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The Trump administration’s deportation of people without anything resembling due process has disgusted much of the population. The latest target was...
From a recent peaceful student rally at Columbia University came a chant that summed up their protest – “FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DEAD AND YOU’RE...
For my father’s generation, Gamal Abdel Nasser wasn’t just another Arab leader; he set the standard by which all others have been measured, and...
On 4 April, 122 days after martial law was declared in South Korea, the constitutional court upheld the National Assembly’s impeachment motion and...
Bing search results inform me that women from Texas seeking abortion-inducing drugs can likely get them through Whole Woman’s Health of...
It’s easy to get wrapped up in the shock doctrine politics of Donald Trump’s second presidency and lose the historical perspective. Maybe that’s...
Spanish antifascist Mercedes Núñez Targa’s memoir Bearing Witness: Prison Stories from a Woman’s Fight Against Fascism is a powerful and passionate...
Since before New Mexico was a state, Catron County has been fighting against federal authority, resisting commonsense efforts to rein in logging-...
Do you remember the now-censored “DEI” book about Cesar Chavez that I read to your class, Harvesting Hope by Kathleen Krull? She told the story of...
May 1st is eminently well known in many corners of the world as “May Day” and is celebrated as a holiday honoring the labor of the world’s workers....
Back when Elon Musk was just getting his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) off the ground, he was boasting that he would eliminate $2...
It took six weeks for the German Army to trample over France. In roughly the same period, President Donald Trump scattered his biggest legal...
It’s not a good time to be an American journalist. Or a consumer of American journalism. Or, for that matter, even a skimmer of the headlines...
California Governor Gavin Newsom and the Israel lobby have enlisted another partner in the frenzy to promote Holocaust education during nationwide...
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk to Mike Prysner about the military, Pete Hegseth’s attacks on Black...
Once the darling of the left for championing electric vehicles, even with a hefty $44,000-plus sticker price on a range of best-selling “S3XY”...
A jarring contrast defines the present global landscape. While the IMF forecasts a multiyear drag on growth due to the current tariff wars—and...
Fuels reduction treatments are the Forest Service’s primary strategy for reducing high severity fire and increasing “resilience” in dry forests....
When the Vietnam War finally ended on April 30, 1975, it left behind a landscape scarred with environmental damage. Vast stretches of coastal...
To conquer a place is to fundamentally subdue its population. This must be clearly differentiated from ‘occupation’, a specific legal term that...
After Ringling Bros. ended its 145-year-long tradition of forcing elephants to perform in 2016, many assumed that the protracted era of American...
Avelo Airlines has entered into a controversial agreement with US immigration authorities to operate deportation flights, sparking protests from...
Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” on April 2, 2025, marked the formal launch of sweeping global tariffs, capping months of escalatory announcements...
Despite Donald Trump’s disavowal of Project 2025, his administration began enforcing that initiative’s agenda immediately after his second...
Just after New Years in 1979 I moved from the East Village to Brooklyn. Carol was pregnant, but her cramped digs on Carroll Street would not...
Top Amazon executives have received huge tax windfalls from the 2017 tax reform and stand to reap even bigger windfalls from the new tax...
It’s not every day a small town beats back a $500 million industrial project, but that’s exactly what just happened in Belfast, Maine, population...
Rubio has made the Department of State virtually irrelevant, playing no role in key negotiations involving wars between Russia and Ukraine as well...
Universities are in a bind. As institutions of learning and teaching, knowledge learnt and taught should, or at the very least could, be put into...
“Rights are granted to those who align with power,” Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student, eloquently wrote from his cell. This...
America desperately needs a united front to restrain the wrecking ball of the Trump regime. While outraged opposition has been visible and vocal,...
American citizens are being routinely caught in Trump’s deportation dragnet, detained, jailed, and threatened with deportation, even a...
When President Trump ran for office in 2024 he promised to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine within 100 days of taking office. The unofficial...
Since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the United States and Israel have been zealous in their efforts to disempower it. Israel has used its powerful...
The predominant narrative trajectory concerning Lakota historiography, as articulated by non-Lakotas, generally follows this pattern: initially,...
Lama Khouri, DPsa, is a co-founder of the Palestine-Global Mental Health Network, a psychoanalyst living and practicing in New York. She is the...
Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act is under attack. It’s not the first time. The rationale for these attacks has remained the...
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Life as inventive sequence has a particular character, a certain quality of brilliance that beggars comparison with our busy busy world of...
Since taking office in January, Donald Trump has been hard at work rounding up innocent people for deportation, citing bogus, pretextual reasons...
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...