Warehousing the American
American prisons today are real-life sites of body horror. In popular culture, body horror has roots in gothic literature and centers our attention on the disturbing aspects of our embodiedness or...
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Siskiyou mat (Ceanothus pumilis). Photograph by Roger Peet. I stood at the trailhead for a long time, pacing back and forth, returning to the car, getting into it, starting it, turning it off again,...
View ArticleSailing To You: On the Possibilities for Maritime Direct Action w/ Seungjoon Lee
In this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with Seungjoon Lee, a maritime activist and filmmaker based on Jeju Island. Having recently returned from attempting to break...
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Remembering Artists From Another Time: Botero
Truthful Fictions There are three lines drawn in the sand. The wind blows, the lines scatter in the wind. Nature observes the fragile agreement. What will time remember? Maybe the transience of time...
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We Have Been There Before: The US-Iran MOU and the Algiers Accords
DoD photo by: PH2 DON KORALEWSKI Date Shot: 27 Jan 1981 “The United States pledges that it is and from now on will be the policy of the United States not to intervene, directly or indirectly,...
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The Long War on Bears Ears and Grand Staircase
How decades of attacks on Utah’s national monuments culminated in Trump’s latest attempt to erase them. Valley of the Gods. Photo: Erik Molvar. In southern Utah, two crown-jewel landscapes have been...
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No Path Forward, No Way Back, Imperial Decline Edition
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair When American politicians state that terrorism is a threat, what they need is a mirror and an introductory economics textbook to understand that there are many...
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Vampire Planet: What the Story of China’s and Australia’s Solar Success Gets...
Image by Alexander Mils. Typically, I kick this column off with troubling news, but let’s begin with a positive for a change. Australia’s solar is booming. A total of 40% of residential homes are...
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Platner’s Critics Kept Attacking the Messenger While Ignoring His Message
Photograph Source: m Spiess – CC BY 3.0 I appended the following paragraph to the incomplete ending of this article. It speaks for itself: I stopped working on this piece at this point when news of...
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Israel’s Crimes Against Humanity in the Americas
Gloriosa victoria, mural by Diego Rivera “They will try to tell us that democracy, international law, human rights, and human dignity exist and are alive and well; that the genocide against the...
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No Country on Earth Fully Respects Workers’ Rights, and it’s Getting Worse
Image by Fauzan. Class warfare continues to be waged incessantly. And that war’s offensives continue to be more intense. In just the past year, the world’s working people have seen more attacks on the...
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Social Security is a Problem of Income Distribution, Not Demographics
Photograph Source: US Government – Public Domain The rich almost completely control debate in this country. There is no better proof of this fact than the current debate over the future of Social...
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Waiting for the Lead Pipe
Photo by semen zhuravlev “I’m not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare—or, if not, it’s some equally brainy lad—who says that it’s always just when a chappie is feeling...
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Shocking Revelations Out of West Antarctica
Image by Cassie Matias. It’s mid-winter but a large area of West Antarctica that should be frozen solid is not frozen. What’s up? Antarctica is the coldest spot on the planet where the average winter...
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Row Vikings Row: Norwegians Pull Together
Photograph Source: MichaelEmilio – CC BY 4.0 Norway stunned football royalty Brazil in the World Cup. Instead of dancing, posing or pounding their chests, every player sat down on the pitch and rowed...
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Roaming Charges: When Farce Repeats Itself
“History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.” – Jean Baudrillard, The Agony of Power Put yourself behind the wheel of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero’s white...
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While the World Cup Plays On, Palestine Refuses to Die
Photograph Source: Creative Commons of Gaza In memory of Mohammed al-Wahidi and the countless aid workers murdered by the genocidal Israeli Occupation Forces. As billions tune in to the 2026 FIFA...
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Colombia: A Fractured Society Under U.S. Influence
Photograph Source: Abelardo de la Espriella – CC0 While President Donald Trump celebrated the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington July 4th with a megalomaniacal speech, Iván Cepeda,...
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You Can’t See the Wound, But It Harms
Photo by K. Mitch Hodge The words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. –Proverbs 12:18 There’s such a thing as the crime of bodily harm. It’s recognised in law...
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When ICE Kills, “Trust Us” Is Not Evidence
Image Source: Gianluca Costantini – CC BY-SA 4.0 Lorenzo Salgado Araujo should not be reduced to the language of an immigration press release. Not to “illegal alien.” Not to “target.” Not to “vehicle...
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