The Biden Administration Cuts and Runs From Haiti
After more than a century bleeding the country, installing and abetting corrupt dictators, and suppressing democracy, the US government now advises Americans to flee.
What Happened to the UN’s Ability to Mediate?
People living in conflict-ridden countries are increasingly viewing the U.N. as promoting the interests of the West and the powerful, writes Jamal Benomar. This wasn’t always the case.
South Korea’s War on Unions Has Geopolitical Implications
Biden has embraced deeply unpopular President Yoon Seok Yeol for his pro-US policies, willfully ignoring South Korea’s brutal crackdown on labor and its human rights implications.
If Everybody’s Going to Join NATO, Then Why Have the United Nations?
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) held its annual summit on 11–12 July in Vilnius, Lithuania. The communiqué released after the…
People’s Summit in Brussels Calls for Respect of Democracy and Self-Determination
Over 1,000 people participated in the People’s Summit that brought together the people of Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe.
Divide and Rule
How the Growing Rift between Peace, Climate and Social Justice Movements Is Cementing a Ruinous Status Quo.
From ICC to ‘Sportswashing’: West’s Self Serving Narratives Must Be Combated
By Ramzy Baroud / CounterPunch In March, the South Africa Communist Party (SACP) denounced what it described as the ‘imperialist bias’ of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The denunciation of…
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
Patrick Lawrence: Breaking Bread with Authoritarians
In his way, India’s prime minister is as bad as some of the old Latin American dictators who got plenty of American support but never an evening meal — and…
Uganda’s Controversial ’Anti-Homosexuality Act’ Includes Possibility of Death Sentence
United Nations Human Rights tweeted that they were “appalled that the draconian and discriminatory anti-gay bill is now law. It is a recipe for systematic violations of the rights of…
Why is AOC Parroting Nuclear Industry Propaganda?
By Linda Pentz Gunter / CounterPunch Note: During a visit to Japan, including to the destroyed Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant site, US Representative, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an outspoken Democrat from Queens,…
The Flight From the US Dollar
From Africa to Southeast Asia and Latin America, from Russia and China to India, Iran and Saudi Arabia, countries are mapping their course for a flight from the US dollar.
China and the Axis of the Sanctioned
How America's divide-and-rule strategy in the middle east backfired.
Haiti’s Choice Is Social Revolution or Foreign Intervention
By W.T. Whitney / CounterPunch With long experience of chaos, violence, and dysfunctional governance, Haiti looks now to be on the verge of new crisis in the form of foreign…
Provocation Is Not an Innocent Act
By Alfred de Zayas / CounterPunch Provocation is not an innocent act. Under specific circumstances, provocation constitutes a tort or even a crime, especially when it deliberately generates a violent…