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Global warming is becoming a self-advertised nuisance with the recent Nepal disaster bringing renewed attention: Is global warming fueled by fossil...
At roughly 8:30 AM on 26 August 2026, a wall of water, mud, ice, and massive boulders roared down the Lhende Khola into the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli...
As his superyacht Boardwalk docked in Venice as part of the “Freedom 250 Coastal Diplomacy Italy initiative” in July, billionaire US Ambassador...
When monsters square off, they are quick to showcase their asymmetrical superpowers. Take Godzilla, for instance. Thanks to U.S. atomic testing in the...
Although there are signs that the labor market is weakening, we continue to be in a period of low unemployment. While the national unemployment rate...
Across New York, Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, a familiar fight is playing out inside the Democratic Party. Centrist stalwarts and...
While many mainstream commentators blanch at the characterization of the United States as an empire, the hard data show that it is today possible to...
New York State Police in riot gear retake control after the four-day Attica prison uprising in New York, September 1971, which left 43 dead. Wikimedia...
Image by Hédi Benyounes. I was incarcerated by the Florida Department of Corrections on a ten-year sentence. When my custody status finally dropped...
Hey, I’ve been 80 for almost two weeks now. Where’s the Jell-O? Where’s the yeast? Where’s the pitchfork? And I know by now you’re asking:...
Many U.S. companies are experiencing long delays in getting export licenses to sell their goods in China. Most of these products, however, are already...
In a recent Jacobin article, Noah Suárez-Sikes, “an organizer with the Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America,” criticized...
Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with Norma Hashim and Dr. Nazari Ismail from the Hashim Sani Center for Palestine Studies at Universiti Malaya in...
Last week was the 28th anniversary of the U.S. government bombing of a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan. Scott Horton, director of the Libertarian...
“We still have time” has been superseded by “How much worse can it get.” The world has been turned upside down by a destructive,...
When we talk about war, it’s usually in numbers. Innocents and soldiers killed. Bombs dropped. Money spent. We hear figures like 7.6 million and...
The controversy surrounding the death of Jason Arday has produced a revealing moment of institutional self-defense, if not abject moral cowardice,...
It has been hot in Switzerland. Temperatures have hovered around 35C (95F) during recent peaks. One longs for cooler, even cold weather. And yet, when...
Last week, US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brook L. Rollins moved forward on the agency’s promise to revoke the 2001 Roadless Rule,...
Our ultimate loyalty as human beings is not to the nation but to the human family. Since this is the case, the needs and interests of Americans should...
Relations between the United States and Canada continue to sour over the latest failed trade talks, with the imposition of 50% US tariffs on $20...
Most American interpretations of our history have been triumphal. From the use of atomic weapons against Japan in 1945 to the justifications for war...
I don't think of Dave Marsh as a "music writer" or "rock critic." Yes, nearly all of Marsh's books, of which there are several shelves worth, take...
In September 2025, I published a two-part article, “Challenging Marxism and Identity Politics” (see Scipes, 2025a, b). This article not only...
The limits of deterrence in the Iran war On August 17, the 60-day deadline set by the June U.S.-Iran agreement expired without a final peace...
Dolly Parton seems like she was probably a wonderful person. From what I can tell, she gave books to kids. She’s had some excellent one-liners about...
They are watching us, everywhere, all the time. Big government, big tech, the NSA, Blackrock, Oracle, Palantir… The thousand tentacled data Cthulhu...
Dolly Parton represented a golden age of country music which included Johnny Rodriguez, Charlie Pride, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty, Tammy...
Haiti Action Committee condemns the wave of massacres in Haiti and demands that the Trump Administration stop deporting Haitians back to Haiti. On...
If you want to understand the bleak future awaiting the occupied West Bank, do not look away. Just pay attention to the events unfolding in the small...
The dystopian future became the dystopian present last month when state-of-the-art artificial intelligence agents went rogue and conducted a...
Here are the most recent price-to-earnings and market cap numbers: What Does AI Tell Us About the AI Bubble? I know I have been screaming about an AI...
The term “antisemitism” is now so commonly used as an accusation as to be placed beyond questioning. This is particularly so in countries claiming...
What began publicly as Donald Trump’s lavish, taxpayer-funded vision of a gilded White House ballroom is now being justified by the...
This is not a sudden or unforeseen phenomenon; scientists have been warning us for decades. As of August 22nd, 160,000 hectares have burned, 450...
The Trump Administration has released five horsemen to run roughshod over America the Beautiful, playing out their version of Manifest Destiny 2.0 at...
The main weakness in Mearsheimer’s otherwise impressive arguments is his failure to recognize and discuss the expansionist nature of corporate...
The Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution is supposed to protect all of us. But what if it doesn’t? A case in point is the Fourth Amendment that...
With forecasters of doom debating the end of reading, of publishing and of literacy in general, what should we make of William T. Vollmann’s...
When important, serious, respectable people wouldn’t even mention that AIDS was killing on a major scale, their silence meant that not enough would...
What’s the difference between the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex and the Israeli Zionist gallows? Auschwitz-Birkenau did not come with a special...
The post Renaming It After Donald J. Trump appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Native Ecosystems Council, Gallatin Wildlife Association and Council on Wildlife and Fish is taking the Forest...
Forget about Ancient Sparta, Attila the Hun, Hernán Cortés, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Adolf Hitler, and all of the conquerors that...
Friday is apparently a day when Donald Trump believes that tariffs increase prices. We know this because Trump said that he will lower beef prices...
As Big Tech, Big Finance, and Big Government collude to dig us into the unfathomable hole of artificial intelligence, an old country saying has new...
Bernie Sanders has recently taken up AI issues but I have a feeling most leftists are skeptical of AI’s critics, not particularly knowledgeable...
Unexpectedly on April 28th of this year, John M. Miller, lifelong anti-militarism activist, died at his apartment in East Harlem of heart disease. He...
Strip away the diplomatic briefings, Congressional hearings and the endless cable news loops about centrifuges, regional proxies and cyber attacks,...
Last week, in a fit of blue-suit pique, Donald Trump threw a curveball, reversing his take on ideologically indoctrinated North Korea and flicking...
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