Atlanta Activists Say Prosecutors Plan to Indict Them on RICO Charges
By Ryan Fatica / Unicorn Riot Atlanta, GA – Community organizations involved in the ongoing campaign to defend the South River Forest outside Atlanta, Georgia and ‘Stop Cop City’ say…
China’s Peace Plan for Ukraine
It will be attractive to the Global South, writes Tony Kevin. It will cause consternation in the Western war party camp.
On False Hope and Broken Promises: Behind the Scenes of the UN Statement on Palestine
By Ramzy Baroud / CounterPunch Rarely does the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations make an official remark expressing happiness over any UN proceeding concerning the Israeli occupation of Palestine.…
Ralph Nader: Prairie Populist, Honest Senator James Abourezk, Fearless Fighter for Justice
By Ralph Nader Most citizen advocates who work with U.S. senators on a wide variety of issues probably would agree that the late South Dakota Democrat, James Abourezk, was one…
‘Get Our Grandkids Out’: East Palestine Residents Erupt at Norfolk Southern Meeting
"Every day that this community doesn't have relocation options," said local organizers, "is another day this community is in crisis."
The Nightmare Espionage Act That is Killing Julian Assange and the First Amendment
The use of the century old Espionage Act in the Julian Assange case continues to set the chilling precedent of a bleak future in American journalism, a precedent that endangers…
Patrick Lawrence: The Return of Non-Alignment
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost The Ukraine conflict as catalyst: I wonder how many people who pay attention understood a year ago that Russia’s intervention and the West’s…
At the Brink of War in the Pacific
For nearly a year now, President Joe Biden has been trying to resolve the underlying ambiguity in previous U.S. policy toward that island by stating repeatedly that he would indeed…
Matt Taibbi: Twitter Files—GEC, New Knowledge, and State-Sponsored Blacklists
Americans have been paying taxes to disenfranchise themselves, as government agencies and subcontractors undertake a massive digital blacklisting project.
Sy Hersh: US Bombed Nord Stream to Prolong Ukraine Proxy War
Seymour Hersh joins Aaron Maté to discuss his report on how the Biden administration bombed the Nord Stream gas pipelines, which blew up not only a vital Russian-German infrastructure project…
Scott Ritter: Reimagining Arms Control Under Ukraine
Having used arms control to gain unilateral advantage over Russia, the cost to the U.S. and NATO in getting Moscow back to the negotiating table will be high.
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,…
Is Inflation Out of Control, Again?
By Dean Baker / Beat the Press (CEPR) The January data on consumer expenditures released yesterday had a lot of people freaking out. The story is that the Fed is…
House Overwhelmingly Approves Resolution to Maintain Syria Sanctions After Earthquake
Only Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) voted against the resolution.
Western Leaders Privately Say Ukraine Can’t Win the War
The German and French leaders have told Ukraine they must seek peace with Russia in exchange for a post-war defense pact, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.