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So the devil is still very much at work in a war that has lasted more than seven years, claimed up to 500,000 lives, displaced millions of people, destabilized an already fragile Middle East, and is far from over
As more and more inherited wealth is passed, tax-free, from one generation to the next, we can expect to see much more of such shamelessness
The siege-like conditions which Venezuela has been subjected to from both foreign interference and domestic opposition present a myriad of challenges for the country to move forward
The government’s Agriculture Bill seeks to replace regulation with public money. Who will contest this new protection racket?
What is it about menstruating women that obliges those who oversee the daily ablutions of the deity to keep them out of sight?
Before President Barack Obama authorized clandestine operations to defeat Syrian President Bashar al Assad in 2013, he asked the CIA to write the history of its secret wars. The classified document, say those who have read it, is a record of failure from Albania to Cuba to Angola to Nicaragua. Yet Obama went ahead with Read more…
It’s the precise behavior that has driven people with mental health issues underground, hiding in shame, and too afraid – for good reason – to seek the treatment they need and deserve
Now that the Judicial Crisis Network has succeeded in helping to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court over unprecedented opposition, JCN will resume its long-term effort to put conservatives in charge of state supreme courts
[Prefatory Note: This post is an interview with Daniel Falcone that was published in slightly modified form in Counterpunch on October 4, 2018] Trump’s Idea of World Order Endangers the Human Future Q 1. What are your general thoughts on Trump’s recent UN talk and how world opinion received it? A: The Trump speech Read more…
Why in the name of anything remotely akin to democracy should Kavanaugh and his eight high court colleagues holds these powerful positions for life?
The National Park Service has proposed major changes in rules for protests in Washington, DC that would severely undermine constitutionally protected First Amendment rights
Republican candidate for governor Ron DeSantis advocates doing nothing in his state to reduce state-wide carbon dioxide emissions
What that Protestant Reformation can teach us about the durability of far-right movements — and the order they seek to replace
All Iraqi governments are, to a greater or lesser extent, fragile because of religious and ethnic differences, but the new government is a sign that Iraq is stabilising after four decades of violence and division
Internal documents are disloyal things, They spill the crony beans; Macron must these documents burn For more morsels of our means. When we say government to government, We mean boss to boss; And any boss worth his politic salt Knows well his gain or loss. They would have us investigate The “murky” goings-on; Read more…
The IPCC authors promise that we will see coastal cities swallowed by the sea, global food shortages, and $54 trillion in climate-associated costs as soon as 2040.
The far right is on the rise from North America to Europe to Asia. Each case is different, but they share key similarities — and require similar responses
In that single line of blood that links Nassir al-Mosabeh and Mohammed al-Durrah, there is a narrative so compelling, yet often neglected
A friend in Tehran tells me that he marvels at the attitude of the United States ruling establishment towards Iran. ‘Why do they hate us so much’, he asks? It is a fair question. His country, he says, is not perfect, but it is certainly not a threat to the world. The current government – Read more…
Far More Sweeping and Dangerous Than Anyone Predicted. Its Lessons Are Global.
And what Cuba can teach the world about going a different route
The U.S. Labor Department reported, between the second quarter of 2017 and the second quarter of 2018, the real wages of American workers actually declined
Janine Jackson: Donald Trump’s public mockery of Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who testified she was assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, was an acutely despicable spectacle in an administration that is no shirker when it comes to despicable spectacle. But the Kavanaugh hearings, the FBI “investigation” into allegations against him, the whole process, Read more…
The emergence of a right wing grass roots movement, better organized and well financed, and willing to engage in violent confrontations against other protestors and demonstrators in the streets, may soon be upon us
The Framework Remains Trade for Corporations While Undermining Health, the Environment, Food, and Worker Rights