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Envisioning a Pro-Animal Foreign Policy

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Common Dreams

Jon Hochschartner

When DSA Members Talk About Animals

The Democratic Socialists of America boast a historically large membership with a range of views on a variety of subjects. I recently sought to...

05.08.2026 20

CounterPunch

Jon Hochschartner

Ecosocialism That Doesn’t Address Animal Agriculture Isn’t Serious

I was disappointed to learn the Building for Power campaign, put forward by the Green New Deal Campaign Commission of the Democratic Socialists of...

27.07.2026 20

CounterPunch

Jon Hochschartner

The Politics of Cultivated Meat Research

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently inveighed against the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act during an appearance at the...

18.05.2026 30

CounterPunch

Jon Hochschartner

Perspectives on Base, Superstructure and Animal Liberation

For some years, I’ve been interested in the Marxist concepts of base and superstructure — specifically what they suggest is necessary to achieve...

07.05.2026 60

CounterPunch

Jon Hochschartner

The Iran war is Immoral, Illegal and a Colossal Waste of Money

President Donald Trump’s imperialist assault on Iran, which has claimed countless innocent lives, and will take many more before it’s finished, is...

19.03.2026 60

CounterPunch

Jon Hochschartner

Why Animal Activists Should Oppose the Iran War

Anyone who believes President Donald Trump is attacking Iran for the sake of democracy or human rights is profoundly naive. At no point in his time in...

04.03.2026 90

CounterPunch

Jon Hochschartner

Nationalize Amazon

There are many lessons we could take from the last decade of American politics, in which our country has degenerated further and further into an...

02.03.2026 50

CounterPunch

Jon Hochschartner

Private Cultivated-Meat Failures Reaffirm Need for Public Research

Recently, two notable cultivated-meat companies failed. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, cultivated meat is grown from livestock cells,...

29.12.2025 40

CounterPunch

Jon Hochschartner

Faunalytics, Cultivated Meat and Left-Wing Populism 

Recently, Faunalytics, the animal-welfare research nonprofit, put out a report about how American voters respond to nonhuman policy proposals. I’ve...

03.12.2025 40

CounterPunch

Jon Hochschartner

Private Cultivated-Meat Research Can Only Take Us So Far

The nascent cultivated-meat industry is in a funding drought. For those who don’t know, cultivated meat is grown from livestock cells, without...

24.07.2025 40

CounterPunch

Jon Hochschartner