The End of the Innocence: Railroading Marcellus Williams to Death Row
By Jeffrey St. Clair / CounterPunch On August 11, 1998, someone broke into the home of Felicia Gayle and stabbed her 43 times with a butcher’s knife swiped from her…
When US Officials Show You Who They Are, Believe Them
By Norman Solomon / CounterPunch “When someone shows you who they are,” Maya Angelou said, “believe them the first time.” That should apply to foreign-policy elites who show you who…
The US List of Countries Allegedly Sponsors of Terrorism: Another Imperialistic Scam
By Alfred de Zayas / CounterPunch In the US State Department’s toolkit, unilateral coercive measures (UCMs) are used to blackmail, bully and intimidate States that do not readily accept US…
US Cryptocurrency as an Offshore Banking Center
By Michael Hudson / CounterPunch The Wall Street Journal ran a revealing op-ed today (June 14, 2024) by Paul D. Ryan, “Crypto Could Stave off a U.S. Debt Crisis.” Mr.…
No Way Out in Nuseirat: the Great Hostage Rescue Massacre
The Biden administration’s complicity in the Nuseirat mass slaughter is a sinister calculus that justifies killing and wounding 1000 people to rescue four people who could have been released through…
The EU Elections: The March of the Right
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch The EU elections over June 6 to June 9 have presented a chaotically merry picture, certainly for those on the right of politics. Not that…
Who By Fire? The Burning of Rafah’s Tent People
By Jeffrey St. Clair / CounterPunch “Oh hell, what do mine eyeswith grief behold?” – John Milton, Paradise Lost People were saying their evening prayers when the IDF attacked the…
The Washington Post’s Mouthpiece for Israel: David Ignatius
"How many Palestinians will have to die because Israel will not stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestine?"
A Clubbable Admission: Palestine’s Case for UN Membership
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch “I find it rather difficult to make it clear to my children why we are not eligible, for from one point of view it isn’t…
Will the Freedom Flotilla Sail to Gaza?
By Medea Benjamin / CounterPunch The non-violence training to join the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ships to Gaza has been intense. As hundreds of us from 32 countries gathered in Istanbul,…
Suspending the Rule of Tolerable Violence: Israel’s Attack and Iran’s Retaliation
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch The Middle East has, for some time, been a powder keg where degrees of violence are tolerated with ceremonial mania and a calculus of restraint.…
Latest Huge Transfer of 2,000-Pound Bombs from US to Israel Not Newsworthy to the New York Times
By Norman Solomon / CounterPunch When the Washington Post revealed Friday afternoon that “the Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and…
On Kuffiyehs and Watermelon — Revealing the Meaning of Palestinian Symbols
By Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo / CounterPunch Those who admonish Palestinian Resistance, armed or otherwise, have little understanding of the psychological ramifications of resistance, such as a sense of…
Gatekeeping Against a Shared Humanity
A basic foundation of shared humanity is enough to halt almost every ill.
“Israeli Warplanes, Like an Angel of Death, Descended on Our Neighborhood”: I Tell My Story Not For Pity But In Defiance
A harrowing story of how a man lost his entire family to the Israeli slaughter in Gaza, like so many others