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

The Actors’ Gang captures the tenor of our strange times with the troupe’s revival of Swiss playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Physicists, which is set

After an extended pressure campaign, Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin finally agreed to release the DNC’s “autopsy report” on the 2024

Now is the time to say it, as loud as possible, so that everybody will hear it. Our world is run by fools— yes, fools, unscrupulous, unrepentant fools—

For years, I have tried to understand how and why so many of my family and friends, good and intelligent people, buy into the Trump-MAGA promise of quick

The biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) war games, the largest naval exercise in the world, is scheduled to take place in the ocean around, the air

A needless, extravagant ballroom.  Questionable gifts, not least the 747-200B aircraft from the Qatari government.  An inane decision to add a blue

So the U.S. military and CIA kidnapped the duly elected, legitimate president of Venezuela in January, shackled him, brought him to a U.S. prison, and now

Spain is home to some of the world’s largest and most successful worker-owned co-ops, but you might be surprised to learn that these businesses formed

When Edmund Burke learned that the French Assembly had proclaimed all men to be possessed of natural and inalienable rights, he is reported to have

When I was a graduate student in philosophy at Columbia University, I wrote my doctoral thesis in part about Ernst Gombrich. He very generously commented

Who would imagine that an international sporting event will be the next battleground in the fight against authoritarian repression? Yet that scenario is

At Marine Corps Base Quantico in September 2025, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth promised assembled generals “maximum lethality” and no “stupid rules of

“Adam was an Onanist.” — Graffiti, men’s restroom, Vatican City (public wing) “I know. I watched.” — Added below, in gold marker Woman, we are told, began