When the Journalists are Gone, the Stories Will Disappear
Over 29 Palestinian journalists have been killed since October 7 in Israeli’s genocidal bombing of the Gaza strip.
Amid Discouraging Inequality Data, Some Signs of Hope
By Sam Pizzigati / CounterPunch Back in the early 20th century, earnest middle-class reformers out to overturn America’s plutocratic order gravitated to the pages of The Public, a weekly magazine…
‘Israel’s 9/11’ Is a Slogan to Rationalize Open-Ended Killing of Palestinian Civilians
By Norman Solomon / CounterPunch When Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations spoke outside the Security Council on Sunday, he said: “This is Israel’s 9/11. This is Israel’s 9/11.” Meanwhile,…
Indecency’s Conspiracy of Silence: Hamas, Israel and the Use of Force
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch Shock and horror. But to and for whom? At 6.30 am on October 7, the State of Israel was certainly in shock. From the south,…
Past Time to End the Persecution of Julian Assange
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch It’s long past time for the U.S. and U.K. to free Julian Assange. His flagrantly unjust incarceration is a global scandal, and the world is…
Bidenomics: Millions to Rebuild Maui, Billions for Ukraine
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch Last month, President Joe “No Comment on Hawaii” Biden’s Twitter boosters hurried to claim that the measly $700 he initially boasted of for Maui fire…
More Evidence Regarding Henry Kissinger’s Lies About Chile
By Melvin Goodman / CounterPunch “Chile is a dagger pointed at the heart of Antarctica.” – Henry A. Kissinger. Our 240 years of history have not produced a more controversial…
On Military Coups and Starvation: Is Western Media’s Perception of Africa Racist?
By Ramzy Baroud / CounterPunch Racism goes beyond the use of certain words or the discriminatory practices of everyday life. It is also about political perceptions, intellectual depictions, and collective…
Palestinians Welcome China’s New Middle East Role, but It is Not Mediation They Need
By Ramzy Baroud / CounterPunch It is feasible for China to continue playing an important role in mediating Middle East conflicts. In fact, it already has. In the case of…
Assange Be Weary: The Dangers of a US Plea Deal
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch At every stage of its proceedings against Julian Assange, the US Imperium has shown little by way of tempering its vengeful impulses. The WikiLeaks publisher,…
Sanctions on China, Export Controls on Rare Earths for the US: Two, It Turns Out, Can Tango
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch If Washington intended to bully Beijing economically and indefinitely, July 3 was a rude awakening. That’s when China announced export controls on two, vital rare…
The Afghanistan Lithium Great Game
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch While the United States, along with its allies, left Afghanistan in August 2021 in spectacularly humiliating circumstances, the departure was never entirely complete, nor bound…
The Strange Rehabilitation of Elliott Abrams
By Melvin Goodman / CounterPunch Democratic presidents have a way of reaching out to undeserving Republicans to protect their domestic flanks on the right. Bill Clinton appointed James Woolsey to…
Why Capitalism Is Leaving the US in Search of Profit
By Richard Wolff / CounterPunch Early U.S. capitalism was centered in New England. After some time, the pursuit of profit led many capitalists to leave that area and move production…
The Dynamics of War Insanity: NATO’s Ukraine Roulette
By Alfred de Zayas / CounterPunch Deliberate provocations of a nuclear rival, coups d’état, colour revolutions, broken promises, broken treaties, escalation of tensions, demonization, invective, double-standards — all this while…