Photograph Source: Aimee – CC BY-SA 4.0 There were the doomsdayers, the moaners and, let’s face it, the ill-wishers, hoping that a march across one of the most famous bridges in Australia would not take place. Despite this, some 100,000 people attended the March for...
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Trump’s Tariffs Come for Your Morning Wake-Up Routine
Photo by Yanapi Senaud On August 6 — unless he chickens out — US president Donald Trump will impose a 50% tariff on American buyers of Brazilian coffee. Brazilian coffee isn’t the only coffee Americans find themselves paying exorbitant taxes on. Vietnamese,...
“Out, Damned Spot!” The Actively Complicit Try to Launder a Genocide
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair A week ago, a parade of op-ed writers, pundits, and politicians who have publicly supported, justified, or excused the war on Gaza for more than a year and a half began a series of predictable contortions in hopes of escaping what I...
On Starvation Hasbara
Image by Mohammed Ibrahim. August 2nd to 3rd 2025 marked the “holiday” of Tisha B’av. Jews observe it with readings of Lamentations, a part of the extended Torah, chronicling the history of one of many catastrophic destructions of the nation of Israel. Observant Jews...
On Creating a Cover for Genocide
Image by Alisdare Hickson. In July 2025, the Massachusetts legislature’s Judiciary Committee heard testimony on a bill to make it the 38th state to follow the federal government, 45 other countries (almost all of them in the global North), and more than 50 U.S. local...
As Gaza Starved, NPR’s Coverage Expanded but Didn’t Get Any Better
Image: Priti Gualati Cox. Before the third week of July, when mass-starvation alarms finally started sounding, only a tiny minority of Americans were focused on the crimes against humanity that Israel was committing in Gaza. CounterPunch readers had long known what...
On Creating a Cover for Genocide
Image by Alisdare Hickson. In July 2025, the Massachusetts legislature’s Judiciary Committee heard testimony on a bill to make it the 38th state to follow the federal government, 45 other countries (almost all of them in the global North), and more than 50 U.S. local...
As Gaza Starved, NPR’s Coverage Expanded but Didn’t Get Any Better
Image: Priti Gualati Cox. Before the third week of July, when mass-starvation alarms finally started sounding, only a tiny minority of Americans were focused on the crimes against humanity that Israel was committing in Gaza. CounterPunch readers had long known what...
Remember When the Democrats Lost the Elections Because of Fears About Inflation? The NYT Doesn’t
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair As usual, the New York Times gets things exactly wrong in a piece headlined “Trump’s Tariffs are Making Money. That May Make Them Hard to Quit.” The gist of the article is that the tariffs are on a path to raise close to $400 billion...
Foiling the Anti-Protest Sceptics: The Pro-Palestinian Sydney Harbour Bridge March
Photograph Source: Aimee – CC BY-SA 4.0 There were the doomsdayers, the moaners and, let’s face it, the ill-wishers, hoping that a march across one of the most famous bridges in Australia would not take place. Despite this, some 100,000 people attended the March for...
Trump’s Tariffs Come for Your Morning Wake-Up Routine
Photo by Yanapi Senaud On August 6 — unless he chickens out — US president Donald Trump will impose a 50% tariff on American buyers of Brazilian coffee. Brazilian coffee isn’t the only coffee Americans find themselves paying exorbitant taxes on. Vietnamese,...
“Out, Damned Spot!” The Actively Complicit Try to Launder a Genocide
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair A week ago, a parade of op-ed writers, pundits, and politicians who have publicly supported, justified, or excused the war on Gaza for more than a year and a half began a series of predictable contortions in hopes of escaping what I...