Counterpunch

Image Source: I, Makaristos – CC BY-SA 3.0 Haidar Eid is a Palestinian professor who used to teach postcolonial and postmodern literature at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza. That university no longer exists thanks to the missiles and the Zionist minds that fired and guided...

Photograph Source: שמואל שניידר – שמחה רוטמן – CC BY-SA 4.0 It is a curious feeling to see a government, let alone any politician, suddenly find their banished backbones and retired principles.  The spine, on being discovered, adds a certain structural integrity to...

The Darien Gap on the border of Colombia and Panama is the only stretch of the Pan-American Highway that is not a highway. Instead, it is a dangerous area of jungle filled with swamps, wildlife and rivers. It is also a major part one of the world’s migration routes....

Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain I first saw it as a boy in a schoolyard in 1965: the coward who grew strong in a group and chose his victim. Sixty years later, I see that same pattern—this time in the leaders of Israel, and in the president of the...

Image by DJ Paine. Can Donald Trump retain the allegiance of the key voter groups that swung his way in 2024? Perhaps none of those voter shifts were as dramatic and consequential as the defection of youth – long a mainstay of the Democratic base. Gen Z voters, fueled...

Image by Mathieu Stern. I spent the summer of 1965 arguing about the Vietnam War. I was 13, and my interlocutor was my 18-year-old camp counselor in Vermont. She was headed for U.C. Berkeley in the fall, where she would, as she later described it, “major in history...

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The famous quote by Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci seems to have been written for the moment humanity is currently experiencing: “The old is dying, and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum, monsters arise.” The...

Photograph Source: Donetsk Regional Military Civil Administration – CC BY 4.0 Before I get going, let’s get it out of the way: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a clearly illegal and evil and it has cost hundreds of thousands of lives. Throughout the conflict, there has...

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Note: At the time of writing, a summary analysis similar to the one below was published Current Affairs, attributed to “Lex Syd.” There are a few differences in our sources and analyses, but the numbers are the same.  For a year and a...

Image by Matthew TenBruggencate. If one examines Donald Trump’s approach to world affairs since his entry into American politics, it should come as no surprise that he has worked to undermine the United Nations. The United Nation is based on international cooperation,...

Image by Felicia Buitenwerf. “I do think it’s my job to be there and I do think that I need to model the behavior that I want our government to model.” Nebraska’s Congressman Mike Flood had just gotten a tongue-lashing from constituents at a town hall meeting, facing...