Who of us has the right to live without fear? This is the question human rights lawyer Ruth Lopez has asked fearlessly in El Salvador — the country of my

A machine made of human parts. This is what (Lewis) Mumford called the 'megamachine': an entire society ordered from the top down, justified by

From Beijing this week, the first US state visit to China in nine years is being staged for the world to see. The Great Hall of the People is open to

On May 8, the Republican-controlled legislature of Tennessee passed new redistricting maps that divide Memphis’s 63 percent Black population across three

In May, 2025, a restaurant worker in Thailand asked an Israeli tourist to remove her shoes before entering the establishment, a traditional cultural

Back when George W. Bush was doing his big drive to privatize Social Security, I got upset because he was using bogus numbers that grossly exaggerated

As a Palestinian born in the 21st century, I am the generational product of Nakba survivors and the trauma that came with it. As distant as it may seem, I

Late last month, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. testified that he was making Long COVID a top priority, noting that his

The United States government, under first Biden and now Trump, has launched a full-scale assault on one of the most courageous and honest voices at the

In recent weeks and months, Washington has intensified its long-running campaign of collective punishment against the Cuban people. Escalating sanctions

What would it take for tens of millions of US-Americans to take to the streets on a regular basis, rising in a sustained mass movement to cancel business

The U.S. military has been carrying out extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean and Pacific over the past nine months with impunity. On May 8, the U.S.

We are living through an era in which truth is under siege, where the language of justice has been emptied of meaning, where cruelty is too often normalized as a form of governance, and state violence becomes routine.  In such a moment, education is not a…

General Michael Flynn, Trump’s former National Security advisor, boasted to the Young America Foundation soon after Trump’s first election victory in

As we still try to come to terms with Israel's countless barbaric crimes in its genocide in Gaza, as well as its cruelty in the occupied West Bank,

The film operated according to a different logic altogether. Not frivolous, exactly, but curiously unanchored. It was as though the relationship between idea and origin had loosened somehow. Ideas did not need to come from anywhere in particular. They just…

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, host Tori Tsui talks to Sean Adams, founder of Drowned in Sound. Tori and Sean talk about Spotify, AI, militarism,

The annual climate summits attended by government officials and fossil fuel representatives have long been a farce. Lots of talking, followed by vows to finally do something meaningful about global warming although doing little of actual substance. The last…

Israeli leaders’ game plan for wiping out southern Lebanese society is more or less the same one they’ve followed in Gaza and the West Bank. They aim to deprive those populations of all elements necessary for a decent life: shelter, livelihoods, food, water…