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Donald Trump: Finally Caught Crossing A Red Line
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Donald Trump has crossed many red lines over the past three and a half years, but he has finally crossed one that could cost him politically. The trappings of his...
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From Emmett Till to George Floyd
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Several years ago a man called me and apologized for taking my time, but explained he had to speak with me since he was writing about the Emmett Till murder trial and...
View ArticleWoked in Fright: The Brief Banning of Fawlty Towers
It’s all getting nasty. The urge to remove statues in hurried indignation; the lust to censor programmes now deemed offensive; the erasure of history, which, any sensible sort should know, is often a...
View ArticleMove Charity Dollars to the Front Lines
Congress should pass a three-year “Emergency Charity Stimulus” to move $200 billion to frontline working nonprofit groups by increasing payout requirements for private foundations and donor-advised...
View ArticleBand of Brothers, Tangled Up in Blue
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed— Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above. (It never was America to me.)...
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Reforming the Police and Jails of New Orleans: an Interview With Sade Dumas
Sade Dumas speaking at a rally. Photo: Jason Kerzinski. “If it takes a village to raise a child, it certainly takes a movement to undo an occupation.” – Ruth Wilson Gilmore Since 2004, the Orleans...
View ArticleNonviolent and Violent Protest
Author, activist, and intellectual Chris Hedges referred to an often quoted statement by the late Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture): “In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a...
View ArticleNonsense About China That “Everybody” Knows
I want to do a bit more beating up on a NYT piece this morning on breaking ties with China. There is a widely held view in policy circles that the pandemic showed that our extensive economic ties with...
View ArticleEmperor Trump Now Stands Partially Naked
A child exposing the nakedness of the emperor by speaking truth to power? Not these days. More than half of the United States — not just liberals and the left but also the mainstream media and some...
View ArticleU.S. Fight Against Racism and Repression Reaches New Heights
For three weeks now, in 1,000 cities and towns across the country, unprecedented, massive, multi-racial, daily mobilizations against the ingrained institutional racism that permeates every aspect U.S....
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Three Populists and Three Women
Photograph Source: Ulysse Bellier – CC BY 2.0 Looking at the total Covid-19/Coronavirus global death statistics on Saturday, 13th June 2020, three things become noticeable. The first remarkable issue...
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Structural Racism
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Senate Republicans may be at a crossroad in their unwavering fealty to a bunkered racist Donald Trump as his chances of re-election appear to be dimming. His approval...
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What Trump Continues to Say (About the Plague)
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair In three previous pieces in CounterPunch I compiled Donald Trump’s statements on the COVID-19 pandemic up to May 2nd-3rd. Here is a continuation of that list. Rather...
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Bringing America to the Knee
Art by Evan McCarthy The knee is the largest and most complex joint in the human body. A flexible hinge connecting thigh and shin bones, a focal point of leverage and stability, it helps carry the...
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Inside CHAZ: An “Autonomous” Three Block-Long Seattle Street Threatens...
Photograph Source: Alex Glidewell – CC BY-SA 4.0 President Donald Trump from his New Jersey private golf club tweeted this past Friday morning June 12, that “The terrorists burn and pillage our...
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Get Rid of the Presidency
Photograph Source: Rob Young from United Kingdom – CC BY 2.0 If the prospect of the Trump – Biden presidential election fills you with horror and despair, you might give some thought to not just...
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Miles Davis on Getting Stopped By The Police
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View ArticleHydra
HYDRA Before the riot You have dinner at your friend’s backyard. You lie flat on the ground and touch soles. Faces remain ten feet apart. They give you a surgical mask. You do the trick with the square...
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Bay Area Juneteenth Event Includes Protest Against Right Wing Billionaire...
“San Francisco and the Bay Bridge” by ATIS547 is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Doris Fisher, who is a KIPP Charter School founder, and her sons (Robert, John, and William) are currently using their...
View ArticleCorrupt Propositions: AstraZeneca, Public Institutions and the Coronavirus...
Putting your destiny into the hands of a drug company is much like seeking reassurances from an opportunistic pimp. The returns are bound to mixed, dressed up in deceptive language. The promises,...
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