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Counterpunch

Any Way You Look at It, You Lose

Image by Element5 Digital. Here it is, February 2024 and it’s as if the US’ two major parties had already held their nominating conventions. Biden vs. Trump. Two corpses of the US political system as the vaunted democracy’s choices. Reactionary neoliberalism or...

Tomorrow Belongs To Palestine

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “How Long? Not Long” speech on 25 March 1965 following the historic voting-rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.  He told the thousands who had gathered on the steps of the Alabama...

When Much is Too Much: Elon Musk’s Compensation Package

Photograph Source: Steve Jurvetson – CC BY 2.0 When is the acquisitive nature of open frontier capitalism too much?  When Elon Musk is told that US$56 billion as a pay package is unfair.  This, at least, was the finding by Delaware Court of Chancery by Judge Kathaleen...

Is a New Korean War in the Offing?

Photograph Source: Cheongwadae / Blue House – KGOL Type 1 In recent days, U.S. media have been proclaiming that North Korea plans to initiate military action against its neighbor to the south. An article by Robert L. Carlin and Siegfried S. Hecker, neither previously...

The Crisis in the Teamsters

Last summer, the Teamsters were riding a wave of goodwill and favorable publicity. The union’s year-long contract campaign at UPS raised expectations for a potential transformative national strike at the country’s largest private-sector employer. Much of the US Left,...

The Need for Understanding Never Stops

I inhale the big, do-nothing shrug that always follows the annual posting, by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, of its global metaphor for Armageddon. For the second year in a row, the Doomsday Clock has been set – by scientists analyzing the dangers faced by...

Mattole River Salmon-Welcoming Celebration, 2023

Mouth of the Mattole River. Photo: Bill Hatch. To begin my story near the end … we were on a beach at the northern border of the Lost Coast of Humboldt County in northwest California on a Saturday afternoon in mid-November, standing beside the mouth of the...