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More than half of new ICE recruits failed an open-book test after taking a course on Immigration and the Fourth Amendment. This pervasive constitutional ignorance might seem like a grave disorder for a law enforcement agency, but under the current dispensation, it is likely a prerequisite for the position. The Trump administration doesn’t want its ICE agents hesitating to cuff a 6-year-old or tear gas a teacher trying to shield her student because it might violate some civil right or anothe...| CounterPunch.org
There is no question that DJT is a destroyer. Consider the separation of powers. He has appointed intensely loyal followers to key legal positions, often ordering them to act contrary to legal precedent. Over forty prosecutors have been fired and flimsy charges have targeted political opponents, including the Attorney General of New York, Letitia James, and California Senator Adam Schiff. Trump is destroying the separation of powers and the objective rule of law. More The post Trump’s Destr...| CounterPunch.org
Gaza does not mark the end of the settler colonial project. It marks, I fear, its final phase. Western states, enriched by their own occupations and genocides — in India, Africa, Asia, Latin America and North America — are returning to their roots as they face a global climate crisis and the obscene levels of social inequality that they engineer and sustain. More The post Israel’s “Internationally Enabled Crime” appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
A New York City woman wearing a navy blue polka-dot dress has gone viral for her defiant resistance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a raid in lower Manhattan on October 21, 2025. More The post Rage Against the ICE Machine appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
While our cultural memory about the McCarthy era romances the refuseniks, hundreds of Americans did comply with the Red Scare, identifying colleagues or associates as communists to protect themselves or preserve their careers. The Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy reports that of the more than 500 people who were called to testify in front of Joseph McCarthy’s Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, only about 100 invoked the Fifth Amendment, refusing to answer questions on ...| CounterPunch.org
Catherine Connolly (born 1957) only became involved in active politics in 1999. Michael D. Higgins, the outgoing president of Ireland (2011-2025), encouraged Connolly to join the Labour Party and stand for election. Both Connolly and Higgins (known in Ireland as Michael D) come from Galway, a city on the west coast of Ireland. Connolly was More The post The Left Wins the Irish Presidential Election in a Landslide appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
Too much month and not enough check plagued the U.S. poor and working class before the federal government shutdown and funding lapse. To wit, business is booming for America’s car repossession industry. In fact, there were 769,925 car repossessions for the third quarter of 2025 versus 706,383 for this year’s second quarter. “If all of More The post U.S. Poor and Working Class Distress Grows appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
Monsters don’t always come wrapped in the trappings of horror or myth. Most often, monsters in the real world look like ordinary people. They walk among us. They smile for the cameras. They promise protection and prosperity even as they feed on fear and obedience. All is not as it seems. We are living in More The post The Vampire State: Feeding on Our Fear, Freedom and Finances appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
Instead of satirising nuclear war – a possible if difficult thing to do – the time has come to satirise the laying off and furlough of those who solemnly monitor and maintain such machinery fit, not for preserving life so much as ending it at a fiery, radiated terminus. If it’s not possible to totally disarm More The post Furloughing Workers for Armageddon: Trump, Nuclear Weapons and the NNSA appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
What kind of a shutdown is this, anyway? Congress has deadlocked over the terms of funding the government, so (in theory, at least) there is a government shutdown in which all federal operations are supposed to be shuttered. But Trump ordered staff to continue processing oil and gas leases and permits to drill on public More The post What Kind of Shut Down is This? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
Theodore Roosevelt, an advocate of ‘big stick diplomacy’, viewed Latin America as the United States’ backyard – a place where it could intervene at will. At the slightest threat to American interests, he would send in the marines – to Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Cuba. In 1903 Washington sponsored a separatist movement in Panama, then More The post Give Him the Prize! appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
In Marshalltown, Iowa, the spirit of American entrepreneurship is alive and well. Residents have opened businesses, among them a grocery store offering fresh food that’s created dozens of jobs. Many of these small businesses are owned, managed, and staffed by immigrants. They’re boosting the local economy and improving the quality of life. Together, people in More The post An Immigration Success Story in the Heartland appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
Poetry is not easy to compose, nor is it easy to write about. Like music, poetry requires a certain immersion into the composition one hears via their ears or their eyes and assimilated inside their mind. If the ability to immerse oneself is not available for perhaps more temporal reasons, appreciating poetic and musical compositions More The post Poetry is Not an Expression of the Party Line appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
More than a century ago, from a Berlin prison cell where she was confined for her uncompromising opposition to the slaughter of the First World War, Rosa Luxemburg warned, “Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.” Her diagnosis remains no less salient today. In the United States, we long ago chose More The post Socialism or Barbarism appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
The secretary general of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, does not mince words in the Guardian: “Devastating consequences now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30”(October 28, 2025). The Conference of the Parties (COP) is the highest United Nations decision-making body for treaties on the environment. Artificial intelligence gets More The post Environmental Ruin appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
Creativity, the creative discovering of the genius of man ….ought to be restored its sacred significance. –Nicolai Berdyaev, Salvation and Creativity .. negating creativity in the world, ye hand over the fate of the world to the Anti-Christ. –Ibid Creativity is…a tremour-shock, in which the everyd...| CounterPunch.org
I was drawn to the childcare profession because of my love for children. I just love seeing their smiling, hopeful faces, watching them grow and learn, and welcoming the trust and love they bring to us every day. At the same time, working in this field can be challenging. Babies and young children require a More The post Childcare Can be Free and Universal appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
Trump and his Republican sycophants have been busy telling us that we shouldn’t be bothered by Trump’s demolition of the East Wing and his plans for a now $350 million ballroom. (The price tag keeps rising, it had been $200 million.) While many of us were upset about Trump’s destruction of a historic landmark with More The post The Taxpayers’ Tab for Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful New Ballroom appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
Nearly a century ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt led a campaign of bold investment to electrify rural America. Until recently, we were on track to do the same for broadband internet in this century. Before President Trump’s second term, our country was on the cusp of a breakthrough. Billions in federal funding was set to More The post Rural America Needs Dependable Broadband, Not More Handouts for Billionaires appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
“I have often made the point that to foster the economic status and pride of members of our minority groups, we must seek to involve them more fully in our private enterprise system… To do this, we need to remove commercial obstacles that have too often stood in their way—obstacles such as the unavailability of More The post The Hollowing Out of America’s Only Agency for Minority Business appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
I’ve been thinking in recent days about Venezuela and the United States because of current events but also because of an event that occurred in Venezuela’s capital twenty-three years and six months ago. Trump Attacking Venezuela The current events in question should occasion no surprise. I am referring of course to the Trump regime’s clear More The post Stop the Trump Coup appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
When Trump nominated private equity billionaire (and campaign donor) Stephen Feinberg to be the deputy secretary of defense, critics pointed out that his sprawling business ties represented obvious conflicts of interest. But in an administration that enthusiastically embraces nearly unimaginable levels of corruption, it was just a matter of time before we would read stories More The post Private Equity Meets the Pentagon appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory, I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe any civilized society should be at the service of death. I don’t think it’s human to become an agent of the angel of death. Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) Holocaust survivor and More The post Opposing the Death Penalty in All Forms: From the Tree of Life to Gaza appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
On a beautiful fall Saturday, residents in Floyd County, Indiana packed a church to ask city council members about the local budget. One county over, mothers shared concerns about a new data center, rising utility costs, education cuts, and corporate tax giveaways. Neither meeting was filled with policy experts — just neighbors who wanted to More The post Democracy Begins Where We Live appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
Washington D.C., March 30, 2029 Tourists gathered on the National Mall in record numbers this week to admire the newly unveiled Trump Monument. Originally erected in 1884 to honor a little-known American president, the 555-foot-tall granite and marble obelisk has been gilt in tasteful celebration of President-for-Life Trump. The monument is just the latest project More The post Americans Flock to Mall for Unveiling of Trump Monument appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
Former allies are distancing themselves from Tucker Carlson after the ex-Fox host interviewed podcaster Nick Fuentes on his YouTube show. A white nationalist, Fuentes is a 27-year-old political commentator whose clips have gone increasingly viral on social media — especially Instagram. Fuentes’s army of followers, who he endearingly calls “Groypers,” love him for his open More The post Tucker Carlson is a Coward appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
In these troubling times, when many countries experience the unlimited abuse of people’s civil liberties, it is useful to remember the value of individual acts of human courage. During Argentina’s “Dirty War” (1976-1983), thousands of opponents to the military ruling the country were killed or “made to disappear,” a euphemism for those whose fate was More The post A Lesson for Our Times appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
Leftists I know are generally reluctant to talk about sin. This is understandable in my view. If you’re about my age, there wasn’t a vibrant, religious left in your formative years. As a result, such talk often sounds fundamentally conservative. Of course, spiritually-inspired leftism has a long history. Socialists like Eugene Debs and civil-rights leaders More The post Yes, Meat Eating is a Sin appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
Across Jamaica, streets are littered with torn-off roofs, splintered wood and other debris left in the wake of Hurricane Melissa. Downed power lines have| CounterPunch.org
—Göteborg, Sweden. The Christianization of Scandinavia took place over a few hundred years and was completed by the early 12th century thanks to Sigurd| CounterPunch.org
Christianity is back and it's more violent than ever. I speak, of course, of the late capitalist tent house revival of Christian Nationalism amongst the| CounterPunch.org
Before Trump ever landed in the White House in 2016, the United States represented less than 5% of the world’s population. The U.S. has over 750 military| CounterPunch.org
I had come from the State Library on my bike, a long-term rental courtesy of an excellent and cheap Dutch company called Swapfiets with outlets in many| CounterPunch.org
“Adjunct,” a feature length movie, realistically covers much of what happens in the life of a higher education teacher who could be labeled an adjunct, a| CounterPunch.org
Some of those who pay attention to electoral politics in the United States think the system those politics define and delineate can still be| CounterPunch.org
An American friend visiting London last week asked me to recommend some “movies” to him. Only later did I realise how loaded a question it was. Cinema has| CounterPunch.org
“We can have a world that runs on a resource that’s available to everyone everywhere.” - Bill McKibben There’s a renaissance of nature powering the world,| CounterPunch.org
Global political history is punctuated by state entities that, after vanishing from the international stage, have reemerged in new forms—sometimes| CounterPunch.org
