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Tariffs Can Be Useful, But Not the Way Trump is Using Them
Photograph Source: Michael Vadon – CC BY-SA 4.0 President Donald Trump has said “tariff” is “the most beautiful word in the dictionary.” He claims tariffs will restore American trade supremacy, bring...
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Shrapnel in My Kitchen, My Ceiling on My Pillow: Surviving the Gaza Holocaust
Photograph Source: Jaber Jehad Badwan – CC BY-SA 4.0 Summary: Ms. Kamla, a previously displaced UNRWA English teacher returns to her home in Central Gaza as tanks continue to fire until minutes before...
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The Destruction of Gaza’s Healthcare Infrastructure
Image by Mohammed Ibrahim. On March 23, 2025, Feroze Sidhwa—a surgeon working in Gaza—posted an urgent update on the social media platform X: “I was at Nasser Hospital in #Gaza when it was bombed...
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How Many Stockbrokers Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb?
Image by Eric Brehm. The Musk and Trump cuts to government programs are part of a larger movement towards ‘free markets’ began a little over fifty years ago when we abandoned fixed exchange rates...
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Ending Militarism in America
Image by Sahand Babali. I read the news today, oh boy. About a lucky man named Elon Musk. But he lost out on one thing: he didn’t get a top secret briefing on Pentagon war plans for China. And the...
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Two Immigrant First Amendment Heroes Separated by Three Centuries
Engraving of Andrew Hamilton defending John Peter Zenger in court, 1734-5 – Public Domain Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student in child psychology at Tufts University in Medford, was standing...
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Beyond Signalgate: Understanding the Real Scandal in Yemen
US striking Houthi positions in Yemen. Image Source: U.S. Air Force – Public Domain On March 24, the country learned that a group of senior Trump administration officials (including the Vice...
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New York Times Throws Ukraine Under the Bus, Admits US Proxy War
Photograph Source: Ministry of Defense of Ukraine – CC BY-SA 2.0 In a practice that might seem quaint if it weren’t so murderous, the American uniparty is currently assigning party colors to its...
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JD Vance’s Trumpian Attack on Time
Photograph Source: Office of Vice President of the United States – Public Domain It’s all happening so fast. If they are not attacking some agency like the Department of Education or a cultural...
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Roaming Charges: Welcome to the Machine
Frank Gehry’s Experience Music Project building, Seattle. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The...
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The Fire This Time
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair We live in perilous times. The mobilizing passions of fascism are no longer a distant echo of history—they are here, surging through the United States like an...
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Acknowledging Art
Fazioli Concert Grand (F-308). In American academic institutions it is now common practice, though by no means universal, to begin conferences, convocations, and even the occasional concert—though not...
View ArticleGaza’s Unbreakable Resistance w/ Ramzy Baroud
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank welcome back Ramzy Baroud to the show to talk about Israel's genocide in Gaza, geopolitics of the region, and why Palestinians...
View ArticleTrump’s Anti-Imperial Imperialism
A few years ago, The Nation published an article debunking the myth that Donald Trump was an anti-imperial President. The article highlights the false perception held by a wide number of MAGA...
View ArticleDouble-Tapping Gaza
Screengrab from a video posted to X of the Israeli bombing of the Jabalia Refugee Camp in northern Gaza. Screengrab from a video posted to X of the Israeli bombing of the Jabalia Refugee Camp in...
View ArticleUnderstanding Israel’s Impunity
Image by Levi Meir Clancy. Image by Levi Meir Clancy. Image by Levi Meir Clancy. Image by Levi Meir Clancy. Image by Levi Meir Clancy. Image by Levi Meir Clancy. Image by Levi Meir Clancy. Image by...
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Trump’s Crazy Trade War
Image by Getty and Unsplash+. A Scatter Gun Approach The Trump tariff shock is going to take a bit of time to sink in, though stock markets worldwide have already sunk. Altogether, 60 countries have...
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Will the U.S. Build Seawalls?
Image by Parker Hilton. Antarctica is coming apart, crumbling into the sea, much, much faster than anybody ever thought possible. After all, it was only a couple of months ago when polar scientists...
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Conservation Groups Sue to Protect Grizzlies, Lynx, and Sage Grouse in the...
Canada lynx. Photo by Eric Kilby. cc-by-sa-2.0. On April 3, 2025, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Council on Wildlife and Fish and Native Ecosystems Council filed a federal lawsuit to protect...
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A Potent Protest in San Francisco, 5 April 2025
Photo: Jonah Raskin. They did not come to the Civic Center in San Francisco on April 5, 2025 to speak truth to power. They know that power doesn’t listen to people, not the powerful but vulnerable...
View ArticleThe Regime of Aleksandar Vučić and the Neopagan, Anti-Christian Right
The news that Dragoslav Bokan is set to give a lecture at the Serbian House in Podgorica on the broad, rhetorical theme “Will the Serbian People Survive?” is, in itself, hardly deserving of special...
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CODEPINK: Funded by the CCP?
Image by tommao wang. On March 26th, Congressman Jim Banks sent a letter to Attorney General Pamela Bondi requesting that CODEPINK be investigated for our alleged funding from the Chinese Communist...
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Dr. Trump’s Crazy Tariff Formula
Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain Suppose your doctor suddenly insisted that you needed to follow a strict diet and exercise regimen. He said he realized you had a serious problem...
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The AI Power Play: How ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Others Are Shaping the...
Photo by Cash Macanaya Artificial intelligence (AI) has seen rapid growth, transforming industries and daily life. From chatbots to advanced generative models, AI’s capabilities continue to expand,...
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Holding Meta Accountable in Africa
Photograph Source: Nokia621 – CC BY-SA 4.0 It was yet another unwelcome development for Mark Zuckerberg’s technology titan Meta, the parent company of Facebook. The High Court of Kenya has found that...
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Trump Will Never Accept Responsibility, But His Disappointed Voters Should
Photograph Source: Marc Nozell – CC BY 2.0 On April 4, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged another 2,000 points, the S&P 500 fell another 322 points, the Nasdaq index officially entered “bear...
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When the Dean of Harvard Law School Went Dark
Image by Nathan Dumlao. Tyrant Donald Trump, mega-violator of federal laws Wrecking America, has targeted Harvard University. Trump illegally threatens to cancel $9 billion in committed grants and...
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Elon Musk, Meet Christine Sheckler
Image by Samuel Regan-Asante. What put the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with an annual budget hovering at just about 1% of federal spending, at the top of Elon Musk’s...
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Milei’s Fire Sale of Patagonia and the Mapuche People’s Fight for Life
Photograph Source: Ministerio Bienes Nacionales – CC BY 2.0 Some 40 people form a circle on the dusty, late-summer grass. Following days of uncertainty and fear, cut off from most forms of...
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The Insecurities of Airman Teixeira and Secretary of Defense Hegseth
Photograph Source: Gage Skidmore – CC BY-SA 2.0 Massachuset’s Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegsmeth have little in common. Teixeira is serving a 15-year sentence...
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