Counterpunch

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power! —Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene I. As geopolitical tensions between Israel and Iran have escalated into open warfare, a familiar voice has re-emerged in Western...

On the one hand, I feel the need to say something about the US/Israel-Iran war; On the other hand, I saw it coming and said it right after October 7th, 2023, in “Israel’s Solution to Gaza: War on Iran.” And I’m really tired and depressed to see it happening as was...

Image by Ted Griswold. Donald Trump’s agenda will never win Los Angeles—at least not in the traditional sense, and certainly not through votes or on the ideological terrain. But the campaign of terror being unleashed upon the city is not about a conventional victory....

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.” —Quote attributed to Justice Louis D. Brandeis, repeated often by editor/journalist Lewis Lapham in...

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair After promising during the 2024 election to stop the USA’s ‘forever wars’ in the 21st century, in less than six months in office Donald Trump is about to start another ‘forever’ war with Iran. There’ll be no prior vote in Congress, as...

Still from footage of Israeli missile strikes in Iran posted to X. For years, I’ve kept a copy of Primo Levi’s If This is Man on the night table. It’s not exactly the kind of reading that eases you into a restorative sleep, but who can slumber soundly at my age and in...

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “You know what November 5 was?  It was the election of a president that loves you.” – Donald Trump to applause and cheers from soldiers at Fort Bragg, June, 2025 President Richard Nixon told chief of staff Bob Haldeman that his secret...

Luis Buñuel, Un Chien Andalu, 1928. Screenshot (public domain). Cataracts About a month ago, and then again two weeks after that, I had surgery at the NHS to remove cataracts – those are clouded or yellowed lenses behind the iris and pupil. I’m a bit young for this...

The Negev Nuclear Center, near Dimona. (Source: Google Maps) Israel, like many other colonial projects, was established through violence and has relied on the use of force to occupy Arab territory ever since. Understanding that its existence depended on having a...

Still from footage of Israeli missile strikes in Iran posted to X. For years, I’ve kept a copy of Primo Levi’s If This is Man on the night table. It’s not exactly the kind of reading that eases you into a restorative sleep, but who can slumber soundly at my age and in...