Millions Sick and Untreated, Thanks to Medicaid ‘Unwinding’
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch During the pandemic, poor people did not have to renew their Medicaid annually. Now that covid is supposedly over, that has changed. Unwinding, in normal…
Sanctions on China, Export Controls on Rare Earths for the US: Two, It Turns Out, Can Tango
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch If Washington intended to bully Beijing economically and indefinitely, July 3 was a rude awakening. That’s when China announced export controls on two, vital rare…
US Soldiers Don’t Belong in Ukraine
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch So how many American soldiers fight in Ukraine? The Biden bunch is careful not to reveal or refer to their presence, mercenary or otherwise, but…
The Death Penalty for Homelessness
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch You can measure the depth of a civilization by how it treats its poor, very young, elderly and mentally ill. By any such metric, ours…
Monopolies Cause Inflation, While Fed Chairman Powell Blames Workers
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch As American monopolies fix prices higher and higher, the Federal Reserve bizarrely has concluded that employment is to blame for inflation. For months, Fed chairman…
As American Life Expectancy Plunges, Political Bigwigs Stay Busy Not Noticing
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch Life expectancy in the U.S. plummets down, down, down, driven chiefly by the multitudinous gun deaths of children. Amurica outstrips the world with its hordes…
Human Destiny in Ukraine
The deficiencies in the American character have rotted the world.
Some Congress Members Need To Sit Down and Shut Up
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch Not too long ago, senator Marco “Bring Back Aerial Dogfights” Rubio took to the airwaves to inform the American people that their military must send…
A Dangerous Fishing Expedition: The Select Committee on China
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch Riled up against China, GOP congressmembers have long felt that Washington’s new cold war needed a special venue. So as soon as the baton passed…
The Leopard’s Tale: US Weapons Makers on a Marketing Spree
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch When Southcom commander Laura Richardson starts talking about sending weapons to Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, you know something’s up. That something is money and new…
Far Right Supreme Court Ready to Gut Unions (Again) as Workers Die on the Job
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch One of the first dead giveaways for fascism is animosity toward trade unions. That’s not to say all anti-union businesspeople are fascist, but simply that…
Did Washington Boost Another South American Coup?
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch The U.S. tyranny of monopoly capital has long preferred to deal with fascist governments abroad, specifically in the Global South. American oligarchs’ foreign fascist sycophants…
Markets and Technology Won’t Solve Climate Crisis. We Must End Capitalism.
It’s the accumulation of capital that’s destroying the Earth System as a place of human habitability.
Has the Worm Turned in the Assange Case?
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch One of the world’s most courageous whistleblowers, Daniel Ellsberg challenged U.S. prosecutors on December 6 to come after him, as they have pursued Julian Assange.…
The Coming Sinophobic Calamity
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch Neither the red wave nor the blue one materialized in the latest election, which removes some of the impetus for the coming congressional Sinophobic rampage.…