Biden’s Legacy: The Decline of Arms Control and Disarmament
The danger of nuclear war resulting from an accident, an unauthorized action, the danger of alert practices, or false alarms should never be far from our thinking.
Bypassing Sanctions: Russia, Trade Routes and Outfoxing the West
Despite the frightful losses being endured in the Russia-Ukraine war, it is clear, at least when it comes to using economic and financial weapons, that Moscow has prevailed.
A Nation of Debtors: USA
With multitudes of Americans priced out of the home-ownership chimera, they face the highway robbery of insanely, artificially inflated rents.
A Looming Nuclear Catastrophe
During the Cold War, the concept of "escalation dominance" drove an arms race and nuclear paranoia, influenced by false notions and exaggerated threats. Today, the U.S. continues this trend, spending…
Economic War With China Is a Losing Proposition
As election campaigns kicked off, the candidates outdid each other on who could be tougher on China economically.
The DNC Fiddles While the World Burns
The people inside the convention hall should shake themselves out of their complacency and start listening to the people in the streets.
The Great Global Computer Outage Is a Warning We Ignore at Our Peril
By Tom Valovic / CounterPunch July 18, 2024, will go down in history books as an event that shook up the world in a unique way. It gave the mass…
“I’ll F***ing Shoot You in the Face”: The Police Murder of Sonya Massey
Deputy Sean Grayson didn’t turn on his body camera until after he’d shot Sonya Massey three times.
The Beijing Declaration: How Chinese Diplomacy United Palestinian Groups
By Ramzy Baroud / CounterPunch Chinese diplomacy has done it again. By hosting a historic signing of a unity agreement between 14 Palestinian political parties in Beijing on July 23,…
‘Violence Has No Place in American Life.’ Except, Like, Everywhere You Look
By Phil Wilson / CounterPunch The U.S. political system runs on the fuel of euphemism—the ability to conceal nefarious aspirations beneath the facade of idealistic slogans. Consider the U.S. Department…
To a Starving Orphan Who Died Alone in Rubble
By Bill Hatch / CounterPunch Tales of infants and young children dying because they can’t get enough to eat and distraught parents robbed of their dignity because they can do…
California Moves to Ban Forced Prison Labor, but There’s Still More To Do
By Giuliana Perrone / CounterPunch If you’re looking for a rare bit of good news, look no further: California is finally taking steps to abolish slavery from its constitution by…
Exposing the Myth of the ‘Good War’
America needs to end this demented addiction before it ends us all in a nuclear overdose.
Massacre at the Ballot: The Punishing of the Tories
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch Few would have staked their political fortune, let alone any other sort of reward, on a return of the British Conservatives on July 4. The…
More Than Ever, Trump’s Most Effective Campaign Ally is Joe Biden
By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon / CounterPunch When Joe Biden’s ABC News interview aired on Friday night, it made clear that he should not be running for re-election. Rather…