Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “[I]f thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.” — Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil Over many years teaching and writi... Read more
The state has become a stronghold for President Trump. Now, his efforts on trade, energy and immigration are squeezing farmers, disrupting labor and threatening industries. [...]
Buttressed by courts and support from some Republican lawmakers, federally funded newsrooms that President Trump has tried to eliminate have yet to be rendered obsolete. [...]
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will join Zohran Mamdani on Sunday to help push his bid to win the Nov. 4 election for mayor of New York City. [...]
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We're not afraid, we're not trembling and our objective as journalists remains the same as it was in the 1990s when the first CounterPunch newsletter went to press: to question [...]
The story of British abolitionism, its many failures and long overdue success, is a lesson in the limits of reform. Lacking a wider context of change, reform in one sector [...]
The facts show that, in this six-decade-plus crime against humanity, Indonesia has been the tool of other interests, that the role of the United Nations (by which I mean some [...]