Photograph Source: Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken – CC BY-SA 4.0 The confidence trickster was at it again on his visit to The Hague, reluctantly meeting members of the overly large family that is NATO. President Donald Trump was hoping to impress upon all present...
Youtube screenshot. People are asking about my reaction to Zohran Mamdani’s spectacular and decisive upset in the Democratic primary victory for Mayor of New York over ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo. Mamdani’s victory was so overwhelming that Cuomo conceded generously,...
Photograph Source: Syeda Amina Trust – CC BY 2.0 There is not much more that can be said about the unfathomable levels of devastation the genocide in Gaza has reached. Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories,...
Photograph Source: موسسه مطالعات و پژوهش های سیاسی – Public Domain “If we have to use force, it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future, and we see the danger here to all of...
Berlin. Yasemin Acar is a Berlin-based activist who was aboard the Freedom Flotilla’s ship “Madleen”, a mission followed by millions on social media, as the ship tried to break Israel’s siege of Gaza. After attending Berlin’s largest Palestine protest ever last...
Zohran Mamdani. (Photo: Bryan Berlin, via Wikimedia Commons) Zohran Mamdani. (Photo: Bryan Berlin, via Wikimedia Commons) Zohran Mamdani. (Photo: Bryan Berlin, via Wikimedia Commons) Zohran Mamdani. (Photo: Bryan Berlin, via Wikimedia Commons) Zohran Mamdani. (Photo:...
There’s no precise number for how many Palestinians have been starved to death by Israel’s embargo on food entering Gaza. But there is a number for how many Palestinians have been killed trying to keep from starving to death at food distribution sites, many of them by...
Photo: Greenpeace. Venice, Italy. This weekend, the world’s third richest person, Amazon’s cento-billionaire Jeff Bezos, is throwing a lavish three-day wedding in Venice, Italy. Some estimates report that the costs will reach 30-million euros (approximately...
Photograph by Gage Skidmore – CC BY-SA 2.0 Okap (Cap Haitien), Haiti. On May 28th, the New York Times announced: “A Desperate Haiti Turns to Erik Prince, Trump Ally, in Fight Against Gangs.” The article revealed that the mercenary for hire, Prince, with a long track...
Photo by Ryuno From Los Alamos to Kwajalein (the Bechtel-built Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Test Site in the Marshall Islands) to Iraq, war, preparation for war, and profiting from war’s devastation are all profit centers for Bechtel. —Western States Legal...
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank are joined by Kathleen Brown and Michael Mueller to discuss the violent crackdown and subsequent criminal charges lodged against pro-Palestine activists at the University of Michigan. It’s a tale...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Donald Trump has all the symptoms of Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); trouble paying attention, impulsive behavior, acting without thinking about the result, and being overly active. Specifically, since DJT announced...