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Pick Up the Pieces

“Israel has destroyed everything in Gaza. Everything. Except the sacred bond between a people and their land. Their roots run too deep. Their...

01.02.2025 2

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Roaming Charges: The Trick of Disaster

Give Trump some credit. He has no interest in faking empathy, as Biden did so ineptly. In Trump’s playbook, empathy is a weakness, even amid...

31.01.2025 10

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What Israel and the US Wrought in Gaza

After 15 months of unrelenting Israeli bombardment and a week of a still fragile ceasefire, this is what Gaza looks like: At least 47,161...

25.01.2025 10

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Roaming Charges: Manifest Destiny’s Child

There was a messianic fervor in Trump’s Second Inaugural speech that wasn’t evident eight years ago. As dark as the 2016 American Carnage diatribe...

24.01.2025 10

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The End of Something is Not the End of Everything

When you ask me what was sound like growing up, I’ll say my tongue was as red as all good tombs. She, too, wanted to be a bird. So ask why the...

18.01.2025 3

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Roaming Charges: Cease Fires Walk With Me

I'm a natural born cynic, of course, but I can't help but think that this ceasefire, this lull in the killing, is meant to erase, if not the memory...

17.01.2025 9

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Dead Consciences

To be a journalist in Gaza is to be a target of the Israelis. To be a Palestinian journalist is to be a target of the Israelis and the international...

11.01.2025 4

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Roaming Charges: Hurricane of Fire

There’s nothing so terrifying as a nightmare come to life. The Santa Ana winds have haunted the dreams of southern Angelinos for decades. Like the...

10.01.2025 6

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“Who Gives a Shit?”

Imagine living like this: You have four children, all younger than 10. Your husband was killed three months ago in an airstrike. You’ve moved five...

04.01.2025 4

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Intolerable Opinions in the Time of Genocide

So why do I reprise the moldering life of John Lilburne now, during the time of a genocide that his country and my own have armed, funded, and run...

03.01.2025 5

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Sound Grammar: the Best Jazz Recordings of 2024

NEW RELEASES 1) Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey, Compassion (ECM) 2) Julian Lage, Speak to Me  (Blue Note) 3) Wadada Leo Smith & Amina...

01.01.2025 10

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Cinema Beyond Cinemas: the Best Films of 2024

The Bibi Files Dir. Alexis Bloom Dahomey Dir. Mati Diop Ernest Cole: Lost and Found Dir. Raoul Peck Eno Dir. Gary Hustwi The Goldman Case Dir....

30.12.2024 4

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What’s Left to Say?

Under brutal siege for weeks, Israeli forces raided Kamal  Adwan Hospital, the last functioning hospital in North Gaza, on Friday, clearing out its...

28.12.2024 3

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The Sound of da Police: the Year Criminal Injustice

For nearly two days, the NYPD covered up the fact that one of their officers had fired a gun inside Hind Hall, while they were arresting students....

27.12.2024 30

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Booked Up: the 15 Best Books of 2024

If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose Refaat Alareer (OR Books) The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888 Robin Blackburn (Verso)...

25.12.2024 5

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“We Just Do What the Israelis Want Us to Do”

On December 15, an Israeli missile struck the third floor of a UNRWA school in al Mawasi camp outside Khan Younis, killing more than a dozen...

21.12.2024 3

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Hell and High Water: the Year in Climate Chaos

2024 will be the warmest year on record, the year warming topped 1.5 degrees Celsius. It’s the year the US set new oil and gas production records,...

20.12.2024 9

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Children of the Grave

Israel’s war on Gaza is increasingly a war on childhood, a war on the future of Palestinian life on the Strip. An assessment by the Community...

15.12.2024 3

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Roaming Charges: All a Friend Can Say is, “Ain’t It a Shame?”

Lame duck senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema cast decisive votes against Biden's NLRB nominee, Lauren McFarren, ensuring that the Democrats...

13.12.2024 6

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Our Man in Damascus: When Syria Deployed Its Torture Chambers and Torturers for the CIA

With Bashar al-Assad having fled Damascus to one of his 20 luxury suites in Russia (valued at $30 million), it is worth taking note of a time, not...

12.12.2024 20

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The Gravest of International Crimes

Amnesty International has become the latest human rights group to conclude that Israel’s war crimes in Gaza amount to genocide. In a meticulously...

08.12.2024 10

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Roaming Charges: Delay and Deny, Deny, Deny

It appears that the killer of Brian Thompson left his manifesto etched on the spent casings of the bullets used to gun down the CEO of...

07.12.2024 3

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Roaming Charges: Delay and Deny

It appears that the killer of Brian Thompson left his manifesto etched on the spent casings of the bullets used to gun down the CEO of...

06.12.2024 4

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If Lebanon, Why Not Gaza?

On Tuesday, Israel and Lebanon agreed to a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah that was brokered by the U.S.- and France. The ceasefire began at 4 a.m....

30.11.2024 7

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Seattle Diary: 25 Years After

Twenty-five years ago this week, the streets of Seattle erupted into the kind of militant protest rarely seen in the US. Over the course of five...

29.11.2024 3

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Seattle Diary: 25 Years After

Twenty-five years ago this week, the streets of Seattle erupted into the kind of militant protest rarely seen in the US. Over the course of five...

29.11.2024 5

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Wanted!

The ICC has finally charged Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant with war crimes in Gaza and issued warrants for their arrests. The ICC charges against...

23.11.2024 4

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Roaming Charges: The Final Daze

The hysteria over Trump’s election must be tempered by just how awful Biden has been after the entirely predictable, if sinister, decision of the...

22.11.2024 6

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When the Red Line is a Green Light

On October 13, 2024, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin issued a joint letter demanding that Israel take...

16.11.2024 3

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Roaming Charges: Trump’s Cabinet of Curiosities

It’s been a hallucinatory week, which I hope explains my momentary lapse of reason in believing that an unshackled and restored Trump just might...

15.11.2024 10

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A Dystopian Horror

“A year of the most intense bombardment of a civilian population since World War II and the severe restriction on humanitarian aid have transformed...

09.11.2024 3

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The Crack-Up: Last Rites for a Doomed Party

In the final weeks of the campaign, Trump amplified his anti-war rhetoric. Why? According to the New York Times, internal polling showed that still...

08.11.2024 60

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Chronicle of a Defeat Foretold

Kamala Harris proved too cowardly to even address her supporters Tuesday night, as her loss to Trump became more and more inevitable. But what...

06.11.2024 50

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The Wolf at Our Door

CounterPunch went online 30 years ago, just in time for Clinton’s war on Serbia. Clinton’s war was premeditated, our transit to the World Wide Web...

05.11.2024 4

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Helter Shelter

Every atrocity Israel has accused Hamas of committing, Israel has perpetrated itself on a far grander scale: mass rapes, killing and decapitating...

03.11.2024 2

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Notes on a Phony Campaign: Strange Days

Cockburn used to say, vote for whoever makes you happy, knowing that the vote-counting machines will probably record it for someone you despise. So...

01.11.2024 2

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Strange Invaders

Let’s allow Volker Türk, the UN’s human rights chief, to set the scene for one of the bloodiest weeks yet in Israel’s pitiless extermination...

27.10.2024 2

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Roaming Charges: Antic Dispositions

More than half of Trump's supporters don't believe he'll actually do many of the things he claims he'll do (mass deportations, siccing the military...

25.10.2024 3

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Writin’ is Fightin’: 30 Years of Punching Back

When CounterPunch went to press 30 years ago on paper printed with ink that smeared your fingers, Bill Gates was worth a mere $6 billion, the...

21.10.2024 7

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Sinwar’s Dead; the Genocide Continues

More than 100,000 dead Palestinians later, Israel finally killed Yahya Sinwar. He wasn’t wearing a dress. He wasn’t hiding in a tunnel with Israeli...

19.10.2024 3

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Israel Unbound: October in Gaza, One Year Later

A retaliatory military operation that many wizened pundits predicted would last no more than a month or so has now thundered on in ever-escalating...

18.10.2024 20

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War on the United Nations

This was the week that Israel, with the backing of the Biden administration, went to war against…the United Nations by attacking UN peacekeepers (...

12.10.2024 1

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Roaming Charges: The Call of the Wind

There are already hundreds of allegations of price-gouging after Hurricane Helene and Milton. Harris was against price-gouging for about two days,...

11.10.2024 5

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The Making of a Wider War

This week, Israel bombed Beirut and southern Lebanon. Iran bombed Israeli military bases and intelligence sites. The US and Israel launched...

05.10.2024 3

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Notes From a Phony Campaign: The Great Un-Debate

This week’s vice-presidential debate, one of the most tedious and dull in US history, was praised by the punditocracy for its civility. Is civility...

04.10.2024 10

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Block-Busting Beirut

Recall that this week of ferocious Israeli airstrikes inflicting mass civilian casualties across Lebanon began with Emanuel Macron and Joe Biden...

28.09.2024 4

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The Judicial Murder of Marcellus Williams

The State of Missouri executed Marcellus “Khalifah” Williams on Tuesday night despite knowing he was most likely innocent of the crime he was...

27.09.2024 30

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Harvester of Eyes

Around 3:30 local time on Tuesday, thousands of rigged pagers exploded across Lebanon and in some parts of Syria, including Damascus. Most of the...

21.09.2024 3

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Roaming Charges: Cat Scratch Political Fever

Miss Sassy started the biggest political fire since Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over a lamp and burned down Chicago. Last month, Miss Sassy...

20.09.2024 5

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All Aflame on the West Bank Front

Here’s a snapshot of Israel’s escalating war on the West Bank… Since January 2023, 772 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli armed forces (747...

14.09.2024 3

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