Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain The falling out between Donald Trump and Elon Musk would make a grand opera. Two titans of business who entered a political marriage of convenience have had a predictable clash of egos and, instead of parting company...
Pete Rose, image courtesy Wikipedia. Thanks to our current misbegotten model of manhood, we are once again arguing about this moral question: Should former Cincinnati Reds player and manager Pete Rose be inducted into Baseball’s Hall of Fame? In a sane time, the...
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg talk with Hadley Austin, director of the new documentary, Demon Mineral, which traces the radioactive legacy of uranium mining on the Navajo Nation. CounterPunch, Pilsen Community Books and...
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The Biggest Domestic Terror Threat DATELINE, OCCUPIED LOS ANGELES, Undemocratic States of Amerikkka: Spike Lee said, “Violence is as American as apple pie”, and violent political acts are becoming increasingly commonplace and widespread across the USA. In the last...
In February 1972, Republican Senator Strom Thurmond—or, as Lennon once called him, “Senator Thurmbold, or somebody…”—wrote to Attorney General John N. Mitchell, falsely alleging that Lennon was planning to disrupt the Republican National Convention scheduled for...
June 11, 2025. Brazil’s far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro testified before the Supreme Court yesterday, marking his first appearance in the trial in which he and seven cronies have been accused of plotting for two years to break from the democratic rule of law...
Photograph Source: U.S. Northern Command – Public Domain Donald Trump’s deployment of federal troops to Los Angeles represents a new and dangerous phase for American democracy. His actions should be taken as a warning sign of the authoritarian streak within the...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Were you fortunate to have had a favorite uncle when you were younger? Someone who personified kindness? I was. My family and I had a positive memory of a certain Uncle Sam who welcomed our ancestors into the United States with open...
Image by Jon Tyson. “That politics ain’t nothing, but if you stretch it so long that it can’t go no further, then you know what you got on your hands? You got an antagonistic contradiction. And when you take that contradiction to the highest level and stretch it as...
Who Pays to Stop a Pandemic? Image: Sue Coe. Throughout human history, zoonotic diseases, illnesses that jump from animals to humans, have shaped civilizations, triggered pandemics, and rewritten the course of economies. The Black Death, which ravaged Europe in the...
Militarized riot squads deployed on the streets of Los Angeles. Still from local news coverage. “In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.” ― Roberto Bolaño, Distant...