Photo by Megan Lee Veterans who get their health care from “The VA,” actually the cabinet-level Department of Veterans Affairs, need to be aware that the Trump administration is quietly working to privatize the healthcare facet (Veterans Health Administration, or VHA)...
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...
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank welcome back Ramzy Baroud to the show to talk about Israel’s genocide in Gaza, geopolitics of the region, and why Palestinians will never surrender. Ramzy is a journalist and the Editor of The...
Photo by Megan Lee Veterans who get their health care from “The VA,” actually the cabinet-level Department of Veterans Affairs, need to be aware that the Trump administration is quietly working to privatize the healthcare facet (Veterans Health Administration, or VHA)...
They’re over Alaska! They’re over Montana! They’re over Lake Huron! They’re over … oh, wait, they just got shot down. Whew! That was close! Tesla’s engineers are gathering this week in Washington with an eye on dramatically improving their vehicles’ acceleration...
In a recent column, military analyst William Astore wrote, “[Congressman] George Santos is a symptom of a much larger disease: a lack of honor, a lack of shame, in America. Honor, truth, integrity, simply don’t seem to matter, or matter much, in America today… But how...
In a video that first circulated online in August of 2018, the viewer sees a bus full of loud, happy boys celebrating the last day of school with a field trip. Parked in a bustling market in northern Yemen, the school bus and its exuberant passengers seemed far away...