Fossil Fuels Subsidized at Rate of $11 Million per Minute
A study by none other than the IMF found that the planet collectively spends $11 million per minute on subsidies for fossil fuels, all while the world barrels towards an…
‘Behind the Shield’ Documentary Challenges Idea Sports Should Be Apolitical
Dave Zirin's provocative examination of the 'Power and Politics of the NFL' foresees a day of reckoning for a sport that 'revels in the violence of the Black body for…
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast: Historian Paul Street on the Bankrupt Liberalism and Gilded Absurdities of the Democratic Party
Click here or the picture below to listen to the podcast: What are we to make of a Democratic Party that has embraces an election strategy that includes demobilizing the…
Chris Hedges: Let’s Stop Pretending America Is a Functioning Democracy
A functioning democracy could easily dispatch Donald Trump and his doppelgängers. A failed democracy and bankrupt liberalism assures their ascendancy.
Why Lithium Power Politics Are Playing Out Very Differently in Chile and Bolivia
By Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zúñiga Silva / Peoples Dispatch In late July, a large sinkhole appeared near the town of Tierra Amarilla in Chile’s Copiapó province in the Atacama…
The Infernal Manchin Machine
Can Dems pass anything at all through Manchin's buzzsaw?
‘A Possible Coup’ Against The Labour Government?
Allegations that MI5 officers and sections of the media sought to bring down Britain’s Labour government in the 1960s and 70s have resurfaced, raising fresh questions about plots that remain…
The Age of Weird Men: Gonzo Politicians From Berlusconi to BoJo
By Patrick Cockburn / CounterPunch Students 50 years from now may be asked by their teachers to write an essay on the importance of the fall of Boris Johnson in…
Patrick Lawrence: The Imaginary War
It began when the Biden regime and the press misrepresented Russian aims in Ukraine. All else has flowed from it.
The Corporatization of Just About Everything — Including the Climate Crisis and Outer Space
Not only is there more corporate control in more areas of life but (worse) there has been consolidation of corporate power into monopolies that are so powerful that they seem…
Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff: Did Dobbs Help the Left Rediscover How Political Change is Made?
The progressive push for Biden’s executive order illustrates that abortion rights needed to be protected, not taken for granted by party leaders.
Hedges: The Triumph of Death
The global ruling class is cementing into place a world where they govern without accountability, we are reduced to serfdom, the climate crisis accelerates, and mass death is normalized.
If Poverty Is a Moral Issue, Then the U.S. Is Bankrupt
The Poor People’s Campaign, ahead of its June 18 gathering, is calling out the false pro-corporate rhetoric on poverty, wages, and inflation.
Hedges: Society of Spectacle
The televised spectacle of the January 6th hearings will not restore democracy or halt the rise of the far right. The hearings are a desperate ploy by a doomed political…
Andrew Bacevich: Who Are You Calling Fascist?
Few, it seems, can resist the temptation to press their particular piece of the past into service as a vehicle for interpreting the here-and-now, even when doing so means oversimplifying…