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...
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...
“When you’re born into this world, you’re given a ticket to the freak show. If you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.” – George Carlin + Guess which person was charged with felony assault in this photo of an ICE agent hauling away a 4’10” woman, an American...
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...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair It has become abundantly clear that after 250 years, a second American revolution is necessary. Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), emphasized the importance of periodic uprisings to...
Fae Myenne Ng. There are lost periods in the history of California. How many people know that well after California banned slavery, entering the Union as a free state in 1850, Chinese girls and women were sold as slaves in California? Fae Myenne Ng doesn’t want to...
Cain and Abel by Albrecht Dürer, woodcut, 1511. I began publicly invoking the word “genocide” in July 2025 to describe the actions of the Israeli government in Gaza in response to the horrific Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023, and the incomprehensible...
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...