Counterpunch

Photo: Nimrod Kerrett. Not only abroad, but also within his own country, Israels’ Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu is finally facing growing and substantial protests against his war in Gaza. After he broke the ceasefire on March 18 and launched a new attack on Gaza, a...

Photograph Source: U.S. Embassy Jerusalem – CC BY 2.0 Question: What member of Trump’s cabinet has four major posts, but only one job? Answer: Marco Rubio Marco Rubio is the uber-mensch of the Trump administration.  He is the secretary of state, the acting national...

Photo: Nimrod Kerrett. Not only abroad, but also within his own country, Israels’ Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu is finally facing growing and substantial protests against his war in Gaza. After he broke the ceasefire on March 18 and launched a new attack on Gaza, a...

Photograph Source: U.S. Embassy Jerusalem – CC BY 2.0 Question: What member of Trump’s cabinet has four major posts, but only one job? Answer: Marco Rubio Marco Rubio is the uber-mensch of the Trump administration.  He is the secretary of state, the acting national...

Image by Robbie Herrera. A storm is brewing in U.S.–Mexico relations, and its epicenter is the newly appointed U.S. ambassador: Ronald Johnson, a former Green Beret and CIA operative with deep ties to U.S. military interventions in Central America. Johnson arrived in...

Remember when Donald Trump was worried about our trade deficit? Yeah, that must have been days ago. But anyhow, as I and others have pointed out, the tuition and other expenses that foreign students pay to study at places like Harvard is a major source of foreign...

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Five years ago, George Floyd, an African American, was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made after a store clerk suspected Floyd had used a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill and called the...

Image by Jonathan Gong. Opposition by former high officials in Israeli’s military and national security establishment and Israeli allies – France, England, and Germany – to the aimless killing of civilian families in Gaza is increasing. The mainstream, U.S. media has...

Image by BP Miller. Introduction On October 24, 1970, in writing for the Amsterdam weekly, Vrij Nederland, Dutch journalist and Trotskyite Igor Cornelissen, (1935–2021) known for his cutting-edge surveys of the second world war, communism, and the history of leftist...

Photograph Source: Jaber Jehad Badwan – CC BY-SA 4.0 Those five days in November were cold, and seemed colder inside the gates of Auschwitz and of Birkenau. We were 90 retreatants from many nations – Israel, Germany, Norway, Italy, Palestine, the U.S., Australia,...