Photograph Source: Charity Organisation – CC BY 2.0 Starvation as a way of life. Starvation as a way of death. Starvation as policy, justification and vengeance. As the state of Israel hums along frittering, scratching and violating international human rights...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The U.S. Supreme Court’s July 14 decision to allow President Donald Trump and his secretary of education, Linda McMahon, to proceed with dismantling the U.S. Department of Education came with no explanation from the conservative...
Image by Andrew Stutesman. When billionaires fund the revolution, the outcome is already fixed. But what happens when the very system responsible for global plunder also decides how that plunder is explained? What happens when whiteness doesn’t just extract labor and...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair If ever there was a sign that democracy in the United States is in dire straits, it was Congress’s rescission of $9 billion in funding for public media, achieved via a party-line vote of 216 to 213 on July 18, 2025. The vote took...
Photo by Marwan Ahmed simultaneously empowering them with equitable shares in democracy. When this requirement is not met, the use of violence breeds further violence. Evidence suggests that failing to ensure all children a measurable, fair start in life, along with...
Photo by Emad El Byed Israelis do not see the images of skeletal corpses of Palestinian children who they have starved to death as a curse. They do not see the slain families they gun down at food hubs — designed not to deliver aid but lure starving Palestinians into...
On the latest episode of CounterPunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt brings back Palestinian writer Eman Aljhaj Ali to talk about life after leaving Gaza and the importance of solidarity and resistance. The post Surviving a Genocide with Eman Aljhaj Ali appeared...
Mountain pass, California rare earth mineral ining and processing facility. Photo courtesy of Tmy 350 and Creative commons Attribution Share alike 4.0 . Montanans are well aware of the asbestos disaster caused by the vermiculite mine in Libby that turned the town into...
Image by Iason Raissis. Last April, I wrote Forgive Me, Gaza—a personal reflection of anguish and helplessness. Today, there is no room for introspection. It is no longer about personal guilt. We are witnessing an Israeli campaign of mass starvation, mass destruction,...
Photograph Source: Christopher Michel – CC BY 2.0 “There is no nation that feeds its enemies. The British didn’t feed the Nazis nor did the Americans feed the Japanese, nor do the Russians feed the Ukrainians now.” – Amichay Eliyahu, Israel’s Heritage Ministry, July...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair If ever there was a sign that democracy in the United States is in dire straits, it was Congress’s rescission of $9 billion in funding for public media, achieved via a party-line vote of 216 to 213 on July 18, 2025. The vote took...
Photo by Marwan Ahmed simultaneously empowering them with equitable shares in democracy. When this requirement is not met, the use of violence breeds further violence. Evidence suggests that failing to ensure all children a measurable, fair start in life, along with...