Mass Hysteria Strikes Again: The Great Drone Invasion of 2024
Just think how far we have fallen in less than two short years, when the Chinese so-called spy balloon walloped us into a frenzy of fear and suspicion.
Sacrificing Living Standards for War
Pensions must be trimmed, inflation accepted and any other social benefits put on the chopping block.
The West’s Romance With Elections Is Dead—the Rules-Based Order Killed It
As western populations grow sick and tired of their political class and vote against it, what are elites to do?
Biden Aims to Go Out With a Bellicose Bang
That’s Joe Biden’s legacy, a blood transfusion to NATO’s moribund carcass by adding Finland and Sweden and thereby ballooning the Empire’s global military footprint.
A Win for Renters
Make no mistake: this new law protects tenants, as the screams of outrage from their predators attest.
Everybody Wants to Join BRICS
The world is changing, but Washington remains frozen and indeed left behind in its post-1991 delusion as the unipolar global chieftain...
A Win for the Poor
Our absurdly financialized economy has metastasized into something deadly for most people, as it dispossesses them of their trailer homes, their medical care and, for university employees, their wages.
The World Would Be Better Off Without NATO, Revisited
Time to mothball NATO, so it can never cause such a catastrophe and endanger the entire world again.
A Nation of Debtors: USA
With multitudes of Americans priced out of the home-ownership chimera, they face the highway robbery of insanely, artificially inflated rents.
Where Do the Candidates Stand on War? Someplace Very Vague
Whether those hostilities are rhetorical or military remains to be seen, but if the presidential past is precedent, gore awaits us.
Economic War With China Is a Losing Proposition
As election campaigns kicked off, the candidates outdid each other on who could be tougher on China economically.
Beltway Geniuses Keep Flinging Russia and China Into Each Other’s Arms
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch You don’t hear much about it in the U.S., but Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative is a big deal in the Global South. That’s because…
Past Time to End the Persecution of Julian Assange
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch It’s long past time for the U.S. and U.K. to free Julian Assange. His flagrantly unjust incarceration is a global scandal, and the world is…
Bidenomics: Millions to Rebuild Maui, Billions for Ukraine
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch Last month, President Joe “No Comment on Hawaii” Biden’s Twitter boosters hurried to claim that the measly $700 he initially boasted of for Maui fire…