Don’t Wait: Get Into the Encryption Habit Now
By Thomas Knapp / CounterPunch In early August, a Nebraska prosecutor charged a mother and daughter with violating the state’s ban on abortion after 20 weeks. That ban was passed…
Should We Let Scam-Artists ‘Educate’ Our Young People?
By Sam Pizzigati / CounterPunch Just over 200,000 young American men and women — all students defrauded by a now defunct for-profit trade school — received some welcome news earlier…
Facial Recognition Technology Down Under
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch The language is far from reassuring. Despite being caught red handed using facial recognition technology unbeknownst to customers, a number of Australia’s large retail companies…
Les Miserables, Living and Dying on American Streets
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch Statistics lie. Some lie more than others. The ones regarding unemployment lie brazenly and have done so for years, erasing the very existence of the…
Did Lawmakers Finally Figure Out That Critical News Literacy is Antidote to Disinformation?
By Nolan Higdon / Project Censored In July 2022, David Keppler, writing for the Associated Press, warned that as “trust wanes, conspiracy theories rise,” and people in the U.S. are…
Customary Barbarity: Britain’s SAS in Afghanistan
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch The insistence that there is a noble way of fighting war, one less bloody and brutal, has always been the hallmark of forces self-described as…
Public University Patents Are a Racket
By Thomas Knapp / CounterPunch If I gave you a million dollars to invent a better mousetrap, and told you that if you succeeded you could keep any and all…
The Age of Weird Men: Gonzo Politicians From Berlusconi to BoJo
By Patrick Cockburn / CounterPunch Students 50 years from now may be asked by their teachers to write an essay on the importance of the fall of Boris Johnson in…
Whistleblower Relief: Dropping the Collaery Case
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch The Anglo-Australian legal system has much to answer for. While robed lawyers and solemn justices proclaim an adherence to the rule of law, the rule…
The Breakdown of Legitimacy: A Good and Necessary Thing
By Gary Leupp / CounterPunch Last December Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor questioned whether the Supreme Court would retain its legitimacy if it overturned Roe v. Wade. “Will this institution…
Crisis in Cuba Requires End of US Blockade Now
By W.T. Whitney / CounterPunch Friends of socialist Cuba like good news about that country. Now bad news has its use. Grief and hardship currently are such that, clearly, the…
What Would a Real Opposition Party of the People Do?
By Dave Lindorff / CounterPunch We are currently at the mercy of a cabal of self-righteous Christian zealots with a 6-3 grip on the US Supreme Court and on Congress,…
Abolish the CIA
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch Just about every lousy U.S. foreign policy escapade from the 1950s to the late ‘70s traces back to the CIA. From the catastrophic1953 coup of…
‘Self-Actualization’ in a World Full of Exploitation
By Eamon Martin / CounterPunch “The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of !…
Does The Amazon Now Have a Shot at Survival?
By Sam Pizzigati / CounterPunch The Amazon rainforest, our scientists tell us, essentially works as our world’s lungs. If those Amazonian lungs ever stop breathing, so will we. This simple…