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Is the US Reclaiming the Wheel from a Self-Destructive Israel?
Published: November 4, 2025 07:01
Has Donald Trump's sharp rebuke of Israel in his October 23 Time Magazine interview fundamentally changed the calculus in the Middle East? His comments immediately sparked two opposing views: for some, his position represents the clear demarcation of a…
Trump Administration Attacks Iconic Wildlands in Alaska: Placing ANWR, the Izembek Wilderness, and Gates of the Arctic in Peril
Published: November 4, 2025 06:58
On October 23, the Trump administration launched fresh attacks on three iconic wildlands in Alaska, places that Wilderness Watch, our members and supporters, and our conservation allies have fought to safeguard for decades. These places, which teem with…
Why Germany Is Doing the “Dirty Work” for Trump’s Peace Plan
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/04/why-germany-is-doing-the-dirty-work-for-trumps-peace-plan/
Published: November 4, 2025 06:55
At the ceremony in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, the leaders of European and Arab states gathered behind US President Donald Trump. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) seemed somewhat lost on the sidelines of the peace show. Trump praised him,…
Exposed: Transparency International’s Secret Plan for Political Power in Brazil
Published: November 4, 2025 06:54
On March 6, 2019 the Lava Jato taskforce announced that the US DOJ was transferring 80% of the fines it levied against Petrobras to the Brazilian Public Prosecutors Office (Ministerio Publico Federal/MPF) to set up a privately managed “anti-corruption…
The Militarization of Commercial Activity in Mexico
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/04/the-militarization-of-commercial-activity-in-mexico/
Published: November 4, 2025 06:54
“The military operates behind our backs,” says Pedro Uc Be. “We know they will start mining, but they work in darkness, and for that precise reason we haven’t been able to say anything concrete about it.” Uc Be is a Mayan activist with Múuch’ Xíinbal, the…
The Dutch Elections and the Lonely Grave of Spinoza
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/04/the-dutch-elections-and-the-lonely-grave-of-spinoza/
Published: November 4, 2025 06:53
A simple, lonely grave behind the Nieuwe Kerk in the centre of The Hague is a monument to Baruch de Spinoza. Only very determined admirers visit from time to time to pay their respects, though Spinoza was one of the fathers of tolerance in Western culture.…
Draining Practices: Amazon, Water Consumption and Data Centers
Published: November 4, 2025 06:53
Amazon, ruthless, mean spirited, soulless and wedded to the obscene profit margin, is also in the business of habitual deception. When it comes to the use of water for its thirsty data centres, this is most telling. In its aggressive push towards…
New York, 1975: New York, 2025
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/04/new-york-1975-new-york-2025/
Published: November 4, 2025 06:52
Old New York The New York City that Zohran Mamdani will likely take responsibility for as the next mayor is a different city than it was in the 1975 when Abe Beame was mayor. During the post-World War II era of 1945-1975, it was the capital of the 20th…
Sick Profits: How Profit-Driven Healthcare is Bad for Our Financial and Physical Health
Published: November 4, 2025 06:44
Even though most of us think of healthcare as a human right, the reality is that in the United States the provision of healthcare is big business. It places profits over people, demonstrating that priority through tax dodging, price gouging, insurance…
Top 10 Things the Alliance for the Wild Rockies Did to Protect the Northern Rockies in 2025
Published: November 4, 2025 06:35
In 2025 the Alliance for the Wild Rockies protected 2,672 square miles — 1.7 MILLION acres — of wildlife habitat on National Forests with our victories in court. No other environmental group came even close to protecting this much habitat. We did this by…
Make America Hungry Again
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/04/make-america-hungry-again/
Published: November 4, 2025 06:33
Make America Great Again has become Make America Meh. In the richest nation on earth, some priorities get the full measure, luxury renovations, foreign policy posturing, law enforcement budgets, while feeding children is negotiable. Half a meal for kids.…
Peggy Noonan, Prophetess of Doom
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/04/peggy-noonan-prophetess-of-doom/
Published: November 4, 2025 05:44
On October 30th, Peggy Noonan, one-time primary speechwriter and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan from 1984 to 1986, now a regular opinion contributor to the Wall Street Journal, informed fellow New Yorkers that “You have Been Warned” not to…
The Room Where It Happens: My 32 Years at CounterPunch
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/03/387578/
Published: November 3, 2025 07:22
CounterPunch went online just in time for Clinton’s war on Serbia. Clinton’s war was premeditated; our transit to the World Wide Web was reluctant, at best. Alexander Cockburn’s relationship with computers was hostile. Mine was indifferent. I surfed the…
With Hurricane Melissa, Capitalism and Climate Chaos Bring Devastation to Jamaica
Published: November 3, 2025 07:02
Kingston buzzed with feverish preparations and anxious alerts in the days before Melissa, a powerful Category 5 hurricane, made landfall earlier this week on the island of Jamaica. Supermarkets and hardware stores endured the crush of customers scrambling…
Terms of Surrender: the Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice in Palestine
Published: November 3, 2025 06:58
In the wake of two years of the globally broadcast extermination of the people of Palestine, three distinct tracks of international response have emerged. One is grounded in justice, international law, human rights, and accountability. Two others are…
How Washington Enables Israel’s Ceasefire Violations
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/03/how-washington-enables-israels-ceasefire-violations/
Published: November 3, 2025 06:58
Since the Gaza ceasefire took effect on October 10, 2025, Israel has once again demonstrated that its impunity is limitless. In less than twenty days since following the signing of the ceasefire, Israel has murdered 226 Palestinians, injured 594, and…
Chinese AI Seems to be Leaping Ahead
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/03/chinese-ai-seems-to-be-leaping-ahead/
Published: November 3, 2025 06:55
I confess to being very much a non-expert on AI. I read pieces in the business press and random articles that more knowledgeable friends pass along. But I can’t say I have any knowledge of the nuts and bolts of the technology. However, I can understand…
Remembering Assassinated Moroccan Leader, Mahdi Ben Barka, and the Tricontental Conference
Published: November 3, 2025 06:55
Vijay Prashad interviewed by Rosa Moussaoui, journalist with L’Humanité. This interview was published in French in the newspaper on 27 October. Ben Barka was assassinated on 29 October 1965, sixty years ago. Rosa: What were the reasons behind the holding…
People in the US go hungry as Trump spends millions to invade Venezuela
Published: November 3, 2025 06:54
The United States government is in the grips of one of its longest-running funding gaps in history. The ongoing government shutdown has already stretched beyond 30 days and now, the food security of millions of Americans is at risk as the funding to the…
Teasing the Armageddon Fanciers: Trump’s Nuclear Testing Boast
Published: November 3, 2025 06:53
Nuclear weapons have made the world safe for hypocrisy and unsafe in every other respect. Astride the nonsense that is nuclear apartheid – the forced separation of the states that are permitted to have nuclear weapons and those that do not – sits that…
Zohran Mamdani Wants Dignity for Working People
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/03/zohran-mamdani-wants-dignity-for-working-people/
Published: November 3, 2025 06:50
On Tuesday, New York, the largest city in America, has an opportunity to elect Zohran Mamdani, a young man, a democratic socialist, an immigrant (at age seven), a Muslim, a progressive, and someone hated by Donald Trump. And no wonder, since he’s the…
Truth on Life-Support: The Lie is the Weapon
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/03/truth-on-life-support-the-lie-is-the-weapon/
Published: November 3, 2025 06:15
A recent false story from Arizona has been making rounds on social media. The story evokes outrage over a group of math teachers who wore t-shirts to school for Halloween. The shirts said, “Problem Solved” and were covered with fake blood. AZ…
Just a Sample: a Glyph
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/03/just-a-sample-a-glyph/
Published: November 3, 2025 05:30
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How to Recognize an Astroturf Movement
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/02/how-to-recognize-an-astroturf-movement/
Published: November 2, 2025 05:56
By late summer 2025, approval ratings for Trump and the Democrats were both underwater, with Democrats polling at their lowest point in three decades. A September 2025 Gallup poll also found that sixty-six percent of Democrats now prefer socialism to…
The Political Uses of Fakery
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/02/the-political-uses-of-fakery/
Published: November 2, 2025 05:50
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Anti-Zionist Jewish Organizing in Latin America w/ Vozes Judaicas por Libertação and JudíesxPalestina
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/01/anti-zionist-jewish-organizing-in-latin-america/
Published: November 1, 2025 16:43
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with anti-Zionist Jewish community organizers in Brazil and Argentina from Vozes Judaicas por Libertação and JudíesxPalestina about their recent protective presence trip to the West…
An Important Message to CounterPunch Readers
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/31/an-important-message-to-counterpunch-readers/
Published: October 31, 2025 16:19
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Roaming Charges: Grave Disorders
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/31/roaming-charges-122/
Published: October 31, 2025 06:02
More than half of new ICE recruits failed an open-book test after taking a course on Immigration and the Fourth Amendment. This pervasive constitutional ignorance might seem like a grave disorder for a law enforcement agency, but under the current…
Trump’s Destruction is Not Creative
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/31/trumps-destruction-is-not-creative/
Published: October 31, 2025 05:58
There is no question that DJT is a destroyer. Consider the separation of powers. He has appointed intensely loyal followers to key legal positions, often ordering them to act contrary to legal precedent. Over forty prosecutors have been fired and flimsy…
Israel’s “Internationally Enabled Crime”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/31/israels-internationally-enabled-crime/
Published: October 31, 2025 05:57
Gaza does not mark the end of the settler colonial project. It marks, I fear, its final phase. Western states, enriched by their own occupations and genocides — in India, Africa, Asia, Latin America and North America — are returning to their roots as they…
Rage Against the ICE Machine
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/31/rage-against-the-ice-machine/
Published: October 31, 2025 05:57
A New York City woman wearing a navy blue polka-dot dress has gone viral for her defiant resistance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a raid in lower Manhattan on October 21, 2025. More The post Rage Against the ICE Machine…
Many Americans threw other Americans Under the Bus. Will We Do It Again?
Published: October 31, 2025 05:57
While our cultural memory about the McCarthy era romances the refuseniks, hundreds of Americans did comply with the Red Scare, identifying colleagues or associates as communists to protect themselves or preserve their careers. The Levin Center for…
The Left Wins the Irish Presidential Election in a Landslide
Published: October 31, 2025 05:54
Catherine Connolly (born 1957) only became involved in active politics in 1999. Michael D. Higgins, the outgoing president of Ireland (2011-2025), encouraged Connolly to join the Labour Party and stand for election. Both Connolly and Higgins (known in…
U.S. Poor and Working Class Distress Grows
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/31/u-s-poor-and-working-class-distress-grows/
Published: October 31, 2025 05:54
Too much month and not enough check plagued the U.S. poor and working class before the federal government shutdown and funding lapse. To wit, business is booming for America’s car repossession industry. In fact, there were 769,925 car repossessions for the…
The Vampire State: Feeding on Our Fear, Freedom and Finances
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/31/the-vampire-state-feeding-on-our-fear-freedom-and-finances/
Published: October 31, 2025 05:53
Monsters don’t always come wrapped in the trappings of horror or myth. Most often, monsters in the real world look like ordinary people. They walk among us. They smile for the cameras. They promise protection and prosperity even as they feed on fear and…
Furloughing Workers for Armageddon: Trump, Nuclear Weapons and the NNSA
Published: October 31, 2025 05:53
Instead of satirising nuclear war – a possible if difficult thing to do – the time has come to satirise the laying off and furlough of those who solemnly monitor and maintain such machinery fit, not for preserving life so much as ending it at a fiery,…
What Kind of Shut Down is This?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/31/what-kind-of-shut-down-is-this/
Published: October 31, 2025 05:53
What kind of a shutdown is this, anyway? Congress has deadlocked over the terms of funding the government, so (in theory, at least) there is a government shutdown in which all federal operations are supposed to be shuttered. But Trump ordered staff to…
Give Him the Prize!
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/31/give-him-the-prize/
Published: October 31, 2025 05:53
Theodore Roosevelt, an advocate of ‘big stick diplomacy’, viewed Latin America as the United States’ backyard – a place where it could intervene at will. At the slightest threat to American interests, he would send in the marines – to Honduras, the…
An Immigration Success Story in the Heartland
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/31/an-immigration-success-story-in-the-heartland/
Published: October 31, 2025 05:53
In Marshalltown, Iowa, the spirit of American entrepreneurship is alive and well. Residents have opened businesses, among them a grocery store offering fresh food that’s created dozens of jobs. Many of these small businesses are owned, managed, and staffed…
Poetry is Not an Expression of the Party Line
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/31/poetry-is-not-an-expression-of-the-party-line/
Published: October 31, 2025 05:52
Poetry is not easy to compose, nor is it easy to write about. Like music, poetry requires a certain immersion into the composition one hears via their ears or their eyes and assimilated inside their mind. If the ability to immerse oneself is not available…
Socialism or Barbarism
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/31/socialism-or-barbarism/
Published: October 31, 2025 05:52
More than a century ago, from a Berlin prison cell where she was confined for her uncompromising opposition to the slaughter of the First World War, Rosa Luxemburg warned, “Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or…
Environmental Ruin
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/31/environmental-ruin/
Published: October 31, 2025 05:52
The secretary general of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, does not mince words in the Guardian: “Devastating consequences now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30”(October 28, 2025). The…
No Kings, Liberal Fecklessness and The Tremor-shock of Creativity
Published: October 31, 2025 05:52
Creativity, the creative discovering of the genius of man ….ought to be restored its sacred significance. –Nicolai Berdyaev, Salvation and Creativity .. negating…
Childcare Can be Free and Universal
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/31/childcare-can-be-free-and-universal/
Published: October 31, 2025 05:52
I was drawn to the childcare profession because of my love for children. I just love seeing their smiling, hopeful faces, watching them grow and learn, and welcoming the trust and love they bring to us every day. At the same time, working in this field can…
The Taxpayers’ Tab for Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful New Ballroom
Published: October 31, 2025 05:52
Trump and his Republican sycophants have been busy telling us that we shouldn’t be bothered by Trump’s demolition of the East Wing and his plans for a now $350 million ballroom. (The price tag keeps rising, it had been $200 million.) While many of us were…
Rural America Needs Dependable Broadband, Not More Handouts for Billionaires
Published: October 31, 2025 05:51
Nearly a century ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt led a campaign of bold investment to electrify rural America. Until recently, we were on track to do the same for broadband internet in this century. Before President Trump’s second term, our…
The Hollowing Out of America’s Only Agency for Minority Business
Published: October 31, 2025 05:51
“I have often made the point that to foster the economic status and pride of members of our minority groups, we must seek to involve them more fully in our private enterprise system… To do this, we need to remove commercial obstacles that have too often…
Stop the Trump Coup
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/31/stop-the-trump-coup/
Published: October 31, 2025 05:50
I’ve been thinking in recent days about Venezuela and the United States because of current events but also because of an event that occurred in Venezuela’s capital twenty-three years and six months ago. Trump Attacking Venezuela The current events in…
Private Equity Meets the Pentagon
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/31/private-equity-meets-the-pentagon/
Published: October 31, 2025 05:50
When Trump nominated private equity billionaire (and campaign donor) Stephen Feinberg to be the deputy secretary of defense, critics pointed out that his sprawling business ties represented obvious conflicts of interest. But in an administration that…
Opposing the Death Penalty in All Forms: From the Tree of Life to Gaza
Published: October 31, 2025 05:50
With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory, I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe any civilized society should be at the service of death. I don’t think it’s human to become an agent of the angel of death. Elie Wiesel…
Democracy Begins Where We Live
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/31/democracy-begins-where-we-live/
Published: October 31, 2025 05:49
On a beautiful fall Saturday, residents in Floyd County, Indiana packed a church to ask city council members about the local budget. One county over, mothers shared concerns about a new data center, rising utility costs, education cuts, and corporate tax…
Americans Flock to Mall for Unveiling of Trump Monument
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/31/americans-flock-to-mall-for-unveiling-of-trump-monument/
Published: October 31, 2025 05:45
Washington D.C., March 30, 2029 Tourists gathered on the National Mall in record numbers this week to admire the newly unveiled Trump Monument. Originally erected in 1884 to honor a little-known American president, the 555-foot-tall granite and marble…
Tucker Carlson is a Coward
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/31/tucker-carlson-is-a-coward/
Published: October 31, 2025 05:45
Former allies are distancing themselves from Tucker Carlson after the ex-Fox host interviewed podcaster Nick Fuentes on his YouTube show. A white nationalist, Fuentes is a 27-year-old political commentator whose clips have gone increasingly viral on social…
A Lesson for Our Times
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/31/a-lesson-for-our-times/
Published: October 31, 2025 05:44
In these troubling times, when many countries experience the unlimited abuse of people’s civil liberties, it is useful to remember the value of individual acts of human courage. During Argentina’s “Dirty War” (1976-1983), thousands of opponents to the…
Yes, Meat Eating is a Sin
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/31/yes-meat-eating-is-a-sin/
Published: October 31, 2025 05:43
Leftists I know are generally reluctant to talk about sin. This is understandable in my view. If you’re about my age, there wasn’t a vibrant, religious left in your formative years. As a result, such talk often sounds fundamentally conservative. Of course,…
Four Urgent Lessons for Jamaica From Puerto Rico’s Troubled Hurricane Recovery
Published: October 31, 2025 05:42
Across Jamaica, streets are littered with torn-off roofs, splintered wood and other debris left in the wake of Hurricane Melissa. Downed power lines have left communities in the dark, and many flooded and wind-damaged homes are unlivable. Recovering from…