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“Israel has destroyed everything in Gaza. Everything. Except the sacred bond between a people and their land. Their roots run too deep. Their...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Under brutal siege for weeks, Israeli forces raided Kamal Adwan Hospital, the last functioning hospital in North Gaza, on Friday, clearing out its...
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....
If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose Refaat Alareer (OR Books) The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888 Robin Blackburn (Verso)...
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...
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,...
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...
Lame duck senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema cast decisive votes against Biden's NLRB nominee, Lauren McFarren, ensuring that the Democrats...
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...
Amnesty International has become the latest human rights group to conclude that Israel’s war crimes in Gaza amount to genocide. In a meticulously...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
The ICC has finally charged Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant with war crimes in Gaza and issued warrants for their arrests. The ICC charges against...
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...
On October 13, 2024, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin issued a joint letter demanding that Israel take...
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...
“A year of the most intense bombardment of a civilian population since World War II and the severe restriction on humanitarian aid have transformed...
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...
Kamala Harris proved too cowardly to even address her supporters Tuesday night, as her loss to Trump became more and more inevitable. But what...
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...
Every atrocity Israel has accused Hamas of committing, Israel has perpetrated itself on a far grander scale: mass rapes, killing and decapitating...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This was the week that Israel, with the backing of the Biden administration, went to war against…the United Nations by attacking UN peacekeepers (...
There are already hundreds of allegations of price-gouging after Hurricane Helene and Milton. Harris was against price-gouging for about two days,...
This week, Israel bombed Beirut and southern Lebanon. Iran bombed Israeli military bases and intelligence sites. The US and Israel launched...
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...
Recall that this week of ferocious Israeli airstrikes inflicting mass civilian casualties across Lebanon began with Emanuel Macron and Joe Biden...
The State of Missouri executed Marcellus “Khalifah” Williams on Tuesday night despite knowing he was most likely innocent of the crime he was...
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...
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...
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...