Counterpunch

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...

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...

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 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...