Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair It was a sign of someone desperate that his message has failed to take wing and make its way to better lands. With the strategy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Gaza Strip sundered and falling over, leaving only a...
Counterpunch
The Politics of Pushing the US to Become a “Christian Nation”
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Last month, a small brick was removed from our Constitutional wall that separates the state and church. The New York Times’s investigative reporters reported in July 2025 that the Internal Revenue Service carved out an exemption from...
Ukraine: Pax Optima Rerum
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Peace is the highest good – every day that passes, more soldiers and civilians are killed in the Ukrainian war. It is estimated that more than a million persons have lost their lives in this senseless war, which must be brought to an...
The Hook Was Already In
You are seated at your cramped desk, eyes half-closed against the glare, coffee gone cold two hours ago. You have an idea. Not just any idea. A story that thrives in spite of itself. You tell yourself it’s just a concept—nothing more—but the hook is already in. Maybe...
Putin-Trump Meeting: Endgame or PR Event?
Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain Putin and Trump last week agreed to meet at a location in Alaska. Indications are the meeting will occur as soon as August 15, 2025 or soon after. In other words, in just days. Or perhaps a week or so at most. If...
Trump’s Craziness on BLS
Photo by Jonathan Cooper Donald Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer because he said she rigged the numbers to make him look bad. There is an effort by Republicans, and some in the media, to rewrite history in front of our eyes and to...
Slaying and Censoring the Journalists: The Murder of Anas al-Sharif
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “Assassination,” wrote George Bernard Shaw in The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, “is the extreme form of censorship”. Such extremism visited Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues in Gaza City late on August 10. ...
It Will Take National Single Payer to Save Rural Hospitals
Photograph Source: Daquella manera – CC BY 2.0 After 30 years of service to a rural Nebraska community, the Curtis Medical Center will close. Troy Bruntz, CEO of Community Hospital which owns the Center, announced that the cuts to Medicaid in the budget...
Requiem for the Rule of Law
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The phrase “Rule of Law” (ROL) is frequently referenced in the major media but seldom defined. Google calls it “a principle under which all persons, institutions and entities are accountable to laws that are: [P]publicly promulgated,...
Debunking the Myths About Mamdani’s Candidacy
Wikipedia. Zohran Mamdani’s remarkable campaign for New York mayor has left the Democratic party deeply divided. Moderates and conservatives like James Carville and Chris Cuomo – brother of Mamdani’s reading rival, former governor Andrew Cuomo – have all but denounced...
It Will Take National Single Payer to Save Rural Hospitals
Photograph Source: Daquella manera – CC BY 2.0 After 30 years of service to a rural Nebraska community, the Curtis Medical Center will close. Troy Bruntz, CEO of Community Hospital which owns the Center, announced that the cuts to Medicaid in the budget...
Requiem for the Rule of Law
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The phrase “Rule of Law” (ROL) is frequently referenced in the major media but seldom defined. Google calls it “a principle under which all persons, institutions and entities are accountable to laws that are: [P]publicly promulgated,...