Since October 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel, news coverage by the most prominent US outlets of Israel's assault on Gaza and its Palestinian ...

Sometime in the 1970s, probably at an event in the San Francisco Bay Area, I heard Audre Lorde read a poem.  I don’t remember ...

It has become background noise. We know it is happening, but we can almost forget that it continues at a barbaric rate. The United Nations deputy special ...

Post-election America finds itself in a panic. Voices from across a wide political spectrum warn that the country stands on ...

Christmas is a dangerous time, for it threatens social instability, political disorder, even revolution. At the culmination ...

Biden and his national security team believe they can “contain” China; they can’t.  The U.S.-China relationship is important ...

When I first meet the fisherman Gerardo Delgado, he is sitting in his boat, surrounded by pelicans, off the shore of Lake ...

Although Russia might have found it difficult to commit large numbers of its own troops to Syria, it could certainly have ...

It’s been a bad few months for democracy. Election results offensive to the European Union were annulled in Romania; an ...

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Silky Shah and Eman Abdelhadi join Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg to discuss how we ...

A warning of danger” (Merriam-Webster) according to The State of the Climate Report 2024, 25 of 35 vital signs are at record ...

When the bill was introduced in the spring, it was largely viewed as an effort to silence pro-Palestinian activism. At the time, dozens of House Democrats supported it alongside most Republicans. But ...