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“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
There is no legal justification for Trump's military strike on an alleged "drug boat" off the coast of Venezuela. The boat, a simple speedboat, posed no threat to the US Navy vessels. The little boat could have easily been interdicted, searched for drugs and its occupants detained if any were found. No proof was offered that it was carrying drugs or was associated with the Tren de Aragua "narco-terrorist organization." In any event, drug trafficking is not a capital offense, even when it's be...| CounterPunch.org
A week after the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, a large explosion incinerated a parking lot near the busy Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, killing more than 470 people. It was a horrifying, chaotic scene. Burnt clothing was strewn about, scorched vehicles piled atop one another, and charred buildings surrounded the impact zone. Israel claimed the blast was caused by an errant rocket fired by Palestinian extremists, but an investigation by Forensic Architecture later indicated that the...| CounterPunch.org
Trump stories appear, then quickly disappear. Today’s headlines have their own limited time cycle. We are now focused on Trump’s firings at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the fate of Susan Monarez as well as pressure on Jerome Powell and Lisa Cook at the Federal Reserve. What will be next? Will the next Trump headline bury the CDC story or the one about the Federal Reserve? Already we have trouble finding information about what happened to the U.S. Institute of P...| CounterPunch.org
I don’t know how we wound up on Pilgrim’s Way, legendary site of King Arthur and Queen Guenevere’s graves. My wife Harriet and I stopped in Glastonbury last Sunday, intending only to recharge our EV on the way to Stonehenge, but there we were, trudging up Wearyall Hill in the rain. Joseph of Arimathea is supposed to have traveled the same path 500 years before Arthur, planting his staff and seeing it sprout into a “Holy Thorn” tree (crataegus monogyna), incarnation of Jesus’s cr...| CounterPunch.org
Is it finally happening? Is the West turning against Israel? Or are we, whether motivated by hope or driven by despair, simply engaging in wishful thinking? The matter is not so simple. Last July, a significant number of countries and organizations signed the 'New York Declaration,' a strong statement that followed a high-level meeting titled, "Conference on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine." More The post A Global Awakening: How People Power is Reshaping Western Policy on...| CounterPunch.org
The urge for retribution is insidious and subtle, often rendering it unrecognizable. It clouds objectivity, stifling judgment and self-awareness. It camouflages as false notions of “deterrence,” “public safety and security,” “justice,” a “Biblical mandate,” and “a lasting peace,” among other rationalizations. Many individuals and societies, therefore, vehemently deny any accusations of vengeful motivation—even for genocide—while unsuspectedly succumbing to its irresist...| CounterPunch.org
When people say they hate pigeons, I want to ask them if they hate themselves, too. Does it prick the well of your loathing? Do they make you feel dirty and ashamed? …The pigeon was once a dove, and then we built our filthy empire up around it, came to hate it for simply thriving More The post Pigeon Life appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
AI is everywhere. But its powerful computing comes with a big cost to our planet, our neighborhoods, and our wallets. AI servers are so power hungry that utilities are keeping coal-fired power plants that were slated for closure running to meet the needs of massive servers. And in the South alone, there are plans for 20 gigawatts of new More The post Crashing the Climate: Communities Pay the Price for Free AI Tools appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
Additional research suggests that Long COVID may be just the tip of the iceberg. Studies of large patient cohorts have found that COVID infection significantly increases the risk of cardiovascular complications, including myocarditis, arrhythmias, heart failure, and blood clots, even in people without prior heart disease. Other studies have documented a higher incidence of metabolic conditions such as new-onset diabetes. There are also neurological sequelae; COVID infections can cause or acce...| CounterPunch.org
The Israeli regime has lost its multi-front war in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen. Yes, really. It may not look like it, but the defeat is real and baked into Israel’s future. Let me first make the case for Israeli “victory”: Since its 2023 invasion of Gaza, the Israeli Defence Forces report More The post The Gaza War Isn’t Over, But Israel Has Already Lost appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
Since late 2022, Honduras Próspera Inc. (HPI), a Delaware-based developer of a semi-autonomous zone on a Honduran island, has been locked in a nearly $11 billion legal battle with the Honduran government. After having its project outlawed, HPI sought damages while continuing operations, and in February 2025, a tribunal allowed the case to proceed. The dispute has drawn some More The post Charter Cities Attempting to Create a New Atlantis appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. writes that “We’re Restoring Public Trust in the CDC” (WSJ op-ed, Sept. 3). That would be laughable if it weren’t dangerously wrong. In my view, Mr. Kennedy is waging a war against science and the well-being of the American people. Let’s not forget. At the height of the Covid pandemic, we More The post RFK Jr.’s Dangerous Designs for Public Health appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
Is Donald Trump a tyrant? A dictator or would-be dictator? Lots of anti-Trump politicians and commentators think so. Minnesota governor Tim Waltz believes that the epithet is warranted, as do Senators Padilla of California and Merkley of Oregon, CNN anchor Jim Acosta, Yale historian Timothy Snyder, and bloggers too numerous to mention. Former Veep and More The post Trump, Tyranny and the Need for a People’s Program appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
When President Trump attempted to remove Federal Reserve Governor Dr. Lisa D. Cook from her post, he didn’t just target one individual. He threatened the independence of the Federal Reserve and sent a chilling message to every leader serving in public life: no matter your qualifications, your service is never safe from political retribution. Trump’s More The post Trump’s Attacks on the Fed Fit a Troubling Pattern appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
When the French government began ordering refugees to report to camps, there was little to provide comfort except for poetry. –Elizabeth Young-Bruehl, Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World ….terrible is the temptation to be good. –Bertold Brecht It is a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have More The post The Politics of Spirit or, Thinking ‘In a Marrow Bone’ appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
How do we commemorate it? The atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War on August 6 and 9, 1945 by the United States remain the only examples of the use of such a weapon in history. Rather than banishing any temptation to use them, the wholehearted killing of tens of thousands More The post Nuclear Snobbery and Atomic Anniversaries appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
It has become a ritual of American politics: Donald Trump strides onto the global stage, proclaims himself the indispensable dealmaker, and promises to end wars with the flourish of a handshake. The latest act in this familiar drama is his attempt to position himself as the peacemaker between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader More The post Trump Can Bring Peace to Ukraine, But…It’ll Require More Than Transactional Dealmaking appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
My family and I finally secured stable housing again, years after being priced out of a duplex we’d been renting. I’m both relieved and worried. Now the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” threatens health care and food for my four kids — just to pay for massive tax breaks for the very wealthy. This bill cuts $1 trillion from health More The post My Family Just Got Back on Its Feet. Trump’s Tax Bill Could Knock Us Over Again appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
On 18 August 2025, Max Blumenthal, one of the main voices of The Greystone podcast, interviewed Prof. Glenn Diesen, a political scientist at the University of South-Eastern Norway, and a recognized expert on present day Russia. Prof. Diesen’s position is that the war in Ukraine is the result of mistaken policy decisions made by Western More The post Witch Hunts appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
My new book is now out. Replace the State: How to Change the World When Elections and Protests Fail is available now direct from the University of Minnesota Press, Bookshop.org, your local bookstore, or anywhere you buy books. The paperback is $20. The book’s official publication date is August 5, but the distributor has it now and folks who pre-ordered More The post Replace the State appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
Geneva. On 1 September 2025, in Tianjin, China, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) concluded its 25th summit, with the participation of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, numerous chiefs of international organizations, ASEAN Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn, Commonwealth of Independent States General Secretary Sergey Lebedev, and the Presidents or Prime Ministers of 24 States including Egypt, India, More The post The Tianjin Summit and the Hope for a More Just International Order ...| CounterPunch.org
One of the releases from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) that gets relatively little attention is its annual projections for growth in employment by industry and occupation over the next decade. BLS’s latest numbers are worth at least a few minutes of thought. BLS projects that the economy will add 5.2 million jobs between More The post Fewer Immigrants Means Fewer Workers, Less Growth appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
In order to understand the current controversies about access to the COVID-19 vaccine, we need to reflect on how we got here. The virus is called COVID-19 because it emerged in December of 2019 in Wuhan, China. The pandemic hit Europe and Iran with fury, and arrived in the U.S. by February 2020. In order More The post The War Over the COVID Vaccine: Who Should be Receiving It Now? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
Recently, my deep “Grieving Process” took my breath away – literally – as every respiratory branch on my tracheobronchial tree closed up shop, all airways *on strike* against the new working conditions of Life After Max. It’s been months since my beloved husband of 33 years and best-friend of 40, Pr. Maximillian R. Leblovic Lobkowicz di Filangieri More The post Bottomless Grief & Topless Cake appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
On August 27, the Seattle Times reported that two firefighter crews deployed to fight the Bear Gulch fire on the Olympic Peninsula were held by Border Patrol agents, and two firefighters were eventually arrested after being accused of living in the country illegally. As the Times reported in what must be the most incredible understatement of the year, “It is unusual for federal border agents to make arrests during the fighting of an active fire, especially in a remote area.” The move is b...| CounterPunch.org
The UN General Assembly’s August 25 session on global health and foreign policy heard from Cuban Ambassador Yuri Gala López. Cuba’s top UN official mentioned that, “we have helped to prepare tens of thousands of doctors from various countries of the Global South.” He denounced U.S. inclusion of Cuba on its list of State Sponsors More The post Say NO to US Assault on Cuba’s Medical Missions appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
Not long after Donald Trump had the Department of Justice unceremoniously torpedo its own investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the President’s longtime friend and fellow member of the predator elite, Bill O’Reilly, announced something that I found to be disturbingly telling. During an interview with Chris Cuomo on NewsNation, Bill revealed that he had discussed the More The post American Radicals Cannot Afford to Ignore the Epstein Scandal appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
A philosopher interested in public life can learn from how the popular media handle issues of art and morality. I read with interest now and then Slipped Disc, a web site devoted to gossip about the music world. Recently they posted a discussion about a Mozart performance under the heading, “This is what you’ll receive More The post Learning from Opera (and Old Master Painting) appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| CounterPunch.org
I have imagined dying for more than fifty years: Mapping Beauty: I have never pursued, nor have seen a perfect diamond: The objective in mind leads me to an idea: My eyes begin to see what isn’t there what might be there: It is not what we discover in experiences: My reality’s dreams are mapping More The post Architecture of Cities: Mapping Beauty appeared first on CounterPunch.org.| 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
Is the Trump administration trying to reshape American capitalism? Recent moves by Washington, such as taking a 10% share of semiconductor maker Intel,| 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
China has transitioned from one of the poorest nations in the world to the second-largest economy with nuclear-armed forces growing at a record pace. Over the past 40 years, China has had the world’s fastest-growing economy with annual growth rates that often exceeded 10% a year. China’s economy grew over five percent in the first half of this year; the U.S. economy expanded by one percent. Meanwhile, U.S. tariff policy is losing friends around the world.| CounterPunch.org
the civilian operation of nuclear power plants also places future generations at military risk. I have written that, historically, nuclear reactors were “born violent.” That is to say, they were invented by the Manhattan Project in the early 1940s to manufacture plutonium for use in nuclear weapons, and were instrumental in killing almost 100,000 people in 1945. The “first” American commercial atomic plant in Shippingport, PA that went critical in 1958, was actually the 14th industria...| CounterPunch.org
These killings weren’t accidents. They weren’t provoked. They didn’t come about as an attempt to quell riots. The people killed were not collateral damage in attempts to kill Hamas fighters. The shootings were not in retaliation for any violence from the Palestinians. Israeli troops were ordered to fire on Palestinians coming to get scraps of food handed out by the Christian fundamentalists and mercenaries who run the food distribution sites set up by Trump and Netanyahu. Let’s repeat...| CounterPunch.org
I am saddened by the news of the passing of my role model as a writer, the man from whom I learnt so much journalistic English with a dose of urbane wit.| CounterPunch.org
