On January 7, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis — a city long enriched by immigrants and now under

My education, or rather an initial lack of an education, goes to the heart of what it means to be an educated person. My studies at the bachelor’s level

I am told that if I don’t like what “my government” is doing, I should write “my representative.” So I dropped Senator Adam Schiff a note about the US war

Donald Trump started 2026 by announcing a plan to increase annual military spending by $600 billion for next year – meaning that the military budget would

I have written before about my yoga teaching friend, someone with whom I have experienced more altered perceptions and distorted senses of time than with

In a defiant stand that has shaken the corridors of British power, the imprisoned activists of Palestine Action have suspended their grueling hunger

In January 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, a pamphlet that gave voice to the discontent of a nation struggling to free itself from a tyrannical

Now that the current US administration has taken us to a whole new dimension of global chaos—where even a nominal respect for treaties among sovereign

The Islamic Republic of Iran has long been accustomed to challenges, relentless pressure and widely believed misrepresentations about it.   

A shock and awe. The phrase is apt in describing what Israel has done in the occupied West Bank almost immediately following the events of October 7,

Occam’s Razor: A problem-solving principle stating that, when presented with competing hypotheses, the one with the fewer assumptions or entities (the

“If you believe in normalizing hatred towards any ethnic group, towards whites, towards blacks, towards Hispanics, towards Jews, towards Indians, you have

With the New Cold War heating up, and American citizens under siege at home, it’s no small wonder that a Russian named Berlin can still claim to have

Donald Trump may, of course, be the Republican candidate for president in 2028, the U.S. Constitution notwithstanding. Although it is clearly written in

United States presidents are not known for telling the truth. From Thomas Jefferson’s denial of a relationship with the enslaved Sally Hemings onward,

As Americans gather next Monday to celebrate the legacy of the great martyred civil rights and social justice leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in a time

In this special episode of CounterPunch Radio, Bill Ayers, friend of Pilsen Community Books and fellow podcaster at Under the Tree,

Karen Hao reported in her book Empire of AI: “Sam Altman announced he wants to see 250 gigawatts of data-center capacity laid by 2033 just for his

A murder in Minneapolis. A kidnapping in Caracas. Genocide in Palestine. Termination of trans people’s healthcare and rights. Criminalization of pregnant people. Detention, disappearance, deportation, and death of immigrants. These are all part of the same…

President Donald Trump’s long-serving aide, Stephen Miller, recently opined: “We live in a world, in the real world … that is governed by strength, that