Open Letter to Cornel West
By Elliot Sperber / CounterPunch Dear Dr. West, I was just sitting here thinking about your presidential campaign and started wondering whether you have any plans to launch a national…
Checked Out: How LA Failed to Stop Landlords From Turning Low-Cost Housing Into Tourist Hotels
Fifteen years ago, Los Angeles passed a law to preserve residential hotels as housing of last resort. Now, amid the homelessness crisis, some hotels may be violating that law by…
Bernie Sanders: This Year Is Set to be the Hottest in History. Congress Must Act Now
If there is not bold, immediate action to address the climate crisis, the quality of life that we are leaving our kids is very much in question
Biden Defends Decision to Send Cluster Bombs to Ukraine
Last year, the White House said the use of cluster munitions was a 'potential war crime'
Should There Be a Supreme Court? Its Role Has Always Been Anti-Democratic
By Michael Hudson / CounterPunch Vested interests create “checks and balances” primarily to make political systems non-responsive to demands for social reform. Historically, therefore, the checks are politically unbalanced in…
Cluster Bombs for Ukraine? A Warning From Kosovo
With Washington poised to ship cluster bombs to Kyiv, Declassified visits Kosovo to review the grim legacy of NATO firing this banned weapon in the Balkans.
Prigozhin’s War
Analysts differ on what motivated the head of the private Wagner military group to march thousands of his men towards Moscow, an episode with lessons to be learned for both…
Most US House Incumbents Filed Financial Disclosure Extensions Amid Push for Stock Trading Ban
"It's a giant red flag when so many representatives are beating out the S&P 500 despite the most tumultuous market in years, raising questions whether some are taking advantage of…
Iraq’s Climate Crisis
America's War for Oil and the Great Mesopotamian Dustbowl.
Chris Hedges: Journalists Abandoned Julian Assange and Slit Their Own Throats
The failure by journalists to mount a campaign to free Julian Assange, or expose the vicious smear campaign against him, is one more catastrophic and self-defeating blunder by the news…
Lukashenko Says Wagner Chief Prigozhin Is in Russia
Prigozhin was previously in Belarus after his short-lived mutiny
With Drone Strike, the Occupied West Bank Could Turn Into War-Ravaged Gaza
"Experts surmised Israel’s decision to use an armed drone suggests it’s losing control of the West Bank amid increased armed resistance."
Hiroshima Survivors Decry Link to Pearl Harbor
A U.S.-Japan “sister peace park” agreement angers representatives of the survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Japan, who want Washington to admit the “A-bomb did not end the war…
10 Years After Historic Hunger Strike, Will CA Finally End Solitary Confinement?
Prisoners refused food, demanding changes to solitary confinement. Now they are pushing to end the practice altogether.
Activists Continue to Fight Against ‘Cop City’ Construction Despite Challenges
As the fight continues to stop the construction of an 85-acre police training complex, organizers pursue a ballot referendum but are concerned about crackdown.