BY PAUL STREET Image by Patrick Perkins. What the Hell is going on with Red State versus Blue State America – and how should we think about and what we should do about that division? I […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photo by Spc. Jensen Guillory – Public Domain So how many American soldiers fight in Ukraine? The Biden bunch is careful not to reveal or refer to their presence, mercenary or otherwise, but […]
BY MATTHEW HOH Photograph Source: Tiomax80 – CC BY 2.0 At the end of May, just before Pride Month in the US began, Uganda enacted a law allowing for the death penalty for LGTBQ+ people. Uganda, already one of […]
BY DAVID YEARSLEY After Beethoven, few have been the composers named Ludwig. Number two on the list was Ludwig Spohr, reasonably big in his day, though only fourteen years younger than his illustrious predecessor. Spohr’s posthumous […]
BY CATHI CHOI Photograph Source: Corporal Peter McDonald – Public Domain July 27 marked 70 years since the signing of the armistice that halted — but did not end — the Korean War. Since then, the […]
BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Image by Jametlene Reskp. Nuclear reactors are directly in the line of fire of global warming. In fact, nuclear reactors cannot survive global warming. But that’s only the start of serious issues with […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Gallium crystals. Source: Footer Photography. CC BY-SA 3.0 If Washington intended to bully Beijing economically and indefinitely, July 3 was a rude awakening. That’s when China announced export controls on two, vital rare earth […]
BY SINÉAD O’CONNOR There are no media which block mockery of those perceived to be (whether mistakenly diagnosed by media, or otherwise ) mentally ill. They do not care to recognise how dangerous it is to do […]
BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR + About 10 years ago, an irate Sinéad O’Connor rang up the CounterPunch office and threatened to sue us over a piece we’d run. Becky sensibly gave her my number. I was […]
The microscopic organism belongs to a previously-undiscovered species © PLOS Genetics / Anastasia Shatilovich and Vamshidhar Gade Scientists in Russia have successfully revived a female roundworm that laid dormant in Siberia for 46,000 years. The worm […]