On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank are joined by Kathleen Brown and Michael Mueller to discuss the violent crackdown and subsequent criminal charges lodged against pro-Palestine activists at the University of Michigan. It’s a tale...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Donald Trump has all the symptoms of Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); trouble paying attention, impulsive behavior, acting without thinking about the result, and being overly active. Specifically, since DJT announced...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair I’ve conducted an unfortunate and unwanted experiment over the past eight months. I’ve mentioned death and grief to friends, family, and acquaintances. Since my wife and I lost one of our closest friends (Alanna Ford, a member of...
Image by SJ Objio. There are military manufacturers hiding in Brooklyn on city property. It’s time to evict them. On Wendesday, June 18th, I was one of four activists arrested at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for protesting two military manufacturers, Easy Aerial and Crye...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The War at Home—State Terrorism on Full Display Across the globe, we are living in a moment of profound crisis where the very essence of education as a democratic institution is under attack. In the United States, the assault on...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Across the country, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are tearing families apart, terrorizing communities, and upending businesses. Mario Romero was among those arrested by ICE recently. His daughter, Yurien Contreras,...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair On the same day that Israel’s genocidal army issued an evacuation order for Tehran for the first time, after having done so repeatedly in Gaza, Beirut, and Damascus, a statement came out of Iran by certain Iranian dissidents,...
Image by Hennie Stander. Andrew Hartman, Karl Marx in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025. 572pp, $39.00 Back in the 1890s, when American Marxism was young, some socialist intellectuals in the US had already begun to complain that the American Left...
Image by Mohamed Nohassi. Every spring, someone in my town posts hand-drawn TURTLE CROSSING signs near the roads where turtles lay their eggs. I’d never actually seen one crossing and used to wonder why anyone bothered with these signs. But then yesterday, I spotted a...
For the past several months, the Trump administration has been trying to deport immigrants to countries they are not from – despite an April 2025 federal ruling that had blocked the White House from doing so. A divided Supreme Court decided on June 23, in a brief...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Donald Trump is not the first president to unleash the terror of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers on immigrant communities across the United States. But he’s the most blatant in his use of a federal armed unit as a...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Federal officials, then-Governor of Indiana Eric Holcomb, union leaders, company representatives, and dozens of guests assembled at Heidelberg Materials in Mitchell, Indiana, last year to celebrate a milestone for North America’s...