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The student protests on the campus of Columbia University this April have reminded me of the protests that took place there 56 years ago. Along with about  700 or so other men and women, I was ...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/25/columbia-protests-now-and-in-68/

For at least the past quarter-century, the entire mythology of New York City has been one of tenuous renaissance. ‘Renaissance’ being the French word for rebirth. Of course, every Renaissance...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/25/panic-city-new-york-and-the-doom-loop/

RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 27th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the show that examines the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of our time. I’m Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSO...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/25/an-interview-with-jill-stein/

I remember the first time I observed my daughter pointing. We were at a neighborhood playgroup, a daily gathering of toddlers and their parents, and 12-month-old Tessa pointed at a painting of a ...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/25/raising-hairless-primates/

The attitudes down under towards social media have turned barmy.  While there is much to take Elon Musk to task for his wrecking ball antics at the platform formerly known as Twitter, not to me...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/25/censorship-wars-elon-musk-safety-commissioners-and-violent-content/

“Conversely, imagine “the enemy” as conceived by a man of ressentiment—and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived “the evil enemy,” “the evil one”—and indee...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/25/the-clown-must-die-a-review-of-rushdies-knife/

The Maine legislature has recently adjourned. Having “lost” one-third of Maine’s commercial dairy farms since 2020 and reportedly inclined to keep the remaining 145 outfits in-operation, th...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/25/rascals-in-robes-honesty-in-rags/

I went to MIT, class of 1969, so I was a Senior in 1968. It is now 2024 not the late sixties, but rebellion for change is again in the air. I think it is just getting revved up. I can feel it. I�...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/25/columbia-nyu-the-new-schoolmit-tufts-emerson-berkeley-chicago-chapel-hill-everywhere-2/

The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and its co-Plaintiff, Native Ecosystems Council, have prevailed in stopping the Middleman project in Montana’s Big Belt Mountains, which was yet another massiv...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/25/alliance-for-the-wild-rockies-stops-100-miles-of-roads-and-5000-acres-of-clearcuts-on-montana-public-lands/

The crime of genocide is surrounded by multiple ironies and contradictions. One of these involves the political and moral problem of the nation-state itself. For not only does the nation-state pr...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/25/genocidal-irony/

The Haiti Action Committee is honored to send out this transcript of a presentation by Fanmi Lavalas executive committee members, Dr. Maryse Narcisse and Joel “Pacha” Vorbe, delivered via zoo...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/25/the-crisis-in-haiti-perspectives-from-the-leadership-of-fanmi-lavalas/

Israeli bombs continue to fall on Gaza, killing Palestinian civilians with abandon. Al Jazeera published a story about the destruction of 24 hospitals in Gaza, each of them bombed mercilessly by ...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/24/elites-in-the-global-north-are-scared-to-talk-about-palestine/

Why would people of the left protest the Democrats’ convention, especially regarding issues where they say they support us, such as on abortion and LGBTQ+ rights? I was asked that question by N...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/24/the-democrats-support-you-why-protest-them/

“Absent a directed, sustained, and articulated policy of no daylight between the United States and Israel,” Matthew Continetti wrote in the Washington Free Beacon on March 29, “the rift bet...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/24/us-foreign-policy-no-daylight-is-where-peace-dies-in-darkness/

The hypocrisy of the United States government knows no limits. On April 18, a proposal was submitted to the United Nations Security Council to admit Palestine as a full member, thus effectively r...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/24/united-states-hypocrisy-again/

The breakthrough technologies of the printing press and data digitization allow the masses to access information. That flood of new information crumbled the legitimacy of the established politica...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/24/the-digital-era-will-prompt-revolutions-as-did-the-print-era/

Even if Taylor Alison Swift lacks the true edge of Lana Del Ray, I wasn’t a million miles from enjoying The Tortured Poets Department: ‘You’re not Dylan Thomas / I’m not Patti Smith / Thi...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/24/letter-from-london-a-rich-man-is-nothing-but-a-poor-man-with-money/

Blue whales are fascinating animals. At 24-30 metres in length (longer than a basketball court) they are the largest creatures on Earth. They are also among the rarest. Estimates suggest that the...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/24/finding-blue-whales-near-the-seychelles-for-the-first-time-in-decades/

Gaza is a US-backed apocalypse and all of the Global South has been living through various grades and shades of apocalypse for decades and centuries. Ignored starvation, colonization, massacres a...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/24/how-to-not-get-along-with-apocalypses-in-other-countries/

Can Plum Island, an 843-acre island a mile and a half off the eastern end of Long Island—originally the site in the early 1950s of a U.S. Army laboratory with a mission to develop biological wa...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/24/preserving-plum-island/

In recent years, the rightful rejection of the policies promoted by the traditional imperialist powers (North America, Western Europe and Japan), followed by the announcements made by the BRICS (...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/24/are-the-brics-and-their-new-development-bank-offering-alternatives-to-the-world-bank-the-imf-and-the-policies-promoted-by-the-traditional-imperialist-powers/

In 1970, American poet and multifaceted artist Joe Brainard published the book I Remember, which became a classic. The book, which Paul Auster called, “one of the few totally original books I h...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/24/donald-trumps-record/

Remarks before the US Senate. M. President, The Senate will soon vote on a $95 billion supplemental spending package.  $95 billion. That’s a lot of money – especially at a time when many Ame...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/24/ending-unfettered-military-aid-to-israel-and-restoring-unrwa-funding/

BREAKING: In win for community, forest defenders stop old growth logging after a three-week blockade WOLF CREEK, Ore. – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) was pressured by activists to remove...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/24/breaking-in-win-for-community-forest-defenders-stop-old-growth-logging-after-three-week-blockade/

From the U.S., there are about 35 participants. Leading the group, and key to the international coalition, is 77-year-old retired U.S. Army colonel and State Department diplomat Ann Wright. After...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/23/will-the-freedom-flotilla-sail-to-gaza/

What makes an income tax “fair”? Right-wing lawmakers the nation over have a ready answer. To be fair, they tell us, an income tax needs to be “flat.” Their core claim: In an evenhanded t...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/23/are-the-flat-tax-folks-winning-or-have-they-already-won/

Israeli politicians, including Benjamin Netanyahu, have made references to air bombings of Germany and Japan during WWII as well as the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to justify their ...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/23/against-israel-and-us-misuse-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-nuclear-bombing-to-justify-gaza-genocide/

During 2023, Washington made formal promises to Venezuela it had no intention of keeping. It is obvious now that the aim was to lay the groundwork for discrediting the upcoming Venezuelan preside...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/23/games-biden-plays/

“Can we still see universities as places to learn and produce knowledge that, at the risk of sounding naïve, is for the greater good of humanity, independently transient of geopolitical skirmi...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/23/universities-for-aukus-the-social-license-confidence-trick/

The discovery of LSD-25 was one of the twentieth century’s greatest discoveries.  Some writers have said that event is on par with the discovery of nuclear fission and the development of the ...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/23/pictures-at-an-exhibition-2/