Why the Ukraine Conflict Will Unravel NATO and Biden
By Radhika Desai / CounterPunch The proxy war on Russia is the centre piece of Biden’s foreign policy of uniting the world’s ‘democracies’ against ‘autocracies’, particularly China and Russia. He…
US Soldiers Don’t Belong in Ukraine
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch So how many American soldiers fight in Ukraine? The Biden bunch is careful not to reveal or refer to their presence, mercenary or otherwise, but…
From ICC to ‘Sportswashing’: West’s Self Serving Narratives Must Be Combated
By Ramzy Baroud / CounterPunch In March, the South Africa Communist Party (SACP) denounced what it described as the ‘imperialist bias’ of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The denunciation of…
Open Letter to Cornel West
By Elliot Sperber / CounterPunch Dear Dr. West, I was just sitting here thinking about your presidential campaign and started wondering whether you have any plans to launch a national…
America Has Just Destroyed a Great Empire
By Michael Hudson / CounterPunch Herodotus (History, Book 1.53) tells the story of Croesus, king of Lydia c. 585-546 BC in what is now Western Turkey and the Ionian shore…
UN Forcefully Hits at US Blockade of Cuba and Prison in Guantanamo
By W.T. Whitney / CounterPunch Nothing on the horizon now threatens the end of the U.S. economic blockade of Cuba. Critical voices inside the United States and beyond fall flat;…
The Need to Reform American Labor Laws
By Bernie Sanders / CounterPunch We are living in a moment where corporate America and the 1% have more economic and political power than they have ever had in the…
Why the Fight to Unionize Starbucks Matters to Us All
By Andrew Moss / CounterPunch For good reason, the fight to unionize Starbucks has drawn considerable public attention since workers at a Buffalo, New York store voted to unionize in…
China and Palestine: No To ‘Piecemeal Crisis Management’
By Ramzy Baroud / CounterPunch Remarks by China’s United Nations Ambassador, Geng Shuang, on the situation in Occupied Palestine on May 24 were impeccable, in terms of their consistency with…
AUKUS, Congress and Cold Feet
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch The undertakings made by Australia regarding the AUKUS security pact promise to be monumental. Much of this is negative: increased militarisation on the home front;…
The Death Penalty for Homelessness
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch You can measure the depth of a civilization by how it treats its poor, very young, elderly and mentally ill. By any such metric, ours…
Imperial Protectionism: US Foreign Policy for the Middle Class
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch What does a “foreign policy for the middle class” of the United States entail? President Joe Biden’s national security adviser is rather vague about this.…
Why is AOC Parroting Nuclear Industry Propaganda?
By Linda Pentz Gunter / CounterPunch Note: During a visit to Japan, including to the destroyed Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant site, US Representative, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an outspoken Democrat from Queens,…
Provocation Is Not an Innocent Act
By Alfred de Zayas / CounterPunch Provocation is not an innocent act. Under specific circumstances, provocation constitutes a tort or even a crime, especially when it deliberately generates a violent…
Monopolies Cause Inflation, While Fed Chairman Powell Blames Workers
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch As American monopolies fix prices higher and higher, the Federal Reserve bizarrely has concluded that employment is to blame for inflation. For months, Fed chairman…