BY SAM HUSSEINI Photograph Source: Saudi Press Agency – CC BY 4.0 An adage favored by Claud Cockburn as well as Otto von Bismarck advises “Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.” Indeed, […]
BY RAY ACHESON B-29 over Osaka on 1 June 1945. (U.S. Air Force photo) After a year and a half’s delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tenth Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is […]
BY ERIC DRAITSER https://player.blubrry.com/id/87680104# CounterPunch Radio – July 15, 2022 – Michael Hudson Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The History of Finance Capitalism ERIC DRAITSER: Hello and welcome to CounterPunch Radio. My name is Eric Draitser, […]
BY DEE KNIGHT Photograph Source: Jonas Bengtsson – CC BY 2.0 Michael Hudson has become famous in recent years. The Financial Times credited him with forecasting the 2008 financial crash and its aftermath. His “magnum opus,” Super Imperialism, now in its […]
BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain First, there was containment—and then there was dual containment. George F. Kennan is credited with the design of containment to limit the geopolitical reach of […]
BY MICHAEL D. YATES Photo by Marcel Strauß “Bud is examining airplane windshields destined for the F111 fighter jet. It is the late 1960s, and he has been working for nearly thirty years at the Pittsburgh Plate […]
by Surya Tyler Daguerre is a 26-year-old area organizer and barista in Boston. His Starbucks store became one of the first two stores to win their union election in Massachusetts. He serves on the organizing committee […]
We are coming up on the first year anniversary of the surrender of Afghanistan to the Taliban terrorists. Hundreds if not thousands of Americans are still trapped inside Afghanistan – if they’re not dead. And the $85 […]
U.S. Aid to Israel Other People’s Mail ANOTHER REASON TO QUESTION U.S. AID TO ISRAEL To The Mercury News, May 18, 2022 Veteran Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was assassinated while covering a recent Israeli raid […]
WALTER L. HIXSON Canadian folk and rock musician Neil Young sitting on the bumper of a 1950s Cadillac in 1988. “Rockin’ in the Free World” from his Freedom album, released in 1989, became one of […]