Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem released a comprehensive report on July 27 describing the Israeli war on Gaza as genocide. However, the delay in publishing such an indictment is troubling and adds to an existing problem...
1919 Photo of the King Crane Commission. Photograph Source: Oberlin College Archives – Public Domain Counterfactuals – what if so and so had happened? – are always dicey. For example; would there have been a full-scale Vietnam War if President John F. Kennedy had not...
The five-ton ‘Fat Man’ plutonium bombnon tinian Island being moved for loading on a B029 for delivery to Nagasaki on August 8, 1945. (US military photo) Eighty years ago this week, Manhattan Project workers at the top-secret bomb development lab at Los Alamos, New...
Image by Mohammed Ibrahim. The following is an excerpt from Nafis Hasan’s new book, Metastasis: The Rise of the Cancer-Industrial Complex and the Horizons of Care, published by Common Notions. Listen to an interview with Hasan on the latest episode of CounterPunch...
The leveling of Gaza by the equivalent of 6 Hiroshima bombs is said to be the greatest destruction of an urban area in modern history. There are times when it is difficult to bring myself to my writer’s desk, when I know there is something that desperately needs to be...
Photograph Source: Donald J. Trump – Public Domain Two certainties have emerged after seven months of Donald Trump’s control of America’s national security policy. First of all, there is no comprehensive national security policy and no likely candidate in the...
1919 Photo of the King Crane Commission. Photograph Source: Oberlin College Archives – Public Domain Counterfactuals – what if so and so had happened? – are always dicey. For example; would there have been a full-scale Vietnam War if President John F. Kennedy had not...
The five-ton ‘Fat Man’ plutonium bombnon tinian Island being moved for loading on a B029 for delivery to Nagasaki on August 8, 1945. (US military photo) Eighty years ago this week, Manhattan Project workers at the top-secret bomb development lab at Los Alamos, New...
Image by Mohammed Ibrahim. The following is an excerpt from Nafis Hasan’s new book, Metastasis: The Rise of the Cancer-Industrial Complex and the Horizons of Care, published by Common Notions. Listen to an interview with Hasan on the latest episode of CounterPunch...
The leveling of Gaza by the equivalent of 6 Hiroshima bombs is said to be the greatest destruction of an urban area in modern history. There are times when it is difficult to bring myself to my writer’s desk, when I know there is something that desperately needs to be...
Photograph Source: Donald J. Trump – Public Domain Two certainties have emerged after seven months of Donald Trump’s control of America’s national security policy. First of all, there is no comprehensive national security policy and no likely candidate in the...
1919 Photo of the King Crane Commission. Photograph Source: Oberlin College Archives – Public Domain Counterfactuals – what if so and so had happened? – are always dicey. For example; would there have been a full-scale Vietnam War if President John F. Kennedy had not...