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On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg are joined by Thomas Zietzoff to talk about his new book, No Option But...
President Obama refuses to go low, and so he politely compares the nightmare that Americans are living through to “every day is Halloween.” I find...
A recent study recommended that the city of New Orleans begin a planned evacuation due to the inevitable rise of the seas and the loss of protective...
Instrument records and long-term observations show that Alpine glaciers have been retreating and thinning significantly since the end of the Little...
The Santa Marta Conference – Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels – An energetic multi-nation well-organized effort to get off fossil fuels with...
If you’re in like Flynn in the Trump administration, what’s great is that you can lie to Congress, take money and lavish gifts from the Qataris,...
Romania was late to politics which saw parties representing the left and right unite against liberals. But unite they did this week, in what the...
The expression “coalition of the willing” was first coined by an American political scientist in the 1970s and used by George W. Bush during the...
One day, I got a call from Peter Bahouth, a former Greenpeace honcho whom Ted Turner had swiped to run his grant-making operation. Peter said,...
In March, with the US and Israel having launched their unprovoked war on Iran, Wissam Charafeddine of Dearborn Blog wrote against the kind of...
Let’s start with the bad. Carbon dioxide levels just hit a new record of 431 parts per million. Some of you may remember that 350 was the safe upper...
Assassinating the president is a crime under federal statute 18 U.S. Code § 1751. The same law forbids assassinating, kidnapping or assaulting the...
Truthful Fictions Michelangelo gave Rome’s Adam and God life’s gift of an invisible sacrament: The spark of the divine- -the memorably memorable:...
Stretching Presidential Power Donald Trump has made waging war more centered than ever before on presidential prerogative. The same president who once...
In 1870, Julia Ward Howe penned her “Mother’s Day Proclamation,” calling for peace. Her words still ring with truth, calling us not to raise our...
Donald Trump tightened already suffocating sanctions on Cuba on May 1, at the same time as he made renewed threats to “take” the island as soon as...
The United States is a nation of extraordinary wealth and extraordinary contradiction. Tens of millions of Americans live in material insecurity,...
For some years, I’ve been interested in the Marxist concepts of base and superstructure — specifically what they suggest is necessary to achieve...
As the smoke from intensified Middle East conflicts shrouds the Strait of Hormuz in spring 2026, the global economy finds itself teetering on a...
Transnational corporations are heavily pressuring Mexico to open up its energy sector as part of the official review this year of the...
While the labour movement often seems at its lowest ebb, what Marx identified as capitalism’s main internal contradiction – the overaccumulation...
With official numbers of U.S. unhoused hovering around 700,000 and the reality being much, much more, former president Genocide Joe Biden got one...
On April 21 managing engineers at Denver Water announced they were going to drain Antero Reservoir, the first water body in that public agency’s...
The European Union is the “chief of all cowards,” Amnesty International declared in a searing statement issued on April 21. The condemnation was a...
The General Strike was “the greatest effort the British workers had ever made,” wrote the historian and economist G.D.H.Cole. One hundred years...
For Margarita Tadevosyan, peacebuilding is not an abstraction. It begins with memory. She remembers standing in line for bread as a child in Armenia...
The next time you pull into a gas station, watch the number on the pump as you squeeze the handle. That rapidly spinning dollar amount is not just the...
In the 1960s and 70s, conservative leaders of the AFL-CIO and many national unions viewed militant activists in the civil rights, anti-war,...
As social medicine practitioners, we take a side. We have seen our broad civil society and academic efforts to convince U.S. and other countries’...
Some lawmakers have grown so alarmed by the Trump administration’s actions in Latin America that they are beginning to accuse the administration of...
The jury at the Venice Biennale Art Exhibition have outdone themselves. Few juries at any art or literary festival can be trusted at the best of...
Canada is set to host the headquarters of the proposed Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB), a new multinational institution designed to...
The phrase “concentration camp” is freighted with dark historical meaning. Most people hear it and instinctively think of concentration camps used...
Suppose there was an explosion at an oil refinery that killed hundreds of people. Presumably, there would be a major investigation to determine what...
Recently, I had the opportunity to stand in a friend’s kitchen eating pupusas, the Salvadoran national food, while listening to an update on...
On April 14, 2026, Vice President JD Vance stood before a half-empty arena at the University of Georgia, courtesy of Turning Point USA, and decided to...
“In my beginning is my end,” wrote T. S. Eliot. Every so often—after writing nearly a dozen articles on this subject—I return to the same...
Prologue According to Homer, Chimera was a hybrid monster made up of a lion, the head of a fire-breathing goat sprouting on the back of the lion and a...
Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Dr. Jesse Logan, Native Ecosystems Council, and the Gallatin Wildlife Association secured another significant win for...
It’s “Déjà Vu All Over Again” in America. I feel as if I am being forced to revisit old 20th-century American paradigms under the current...
Utopia Parkway in Queens Five miles of traffic and injury The booming, fuming Irony The fruit of a world war economy Damaging so many Who continue to...
The world is leaning on China a lot these days as a counterweight to the lunacy of Donald Trump. No one has illusions that China and its leader, Xi...
As another week of Trump’s war begins, it becomes ever more clear that all his presumptions about how the war would go have proven wrong. Iran’s...
GDP Growth Was Driven by a Jump in Federal Government Spending Spending by the federal government fell at a 16.6% annual rate in the 4th quarter. This...
Across the country, resistance to data centers is rising even as plans are steadily being made to build new ones. According to the Pew Research...
Al King and other United Steelworkers (USW) activists spent much of the past year piecing together support for about 600 union miners in Minnesota...
The source of Russia’s global power derives not from sophisticated technology, an advanced service sector, or a cadre of entrepreneurs. Russia’s...
On April 24, congresswoman Rashida Tlaib announced that she “just introduced the Ban Warehouse Detention Act.” This is an excellent idea. As Tlaib...
Tuesday 7 April. It was an evening much like any other. At 9pm French TV channels were airing a game show, a repeat of Kitchen Nightmares and, on the...
Israel’s bombing of Lebanon has reportedly killed more than a thousand civilians this year. Israel also drove out more than a half million civilians...
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