The ICJ ruled on January 26 that Israel was committing “plausible genocide.” In addition, in a March 25 Report to the Human Rights Council by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human ...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/29/u-s-complicity-in-israels-plausible-genocide/
Just when you thought it was safe to get back into the stock market, Donald Trump has managed to hack into the National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System (aka NASDAQ, a...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/29/the-trump-media-stock-bubble/
With his perfect tan and slicked-back hair, California Governor Gavin Newsom stood at a podium at Sacramento’s Cal Expo in late September 2020 and announced an executive order requiring all new...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/29/of-life-and-lithium/
When Joe Lieberman arrived in the US Senate in 1989, Strom Thurmond greeted him by saying, "I understand we think a lot alike in the way we do things." "Yes, sir, I think we do," admitted Lieberm...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/29/roaming-charges-114/
Lots of people have been blamed for the frenzy to ban TikTok, from the CIA and FBI, to the mainstream media, to political elites, to AIPAC, to competitors like Facebook. But I blame Congress. The...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/29/congress-goes-berserk-over-tiktok/
I recently attended a moving presentation of Palestinian poetry at the public library in the University of Iowa campus town of Iowa City. The presenters and audience were largely (though not excl...
Will carbon capture technology bail society out of the latest version of greenhouse gas emissions, CO2 suddenly doubling its rate of increase when compared to the past decade, in breathtaking fas...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/29/carbon-capture-too-little-too-late/
Last December, one of the most intrusive provisions in the federal statute book was set to expire. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorizes the National Security...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/29/the-never-ending-federal-surveillance-crime-spree/
The White House released its budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2025 on March 11th, and the news was depressingly familiar: $895 billion for the Pentagon and work on nuclear weapons at the Departm...
Bridges being knocked down, the average income needed to meet basic needs being unavailable to most, thousands dying yearly from a lack of medical care, worker productivity through the roof witho...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/29/neoliberalism-2024-the-maths-not-mathing/
At 9:58 am on March 25th, former president Donald Trump, decked out in a navy suit, red tie and white shirt, appeared in a New York court seeking a further delay in a case involving a commerc...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/29/trumps-commercial-pleasures/
Judging by a rash of news reports beginning in late 2023, communities across the country may be gearing up for a massive wave of school closures in 2024. “A school closure cliff is coming,” w...
Flush with my newly minted university degree, I sat down for breakfast with my entrepreneurial grandfather who met me with the question, “So you want to study to be an archaeologist, go to grad...
James Crawford served five years in the U.S. Marine Corps maintaining the radar systems on super-sophisticated warplanes built to fend off enemy attacks from air, sea, and land. But not once duri...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/29/why-america-needs-a-commercial-shipbuilding-industry/
Renewable energy comes from matter that nature produces and replenishes constantly. The power generated through this source does not significantly threaten the environment, especially in comparis...
Nothing can justify a genocide. And nothing can justify providing weaponry and support for those conducting a genocide. Nevertheless, the US Senate on February 13 passed a bill that provides...
You and Orin have done such an incredible job with Domenico’s and the Other Side. Beyond words. And I mean it. It is when you opened that I started to appreciate Utica. True. �...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/29/in-defiance-of-whiteness-suffering-is-the-bridge/
Almost eight months after the brutal Hamas’ attack on innocent Israeli and Jewish citizens, including women and children, there are still some essential questions that need to be answered. Why ...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/29/settlements-are-an-obstacle-to-peace/
In his March 24th opinion piece for the Times, David Brooks agrees with a “broad consensus atop the Democratic Party” (is there room for such breadth on the peak of that lofty mountain?) sa...
There is a steady drumbeat from people intent on making a major issue over the fact that many cities may have kept their schools closed for too long during the pandemic. The argument is that chil...
The International Workingmen’s Association, popularly known as the First International, first met in September of 1864 at St. Martin’s Hall in London. It began as a relatively modest gatherin...
About midway through his new book Commune or Nothing: Venezuala’s Communal Movement and its Socialist Project, author Chris Gilbert introduces the reader to Marxist theoretician István Mészá...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/29/consider-the-commune-venezuela-and-beyond/
This March, Argentina’s school year began with empty classrooms. The price of learning materials rose by 502 percent over the past year, leaving many children unprepared for the year to come. A...
Liberty – Equality – Democracy: America and Americans are defined by their dedication to these founding principles–ideas that were fostered by the Enlightenment philosophers of the late 17t...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/29/american-democracy-vs-fascist-autocracy/
The Sierra Madre and trees of Claremont March is ending after a number of days of rain, cool evenings, sunshine, and life-giving breeze. So far, the Sierra Madre mountains seem to protect Claremo...
Life can be loud. Many expressions point to different perceptions of online noise and the sounds of social media spaces, but a particularly popular concept that captures this is “moving in sile...
It has been suggested that we should connect the dots from the past to the present: I suggest the present to the past: When photography was new to me it was thrilling: I was never afraid but fear...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/29/architecture-of-cities-walking-alone-in-milan/
“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.” -Carl Gustav Jung My life has become a profoundly surreal landscape over the last several months and the shit just seems to get weirde...
When was the last time someone was kind to you? Or you were kind to someone else? What were the ripple effects of those moments? A few days ago, a colleague offered to help me meet a deadline sin...
The converging crises facing our world today shout out the fact that their roots are systemic. Tinkering around the edges won’t solve these problems, because they are embedded in the systems lo...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/28/a-world-going-in-the-wrong-direction/