No longer considered a public good where ideas and important social issues are nurtured, debated. and interrogated, institutions of higher education are being transformed into indoctrination cent...
In the state’s closing arguments jurors were treated to the spectacle of the prosecutor in Brenda’s case, Gayland Gieger, hauling a suitcase toward the jury box, from which he extracted a pai...
As an undergraduate at UC in the late 60s, I wondered why the name of one of the world’s greatest physicists who had worked there was absent, whereas that of his colleague, Ernest O. Lawrence, ...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/the-oppenheimer-omission/
In the summer of 1968, I was assigned to the Central Intelligence Agency’s task force on the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. The task force met around the clock in the CIA operations cente...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/the-years-1968-and-2024-will-history-repeat-itself/
In striking at the Iranian consulate in Damascus on April 1 Bibi Netanyahu has made himself an April Fool. Israel has been bombing Syria for years with no provocation or retaliation by Syria. For...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/the-big-bang-israels-path-to-self-destruction/
It’s never been so bad. The Great Barrier Reef, which is one of nature’s most iconic mosaics of biodiversity, is on the ropes because of extreme global warming. Coral bleaching at the World H...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/ocean-heat-pummels-the-great-barrier-reef-again/
How a Jewish-supported civic resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza was killed The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is t...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/the-quality-of-mercy-in-petaluma-a-case-study/
How will Biden conceal the inflation rampaging throughout his term? The latest scheme appears to be draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to the last drop. It’s already down to 17 percent, b...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/the-u-s-economy-is-not-what-its-cracked-up-to-be/
No, Mr. Netanyahu. It is not antisemitic or pro-Hamas to point out that in a little over six months your extremist government has killed 34,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 77,000 people �...
The recent presence of police on the campus of Columbia University to stop pro- Palestinian protesters is reminiscent of turbulence on the same campus in 1968. While the past and present issues o...
For the first time since 1954, no large new atomic reactors are under construction or on order in the United States. On March 1, 2024, Vogtle Unit 4 connected to the Georgia grid …years behi...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/nuclear-powers-lethal-larcenous-end-game/
Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman wrote Manufacturing Consent in the late 1980s to describe the structural forces which cause an otherwise free media—one lacking government censorship, fear ...
“To this day I feel humiliation for what was done to me… The time I spent in Abu Ghraib — it ended my life. I’m only half a human now.” That’s what Abu Ghraib survivor Talib al-Majli...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/carceral-imperialism/
In a global context where tropical rainforests play a critical role in biodiversity conservation and climate regulation, these ecosystems are severely threatened by expanding agribusiness and lo...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/how-banks-and-investors-are-fueling-a-biodiversity-crisis/
On April 16, Australia’s eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, issued with authoritarian glee legal notices to X Corp and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, to remove material within 2...
The Middle East will not be the same in the wake of 7 October 2023. More was breached on that day than the prison wall that Palestinian fighters burst through. The fantasy Israel has staged-ma...
One of the greatest systemic failures in the U.S. is healthcare. Even after the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act: + 26 million Americans, or 7.9% of the population, still lack health insur...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/moving-to-universal-health-care-beginning-in-the-states/
The US Air Force practice of deploying nuclear weapons on military bases in other countries — and training foreign pilots to attack third countries with H-bombs — is called ‘nuclear sharing...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/us-nuclear-weapons-in-europe-violate-treaty-law/
In the summer of 1983 Ted Kaczynski was feeling hemmed in even in remote Lincoln, Montana. “There were too many people around my cabin,” he later wrote, “So I decided I needed some peace.�...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/on-the-road-with-sasquatch/
Haiti has descended into chaos. It’s had no president or parliament — and no elections either –for eight long years. Its unelected prime minister Ariel Henry resigned recently when gang vio...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/haiti-today-america-tomorrow-2/
On 24 April 2024, a well-attended conference took place at the United Nations Office in Geneva to commemorate International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace, a tradition that goes b...
What will it take to end the nuclear nightmare that has gripped the world since the atomic bombings of 1945? For a time, that nightmare seemed to have abated for, in response to massive popular r...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/the-forgotten-element-in-averting-nuclear-catastrophe/
As more campuses join the protests against Israel’s continuing engagement in war crimes in Gaza, one common thread runs through the student demands – divest from supplying the Netanyahu gover...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/the-fierce-urgency-of-now/
This past weekend, April 20, 2024 the US House of Representatives passed a bill to provide Ukraine with another $61 billion in aid. Then the meassure quickly passed the Senate and was signed in...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/ukraine-war-funding-and-failed-russian-sanctions/
Indoor air quality has emerged as a critical public health concern, gaining traction amidst growing recognition of its significance in spreading COVID-19 and many other diseases. Though progress ...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/indoor-air-quality-matters-covid-climate-change-and-more/
A good memoir should be more than an autobiography and less than a confessional but contain elements of both. As a reader, I am less interested in being overwhelmed with family trauma and pathos ...
Growing up, I looked up to my father and aunt, who began restaurant industry careers after immigrating from Eritrea in the 1970s. When I started working, a restaurant job was a natural choice. Wh...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/restaurant-workers-deserve-a-living-wage-too/
In cities and in rural areas, in red states and blue states, most residents want cleaner and more connected communities. Public transit — including trains, buses, and dial-a-ride services — a...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/fund-mass-transit-not-highways/
Truman Capote is dead: The Slow loris observer of New York in modern times. The magic is in what will be and certainly what was the night before: The moment begins with the arrival of the yellow ...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/architecture-of-cities-truman-capote/
Overflowing with national pride, the Greek media, seconded by the country’s grandiloquent authorities, don’t miss the opportunity to present this veritable re-enactment of a Nazi ceremony, na...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/the-olympic-flame-scam-a-wonderful-idea-from-dr-goebbels/