Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “He who saves his country violates no law,” tweeted President Trump in February. He was echoing a line often attributed to Napoleon. His supporters were electrified by Trump’s tacit invocation of a right to boundless power. The Trump...
Counterpunch
The Price of Hunger in the United States
Photo by Steven Cordes “There is no question or doubt that nobody will starve or go hungry in the United States.” Herbert Hoover spoke those words in 1931, days after thousands of poor Americans converged for a Hunger March on Washington DC, demanding government aid....
The One Big Beautiful Effort to Confuse the Public and Privatize Immigration Enforcement
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair PBS’ Amna Nawaz tried. When interviewing Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Nawaz asked for clarification on Trump’s flipflop of whether or not to exempt from arrest undocumented agricultural and...
The Price of Hunger in the United States
Photo by Steven Cordes “There is no question or doubt that nobody will starve or go hungry in the United States.” Herbert Hoover spoke those words in 1931, days after thousands of poor Americans converged for a Hunger March on Washington DC, demanding government aid....
The One Big Beautiful Effort to Confuse the Public and Privatize Immigration Enforcement
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair PBS’ Amna Nawaz tried. When interviewing Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Nawaz asked for clarification on Trump’s flipflop of whether or not to exempt from arrest undocumented agricultural and...
Are the Capitalists Destroying Capitalism? Yep.
Image by Claudio Schwarz. According to research from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), “The Productivity-Pay Gap”, May 15, 2025, a majority of Americans’ financial affairs have reached a crisis level. Their standard of living has steadily declined over the past...
May Consumption Data Looks Pretty Bad
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Sorry, I’ve been on the road, so not much time for writing. I did want to quickly mention a couple of points about the data on consumption for May which were released on Friday. First, real consumption actually fell in the month. That...
The Good Intentions Road to Tyranny
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “He who saves his country violates no law,” tweeted President Trump in February. He was echoing a line often attributed to Napoleon. His supporters were electrified by Trump’s tacit invocation of a right to boundless power. The Trump...
The Price of Hunger in the United States
Photo by Steven Cordes “There is no question or doubt that nobody will starve or go hungry in the United States.” Herbert Hoover spoke those words in 1931, days after thousands of poor Americans converged for a Hunger March on Washington DC, demanding government aid....
The One Big Beautiful Effort to Confuse the Public and Privatize Immigration Enforcement
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair PBS’ Amna Nawaz tried. When interviewing Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Nawaz asked for clarification on Trump’s flipflop of whether or not to exempt from arrest undocumented agricultural and...
Food Aid or Firing Squads
Starving Palestinians gather in the early morning hours at an aid distribution site along the Netzarim Corridor in Gaza. Still from a video posted to X. In Gaza today, hunger has a price—and for far too many civilians, that price has been death. The Israeli Newspaper,...
California Legislation Designed to Protect Israeli Apartheid & Genocide
Ashraf Amra, Creative Commons. Pro-Israel California legislators are taking a page out of Trump’s playbook to prevent K-12 educators from presenting a realistic history and accurate portrayal of contemporary Israel/Palestine. Their proposed legislation, AB 715, a...






