Photograph Source: Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street – OGL In a few days’ time the Labour party will be celebrating the first anniversary of its landslide 125-seat victory in the 2024 UK general election. For now though there seems little to celebrate. Keir Starmer...
Starving Palestinians gather in the early morning hours at an aid distribution site along the Netzarim Corridor in Gaza. Still from a video posted to X. In Gaza today, hunger has a price—and for far too many civilians, that price has been death. The Israeli Newspaper,...
Image by kaleb tapp. It’s late afternoon, and most of the cars are pulling out of the parking lot behind a nondescript office building in Whippany, New Jersey, as I arrive. Our small group has been gathering here since March, so we know the drill. After some quick...
Ashraf Amra, Creative Commons. Pro-Israel California legislators are taking a page out of Trump’s playbook to prevent K-12 educators from presenting a realistic history and accurate portrayal of contemporary Israel/Palestine. Their proposed legislation, AB 715, a...
Photo by Christian Lue The latest Sino-American “handshake”—a 90-day pause on tariffs, semiconductor export bans, and rare-earth chokeholds agreed in Geneva and revived in London this month—was never meant as a love-in. It is a grudging ceasefire, a chance for each...
The abstract idea of wilderness began long before the passage of the Wilderness Act in 1964. As far back as the Babylonian Empire and Chinese Empire laws were written to protect sacred, unrestricted places in nature not yet deprived of freedom of action or natural...
Photograph Source: Eden, Janine and Jim – CC BY 2.0 The Supreme Court’s first chief justice, John Jay, would have empathized with the billionaires who’ve been freaking out ever since Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York last Tuesday. “Those...
Lawrence Davidson, Stephen Zunes, Richard Falk. In this latest and extensive discussion on U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, CounterPunch features international relations scholar Stephen Zunes, Middle East historian Lawrence Davidson, and legal expert and former...
Photograph Source: MSC / Preiss – CC BY 3.0 de An angry argument is currently raging over the extent of the damage inflicted on Iran’s nuclear capabilities by the American attacks on Iran’s three principal declared nuclear sites. While the argument is relevant, the...
Photograph Source: Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street – OGL In a few days’ time the Labour party will be celebrating the first anniversary of its landslide 125-seat victory in the 2024 UK general election. For now though there seems little to celebrate. Keir Starmer...
Starving Palestinians gather in the early morning hours at an aid distribution site along the Netzarim Corridor in Gaza. Still from a video posted to X. In Gaza today, hunger has a price—and for far too many civilians, that price has been death. The Israeli Newspaper,...
Ashraf Amra, Creative Commons. Pro-Israel California legislators are taking a page out of Trump’s playbook to prevent K-12 educators from presenting a realistic history and accurate portrayal of contemporary Israel/Palestine. Their proposed legislation, AB 715, a...