A Cry in the Darkness: “Please Come, Come Take Me”
The pleas of Layan and Hind have given voice to an awful abstraction: 13,000 murdered children in Gaza.
Unaccountable Hackers: The CIA, Vengeance and Joshua Schulte
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch The release of the Vault 7 files in the spring of 2017 in a series of 26 disclosures, detailing the hacking tools of the US…
The Alabama State Government’s Killing of Kenneth Smith
The State of Alabama has become the very thing it claimed to be punishing: a contract killer.
Solidarity: South Africa’s Gift to the World
South Africa's long history of solidarity with anti-colonial struggles developed principles that have not been extinguished.
The Landless Workers’ Movement at 40
By Liam Crisan / CounterPunch This month marks the 40th anniversary of the largest social movement in the Americas: Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement, or MST (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem…
Imperial Costs: Two Stories Summarize the Cost of Empire to Democracy
By Matthew Hoh / CounterPunch Two press reports stood out to me this week: the release of the names of two US Navy SEALs who drowned two weeks ago in…
It’s All About Me: Netanyahu Rejects Palestinian Statehood
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch Israel has been given enormous license to control the security narrative in the Middle East for decades. This is not to say it is always…
How Corporate Media Outlets Failed Their Readers in 2023
By Robin Andersen / CounterPunch The great failure of the press to carry out the bare minimum of its journalistic mandate—to hold political figures accountable in a representative democracy, and…
The Gaza Strip: A Struggle For Daily Survival Amid Death, Exhaustion And Despair
Over the 100 days, the people of Gaza have moved from the sheer shock of losing everything, in some cases every member of their family, to a debilitating struggle to…
The Dangerous Myth of the “Indispensable Nation”
The ultimate irony is that a nation that is so secure because of friendly borders north and south as well as protective oceans east and west has become so insecure.
Scientific Misconduct and Fraud: The Final Nail in Psychiatry’s Antidepressant Coffin
By Bruce E. Levine / CounterPunch “. . . if the major media picks up on this story, they will have the chance to report on what arguably is the…
Biden’s $582 Million Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia. Can It Be Blocked?
By Charles Pierson / CounterPunch On December 24, 2023, the Biden Administration announced a $582 million arms sale to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Three Congressional resolutions aim at blocking…
A Voice for the Oppressed: John Pilger, Radical Journalist and Documentarian
By KJ Noh / CounterPunch A bright star in the firmament of justice has gone out. One of the greatest journalists of our era has passed away. John Pilger was…
False Transitions and Global Stocktakes: The Failure of COP28
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch The time has come to treat the sequence of UN Climate Change Conferences, the latest concluding in Dubai, as a series of the failed and…
Beltway Geniuses Keep Flinging Russia and China Into Each Other’s Arms
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch You don’t hear much about it in the U.S., but Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative is a big deal in the Global South. That’s because…