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The budget-and-tax bill that President Trump has placed before America’s U.S. Senators and Representatives to pass by a majority in each of the two houses of Congress is a total repudiation of the first Republican U.S. President (and the only progressive Republican...

Ashraf Amra, Creative Commons. Pro-Israel California legislators are taking a page out of Trump’s playbook to prevent K-12 educators from presenting a realistic history and accurate portrayal of contemporary Israel/Palestine. Their proposed legislation, AB 715, a...

Photograph Source: Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street – OGL In a few days’ time the Labour party will be celebrating the first anniversary of its landslide 125-seat victory in the 2024 UK general election. For now though there seems little to celebrate. Keir Starmer...

The abstract idea of wilderness began long before the passage of the Wilderness Act in 1964. As far back as the Babylonian Empire and Chinese Empire laws were written to protect sacred, unrestricted places in nature not yet deprived of freedom of action or natural...

Lawrence Davidson, Stephen Zunes, Richard Falk. In this latest and extensive discussion on U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, CounterPunch features international relations scholar Stephen Zunes, Middle East historian Lawrence Davidson, and legal expert and former...

The abstract idea of wilderness began long before the passage of the Wilderness Act in 1964. As far back as the Babylonian Empire and Chinese Empire laws were written to protect sacred, unrestricted places in nature not yet deprived of freedom of action or natural...

Starving Palestinians gather in the early morning hours at an aid distribution site along the Netzarim Corridor in Gaza. Still from a video posted to X. In Gaza today, hunger has a price—and for far too many civilians, that price has been death. The Israeli Newspaper,...

Photograph Source: Eden, Janine and Jim – CC BY 2.0 The Supreme Court’s first chief justice, John Jay, would have empathized with the billionaires who’ve been freaking out ever since Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York last Tuesday. “Those...

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Eduardo Camín El comercio mundial de mercancías registró un fuerte repunte a principios de 2025 al adelantar los importadores las compras antes del aumento de los aranceles previsto; sin embargo, el debilitamiento de los pedidos de exportación indica que es posible...

I paesi dell’Europa meridionale – in particolare Spagna e Portogallo, ma anche Italia e Francia – sono stati colpiti nel fine settimana da un’ondata di caldo torrido che dovrebbe durare parecchi giorni. Leggi

Assembling a successful electoral coalition is difficult, but forging a governing coalition to run the city is even harder. Longtime social movements scholar Peter Dreier offers some advice for the potential next mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani. Zohran Mamdani...