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For Real Resistance: The Fascist Trump-Barr Regime Can’t Simply Be Voted Out

In applauding the extra-judicial paramilitary execution of the anti-fascist Michael Forest Reinoehl outside Olympia, Washington two weeks ago,...

Paul Street

I’m Still Mad About COVID. We All Should Be.

Today, I attended online classes all day and then curled up with the new Bob Woodward book, Rage. Rage is what I feel about the mishandling of...

Jill Richardson

Vaccines for the Rich

Self-interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of roles, even that of disinterestedness. – François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, ...

Christopher Brauchli

Liberal Establishment Promotes “HERD IMMUNITY-lite”

(Of course it doesn’t work that way, but it sounds “lesser evil”!) Human lives are cheap in a capitalist society, particularly for members of...

Elizabeth Keyes

Let Gender Reveal Parties Burn

The Georgia sun beat down on my uncle Dennis’s front yard the day he cut my hair. It was 2003, my Dad had been deployed to Iraq for half a year,...

Robin Carver

Corporate Crime at the New York Times and Washington Post

Corporate Crime Reporter wants to sponsor a corporate crime news event at the Washington Post or at the New York Times. For the event, we would...

Russell Mokhiber

Reducing CO2 Emissions to Reverse Global Warming

We know that Global Warming can be reduced during the years of the century ahead of us if we — our civilization — steadily reduces its emissions...

Manuel García, Jr.

The Struggle for Bottom Unity in an Age of Division

“The most interesting political questions throughout history have been whether or not humans will be ruled or free, whether they will...

Nicky Reid

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Palestinians in the Age of Trump

I just dropped my request for an Ohio absentee ballot in the Palestine Post in Ramallah. Although thousands of miles away, I can see and feel the...

Sam Bahour

Pursuing National Liberation and Socialism: A Conversation with Oscar Figuera

Oscar Figuera is the general secretary of the Venezuelan Communist Party [PCV]. As a 17-year-old metal worker in Aragua state, he cut his teeth as...

Cira Pascual Marquina

Be It Trump Or Biden, Iraq is Doomed

It was announced on September 9 that the U.S. Administration would reduce troop numbers in Iraq from 5,200 to 3,000 by the end of the...

Brian Cloughley

1 friday

“Law and Order” vs. “Empathy and Healing”

Americans citizens have considered, knowingly or not, the legacy of American history every four years since 1788. This election season, we have the...

John Davis

An Open Letter to the Medical Community and All Frontline Workers: Trump’s COVID-19 Response Represents a Grave Danger to Public Health; his regime must go now.

Today, under the presidency of Donald Trump, we face an unprecedented danger not just for society as a whole but for those of us in the medical...

Scott Gilbert

1 friday

Roaming Charges: Smoke on the Water, Lies Burning in the Sky

I returned home to discover that my old pal George Atiyeh is missing from his home in the Santiam Canyon, located directly in the path of the...

Jeffrey St. Clair

Democrats: Can’t Live With ‘Em, Can’t Live Without ‘Em

Like HIV or COVID-19, the Democratic Party is likely to be with us for some time to come. The best we can hope for is that it becomes more...

Andrew Levine

Misinformation Raging Like Wildfire

With large fires still raging around the West, we can all feel empathy for those who lost their homes and even entire communities and all of us...

George Wuerthner

Germany: US Nuclear Weapons Shamed in Nationwide Debate

We need a broad public debate … about the sense and nonsense of nuclear deterrence. —Rolf Mutzenich, German Social Democratic Party Leader...

John Laforge

From Nukes to Northern Ireland: Breaking International Law is as English as Afternoon Tea

Referring to a major piece of Brexit legislation, British media and punditry issued burning condemnation of the ruling Tory government’s Internal...

T.j. Coles

Surprise! Still No Economic Relief from Washington

With tens of millions unemployed, inevitable eviction merely postponed for a few months and low-wage jobs and small businesses drying up like the...

Eve Ottenberg

Raising Fear

Donald Trump and some of his loyal sycophants are getting hysterical, trying to frighten everyone with fantasy tales of insurrections and martial...

Richard C. Gross

George Atiyeh, Opal Creek Champion

“George Atiyeh is the Hayduke of the Ancient Forests. If he went up with the forest he defended all his life, it’s the way he would have chosen to...

Michael Donnelly

Why America’s Political Fights Are as Fake as Pro Wrestling

I recall being devastated when I learned that the professional wrestling I watched as a kid was fake. How could combatants show such contempt for...

Leonard C. Goodman

Robert Samuelson Hangs It up

Robert Samuelson, the Washington Post columnist who has provided so much material for this blog over the years, announced his retirement on Monday....

Dean Baker

4 17.09.2020

“The Music Never Stopped” | Grateful Shred

The post “The Music Never Stopped” | Grateful Shred appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

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Rio Tinto Turns Cultural Vandal: the Destruction of the Juukan Gorge Caves

It was a calamity in cultural terms likened to the destruction of the Buddhist statues of Bamyan and the ancient city of Palmyra. The explosive...

Binoy Kampmark

I Watched “Cuties” So You Wouldn’t Have to (But You Should)

A brigade of pearl-clutching, virtue-signaling, cancel-culture keyboard warriors wants you to know that Cuties (Mignonnes -- it's actually a French...

Thomas Knapp

A “Persistent Eye in the Sky” Coming to a City Near You?

“Gorgon Stare will be looking at a whole city, so there will be no way for the adversary to know what we’re looking at, and we can see...

Medea Benjamin - Barry Summers

10 17.09.2020

Enabling Trump’s Ongoing Disasters

As if the nation hasn’t been traumatized enough by the horrendous effects of the out-of-control coronavirus pandemic, thanks to recorded...

George Ochenski

A Post-Coronavirus Economy Can No Longer Afford to Put the Pentagon First

The inadequate response of both the federal and state governments to the Covid-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on the United States,...

Mandy Smithberger

Fighting Fire With Fire: What Tribal People Know About Forest Ecosystems

In more than 20 years of living in Southern California, I have never been in a potential fire evacuation zone—until now. The entire state is...

Sonali Kolhatkar

Lies My Fuehrer Told Me

The President has never lied to the American public on COVID. –White House spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany It doesn’t bother me. I don’t feel like...

John G. Russell

Aligning Ignorance With Bigotry: Trump Attempts to Rewrite History

In what appears to be a blatant appeal to the white supremacists in his base, President Donald Trump has made clear his attempt to both defend and...

Henry Giroux

Police Bureaucracy and Abolition: Why Reforms Driven by Professionals will Renew State Oppression

The demands are clear: defund and abolish police. As those calls grow, so will efforts by reformers to propose new rules and regulations that they...

Shakeer Rahman – Brendan Mcquade

4 17.09.2020

Could the Days of the Conventional Office Be Over?

The COVID-19 lockdown left many people the world over with no alternative but to work away from their offices, generating a rapid growth in working...

Kenneth Surin

Fact Checking Democratic and Republican Conventions

When capitalism’s billionaire twin parties convene every four years to select their would–be head-of-state, it’s important to get the facts...

Jeff Mackler

The DHS is Trying to Tie US Activists to Foreign Movements — Here’s Why We Should be Skeptical

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is taking a new tack in its efforts to combat the leaderless and decentralized antifa movement under its...

Brian Bensimon

Logging Will Do Nothing to Help Us Out of This Mess

As I write this, my hometown of Talent, Oregon is a disaster area, and I am in tears over the destruction of my neighborhood. Lives have been...

Dominick Dellasala

Corporations That Have Been Fined More Than $13 Billion in Penalties for Misdeeds Have Pocketed COVID Bailouts

In implementing the CARES Act passed by Congress to rescue the economy from the effects of the pandemic, the Trump Administration has directed tens...

Phil Mattera

Life in Cancer Alley

Shut up and let corporate America — and also, for that matter, corporate Taiwan — get on with its business. We have ethane to crack and plastic...

Robert Koehler

0 17.09.2020

Repeal Section 230 to Fix Facebook

The quickest way to fix the problem is the repeal of Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. This provision exempts Facebook from being...

Dean Baker

4 16.09.2020

Trump and the Troops

My father enlisted in the Army to fight in World War II. He was 19 or 20 years old, and he wanted to defeat the Nazis. He was one of a million...

John Feffer

4 16.09.2020

No One is “Mentally Fit” to be President

“Most voters in six 2020 swing states,” an early September CNBC/Change Research poll finds, “do not consider either President Donald Trump or...

Thomas Knapp

3 16.09.2020

The Spoils of War: Sexual Entitlement

The lack of accountability of criminal behavior is a grotesque stain on human behavior and history. Many who follow history, either as scholars or...

Howard Lisnoff

Smoke and Mirrors in a World of Pain

The wild fires of Western United States are smoking out a huge portion of the country. And the Covid-19 pandemic, under Trump’s criminal abdication...

Oscar Zambrano

4 16.09.2020

Watching Religion Die

Religion is fading more quickly in the United States than in any other nation, according to a forthcoming research book. Religion’s Sudden...

James Haught

3 16.09.2020

Troubled Times at The Intercept

On September 13, the New York Times ran a 2,900-word article on the biggest fuck-up in U.S. leftist media in a long time, perhaps ever. The piece...

Lawrence Reichard

3 16.09.2020

Nature and the Meaning of Truth

Carlos Fonseca’s newest novel Natural History is more than a story I wish I had written. It is a story I wish I had lived. A fantastic and even...

Ron Jacobs

2 16.09.2020

It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way

I’ve long been struck by how so much of right-wing ideology boils down to “I had to suffer, so other people should have to suffer, too.” One...

Pete Dolack

Why Don’t They Call You a Genius? You Don’t Have a Billion Dollars

If you have a lot of money, one potent strain within American political folklore avows, you must have a lot of smarts. Or, as the classic putdown...

Sam Pizzigati

What Does It Mean to Act White?

This is part four in a series, you can read the rest here. It is possible that the question we have been chasing in these articles has been the...

Steve Martinot

Conspiracy Panic

The most consequential false conspiracy theory of the last twenty years in the United States centered on fabricated accusations raised against the...

Nicholas Levis

The True Facts About the Oregon Fires, With a Video Proving It

Okay, this flood of forest BS is pissing me off. Hear me: The national reporters helicoptering in have not got this right. NPR, Reveal tonight,...

Kevin Matthews