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The Deportation Drive: Trump Promised Millions of Dangerous Criminals

The Trump administration’s deportation of people without anything resembling due process has disgusted much of the population. The latest target was...

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Dean Baker

The Antidote to Bigotry and Daily Bombardments

From a recent peaceful student rally at Columbia University came a chant that summed up their protest – “FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DEAD AND YOU’RE...

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Ralph Nader

Unveiling Nasser’s Secrets: Arabs, Palestine, and the Crucial Timing

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...

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Ramzy Baroud

To Stop Coups in South Korea, Expand Democracy

On 4 April, 122 days after martial law was declared in South Korea, the constitutional court upheld the National Assembly’s impeachment motion and...

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Dae-Han Song

Texas Pols Think They Can Control Speech. Nope.

Bing search results inform me that women from Texas seeking abortion-inducing drugs can likely get them through Whole Woman’s Health of...

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Thomas Knapp

Cop Cities and Constitutional Crisis

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...

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Paul Feather

The Brutality of Fascism: A Personal and Political Witness

Spanish antifascist Mercedes Núñez Targa’s memoir Bearing Witness: Prison Stories from a Woman’s Fight Against Fascism is a powerful and passionate...

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Ron Jacobs

Catron County’s Latest Anti-Wolf Theatrics Should be Roundly Booed 

Since before New Mexico was a state, Catron County has been fighting against federal authority, resisting commonsense efforts to rein in logging-...

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Greta Anderson

May Day Letter to My Student Deportee

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...

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Margot Pepper

Requiem for May Day: A Diary of Encampment Protest

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....

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Gary Fields

How Much Have Elon Musk and the DOGE Boys Cost Us?

Back when Elon Musk was just getting his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) off the ground, he was boasting that he would eliminate $2...

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Dean Baker

Trump’s Blitzkrieg Rolls Over Liberal Law Firms

It took six weeks for the German Army to trample over France. In roughly the same period, President Donald Trump scattered his biggest legal...

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Nick Licata

How Trump Plays the Media

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...

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Nan Levinson

West Ed and The Israel Lobby

California Governor Gavin Newsom and the Israel lobby have enlisted another partner in the frenzy to promote Holocaust education during nationwide...

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Marcy Winograd

Militarism and Resistance with Mike Prysner

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk to Mike Prysner about the military, Pete Hegseth’s attacks on Black...

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The United States Versus China: Tesla, BYD and the Trump Follies

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”...

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John K. White

China Navigates a World of Uncertainty

A jarring contrast defines the present global landscape. While the IMF forecasts a multiyear drag on growth due to the current tariff wars—and...

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Jianlu Bi

Rational Analysis is Required Before Cutting and Burning Dry Forests

Fuels reduction treatments are the Forest Service’s primary strategy for reducing high severity fire and increasing “resilience” in dry forests....

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Sarah Hyden

50 Years Later, Vietnam’s Environment Still Bears the Scars of War and signals a dark future for Gaza and Ukraine

When the Vietnam War finally ended on April 30, 1975, it left behind a landscape scarred with environmental damage. Vast stretches of coastal...

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Pamela Mcelwee

The Myth of Conquest: Why Gaza Will Never Be Subdued by Israel

To conquer a place is to fundamentally subdue its population. This must be clearly differentiated from ‘occupation’, a specific legal term that...

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Ramzy Baroud

How the United States Is Failing Elephants—and What You Can Do

After Ringling Bros. ended its 145-year-long tradition of forcing elephants to perform in 2016, many assumed that the protracted era of American...

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Delcianna Winders

ICE Contracts Avelo Airlines to Fly Deportees

Avelo Airlines has entered into a controversial agreement with US immigration authorities to operate deportation flights, sparking protests from...

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Roger Harris

Trump’s Global Tariffs Are Meant for China

Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” on April 2, 2025, marked the formal launch of sweeping global tariffs, capping months of escalatory announcements...

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John P. Ruehl

As History Erasure Intensifies, Independent Internet Archives Are Helping Fortify the ‘Digital Preservation Infrastructure’

Despite Donald Trump’s disavowal of Project 2025, his administration began enforcing that initiative’s agenda immediately after his second...

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Damon Orion

Wild Dogs of Brooklyn

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...

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Michael Uhl

The Tax Debate: What’s In it for Jeff Bezos and Amazon CEO Andrew Jassy

Top Amazon executives have received huge tax windfalls from the 2017 tax reform and stand to reap even bigger windfalls from the new tax...

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Sarah Anderson

The Little Town that Could

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...

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Lawrence Reichard

Marco Rubio and the Death of Diplomacy

Rubio has made the Department of State virtually irrelevant, playing no role in key negotiations involving wars between Russia and Ukraine as well...

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Melvin Goodman

Yale, Ben-Gvir and Banning Palestinian Groups

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...

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Binoy Kampmark

Deporting Dissent: The Dangerous Precedent Set by the Persecution of Pro-Palestine Activists

“Rights are granted to those who align with power,” Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student, eloquently wrote from his cell. This...

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Ramzy Baroud

Top Democrats Have Been Enabling Trump

America desperately needs a united front to restrain the wrecking ball of the Trump regime. While outraged opposition has been visible and vocal,...

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Norman Solomon

Roaming Charges: Show Us Your Papers!

American citizens are being routinely caught in Trump’s deportation dragnet, detained, jailed, and threatened with deportation, even a...

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Jeffrey St. Clair

Why Trump’s Ukraine War ‘Kellogg Plan’ Collapsed

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...

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Jack Rasmus

Iran and the United States: Nuclear Argy Bargy

Since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the United States and Israel have been zealous in their efforts to disempower it. Israel has used its powerful...

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M. Reza Behnam

Crazy Horse and Joseph Marshall III

The predominant narrative trajectory concerning Lakota historiography, as articulated by non-Lakotas, generally follows this pattern: initially,...

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Nick Estes

A Knock at the Door

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...

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Lama Khouri

In Defense of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act

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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Jeffrey H. Altschul

Throwing Chaos at the Wall: The American Dictator’s Playbook

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Peter Crowley

What We Lost

Life as inventive sequence has a particular character, a certain quality of brilliance that beggars comparison with our busy busy world of...

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Julie Wark

The Crowning of Executive Power

Since taking office in January, Donald Trump has been hard at work rounding up innocent people for deportation, citing bogus, pretextual reasons...

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David S. D’Amato

Living on the Cliff’s Edge: the Ruins of Puyé, Pope Francis and the Fate of the Earth

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...

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Jeffrey St. Clair