A Ceasefire in Name Only: Gaza’s Prolonged Purgatory
The deaths of 347 Palestinians in Gaza since October 10, including 136 children, do not point to cooling restraint.
Catching Pegasus: Mercenary Spyware and the Liability of the NSO Group
The jewel in the supply chain has, for the most part, been its Pegasus spyware, which NSO claims is used exclusively to “investigate terrorism and crime”.
Finding the Unmentionable: Amnesty International, Israel and the Genocide
While the world awaits the findings of the International Court of Justice on whether Israel’s campaign, as argued by South Africa, amounts to genocide, Amnesty International has already reached its…
The Price of Eggs: Why Harris Lost to Trump
Polls, and people, lie.
Virtuous, Smug and Venal: British Electoral Interference in the US
Interfering in US elections is a habit that dies hardest of all.
Widening the War: The US Sends Troops to Israel
Being worried is just the start of it.
Israel’s War on the United Nations
A number of recent incidents reveals the poor regard the United Nations is held in, notably within Israel’s warring circles.
Bypassing Sanctions: Russia, Trade Routes and Outfoxing the West
Despite the frightful losses being endured in the Russia-Ukraine war, it is clear, at least when it comes to using economic and financial weapons, that Moscow has prevailed.
Violating the Sherman Act: Google’s Illegal Monopoly
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch The occasion sparked much in the way of visionary language and speculative musings. This month, one of the world’s most conspicuous and dominant behemoths of…
Massacre at the Ballot: The Punishing of the Tories
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch Few would have staked their political fortune, let alone any other sort of reward, on a return of the British Conservatives on July 4. The…
The EU Elections: The March of the Right
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch The EU elections over June 6 to June 9 have presented a chaotically merry picture, certainly for those on the right of politics. Not that…
A Clubbable Admission: Palestine’s Case for UN Membership
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch “I find it rather difficult to make it clear to my children why we are not eligible, for from one point of view it isn’t…
Suspending the Rule of Tolerable Violence: Israel’s Attack and Iran’s Retaliation
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch The Middle East has, for some time, been a powder keg where degrees of violence are tolerated with ceremonial mania and a calculus of restraint.…
Unaccountable Hackers: The CIA, Vengeance and Joshua Schulte
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch The release of the Vault 7 files in the spring of 2017 in a series of 26 disclosures, detailing the hacking tools of the US…
It’s All About Me: Netanyahu Rejects Palestinian Statehood
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch Israel has been given enormous license to control the security narrative in the Middle East for decades. This is not to say it is always…