The photo “UNIFA Event for Restitution” is credit: UNIFA The calls from Haiti have echoed around the world: “France, Pay Your Debt To Haiti!” Demonstrators from Haiti to France to San Francisco, London, Belize, and Jamaica have demanded that France pay for the ransom...
Counterpunch
Labubu’s Rise Mirrors Declining Faith in US Leadership
Labubu The Monsters Exciting Macaron series. Pop Mart. For decades, the United States has held a dominant geopolitical position, its soft power radiating through Hollywood blockbusters, Silicon Valley innovations, and democratic ideals. Yet, in recent days, a subtle...
I Ain’t Answering All That. Free Palestine!
Image by Stan Cox. Two things in America create “bipartisanship”: support for Israel’s apartheid regime and support for endless US war and intervention around the world. — Ali Abunimah, October 16, 2019. I live in the heart of the heart of the imperial core: Kansas....
Time for the Three “Wise” Ones to Reveal Their Sources on Gaza
Maria Malmer Stenergard. Photograph Source: © European Union, 1998 – 2025 Sweden has suspended its support to the UN relief agency UNRWA—against the recommendations of both the UN Secretary-General and the world’s largest humanitarian organizations. What do our...
Reform UK’s Curious Courtship
Photograph Source: Hullian111 – CC BY-SA 4.0 Only months ago, Reform UK and Britain’s trade unions stood on opposite ends—ideologically and strategically. One championed deregulation and individualism; the other, collective bargaining and worker protections. But now,...
Students in Serbia Have Done More Than Merely Block Their Universities
Photograph Source: Bracejerkovic – CC BY-SA 4.0 Students in Serbia have done more than merely block their universities. For the first time in thirty years, they have lifted the stone beneath which, now fully exposed to public view, a horde of scorpions and reptiles...
The Real National Emergency: Endless Wars, Failing Infrastructure, and a Dying Republic
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Seventy years after President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned about the cost of a military-industrial complex, America is still stealing from its own people to fund a global empire. In 2025 alone, the U.S. has launched airstrikes in...
Netanyahu’s New Holocaust: From Livestream Genocide in Gaza to the War on Iran
Image by Shraga Kopstein. The Orwellian G7 statement described Israel’s military attacks on Iran as “self‑defense. By twisting language to fit political ends, the communiqué normalizes aggression and offers diplomatic cover for Israel’s serial violations of...
The Tragedy of Political Violence: It Works
A shelter-in-place warning in downtown Minneapolis. Photograph Source: SavagePanda845 (Elliot F) – CC BY 4.0 The cold truth is this: political violence works. The assassination and attempted assassination of two Minnesota state legislators remind us again that...
Resistance Works
Image by Jorge Stark. At a time when many may feel that good news has gone the way of the dodo, look no further than the homeland of that long-extinct bird — Mauritius — for a dose of encouragement. There, among the islands of the Indian Ocean, news can be found about...
Economic Well-Being in Today’s Political Climate
The 2024 presidential election ushered in an extreme shift in political winds to an unanticipated degree. In the White House, the President issued a barrage of executive orders to dismantle economic regulation. His adviser, Elon Musk, unnerved workers by slamming...
How Trump’s Fascist Rhetoric Produces Political Assassins
Vance Boelter, Hennepin County Jail. Early Saturday morning, June 14th, 2025–the morning of Trump’s birthday gift to himself in the form of a military parade–Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were murdered in their Brooklyn Park home...