Google co-founder Sergey Brin is spending $57 million to defeat a proposed billionaire tax in California. “I fled socialism with my family in 1979 and

One way or another, the American taxpayers always get screwed by politicians eager to spend our hard-earned dollars on programs and projects that do

“The only thing that matters when I’m talking about Iran — they can’t have a nuclear weapon.” —Donald Trump Apparently, the Trump administration has

The scenes unfolding in Beijing were carefully choreographed, yet politics can never be reduced to mere spectacle. When US President Donald Trump traveled

While American media commentators are busy evaluating the latest China-US summit— calculating which side “won” — a video that went viral on Chinese social

The strategic and spiritual resonance of the Strait of Hormuz is deeply woven into Iran’s identity. It represents a profound geographic constant in

Thwaites “the Doomsday Glacier” West Antarctica is the world’s most famous icon of global warming. It is acting up! Recent satellite images show a massive

In response to a question about the Iran War, President Trump (famously) said “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation.” Around the same time,

This has been yet another week of raw Israeli extremism, broadcast live to the world. On May 18th and 19th, 2026, Israeli commandos carried out an act of

So apparently the Trump administration has decided that what Cuba really needs right now — after decades of economic strangulation, CIA assassination

During Donald Trump’s embarrassing trip to China, China’s Secretary General Xi Jinping made a speech, in which he said, “We must not be caught in the

We now have the Administration giving 1.4 million acres of our National Forest in Alaska to facilitate the destruction of the Arctic environment for oil. 

“Perhaps the deepest conflict is not between red and blue, but between power and powerlessness.” – George Packer , “The College-Educated Working Class,”

The idea that Donald Trump would knock over the justice and treasury departments for $1.776 billion, and then, back at his Mar-a-Lago hideout, split the

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank sit down with Gilbert Achcar to discuss Israel, Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, and the