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Gaza Ceasefire at Last: How Israel’s ‘First Defeat’ Will Shape the Country’s Future

The headline in the Times of Israel says it all: “For the First Time, Israel Just Lost a War.” Regardless of the reasoning behind this...

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Ramzy Baroud

Take That Nazi Salute Seriously

If it launched with a Nazi salute … where do you think it ends? On Monday, January 20th in the Capitol Rotunda, tech billionaire Elon Musk threw...

yesterday 10

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Rivera Sun

Corporations and Billionaires Flooded the Trump Inauguration With Cash

Shattering all records, the Trump Vance Inaugural Committee, Inc. raised and spent over $200 million in special interest moneycelebrating the 2024...

yesterday 10

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Craig Holman

Why the California Insurance Crisis Could Trigger Broader Financial Instability

The devastating wildfires in Los Angeles have made one threat very clear: Climate change is undermining the insurance systems American homeowners...

yesterday 10

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Gary W. Yohe

Here Comes the Trump Bump

Fifty years as a financial journalist tells me that trying to predict Wall Street’s movements is a fool’s errand. But things really are...

yesterday 10

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Eamonn Fingleton

The US Makes a Play for Rojava

In one of its final moves in office, the Biden administration is trying to secure U.S. influence over Rojava, the Kurdish-led region of...

yesterday 10

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Edward Hunt

Letter from London: Formed of Frailty and Error

Against a backdrop of continued change in the world, the artist here in London has come to the end of another large piece. It is challengingly...

yesterday 10

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Peter Bach

Being the “Moral” Barbarian

A Question Hanin Majadli, is a brave and clear-sighted Israeli-Palestinian journalist at Haaretz, Israel’s mostly liberal newspaper. She recently...

yesterday 9

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Lawrence Davidson

Trump Carries the Big Stick?    

Donald Trump and his cohorts want to take back the Panama Canal.  According to Trump and those who support this desire, this is because China...

yesterday 20

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Ron Jacobs

Trumpocalypse

My name isn’t important, only what I have to say. I’m writing with a pencil because I need to conserve my batteries tonight. It’s Year 24 of Our...

yesterday 20

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Juan Cole

What Americans Now Need Most: A Farewell to Grand Fortune

Over three score years ago, President Dwight Eisenhower had a warning for America. “We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted...

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Sam Pizzigati

I’m Very Worried About a Second Trump Administration

Although some on the left have minimized the potential for mayhem in a second Trump administration, I’m not sanguine at all. Many like to point to...

previous day 10

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Howard Lisnoff

Contrasting Reality: Treatment of Israeli and Palestinian Prisoners

The release of three Israeli women held captive in Gaza on Sunday attracted significant global media attention. However, there was comparatively...

previous day 10

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Jamal Kanj

How Human Experience Makes Science Possible

The striking paradox is that science tells us both that we’re peripheral in the cosmic scheme of things and central to the reality we uncover....

previous day 1

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Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, And Evan Thompson

Why Labour Can’t Fix the UKs Polycrisis

The UK’s decrepit first-past-the-post electoral system virtually guarantees a two-party grip on parliamentary power. Since WW2 the two parties in...

previous day 10

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Kenneth Surin

Elon Musk’s ‘Come-to-Zionism Moment’ and His DOGE Dancing Troupe

Elon Musk, the obscenely wealthy, self-appointed messiah of the digital age, wields influence like a neural network running on overload. Hailed by...

previous day 9

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Yoav Litvin

In Commemoration of Trump’s Inaugural Address: A Brief, Historical Definition of Fascism

The word fascism derives from the Italian fascio, the name for the bundle of sticks carried by ancient Roman officials to beat into submission...

previous day 10

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Stephen F. Eisenman

No, Donny. These Men Are Losers.

Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk. Three of the wealthiest and most powerful men to ever exist. Yet beneath their towering tech empires lies a...

previous day 10

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Nathaniel St. Clair

American Troops as Migrants

This country, once a haven for immigrants, is now on the verge of turning into a first-class nightmare for them. President Donald Trump often...

previous day 6

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Andrea Mazzarino

Situation Critical: UNRWA and its Continued Operations

In April last year, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini told the United Nations Security Council that “an insidious campaign to end...

tuesday 8

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Binoy Kampmark

What Donald Trump Has Revealed About Our Country

The rise of Donald Trump from a widely publicized, if failed, business boss to a two-term President has taught us a great deal about our society....

tuesday 6

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Ralph Nader

The Fight for Dignity: Reshaping Gaza’s Post-War Narrative

Following every Israeli war on Gaza, numerous narratives emerge. Some claim victory for one side and defeat for the other, while others—knowingly...

tuesday 10

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Ramzy Baroud

Mass Deportation: a Bad Idea for the US Economy

There were many lies about immigrants spread during the 2024 presidential campaign. It is necessary to replace the misinformation with facts to...

tuesday 10

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Algernon Austin

To Confront the Oligarchy, We Need to Build Power at the Community Level

Wrong way world A consistent theme through my life has been to understand our world, to assemble a comprehensive picture the best I can, respecting...

tuesday 10

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Patrick Mazza

New Ultra-Gombeen Government in Dublin, Same Old Story on ‘The Left’

Despite recent social changes in the Twenty-Six Counties of Ireland and the expectation of ‘change,’ last November’s election demonstrated that...

tuesday 4

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Kerron Ó Luain

The Red (Note) White and Blue

The impending ban on TikTok pushed many in that oh so American way to do the opposite of what those in charge wanted them to do. Americans are a...

tuesday 2

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Kathleen Wallace

Required Reading: Hillbilly Elegy

I doubt that many progressives in the United States have read J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. Being based in the Philippines, a country located on...

tuesday 1

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Walden Bello

Donny, We Really Know Ye

Trump’s demeanor during the run-up to the inauguration under the dome was that of a southern prison warden grimacing in the presence of a Peter,...

tuesday 1

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Matthew Stevenson

United States in 2025: Social Problems Denied via Rhetorics of Refusal

Societies survive and grow when they successfully navigate their contradictions. Eventually, however, accumulating contradictions overwhelm...

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Richard D. Wolff

Remembering MLK, Jr. 2025

I confess that I don’t always pay attention to federal holidays and the people or historical events they usually honor. I don’t stop much and...

20.01.2025 2

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John Kendall Hawkins

Leonard Peltier is Coming Home!

Sumterville, FL – Today, President Biden granted Leonard Peltier executive clemency and commuted the remainder of his sentence. The president’s...

20.01.2025 2

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Counterpunch News Service

Let Resistance Be the Order of the Day: MLK Day in San Francisco, January 19, 2025

A day before Donald Trump’s inauguration and the same day that—thousands of miles away— hostages were released in Gaza, the Third Baptist Church...

20.01.2025 1

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Jonah Raskin

King Was Not a Pacifist: He Was an Anti-Imperialist

In his condemnation of the U.S. war on the people of Vietnam, Martin Luther King Jr.’s stance was not a pacifist one. King was not necessarily...

20.01.2025 2

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Sudip Bhattacharya

Bitter Harvests: The Gaza Ceasefire

Twinning the terms “ceasefire” and “Gaza” seems not only incongruous but an obscene joke.  This is largely because the ceasefire announced...

20.01.2025 10

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Binoy Kampmark

Full Employment: One Last Time for the Road

I’ve already given my Biden economy retrospective, but I want to come back and double down on the main point there, because I think it is...

20.01.2025 2

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Dean Baker

Can the Internet Wage Peace?

With the Tiktok ban just days away, American youth have started flooding the Chinese social media app RedNote, pushing it into #1 position on the...

20.01.2025 20

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Megan Russell

Why a National Holiday Was the One of the Worst Things to Happen to MLK, Jr.

Go to a MLK celebration these days and you will hear Black politicians using this holiday as a platform to run for Office. Most white pastors use...

20.01.2025 10

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Lawrence Ware

American Refocus: A.J. Brown and the MLK Jr Holiday

It was the night before the ’25 spring semester, and down on the sidelines of a Wild Card game for the National Football League, Philadelphia...

20.01.2025 9

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Greg Moses

From Ground Zero: Stories from Gaza: An Appreciation

The power of From Ground Zero derives from the cumulative impact of the utterly helpless and vulnerable Gaza civilian population seeking to survive...

20.01.2025 8

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Richard Falk

Biden’s Refusal to Pardon Reality Winner Underscores Taboo on Questioning Electoral Integrity

Supporters of U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA contractor Reality Winner made a last ditch effort last week to lobby outgoing President Joe...

20.01.2025 7

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Greg M. Schwartz

Offshore Wind and Trump

What will be the future of offshore wind turbines off coastal United States with Donald Trump as U.S. president? “We recommitted to reducing...

19.01.2025 2

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Karl Grossman

It’s All Mine, Now!

The post It’s All Mine, Now! appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

19.01.2025 3

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Ed Sanders

As the U.S. Looks Back to the 17th Century, Mexico Moves Forward into the 21st

Hours after a 6.1 earthquake rippled across western Mexico (I didn’t feel it), I turned on the tube to witness a milestone event unfolding hundreds...

19.01.2025 8

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Kent Paterson

The Future of Organized Labor in the Time of Trump and Farage

It never used to be the case here in the UK that people ignored the unions. As the Grateful Dead sang back in the 1970s: ‘What a long, strange trip...

19.01.2025 2

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Peter Bach

Can We Abolish War, Or Will War Abolish Us?

The organized murder of one group of humans by another group of humans is called war. We live in a world where the vilest of crimes, which are...

19.01.2025 5

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Jerry Tetalman