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 […]
Posted by: John Phoenix The historic farmers’ movement will complete one year on 26 November, 2021. In its nearly yearlong existence the movement has demonstrated the amazing potential of people’s power in an extremely adverse […]
Posted by: John Phoenix Fourteen months after the Modi government had bulldozed its way in Parliament to convert the widely resented farm ordinances-turned-bills into laws, the Prime Minister had to bow down to the unprecedented […]
Posted by: John Phoenix 2022 is the 75th anniversary of India’s independence and the 125th anniversary of the birth of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Desperate to appropriate the icons of India’s freedom struggle, the Modi […]
Dr V Laxminarayana Devanur Mahadeva’s booklet, ‘RSS -Aala Mattu Agala’ (RSS- its ‘Depth and Width) is making waves in Karnataka. In Karnataka the aggressiveness of Hindutva forces is at its peak. It has launched sustained […]
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 […]
Posted by: John Phoenix The derogatory remarks made by then BJP national spokesperson Nupur Sharma against Prophet Muhammad seem not just to have triggered a global storm of protests but also what increasingly looks like […]