Counterpunch

Image by Thomas Evans. At a glimpse, the 7-foot cylindrical silhouette of the MK-82, a 500-lbs bomb manufactured by General Dynamics, could be mistaken for a human being falling from the sky. With an 89 kg explosive payload, the bomb shreds its steel hull upon impact,...

Image by Jordan Bracco. Attacks on the movement for Palestine are escalating. Following the high profile detainment of political prisoner and Palestine movement activist, Mahmoud Khalil, several other pro-Palestine students and researchers across the United States...

Dear Xenophobic America, On November 14, 2024, I “confessed” that my late Mexican immigrant mother, Carmen Mejía Huerta, “stole” White American jobs. My mother’s “high crimes and misdemeanors” consisted of working as a domestic worker (doméstica)for over four decades,...

About half of all grizzly-livestock conflicts in Wyoming occur on this one allotment. Photo by George Wuerthner. The 170,000-acre Upper Green River Allotment, located on the Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming, is the largest grazing allotment under Forest...

Photo by Guillermo Ferla This is it, folks. The battle for control of the universe has begun. Donald Trump’s plan for a new, tariff-based approach to international trade has generated more  heat than light. East Asia’s elite financial bureaucracies in particular are...

Photo by Teslariu Mihai Lately, I have noticed a lack of life in my surroundings. At seventeen, I watch as we get closer and closer to becoming soulless. We have become a depressed hopeless generation that finds any possibility of escapism appealing. The news vomits...

Photo by Brian Wertheim If the Government makes a mistake, the newspapers will find out and the problem may then be fixed. But if freedom of the press were lost, the country would soon go to pieces. — I.F. Stone Media scholar Carl Jensen was deeply influenced by the...

Photo by Johannes Schenk In the Orwellian world in which we now dwell, countries and groups that uphold international law are labeled terrorists or supporters of terrorism, while those that commit unspeakable crimes, flagrantly violating international and humanitarian...

Image by Suzy Brooks. From childhood, I think I had some eerie sense of just how bad it could get in America. After all, in junior high and high school, I was riveted by this country’s Civil War. Among all my toy soldiers — cowboys and Indians, British marching troops...

Image by Mahmut Yıldız. The protests that have swept across Turkey in recent weeks were triggered by the jailing of Istanbul’s elected mayor and several members of his municipal team –a move widely perceived as a politically motivated crackdown on democratic...

Photo by Jon Matthews Conservative economists have been treating the 18th-century Scottish philosopher Adam Smith as their “free market” hero for quite some time now. But in his own time, as Steve Wamhoff of the progressive Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy...