“Nobody should have to live stream the deaths of their loved ones to prove that they deserve to live.” –Mohammad Safa First, the Israelis said it didn’t happen; the Palestinians were lying. Then after the bodies were recovered, the Israelis said the people they killed...
Image by Getty and Unsplash+. The Trump administration’s EPA has put the home insurance industry, home mortgage industry, real estate industry, and individual homeownership on notice that the rules are changing against their best interests. Already, before these...
Image by Basma Alghali. I believe that countries in the Global South are in an abusive relationship with the United States. We don’t want to be in this domineering cycle of abuse but unfortunately the US government will never cease in its ambition to control our lives...
Combat sports journalist Luke Thomas joins Eric Draitser on CounterPunch for a discussion of the politics of MMA, Boxing, and combat sports broadly. The discussion explores the inspiration of Belal Muhammad for Palestinian solidarity and resistance, the right-wing...
Image by Jorge Fernández Salas. In just 24 hours, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nominated Eli Sharvit as the new chief of Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, only to quickly retract the nomination. This episode highlights the lack of coherence in...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair No reasonable person now objects to recognizing the Supreme Court as a political body – at least in reference its six-person super majority. And few would question that the same majority is an aggressively Christian body, Roman...
Strip mining of phosphate, “Bone Valley,” Florida. Photo: Florida Department of Environmental Protection. March 23 – Bone Valley, Florida If there’s one thing about ecology everybody should know, it’s the story of shit. If you already do(o), or are squeamish, please...
Sabertooth tiger skull and Bay Bridge, San Francisco waterfront. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. ‘Patriotism’ is its cult…Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love,...
Photograph Source: SWinxy – CC BY 4.0 We live in an age when disappearance is no longer a metaphor. It is both a threat and a governing principle. Under the Trump regime, language is no longer a prelude to violence—it is its echo, its announcement, its choreography....
Photograph Source: Tasnim News Agency – CC BY 4.0 The Israeli killing of medical workers in Gaza is further proof of a lack of any restraint on the part of Israel’s Defense Forces (IDF). They have been accused of executing 15 handcuffed medics before burying them in a...
Photograph Source: Deror Avi – CC BY-SA 4.0 For the past 80 years, the United States and Israeli air power have owned the global and Middle Eastern skies, respectively, but wars are typically won with ground power, not air power. World War II was won against Germany...
Strip mining of phosphate, “Bone Valley,” Florida. Photo: Florida Department of Environmental Protection. March 23 – Bone Valley, Florida If there’s one thing about ecology everybody should know, it’s the story of shit. If you already do(o), or are squeamish, please...