Counterpunch

Photograph Source: SWinxy – CC BY 4.0 Split Screen: On one side is the current president of the United States striding to a microphone to tell how the U. S. military had bombed Iran. Behind him are the Vice President, Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense, all...

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The recent unilateral strikes by the United States on Iran’s nuclear development sites underline the fact that multilateralism is dead, and has been so for some time. It is not only when it comes to the question of the deployment of...

Photograph Source: Dan Scavino – Public Domain It has now been more than 30 years since the butcher of Auschwitz Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu, warned the world that Iran would soon acquire nuclear weapons. In 1992, in an address to the Israeli Knesset, he stated: “Within...

Photo by Arman Taherian A spate of break-ins has been taking place in your neighborhood. Armed thugs associated with a crime syndicate have been knocking down doors and grabbing what they can. The police show up only after the assaults, which have led to injuries and...

Donya Ahmad Abu Sitta’s kindergarten class. Donya Ahmad Abu Sitta and her family were first displaced just four days into the war, on October 11, 2023. She told me, “They bombed our neighborhood in Khan Younis, so we evacuated to a nearby school that had been...

Photo by Eelco Böhtlingk Mike Tidwell, director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, is one of those climate activists that supports an “all of the above “ approach to social change: Lobbying for broad progressive policies at the federal, state and local level...

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair That’s the question Republicans in Congress will be debating as they struggle to put Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill (BBB)” in final form to pass and send to his desk. The essence of the bill should be well known at this point. It...

Photo by Raimond Klavins Many Americans do not remember life before direct-to-consumer (DTC) “ask your doctor” drug ads selling expensive, sometimes dangerous drugs for diseases many had not heard of until the ads. The ads need to go according to US senators and some...

Photo by Michael Afonso The Senate is on the verge of passing the distinctly misnamed “big beautiful bill.” It is, in fact, one of the ugliest pieces of legislation to come out of Congress in living memory. The version that passed the House recently would cut $1.7...

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Five months into his misrule, President Trump is swinging a wrecking ball through the domestic and international order. Faced with obstacles to his program, splits within his coalition, and popular opposition, he has only escalated...

Photograph Source: Jeanne Menjoulet – CC BY 2.0 When campaigning in 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump was delighted by leaked, hacked or disclosed material that wound its way to the digital treasure troves of WikiLeaks. The online publisher of government...