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Two days into the US attack on Iran, Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the extraordinary claim that the war was, in fact, a legal, pre-emptive...
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Why has there been no sustained, system-wide protest movement against President Trump? In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the pigs do not just seize...
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appears to have little patience for questions that do not conform to his preferred style of declaring...
As the US-Israel war on Iran enters its third week, the outlines of the economic consequences and fallout of the war have begun to emerge. As the war...
The first time I heard about the Yippies, I was almost thirteen. The Democratic Convention was going full swing in Chicago in August 1968. I delivered...
President Trump and his administration have repeatedly sought to contrast the economy since the start of his term with what they claim was a...
The recent explosion in artificial intelligence (AI) data centers has created a litany of environmental and cultural issues for Native people and...
An expected refugee crisis is looming from the US-Israeli wars on Iran and Lebanon. This probability has already been raised by aid agencies, but...
Nine countries now possess nuclear weapons and we have just seen the start of a new war in the Middle East over one more nation supposedly trying to...
Small World One of the advantages of the U.K. compared to the U.S. is it’s small. In the five hours it takes to go from Micanopy, Florida (where I...
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...
Israel and the United States are now at war with Iran, a conflict framed by both leaders through a stark and self-serving moral binary. In the words...
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Truthful Fictions I land in cities to meet head on a type of tale. It might seem that I am in an asylum: Realties abound but tales of fiction and non...
Life in senior communities has been dissected in two recent shows: Man on the Inside with Ted Danson and The Thursday Murder Club starring Helen...
How do you bomb a country “without mercy”—and end up strengthening it? When US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared that Washington would...
While halfway around the world Hezbollah and Iran are beating the living daylights out of Israel, here in our own hemisphere, superintended by a...
Trump has seriously fucked up in the Middle East this time, and even he knows it. In the first two weeks alone of Bibi and Donald’s latest savage...
Tell me, should I feel guilt due to my anger-engendered desire for the collective butchers of Gaza (and Lebanon and Iran) i.e., Zionist true believers...
In an earlier essay, “Relics/Icons/Paintings: A Very Short History of Venetian Painting,” I traced the origins of Venetian painting. Here,...
A week into Trump’s illegal war against Iran, the White House released a 42-second video on X, featuring movie scenes spliced with real military...
There are two scenes I cannot shake, and I need to be honest about why. The first unfolds in the Oval Office, that carefully staged room where power...
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Eric Draitser talks with Yassamine Mather about the Israel/US war on Iran, its geopolitical ramifications,...
President Donald Trump’s imperialist assault on Iran, which has claimed countless innocent lives, and will take many more before it’s finished, is...
The closure of virtually all commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz occasioned by the Iran War is not merely a matter of oil and gas, the...
The Summit in Miami On 7 March 2026, at the Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami, Donald Trump inaugurated the “Shield of the Americas” summit,...
Last week, we watched a U.S.-made Tomahawk missile murder more than 160 Iranian school children. We watched in horror, helpless to stop the incoming...
Even when -- if -- tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz can get back to normal, we'll be feeling the economic after-effects for a long time....
A bit less than 20 years ago, a nationwide housing bubble collapsed, giving us the Great Recession. Millions of homeowners had their houses...
Iran is not Venezuela: knowing the threat of nuclear-armed Israel to Iran, the Iranian leaders have been preparing for foreign attack for many years,...
We have all come across those in our lives who display the characteristics now known as Dark Triad Personality. It's a combination of narcissism,...
Years ago, I made it to the big time and was interviewed for a segment on one of the primetime television “news magazines.“ I spruced myself up,...
The Cooke City area of Montana has one of the healthiest whitebark pine forests in the region. Yet now, the Forest Service wants to apply an...
I have previously commented about the strategic blunders the Trump regime has made in its war on Iran. Add this one: the gains both China and Russia...
Long before Trump would transform himself into a messianic figure for the American right, Trump was the creator of one of the most grotesque...
The Algerian-born French novelist, Albert Camus, a pied-noir, began his existentialist classic, The Stranger, with the now memorable words, “Mother...
In the aftermath of Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy’s repeated and dangerous misinformation campaign inaccurately linking vaccines to...
On December 1, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) initiated “Operating Metro Surge” in Minneapolis, MN. It deployed personnel from...
Recently, commentators from various places on the US political spectrum have discussed and even called for the reinstitution of mandatory...
The head of a prominent U.S.-funded nongovernmental organization has recently acknowledged years of involvement in subversive operations in Cuba and...
President Donald J. Trump is ignoring this widely-held sentiment — including among his MAGA supporters — and has just ordered 2500 troops to the...
Three months before taking power in 1949, Mao Tse-tung wrote of the solidarity required for the Chinese people’s revolution, remarking that a...
Jeffrey Epstein was not only a rapist and a child predator, but also — wait for it — a White supremacist. While some speculate that the Epstein...
Long before Trump would transform himself into a messianic figure for the American right, Trump was the creator of one of the most grotesque...
Americans who love the great outdoors are witnessing Trump’s “Plunder America First” public forest liquidation program – up close and...
I’m traveling to Cuba for the first time on March 21 to be in Havana with the Nuestra América Convoy, in which people from dozens of countries...
Joe Kent’s resignation is not an anomaly but an alarm: elite dissent is surfacing early because this war is built on deception. Joe Kent’s...
One of the things that should bother economists more than it seems to is the loud chorus of complaints about affordability. Since wage growth has...
The war, now a regional war affecting the entire world, has already claimed thousands of lives and it will kill many more. Many of the victims are...
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