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It's hard to believe that a little, rag-tag radical publication like CounterPunch could survive thirty long years. Yet, here we are, three decades in, and still at it. We all have a story about...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/18/pissing-everyone-off-for-30-years/

"Your lives will continue. With new events and new faces. They are the faces of your children, who will fill your homes with noise and laughter."  These were the last words written by my siste...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/18/text-me-you-havent-died-my-sister-was-the-166th-doctor-to-be-murdered-in-gaza/

A retaliatory military operation that many wizened pundits predicted would last no more than a month or so has now thundered on in ever-escalating episodes of violence and mass destruction for a ...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/18/october-in-gaza-one-year-later/

When did shock jock and satellite-radio wit Howard Stern turn into a cream puff and shill for Kamala Harris and her floundering campaign for the presidency? Is she really that far behind that she...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/18/harris-speed-dating-howard-stern/

George Orwell’s dystopian foresight could easily find new expressions in the ongoing Israeli wars of genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. Much like “war is peace,” the Biden administration and the...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/18/the-israeli-generals-plan-in-gaza-genocide-by-starvation/

Is the United States election that important? “What kind of question is that?” most people would ask. The obvious answer is a resounding “Yes.” As an example: “So much hinges on this el...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/18/is-the-united-states-election-that-important/

Omar Bartov is a historian specializing in the history of genocides, particularly the Holocaust. He published a lengthy and complex article in the British newspaper The Guardian (with a circulati...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/18/israels-slippery-slope-to-genocide/

So the dockworkers’ strike is off for now, with a promise that it could resume in January. Did union bureaucrats accept a 62 percent pay hike in return for ending their three-day, early October...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/18/dockworkers-could-be-striking-come-inauguration-day/

The entire US system must be dismantled if burning children in a hospital is the lesser evil. – Hadi Nasrallah, October 15, 2024 Note to readers: The author is aware that the coming election’...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/18/ten-draft-principles-for-the-coming-resistance/

“The majority of Cubans support Castro…every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba…to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, des...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/18/cuba-under-intensified-us-sanctions-confronts-its-greatest-challenge-the-continuity-of-obama-trump-biden-policy/

On September 17, 2024, thousands of pagers belonging to Hezbollah members simultaneously exploded across Lebanon, killing dozens and wounding thousands, including civilians. The pagers were licen...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/18/the-corporate-vehicles-changing-international-commerce/

It was William Shakespeare who, in Troilus and Cressida, wrote, “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” And yet, in the polarized news cycle since Hurricane Helene ravaged the sout...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/18/billionaires-are-not-going-to-save-us/

Each new week brings new calamities for people in the countries neighboring Israel, as its leaders try to bomb their way to the promised land of an ever-expanding Greater Israel. In Gaza, Israel ...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/18/israels-war-on-the-world/

The dream of Korean reunification is now over 80 years old. This year, the notion that the two halves of the Korean peninsula could be stitched back together has become so feeble that it entered ...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/18/the-end-of-reunification/

Both major presidential candidates have called for eliminating taxes on tips. But that won’t help most restaurant workers. What will? Replacing the subminimum wages that tipped workers make wit...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/18/the-tipped-wage-system-is-failing-us-removing-taxes-on-tips-wont-save-it/

The recent string of exaggerated military successes – or at least as they are understood to be – places Israel in a situation it has been previously used to: prowess in war.  Such prowess p...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/18/nuclear-fever-war-mongering-on-iran/

Republicans are counting on fears of immigrants to draw white conservatives to the polls. This calculation is dangerous — and it lets the real villains in our politics off the hook. There’s a...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/18/scapegoating-immigrants-hurts-everyone-but-the-elites/

Earlier this month de facto president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, visited the White House to present his new Victory Plan to US president Joe Biden. Days before the meeting, Zelensky announce...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/18/zelenskys-5-8ths-victory-plan/

“To faint was a fault past hope of pardon,” wrote the Duke of Saint-Simon in his Memoirs of Louis XIV, an insider’s account of battlefield debacles, antechamber intrigues and bedroom assign...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/18/sun-king-playlists/

(NEW YORK, October 28, 2024) Controversy continues to swirl after the onstage display at Madison Square Garden last night, of a pair of 20-foot-high banners displaying black swastikas on a red fi...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/18/338115/

I loved my childhood. My dad worked hard and had two jobs while my mom stayed home with my sister and me. We had a nice house and a middle-class lifestyle. I never even thought about poverty and ...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/18/aid-restrictions-hold-americans-back/

As some of you are well aware, the Man was never really a paid professional activist. I did manage to hold down a few gigs with some large organizations for a short period of time. Mostly, it was...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/18/in-search-of-an-honest-climate-campaigner/

It wasn’t the sonorous saxophone melding into a lively piano solo that opens Miguel Zenón’s Golden City that began my most recent trip to San Francisco.  Instead, it was the mechanical fema...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/18/san-francisco-bay-blues/

What Small Numbers Can Accomplish In a system of winner-take-all (except in Maine and Nebraska) to decide the delegates for the electoral college, 270 of which is necessary to win the presidency,...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/18/where-have-all-good-socialists-gone/

“The past carries unforgettable trauma and pain across the land and among generations of refugees; yet we choose to transform victimhood into agency. We want to be the authors of our future.”...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/18/wars-victims-speak-the-deepest-truth/

The Queen of the Night bloomed. It was akin to the queen bee mating naked amid a sanctuary of hives: So many dreams remain, if you wish: Godzilla comes to mind often: The dinosaur scoured the To...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/18/architecture-of-cities-the-melding-dreams-of-film/

After news broke that Han Kang—the South Korean author—had won the Nobel Prize for Literature, her father—the novelist Han Seung-won—asked her where she wanted to hold a press conference ...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/17/when-children-are-murdered-what-is-there-to-celebrate/

October 15 marks the first day of open enrollment in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans – a time that will deliver chaos and confusion for many of the 34 million seniors who depend on these plans to...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/17/34-million-seniors-in-medicare-advantage-plans-face-rude-awakening/

This year marks 57 years since Che was killed. The mahogany plant he planted at Yahala Kele Rubber Estate, later renamed Che Park, in the Moragahahena area of Horana during his visit to Sri Lanka...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/17/in-her-fathers-footsteps-an-interview-with-ches-daughter-aleida-guevara/

The U.S. is struggling through a profound socio-political crisis reflecting the deeper global economic and environmental realignments now taking place.  The presidential campaigns of Kamala Harr...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/17/the-threat-of-christofascism/