Counterpunch

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair And we will all be called as witnesses, each and every one, to stand before the eyes of God, and speak what was done. – Jerusalem, Paul Simon “Now you see what we’re up against!” said my mother when hearing that Robert F. Kennedy’s...

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Impotence takes various forms.  Before the daily massacres, incidents of starvation and dispossession of Palestinians taking place in the Gaza Strip with primeval cruelty, international impotence in the face of actions by the Israeli...

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair It’s easy to look at the Trump administration and point to all the serious economic mistakes it is making. However, economic mistakes do not necessarily lead to a recession and certainly not to a crash, as some critics seem to expect....

Moral Monday, image by David Biesack. Most days, in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Bible Belt, the old sanctuary at Christ Lutheran Church sits empty. Decades ago, it was home to a congregation of 3,000 people. By the late 1990s, that number had dwindled to seven. At the...

Photo by Stéphan Valentin Dear A.G., In nearly eight years as New York Times publisher, you’ve achieved remarkable financial success for the paper. And as your grandfather Arthur “Punch” Sulzberger Sr. said, if the Times doesn’t make money, “we can’t have any other...

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Impotence takes various forms.  Before the daily massacres, incidents of starvation and dispossession of Palestinians taking place in the Gaza Strip with primeval cruelty, international impotence in the face of actions by the Israeli...

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair It’s easy to look at the Trump administration and point to all the serious economic mistakes it is making. However, economic mistakes do not necessarily lead to a recession and certainly not to a crash, as some critics seem to expect....

Moral Monday, image by David Biesack. Most days, in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Bible Belt, the old sanctuary at Christ Lutheran Church sits empty. Decades ago, it was home to a congregation of 3,000 people. By the late 1990s, that number had dwindled to seven. At the...

Photo by Stéphan Valentin Dear A.G., In nearly eight years as New York Times publisher, you’ve achieved remarkable financial success for the paper. And as your grandfather Arthur “Punch” Sulzberger Sr. said, if the Times doesn’t make money, “we can’t have any other...

Image by Levi Meir Clancy. After spending months firing federal workers, slashing public services, gutting healthcare, and raising taxes for everyone but the rich, our country just wasted hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on a detention center in Florida....

Image by Michael Muthee. I participated in the Global March for Gaza because the countries of the world that have the power to stop Israel’s ongoing atrocities against the people of Gaza have done nothing whatsoever to change the situation. The situation is absolutely...