I Was the Only U.S. Official Imprisoned Over the Torture Program — Because I Opposed It
The only person associated with the CIA's global torture program who was prosecuted and imprisoned was the man who blew the whistle on it — John Kiriakou.
California Inmates Accuse Prison Commissaries of Price Gouging
Food, toiletries and over-the-counter medicines have been marked up so high that many prisoners are simply priced out.
The Housing Crisis and Migrant Crisis Are Exasperated by Capitalism
As thousands of people come to the U.S. seeking shelter, politicians around the country are claiming that housing in the U.S. is already in crisis and that there is no…
What We Must Ask About Surveillance State Failures
Understanding the depths of the FBI’s intelligence powers, as well as how the FBI deploys them.
US Sees Highest Ever Increase in Poverty
Natalia Marques responds to a property developer’s recent call for more “pain” in the U.S. economy by highlighting what happened after pandemic-era aid ended.
Avoiding the War on Terror Would Have Saved Over 10 Million Lives at Home and Abroad
By Bharat Dogra / CounterCurrents The peace movement in various parts of the world has emphasized in various contexts that if the huge amounts spent on various wars had been…
United States Scores a C on Global LGBTQ+ Human Rights Scorecard
A new report ranked the United States 31 out of 136 countries, a score that’s expected to fall in the wake of hundreds of bills targeting anti-LGBTQ+ rights across the…
Americans Talk About Peace − Just Not the Same Way People Do in Other Countries
By Amy Lerman, Peter Dixon, Fiorella Vera-Adrianzén, Naomi Levy / The Conversation Americans don’t talk much about peace. But it turns out they care about it a lot – they…
Never Eat the Candy on Your Pillow: This Is What Prison is Like
Incarceration causes total and absolute loss—it is the absence of freedoms that compound punishment. Prison is the ultimate deprivation.
Progressive NY State Lawmakers Join 250+ Jews Protesting Netanyahu’s UN Speech
"As Jewish New Yorkers committed to racial justice, we believe apartheid is indefensible," said one protester. "Palestinians deserve to live with dignity and freedom."
Is World War III About to Start? Part I: Drift Toward War
Nuke rattling from both sides over Ukraine.
Nebraska Woman Gets Two Years in Prison After Giving Abortion Pills to Teen Daughter
"In this particular case, here's the audacity: Self-managed abortion is not even a crime in fucking Nebraska," said one rights advocate.
Chris Hedges on “Silent Coup”: How Capitalism Defeated Decolonization
The crumbling of European empires after WWII didn’t usher in a new era of democracy—instead, we now live in a regime of international corporate rule.
UK Intelligence Spun 2013 Syria Chemical Attack, Leaked Docs Show
US officials suppressed internal assessments that Al Qaeda’s Syrian wing had an “advanced” sarin production cell even as the US publicly blamed the Assad government for a 2013 chemical weapons…
White House Close To Providing Kiev With Cluster-Armed ATACMS
This comes amid Kyiv’s failing counteroffensive and poses a major risk of escalation, President Volodymyr Zelensky has desired to use the long-range weapons to attack the Russian mainland.