objectives in Gaza—Youtube screenshot. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that Israel’s war on Gaza will continue until achieving what he t...
- + As Oceans Warm, Weather Goes Berserk—Coastal flooding, lower Columbia River. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Hotter oceans kill plankton, upon which the entire maritime ecosystem depends. T...
- + South Korea’s Martial Law Fiasco: Legitimation Crisis in the Imperial Vassal State—South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol announcing the lifting of his martial law decree. In the wake of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s...
- + Concert in the Colosseum: Grappling with the Soundtrack of Gladiator II—Organist and other musicians accompany gladiatorial combat. Roman mosaics, 2nd Century C. E., Zliten, Libya. Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II boasts ...
- + Trumpism Is Poised for Massive Overreach—Image by Z . In a text she sent me about a week ago, in the aftermath of our disastrous yet regrettably predictable election result, a dear fri...
- + Enforcing United Nations Rulings—The UN Charter, adopted on 24 October 1945, has not lost its relevance in the 21 st century. In fact, we need the United Nations more than ever, bec...
- + Trump IRS Nominee Wanted to Shut Down the Humane Society—Photograph Source: MBisanz talk – CC BY-SA3.0 There are a surprising number of animal activists who held out hope a second Donald Trump pr...
- + Democrats and Bastards—Photograph Source: The Hoya Online – CC BY 2.0 “Y’know, it’s not that I object to your being a bastard, don’t get me wr...
- + The Industrial Fishing Industry is Destroying Vital Marine Ecosystems—Photograph Source: Plenz – CC BY-SA 3.0 The unsustainable practice of killing fish for human consumption not only harms them but countless...
- + Is Carbon Capture Also a Hoax?—Image by Chris LeBoutillier. Climate change has become a dollars and cents issue, especially for U.S. homeowners. It’s no longer easily ignored...
- + A Great Trump Escape on Night Trains to Armenia: To Mayerling—This is the third part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some time in worlds beyond th...
- + Trump’s Victory Exposed the Labor Movement’s Political Crisis—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair In politics denial eventually leads to a harsh reckoning. For the labor movement Trump’s re-election may have ...
- + At the Cusp of a New Epoch—Photo by Aidin Geranrekab Back in 2005, Ray Kurzweil announced to the world that we humans were hurtling toward the technological Singularity an...
- + America’s Anti-Woke Hysteria Spreads—The headline of my novel, Mumbo Jumbo , is that something about Black Culture causes mass hysteria in America, whether it be Ragtime’s animal d...
- + You’d Better Watch Out: The Surveillance State Is Making a List, and You’re On It—Art by Nick Roney “He sees you when you’re sleeping He knows when you’re awake He knows when you’ve been bad or good So be good for go...
- + Why Books are Rebellious and Hopeful in a Time of Social Media Saturation and Injustice—We’re scrolling more and reading less, but when it comes to standing up to fossil fuel companies, the arms industry, empire, and systemic injust...
- + Four Big Flaws in Trump’s Threat to China Over the Dollar—Last week Donald Trump made a bizarre threat on his Truth Social site that he would impose 100 percent taxes on the imports (tariffs) from any country...
- + Niger Resists in the Crosshairs of Sanctions and Climate Catastrophe—Flooding in Niger. Photo: UNICEF In the aftermath of devastation left behind in the wake of unprecedented floods, Nigeriens are rebuilding their l...
- + Culture Wars Redo—Photograph of choreographer Clarence Yates rehearsing a musical sequence with Olive Stanton for the Federal Theatre Project production of The Cradle W...
- + The White Racial Preference in the Employment of College Football Head Coaches—Typically, about half of Division I college football players are Black, but less than a fifth of the head coaches are Black. 1 This report quan...
- + Democrats’ Spiting of RFK Jr. Shows the Party Would Rather Lose an Election than Lose Face—It’s hard to remember now, but back in August Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was begging Democrats to throw him a bone. Kennedy was on bended knee because his ...
- + Join the Resistance? Yes, But…—Image by rchappo2002. Count on one thing: the next four years are going to be tough. If you can muster the energy for political action while Donal...
- + California Wolf Restoration: A Look Back, Today and the Future.—Gray wolf. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Back in 2000, I wrote a piece for California Wild about the prospects for wolf restoration in the state. At t...
- + Museum Skepticism Revisited: the Lessons of Venice—View of the ceiling paintings in the Sala del Consiglio dei Dieci, partially by Paolo Veronese, 1554-1556 (Palazzo Ducale, Venice). Sometimes one’...
- + Architecture of Cities: Two Captures—Architect: Brazilian Isay Weinfeld: New York: The Jardim 527 West 27th St: The automated garage I dreamed of something myt...
- + Do You Have Drug Ads-Induced Hypochondria?—Image by Tahir Osman. Years before Covid, as a health journalist I reported that opioids were overprescribed and not safe—a position that was, of ...
- + The Isolationist Shuffle: How the GOP Became the New Fake Antiwar Party—Image by Etienne Girardet. Kamala lost for a lot of reasons. Having the vibrant personality of a power-hungry high school principal in a cheesy 80...
- + Jeffrey St. Clair: The Battle in Seattle, 25 Years On—The post Jeffrey St. Clair: The Battle in Seattle, 25 Years On appeared first on CounterPunch.org . [Category: CounterPunch Radio - podcasts] [Link...
- + A Strategically Timed ICC Arrest Warrant Request—Photograph Source: Tony Webster – CC BY 2.0 On November 27, Karim Khan, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, announced that...
- + There’s No Upside to Trump—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “Trump could surprise on the upside,” writes Edward Luce, who claims to know “what Trump most cares about.” La...
- + Noam Chomsky at 96: A Massive Intellectual and Moral Force—Photograph Source: Augusto Starita / Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación – CC BY-SA 2.0 Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s most famous and re...
- + The Syrian Civil War: New Phases, Old Lies—Photograph Source: Mahmoud Bali (VOA) – Public Domain A new bloody phase has opened up in Syria, as if it was ever possible to contemplate a...
- + Trump and the Holding Environment—Photo by Pau Casals There are certainly a number of highly political and socioeconomic insights about the Trump catastrophe, and here I offer s...
- + Hey Joe, Pardon Me and Everyone Else!—Photograph Source: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff On December 1, outgoing US president Joe Biden issued a pardon for all federal crimes his...
- + Trump’s Tech-Driven Legacy in the Middle East—The Middle East stands at a critical technological crossroads, where America’s influence could shift dramatically from oil fields to data fields under...
- + Alliance for the Wild Rockies Challenges BLM Plan to Gut the Garnet Mountain Range—Historic mining town in the Garnet Range, 1893. Public Domain. The Garnet Mountains lie between the Blackfoot and Clark Fork Rivers, stretching fr...
- + Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Forty Years of Struggle for Justice—Part 4—May 12, 1986, Judge John F. Keenan of the southern district court of New York dismissed the complaint filed by the Union of India against Union Carbid...
- + The Evils of Mass Deportation—Image by Joseph Lockley. As America braces for the return of Donald Trump to the White House, the policies of his second administration will cause...
- + Historical Narratives, Claims, Mutual Pain, Loss, and Trauma—Image by Tahir Osman. When considering the “Palestinian Question”, it helps to identify all true, core issues. I believe most rational, literate p...
- + The Trumpist Bureau of Investigation?—Photo by Marija Zaric I want the FBI to be disbanded. Forever. I’ve wanted this to happen since 1970. When the Senate hearings led by Franck C...
- + Going to Hell in a “Drill, Baby, Drill” Handbasket—Getty Images and Unsplash+. Give him credit. As a start, for that first surprise victory in 2016. No, I didn’t fully get it at the time, but I ...
- + Truce in Lebanon: Can Diplomacy Rise from the Ruins?—Youtube screenshot. On November 26th, Israel and Lebanon signed an agreement for a 60-day truce, during which Israel and Hezbollah are both suppos...
- + Trump and the European Right: an Attraction-Repulsion Relationship—Photograph Source: Office of Speaker Mike Johnson – Public Domain What to think of Trump’s return to the White House? For the European...
- + Next Round of the Culture Wars—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Americans have been fighting culture wars since the nation was founded four centuries ago. In 1624, John Morton...
- + Overcrowding in America’s Prisons Violates the 8th Amendment Ban on “Cruel and Unusual Punishment”—Photograph Source: United States Geological Survey – Public Domain The Justice Department has just released a scathing 96-page report accusi...
- + Letter from London: Book of the Dead—Image Source: Alexandre Dumas (père) – Public Domain One of the more consequential political stories here last week was the prospect of MPs ...
- + The Alliance Fights to Protect Wild Rockies Ecosystems—Gallatin Range, Greater Yellowstone. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. “A fish rots from the head down.” – Rumi By now, we have all heard rumblings of ...
- + Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Forty Years of Struggle for Justice—Part 3—Photograph Source: Bhopal Medical Appeal, Martin Stott – https://www.flickr.com/photos/44868727@N02/14119398488/ – CC BY-SA 2.0 Soon...
- + Resistance to the International Criminal Court by the World’s Most Powerful Nations—Image by Yunus Tuğ. The International Criminal Court’s recent issuance of arrest warrants to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and forme...
- + Psychogeograffiti—The post Psychogeograffiti appeared first on CounterPunch.org . [Category: articles 2015]
- + Trump and the Holding Environment—Youtube screenshot. There are certainly a number of highly political and socioeconomic insights about the Trump catastrophe, and here I offer some...
- + Oops! A Rich-People-Friendly Think Tank Confirms Our Richest Pay Under One Percent of Their Wealth Annually in Tax—House, Los Angeles. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation has long functioned as an apologist for America’s deepest ...
- + Israel and the West’s War on Itself—Youtube screengrab. The arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former D...
- + Nuclear Weapons Create and Exacerbate Human Insecurity—Upshot–Knothole Grable, a 1953 test of a nuclear artillery projectile at the Nevada Test Site. “T he relationship between nuclear weapon...
- + The LA Times Makes the Case for Shutting the Diablo Canyon Nukes—Diablo Canynon, Wikipedia. In a landmark front page feature, the Los Angeles Times has made a powerful argument for shutting California’s last two...
- + Building International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry—Photograph Source: Dong Fang – Public Domain Increasingly, understanding the inter-imperialist competition between the United States and Chi...
- + The ABC’s Colonel Blimp: Why Kim Williams Misunderstands Joe Rogan—The Joe Rogan Experience logo – Fair Use The position of a state broadcaster, one funded directly by taxpayers from a particular country, ...
- + Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Forty Years of Struggle for Justice—Part Two—Second part of a twelve-part series to commemorate forty years of the quest for justice for the Bhopal Gas Tragedy victims. ...
- + Staring Down Misogyny—Image by Monica Melton. “I never realized before that men hate us so much.” That was the lesson drawn by one of my fellow organizers in Reno, Neva...
- + Contrary to What the Washington Post Says, China is Doing a Huge Amount to Fight Global Warming—Photograph Source: Csp.guru – CC BY-SA 4.0 The Washington Post had a bizarre article last week in which it questioned whether China was ...
- + Trump’s Next HUD Secretary Would Have a Lot to do to Address the History of Racist Housing Policy – and Trump’s Comments and History Suggest That’s Unlikely—Shuttered building, Detroit. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Donald Trump has picked former football player Scott Turner to lead the U.S. Department o...
- + Trump Pick for Pentagon Chief Is Bad For Military Families and Vets—Pete Hegseth, Youtube screengrab. Much media coverage of Pete Hegseth’s nomination as Secretary of Defense has focused, understandably, on controv...
- + The Pride Paradox—Farm house, southeastern Kentucky. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Film critic Pauline Kael, the epitome of New York sophistication, is often misquoted ...
- + Eight Days in Palestine—I’m back in Jordan after eight days in Palestine. I was in Palestine as part of a delegation to be in solidarity with and learn from those engag...
- + Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Forty Years of Struggle for Justice—Part One—First part of a twelve-part series to commemorate forty years of the quest for justice for the Bhopal Gas Tragedy victims. ...
- + Gallic Stubbornness: France, Netanyahu and the ICC Arrest Warrants—Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair The comity of nations, at least when it comes to international humanitarian law, took a rather curious turn with ...
- + Increasing Income Inequality Under Trump and the Democrats—Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The state of peoples’ economic conditions is one reason provided for why Harris lost. Many people are hurting fi...
- + The EU Blows Hot and Cold on Trump—Photograph Source: European Communities – CC BY 4.0 Imagine puffing out your chest and belly dancing at the same time. Artistically, it’s ...
- + Top Ten Things Alliance for the Wild Rockies Did to Protect the Northern Rockies Ecosystem in 2024—1) Halted Massive Illegal Old Growth Logging in Montana’s Little Belt Mountains. Northern Goshawk. Photo: USFS. The Alliance stopped t...
- + The Calf Canyon Fire Review: an Indictment of the Forest Service’s Land Management Strategy—Burning piles in the Gallinas Canyon Piles Prescribed Burn 2022 unit on January 12, 2022, Santa Fe National Forest. Photo: USDA Forest Service In...
- + The Democrats Loss of the Working Class was Fifty Years in the Making—Image by Vinicius “amnx” Amano. One month out after Donald Trump and the Republicans beat Kamala Harris and the Democrats, the reasons...
- + World’s Richest Man Pays to Screw America—Youtube screengrab. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are partnering to create and new US government agency, the Department of Government Efficiency (...
- + Canterbury Tales—Voltaire once said of religion: “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welb...
- + Israel’s “Red Cross” Contributes to Apartheid in the West Bank—Image by Ash Hayes. Image by Ash Hayes. Image by Ash Hayes. Image by Ash Hayes. Image by Ash Hayes. Image by Ash Hayes. Image by Ash Hayes. Image by A...
- + If Lebanon, Why Not Gaza?—The ruins of West Gaza City. Photo: UNRWA The ruins of West Gaza City. Photo: UNRWA The ruins of West Gaza City. Photo: UNRWA The ruins of West Gaza C...
- + Seattle Diary: 25 Years After—RAN’s incredible banner drop at the WTO protest in Seattle. Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair Twenty-five years ago this week, the streets of...
- + Seattle Diary: 25 Years After—RAN’s incredible banner drop at the WTO protest in Seattle. Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair Twenty-five years ago this week, the streets of...
- + Get the Hell Out of My Way—Photo by Siddhant Kumar “You can! You must. When those few are the best. Deny the best its right to the top – and you have no best left. What...
- + Emergency Summit Regarding Antarctic Meltdown—Image by Annie Spratt. “Runaway ice loss causing rapid and catastrophic sea level rise is possible within our lifetimes.” (Source: Our Science,...
- + A Win for Renters—Brooklyn brownstone. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. With over 2,300,000 renters in New York City, it’s a good bet most of them had to pay exorbitant br...
- + How Animal Agriculture Threatens Freshwater Supplies—Wheel of Fortune, woodcut, by Sue Coe. Fresh water is critical to the survival of ecosystems and living beings worldwide. However, as much as we a...
- + Trump’s Already Rewarding Fossil Fuel Executives for Funding His Campaign—Coal plant, West Virginia. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. During his campaign, Donald Trump publicly promised to reward oil and gas executives handso...
- + A Great Trump Escape By Night Trains to Armenia: Across the Alps to Vienna—Fully loaded for Armenia: My folding Brompton bicycle and saddle bags at Cornavin, the main Geneva station. Photo by Matthew Stevenson.. This is ...
- + RFK Jr. Praises Wacky Wellness Gurus, Blames Fauci for Everything From Bad Breath to Jock Itch—” . . . slimy, dishonest, [a] stunning display of ignorance . . . [A] god-awful book.” —–Molecular biologist Dan Wilson rev...
- + Ironic Dependency: Russian Uranium and the US Energy Market—A billet of highly enriched uranium. Be careful who you condemn and ostracise. They just might be supplying you with a special need. While the U...
- + Greater Energy Levels by GOP Produce Victories Over Democrats—Image by Marek Studzinski. Over thirty years ago, Republican historian and political analyst, Kevin Phillips, remarked that the “Republicans go fo...
- + Another Whitelash Election—Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair Even with high turnout, endorsements from top Republicans and former Trump aides , and outspending the Trump-Van...
- + How Kamala Harris Thumbed Her Nose at Arab American and Muslim Voters—Vice President Kamala Harris made many mistakes during her run for the White House. One that stood out was Harris’ callous disregard for Muslim and Ar...
- + Promise and Contradictions Emerge From Celebration of Cuba’s Latin American School of Medicine —Photograph Source: Dezona – CC BY-SA 4.0 The Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM for its Spanish language initials) is a masterpiece o...
- + If the Chief Business of the American People is Business, the Chief Business of the American Government is to Govern—“The chief business of the American people is business,” President Calvin Coolidge declared in 1925. Whether or not that phrase is applicable today, i...
- + No More ‘Deals’ – What Palestinians Want and Will Fight to Achieve —Image by Dylan Shaw. A major problem in American thinking in the Middle East is the utter rejection of the notion that Palestinian rights are fund...
- + Mass Desertions Over Radiation Could End the War in Ukraine—U.S. Medevac helicopter at An Khe, South Vietnam, 1970. Photo: Mike Hastie, Medic, Vietnam NATO leaders have been dithering about Russia’s...
- + Digging Up the Roots of Human Culture—Homo erectus reconstruction, Natural History Museum, London. Photograph Source: Werner Ustorf – CC BY-SA 2.0 What led humans on the uniqu...
- + Want More Young People to Join the Military? Spend Less on It—Photo by Benjamin Faust The military is concerned about a growing recruitment crisis. Survey after survey reveals young people just aren’t insp...
- + The Carbon Soil Opportunity: Organic Farming Helps Counter Climate Change—Photo by Akshat Jhingran Climate change is no longer an abstraction. I can literally see it at my front door. My figs ripened in October 2024, w...
- + Teamster President Sean O’Brien’s Wager: Did He Win?—At the beginning of 2024, Teamster President Sean O’Brien made a wager. He bet that if he flattered and fawned over Donald Trump, the former president...
- + We Need to Invest in Families, Project 2025 Wants the Opposite—Photo by Ben Wicks I teach my children to be kind and respectful and not to judge others — we’re all in this life together. Yet families like ou...
- + The Something in the ‘We Gotta Do Something’—“You can’t fight something with nothing, you have to have an alternative vision…Trump had a vision…he had an explanation. To m...
- + On Degrees of Complicity—“…good deeds can be shortly stated but where wrong is done a wealth of language is needed to veil its deformity.” ― Thucydides “We have a ...
- + Netanyahu to Biden: “Well, You Dropped the Atom Bomb.”—Image by Alex Shuper Israel’s ghastly genocidal destruction of Gaza drags on and is horrifyingly clear for all to see. The Israeli Defense Forces’...
- + In a ‘Free’ Country Should Not Every Vote Be of Conscience? Or, the “Mystery of Iniquity—[Men like Master-at-Arms Claggart] are madmen of the most dangerous sort…for their lunacy is…occasional;…it is self-contained so tha...
- + Why I No Longer Wish to Write About American Politics—There comes a time to quit something one has long been pursuing and even something one is good at. I feel like it’s time to quit political writing, at...
- + McGill Admin Battles its Pro-Palestinian Students—Image by Sohaib Al Kharsa. The Harvard of the North has been the site of an increasingly intense battle linking Justin Trudeau, Roger Waters, a go...
- + Two Cheers for Maurizio Cattelan—Maurizio Cattelan. (2024, November 24). In Wikipedia. For H.B. Just now I see in the news that a previously little known, rarely seen portrai...
- + Report from a Campfire of the Resistance, San Francisco 2024—The dust had not yet settled around the White House and the foul air had not yet cleared from above the nation’s capital, but the campfires of the res...
- + Natural Capital or Natural Commonwealth?—Image by Scott Osborn. “We are subject today to a barrage of neoliberal attempts to commodify what was previously seldom or never appropriated fo...
- + Where the Wind Don’t Blow So Strange: The Journey Begun —The Grateful Dead were a cultural and commercial phenomenon. Indeed, one can argue they still are. Even the band’s detractors would agree with...
- + Janene Yazzie: COP29, Leonard Peltier and the Future of Indigenous Resistance—The post Janene Yazzie: COP29, Leonard Peltier and the Future of Indigenous Resistance appeared first on CounterPunch.org . [Category: CounterPunch...
- + A Reformist Program on Immigration (Or What Harris Might Have Said)—Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain The immigration issue has split and/or weakened both center and left parties and movement...
- + Israeli Engineered Chaos and Looting in Gaza—Youtube screengrab. Last March, I wrote Gaza: Genocide by Starvation , analyzing Israel’s strategy to divert attention from the starvatio...
- + The Magic Number Is 2.5 in the UK—Photograph Source: Brayden A. – CC BY-SA 4.0 In Europe it can be 2.0 or 2.5, while in the US it’s somewhere between 4 and 6 ...
- + US-backed Venezuelan Opposition Never Tried to Win the Presidency—Photograph Source: Daga95 – CC BY 2.0 “On the campaign trail, she [María Corina Machado] was received almost as a religious figure, often ...
- + Zionism: In the Words of the Leading Zionists and Their Allies—David Ben-Gurion with Yigal Allon and Yitzhak Rabin in the Negev, during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Photograph Source: https://www.flickr.com/people/4...
- + Lawsuit Targeting LA Teachers Union Aims to Make CA an Open Shop State—Photograph Source: Mike Chickey – CC BY-SA 4.0 Under the guise of fighting alleged “anti-semitism”, the anti-labor Freedom Foundation h...
- + Fencing the Ocean: Australia’s Social Media Safety Bill—Photo by James Lewis The Australian government is being run ragged in various quarters. When ragged, such a beast is bound to seek a distract...
- + Trump 2.0—Image by Pau Casals. “If they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?” (Luke 23:31) Before November 5th, mil...
- + Dogecoin is a Joke, So What Explains Its Rally?—Photograph Source: Syced – Public Domain Rockets aren’t the only thing Elon Musk is sending into the stratosphere. After a three-year plu...
- + In Times of Crisis We Need More People Power—The Cosecha national assembly. (Cosecha) Social movements often face a contradiction: To expand and thrive, they need to bring in ever-greater num...
- + Conservatives are Destroying Legacy Media—Image by Spenser Sembrat. Now that conservatives will have full control of the triumvirate – the White House, Congress, and Senate – they appear e...
- + Housing Director Threatens to Evict Florida Families—The 900 families living at the Li’l Abner mobile home park in Sweetwater, Florida, were taken aback on Tuesday November 12 when The Urban Group ,a re...
- + The Mainstream Media’s Big Lie—Eduardo Porter joined the chorus of people telling us that the inequality of the last four decades was just the result of the free market in his Washi...
- + Stare into Gaza: The Horror Was Not What I Expected—That is Gaza behind me. The fence line is 600m away. The northern part of Gaza, where Israel is carrying out a genocide within a genocide, systemat...
- + Done, Done, So Done With Duopoly—Owen Blacker, CC 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. What a bleak November for the USA. It would be easy to throw in the towel. Then again… ...
- + Are the Houthis Gaining the Upper Hand?—Image Source: hstoops – Public Domain On November 14, 2023, a month into Israel’s genocidal attack on the Palestinians in Gaza, Abdul-Malik ...
- + Maccabi in Amsterdam: Media at the Service of Disinformation—Photo credit: @iAnnetnl. Two weeks after the acts of violence on the sidelines of the game between the Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax, in ...
- + Trump, AUKUS and Australia’s Dim Servitors—Photograph Source: U.S. Secretary of Defense – CC BY 2.0 There is something enormously satisfying about seeing those in the war racket wor...
- + The Return of a Demagogic Populist President After 200 Years—Image Source: Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl – Public Domain This year, our nation experienced the mobilization of the lowest economic class a...
- + ICC Arrest Warrants: Moral Equivalence?—Photograph Source: justflix – CC BY-SA 4.0 One thing that reasonable people can agree with in the outraged and outrageous Israeli and Amer...
- + Trump’s Second-Term “Efficiency” Offering: Microwaved Leftovers—On November 12, president-elect Donald Trump announced his second-term plans for a “Department of Government Efficiency” which will, in his words, “di...
- + The Impact of Images—Image by David Lezcano. Most people seem to think that the saying “A picture is worth a thousand words” originated with Confucius, Ben Franklin or...
- + Transcript, Trump’s First Cabinet Meeting, January 21, 2025—Trump cabinet meeting, October 21, 2019. Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour. Location: Cabinet Room, West Wing of the White House . The pr...
- + What Makes Dan Osborn Run?—Photograph Source: Ramseywill – CC BY 4.0 One of the most consequential races in this past election was for U.S. senate in Nebraska, whe...
- + Challenges of Bilingual Writer—Image by Paola Bilancieri. Writing professionally in two languages, Spanish and English in my case, poses stimulating challenges. After more than ...
- + Amnesia in Trump Country—Trump at an “Autoworkers for Trump” rally in Detroit. (Screengrab from a video posted on X.) Twice, when Donald Trump has won the presiden...
- + Grappling With Genocide at the United Nations—Image by Davi Mendes. Israel’s genocide of Palestinians and widening war against Lebanon provided a particularly violent and lawless back drop to this...
- + Wanted!—Netanyahu and Gallant in the Israeli war cabinet room. The ICC has finally charged Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant with war crimes in Gaza and issued warra...
- + The Threats Ahead—Well, our Annual Fund Fall Fund Drive isn’t over yet. As you have probably noticed, it is not going as well as we hoped. We still have about $5,...
- + When the Red Line is a Green Light—+ On October 13, 2024, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin issued a joint letter demanding that Israel take concrete...
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