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/
Over 9,000 Palestinian women have been killed since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. Mothers have been the largest share of Israeli killings, at an average of 37 mothers per day si...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/28/complicit-in-genocide-where-israel-gets-its-weapons-from/
In the past 30 years, the number of nuclear-armed nations has grown. Arms treaties have been broken, including unilaterally and without merit by my own country. Modernization of nuclear forces by...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/28/an-escalatory-game-for-fools-and-madmen/
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,” Politico reports, “is in talks to run on the Libertarian Party presidential ticket — a move that could translate his popularity into becoming a near-guaranteed ch...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced on March 21, 2024, that it has reached a staff-level agreement with Sri Lanka regarding the next phase of financial assistance, granting access to ...
The UN Security Council presents one of the great contradictions of power in the international system. On the one hand vested with enormous latitude in order to preserve international peace and s...
Two hundred meters away from where we rent here in London, two workmen were fitting a brand new window to a large residential property. The building had many windows. It gleamed like a palace of ...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/28/letter-from-london-mind-the-gap/
I’m pretty certain many people reading this sentence don’t give a shit about Major League Baseball, much less professional sports in general. Their reasons might include one, two or all of th...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/28/twenty-seven-outs-in-2024/
On March 21, more than 40 groups, mainly from Europe, protested the false promises and nuclear fairy tales being spun at the March 21 International Atomic Energy Agency’s Nuclear Energy Summit ...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/28/the-lying-piper-of-nukeland/
The U.S. experience in the Middle East is a classic study of political and military miscalculation leading to strategic failure. President Joe Biden’s political support for Israeli Prime Mini...
I’ve been describing this world of ours, such as it is, for almost 23 years at TomDispatch. I’ve written my way through three-and-a-half presidencies — god save us, it could be four in Nov...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/27/a-slow-motion-world-war-iii/
Democracy refers to a government in which people rule directly or through their elected representatives. It is, in other words, what President Lincoln referred to in his Gettysburg address as...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/27/democracy-or-epismocracy/
Aaron Bushnell, an active-duty airman based in San Antonio, Texas stood outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, February 25th, and announced to the world: “I’m an active-...
Spring brings many things. With March waning our small greenhouse coaxes 400 tomato seedlings and three flats of sprouting lettuce along. If the recent growing seasons are any indication, they wi...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/27/after-all-these-years-still-sucking/
On March 16, Amadou Abdramane, spokesperson for Niger’s governing military council, announced that Niger was dropping its 12-year-old military-cooperation agreement with the United States. Nige...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/27/in-distress-niger-expels-us-military-resurrects-hope/
The abortion debate continues to rage and women still need to fight for the right to decide whether or not we can or should abort. Pew Research Center has conducted no shortage of surveys about a...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/27/our-body-our-choice/
Statement before the United Nations Security Council, Arria Formula Meeting, 25 March 2024. Excellencies, distinguished delegates, The unlawfulness of unilateral coercive measures imposed by cert...
What is ISIS-K? ISIS-K, short for Islamic State Khorasan Province, is a regional affiliate of the larger Islamic State group. The affiliate group operates primarily in the Afghanistan-Pakistan re...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/27/how-moscow-terror-attack-fits-isis-ks-strategy/
On March 19, 2024, the head of France’s ground forces, General Pierre Schill, published an article in the newspaper, Le Monde, with a blunt title: “The Army Stands Ready.” Schill cut his te...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/26/europe-sleepwalks-through-its-own-dilemmas/
New battlelines are being drawn in today’s revamped auto world, not over style as in the 1980s – when Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca characterized success as “to grab the new just as soon as it i...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/26/car-wars-hydrocarbons-lithium-and-the-greening-grid/
This week represents the first year anniversary of the State’s attack and arrest of Amin Chaoui and others who were challenging its attempt to build another kop city, this time within the Atlan...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/26/the-new-modern-day-militarized-fort/
Last week, Variety reported that “more than 1,000 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The Zone of Interest’ O...
Watching genteel Bundestag ladies and gentlemen speechifying, often with forceful words and gestures but mostly polite, it is hard to imagine that their topic is war or peace, possibly world war ...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/26/taurus-and-the-bullfighters/
While calling this year’s presidential election against Der Fuhrer Donald Trump the most critical ever, the Democratic Party is using the same old playbook for this year’s campaigns. The same...
It might come as a surprise but the answer to this question derives from influences many of which are beyond our control. For instance, most of us experience attitudinal changes along a spectrum ...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/26/sick-cultures-when-belief-systems-turn-pathological/
Two British ministers, the UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron and Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, paid a recent visit to Australia recently as part of the AUKMIN (Australia-United Kingdom Ministe...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/26/the-aukus-cash-cow-robbing-the-australian-taxpayer/
I have long been amazed at how major debates over various economic policy issues can have completely contradictory assumptions, and no one seems to notice. This was driven home to me by a New Yor...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/26/ai-budget-defecits-and-the-aging-crisis/
Probably fewer ideas are treated with more contempt in today’s world than . . . ahem: a one-state solution for Palestine and Israel, with, good God, every resident equally valued, equally free....
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/26/a-one-state-solution-could-transform-the-world/
In the US there are elections because of our Constitution. There is political bantering over everything, including whether the US is much of a democracy or not. But, make no mistake, starting fro...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/26/the-votes-that-count-2/
Budi Hernawan said it ten years ago: “torture in Papua … has become a mode of governance.” It hasn’t stopped. It’s got worse. It’s got worse precisely because it’s a mode of governa...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/25/west-papua-the-torture-mode-of-governance/