Does ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ Manifest the Radical Center?
Seeing Oliver Anthony's roots from The Clash to Johnny Cash to Leonard Cohen to Muse and the Steve Miller Band.
BJG and Ben Shapiro…AGREE on ‘Barbie?’
Is 'Barbie' the female empowerment movie the culture needed? Or does it convey a pseudo-feminist, reductive message for young women? Or is it conservative??
Caitlin Johnstone: Disrupt The Culture Wars
By Caitlin Johnstone / Substack One of the great challenges faced by westerners who oppose the political status quo today is the way the narrative managers of both mainstream factions…
Anti-Imperialist Satire and Going Against the Mainstream, with James Rehwald
By Alan MacLeod / MintPress News In this day and age, it can sometimes feel like satire is dead. This is doubly true if one turns on a television to…
Prestige Production
By Nick Pemberton / CounterPunch America’s views of society can be seen through television. Let’s take a look at how over just a few decades the optimism in American society…
Shadowy, Israel-Linked Group Attempts to Censor Pro-Palestine Spotify Artists
Alan Macleod uncovers how a shadowy pressure group linked to Israel is attempting to silence artists advocating for Palestinian liberation on Spotify.
The Cultural Looting of Gaza
Human Rights activist Miko Peled on the theft of priceless archaeological treasures from Gaza, which he argues is part of a larger Israeli campaign of genocide and erasure.
Matt Taibbi: A Brief Note on Writing
Setting down a lifetime of this trade's tricks, one at a time.
What’s the Use of William Blake?
By Stephen F. Eisenman / CounterPunch Fire In the Museum What’s the use of William Blake? Or for that matter, what’s the use of any art and literature in an…
Missing Links in Textbook History: Ethnic Studies
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost This is the sixth in a series of columns exposing “Missing Links” in high school history textbooks. Previous columns have focused on Indigenous…
Why the Right Embraces Military-Veteran Vigilantes
The right is often misconstrued as anti-war. In reality, it wants to wage its war on American soil—against people whose Americanness it won’t recognize.
The Artist Who Taught Me About Justice
In my first job after college, I was an assistant to Harry Belafonte. There was nobody better to learn from about justice and the arts.
We Must Not Dance, Harry Belafonte Understood, to a Billionaire Beat
This epochal artist helped us see that justice for all requires a just distribution of wealth.
Sensitivity Rewrites: The Cultural Purging of Roald Dahl
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch Censorship is never innocent, made worse for its strained good intentions. For those responsible for setting and policing such policies, the inner judge comes out,…
‘Argentina, 1985’ Is a Political Tale for Our Time
Argentina’s nominee for Best Foreign Film offers an urgent warning to democracies in Latin America and across the West.