A January 2026 Gallup poll showed that 89 percent of all Americans expect high levels of political conflict this year, as the country heads toward one of

Last year, I was living in the UK when activists from the anti-Zionist, pro-Palestinian direct action group Palestine Action hugely. embarrassed the Royal Air Force and the British government by cutting their way through a security fence surrounding  an RAF…

Disappearance under neoliberal fascism does not operate through a single institutional or aesthetic form. Alongside the spectacular violence of ICE raids,

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg are joined by Brian Jones to discuss his new book, Black History Is for Everyone,

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. – Mark Twain The scene in front of me was one of the greatest juxtapositions I had

A Munich Conference without myth would require attendees to squarely address a global, security system that serves to enrich what Bob Dylan in 1963 -- year of the first conference – called the “masters of war.” It would also reckon with the senseless economic…

Hey, want to read a poem with me? Warning: It opens several disturbing doors, the least disturbing of which is the “crazy old coot” part, i.e., me. Once

The president and secretary of defense have failed in their effort to see to the execution of six members of Congress after the lawmakers had the nerve to

January 23rd was the 50th anniversary of Paul Robeson’s death. As historian Gerald Horne noted in his 2016 biography of Robeson, Time magazine declared

Nearly 70,000 —men, women, and children (including newborns)—have been locked up so far in 212 federal facilities (warehouses, private prisons, public

“Deregulation” is an antiseptic word loved by the giant corporations that rule the people. In reality, health and safety “deregulation” spells death,

Affordability is a crisis that keeps millions of us awake at night. It is not, as President Donald Trump claims, a word Democrats “made up.” As more and

In a feat of enterprising delusion and sinister suppression, Australia’s second largest state has decided to deal with what it regards as an antisemitic

" does not authorize the President to impose tariffs." That's the single really important sentence from the US Supreme Court's February 20 ruling

CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten reported recently, “When we’re talking about 42% of Democrats under the age of 35 identifying as democratic socialists

In Oregon, DHS and ICE agents launch Operation Black Rose, a planned surveillance operation using “target packages” to identify immigrants, citizens, and

A sharp decline in federal spending knocked 1.15 percentage points off the growth rate in the fourth quarter. Some of this was clearly due to the

White supremacy is named for race, but its organizing logic is the preservation of power. Public conversation about Jeffrey Epstein tends to settle in a

With a sex trafficking, flesh peddling empire of favours, logistics and the good time to be had by the powerful, the gigantic scale of Jeffrey Epstein’s

When we talk about keeping faith with our veterans, we often focus on health care, housing, and jobs. But there’s a quieter, less visible barrier standing

The Iranian people, divided as they are about the theocratic regime of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, share the bitter memory of the CIA’s 1953 coup that overturned the nationalist regime of Mohammad Mossadegh and brought the Shah in to replace him. I would wager…