Traditional societies usually had restrictions to prevent self-support land from being alienated outside of the family or clan. By holding that the essence of private property is its ability to b...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/17/property-and-debt-in-ancient-rome/
Words can’t express the horrors of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. To actually feel the nightmare, you would have to be there under the bombs, fleeing with Palestinians desperately seeking a saf...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/17/israels-blowback-genocide-2/
The scenes described in the following article are based on drawings and oral histories of survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. The City of Hiroshima collected these artif...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/17/oppenheimer-the-sequel/
The Middle East has, for some time, been a powder keg where degrees of violence are tolerated with ceremonial mania and a calculus of restraint. Assassinations can take place at a moment’s n...
Teargas for mega-mines Corporations and their government enablers prefer to keep the ecocidal and ethnocidal reality of extractivism hidden, but activists in Ecuador are exposing the truth. Th...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/17/ecuador-is-not-for-sale/
Despite writing this letter each week, I still wonder why so few of us write real ones anymore. I was thinking of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, who corresponded frequently but met only once:...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/17/letter-from-london-letters-from-everywhere/
Good that defensive anti-missiles worked against Iran’s barrage. Still, two elements were more suited to the playground than to international politics: face and revenge. One side bombs the othe...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/17/beyond-self-extinction/
The United States Institute of Peace on February 27 awarded its “Women Building Peace” award to Pétronille Vaweka. She responded: “I weep because at this moment, in … Goma women and chil...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/17/war-and-plunder-in-eastern-congo/
In the summer and into the fall of 1942, the Germans deported over a quarter of a million Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to be exterminated at the Treblinka death camp. In the ensuing uprising in th...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/17/debating-the-slaughter-a-historical-retrofitting/
Much to the joy of many of its citizens, and perhaps to the chagrin of a significant number of others, Germany has just decriminalized marijuana. Adults in Germany can now carry up to 25 grams of...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/17/americans-want-germanys-weed-laws/
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he conventional wisdom in the United States is that Iran has conducted a “blatant and powerful act of direct war” against Israel. However, the Iranian attack has been a long time coming in ...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/16/iran-and-the-us-say-enough-will-israel-go-along/
Between 1999 and 2015 several hundred sub-post masters (SPMs) were accused and in many cases convicted of negligence or crimes involving theft, false accounting and fraud, based on flawed informa...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/16/british-justice-hundreds-of-subposmasters-ask-whats-that/
How do you know when you can finally rate as certifiably super rich? One simple test: You can look at the menu that greeted the over 100 wealthy souls who gathered earlier this month at the Palm ...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/16/mass-layoffs-have-our-rich-thriving-and-workers-writhing/
When the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, higher education institutions throughout the United States started adopting a progressive standard of education that advocates had demanded for decades: ...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/16/zombie-tests-is-the-sat-back-from-the-dead/
I am honored to have been selected as USC Class of 2024 Valedictorian. Although this should have been a time of celebration for my family, friends, professors, and classmates, anti-Muslim and ant...
The higher than expected March CPI released on Wednesday freaked everyone out and got the markets convinced we will see fewer, if any, interest rate cuts this year. I have never been a Fed tea le...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/16/the-march-cpi-the-inflation-picture-and-the-fed/
After Israel carried out an air strike on Iran’s embassy in Damascus, Iran made good on its threat to retaliate. After waiting a few days, Iran launched (by Israel’s count) 185 drones and 146...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/16/the-israel-iran-confrontation-episode-or-war/
The numbers don’t lie — and the sage grouse “collaborative conservation effort” is a total and on-going failure. There were 16 million Greater Sage Grouse before Europeans arrived and beg...
The horrific recent murders of Tyre Nichols, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Laquan McDonald, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and many other African American citizens have brought increased public awar...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/16/how-american-policing-became-so-violent/
Prologue We owe the Greeks our desire to be the best and most powerful people in the world: There’s nothing more Greek than striving for excellence, choosing from one’s values, and competing ...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/16/what-we-owe-the-greek/
Sam Randazzo was once the Chair of the Ohio Public Utilities Commission. Now, at 74, he’s dead by apparent suicide. As is the “Nuclear Renaissance.” Dating back many years, we often encount...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/16/sam-randazzo-is-dead-and-so-is-nuclear-power/
In February this year, Elbit Systems, Israel’s notorious drone manufacturer and creator of the Hermes 450 aerial device responsible for this month’s killing of seven World Central Kitchen aid...
The repeated use of 2,000-pound bombs have leveled multistorey apartment buildings in Gaza, killing hundreds of residents in order to strike even just a single Hamas suspect. The IDF has relied ...
Since the start of the Gaza war, more than 200 hundred aid workers have been killed. As a result, the health situation of the civilian population, still reeling from the Israel Defense Forces (ID...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/15/netanyahu-bolstered-hamas/
The Paris climate agreement of 2015 set the standards for how nation/states must approach the net zero target year 2050 by reducing greenhouse gas emissions in stages, starting with major reducti...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/15/the-death-of-paris-15/
Russian President Vladimir Putin justified the 2022 invasion of Ukraine by asserting the existence of a singular “Russian world” that needs protection and reunification. He set aside the secu...
It is not often that a best-selling author and correspondent on consumer, food, medical, and health issues comes up with an idea for all Eaters that nobody has thought of before. Jean Carper, wit...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/15/choosing-regular-food-to-extend-longevity/
My “take” on the politics of Biden/Trump/Israel/USA/Gaza politics is that: The Zionist Lobby (AIPAC et al.) is stringing President Biden along with just enough money to keep him “in line�...
For decades, Iran and Israel have been engaged in a “shadow war.” Falling short of direct military confrontation, this conflict has been characterized by war through other means – through p...