Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “People are so amazed that other people could have a different opinion from them that they don’t want to hear it.” — Robert Bonfiglio, quoted in Nat... Read more
“They have to be able to defend themselves,” the president said, appearing to signal a reversal after his administration paused some weapons transfers just last week. [...]
In a court filing, the tax agency said a decades-old ban on campaigning by tax-exempt groups should not apply to houses of worship speaking to their own members. [...]
The White House rebuked critics for raising questions about the administration’s efforts to shrink federal agencies that deal with disaster preparedness and response. [...]
The plan directly contradicted the White House, which last month described as “fake news” reports of plans to re-deport Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. [...]
As a U.S.-born citizen of Mexican origin, as the saying goes, I constantly feel like a “foreigner in my own land.” During these dark times, when brown people—my people—are being [...]
He has made it his bread and butter for years: finding society’s kooky representatives, the marginal, the crazed and the touched. But what makes Louis Theroux’s The Settlers troubling is [...]
Cambridge, UK— The United Kingdom just leapfrogged the US to become the leading country in the so-called “Free World” to abandon its much-touted tradition of freedom of speech, press, and [...]
In previous essays in the real free press (the US mainstream media is currently ranked 57th in press freedom by Reporters Without Borders), I discussed the sabotage operations of the [...]
Shortly after the right-wing, ethnosupremacist government in power in Israel initiated its genocidal assault on Palestinian people of Gaza, Social Medicine/Medicina Social registered its opposition. The November 2023 issue of [...]