RFK, Jr. Still Doesn’t Care About Long COVID Patients
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RFK, Jr. Still Doesn’t Care About Long COVID Patients
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
Witches Unite: How Israel and the US Empire Tried (and Failed) to Crush Francesca Albanese
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Witches Unite: How Israel and the US Empire Tried (and Failed) to Crush Francesca Albanese
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
The War Against Iran, Up Close and Personal (and All Too Far Away)
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The United States’ Long War on Cuba
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The United States’ Long War on Cuba
In recent weeks and months, Washington has intensified its long-running campaign of collective punishment against the Cuban people. Escalating sanctions
The US Must End Its Illegal Boat Strikes
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The US Must End Its Illegal Boat Strikes
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.
Making History in Dark Times: Refuse Numbness. Refuse Silence
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Making History in Dark Times: Refuse Numbness. Refuse Silence
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…
The Neo-Nazi Enforcer Who Helped Build Peter Thiel’s Online Influence Empire
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The Neo-Nazi Enforcer Who Helped Build Peter Thiel’s Online Influence Empire
General Michael Flynn, Trump’s former National Security advisor, boasted to the Young America Foundation soon after Trump’s first election victory in
We Cannot Let Tucker Carlson Become the Face of Global Anti-Zionism
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We Cannot Let Tucker Carlson Become the Face of Global Anti-Zionism
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,
As Though It Mattered: Hollywood, AI and the End of Original Ideas
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As Though It Mattered: Hollywood, AI and the End of Original Ideas
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…
The Collective Power of Music w/ Sean Adams
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The Collective Power of Music w/ Sean Adams
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,
Alternative Climate Summit Seeks More Action on Global Warming
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Alternative Climate Summit Seeks More Action on Global Warming
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…
Israel’s Barbaric Ecocide in Lebanon and Gaza
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Israel’s Barbaric Ecocide in Lebanon and Gaza
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…