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Two weeks after she asserted that a military threat to Taiwan would spur military intervention by Japan, commentators continue to ask themselves what on

Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with members of the Asamblea Oaxaqueña por Palestina on Día de los Muertos in Oaxaca, México. They discuss local issues

Europe should find some incentive to be more assertive and even aggressive in response to Vance’s obnoxious references to Europe’s “erasure” of its civilization and his appeals to Europe’s dangerous neo-fascist parties.  Trump added his own abuse, calling…

Cinema has spawned great feature films dramatizing the Arab Revolt, including David Lean’s 1962 Lawrence of Arabia, which won seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, and Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 The Battle of Algiers, which received three Oscar…

Given my long-term interest in international affairs, I went to see the recently released movie, “Nuremberg,” to revisit the issue of how a court of law

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Interview with Gabriel Rockhill, author of Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? Gabriel Rockhill is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. He

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The United Nations, in turning 80, has been berated, dismissed and libelled.  In September, US President Donald Trump took a hearty swipe at the body’s

"In order to comply with the January 2025 Executive Order 14161 (Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and

During December 2025, the Editorial Board of the New York Times published several articles “on why the US military needs to reinvent itself.” It described

The following books should be bestsellers in a thriving, deliberate democracy addressing and correcting widespread injustices. The dedicated authors

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Francis Wheen concludes his excellent biography of Marx with the old rascal’s death on March 14th 1883, an event barely acknowledged in the London Press.

To the Esteemed Members of the Knesset, For each of the eight nights of Hanukkah this year, we, the thousands of members of “L’chaim! Jews Against the

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This week marks the 30th anniversary of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. On December 14,1995 leaders from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and the

Any story about resistance within the military must begin by recognizing that it’s not an easy thing to do. Apparently, that’s true even for a

CounterPunch recently republished two compelling articles about Herbert Marcuse. Charles Reitz’s study, “When Marxist Intellectuals Collaborated With the

“Under slave laws, the necessity for color rankings was obvious, but in America today, post-civil-rights legislation, white people’s conviction of their