Bret Stephens speaking at the 92nd Street Y, YouTube screenshot. In a July 22 essay that is extraordinary even for someone as morally odious as he is, The New York Times columnist and Israeli propagandist Bret Stephens writes that Israel is not committing genocide in...
Photograph Source: Ashraf Amra – CC BY-SA 4.0 The bronze sculpture by Marie Uchytilová, Memorial to the Children Victims of the War, depicting the 82 children of Lidice murdered at Chełmno in 1942, serves as a haunting reminder of the barbarity that defined the...
Bret Stephens speaking at the 92nd Street Y, YouTube screenshot. In a July 22 essay that is extraordinary even for someone as morally odious as he is, The New York Times columnist and Israeli propagandist Bret Stephens writes that Israel is not committing genocide in...
Bret Stephens speaking at the 92nd Street Y, YouTube screenshot. In a July 22 essay that is extraordinary even for someone as morally odious as he is, The New York Times columnist and Israeli propagandist Bret Stephens writes that Israel is not committing genocide in...
For nearly two years, Israel has waged a campaign of total annihilation against the Palestinian people. Israeli bombing, shelling, and shooting have killed at least 58,000 people and almost certainly far more. Thousands remain missing and presumed dead. Tens of...
In this exclusive interview for CounterPunch, Richard Falk, international law scholar and former UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Since 1967, talks about the July 2025 U.S. sanctions imposed on current Rapporteur...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair While I benefit from being a U.S.-born citizen, it’s not something that I’m proud of. In fact, as I witness Brown immigrants being dehumanized, kidnapped, caged and deported by the inhumane administration, I’m ashamed of it. I don’t...
The government of Israel – a land I love – is guilty of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip. Until recently, I was reluctant to invoke the term “genocide.” I was uncertain if the disproportionate attacks that the Israeli government has been perpetrating against the...
Photo by LikeMeat The nascent cultivated-meat industry is in a funding drought. For those who don’t know, cultivated meat is grown from livestock cells, without slaughter. It offers a number of animal welfare, public health and environmental benefits. Given this...
Photo by Max Bender Life goes on, right? I’m not as certain about that as I used to be – or maybe I no longer understand the term “goes on.” I’ve been pondering past decisions I’ve made in this life of mine – decisions of enormous impact, decisions that created my...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair. When Circle, the world’s second-largest dollar stablecoin company, floated its shares at the start of June, the reaction was euphoric. By June 27, Circle’s stock had briefly touched $299 before settling near $183 – a staggering...
Demonstration against the military coup on 14 February 2021. Photograph Source: MgHla (aka) Htin Linn Aye – CC BY-SA 4.0 Since the 2021 coup, Myanmar’s civil war has escalated into its most violent phase in decades, the scale of the conflict is bewildering....