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2+ hour, 5+ min ago (10+ words) Malcolm X, Noam Chomsky, Sexual Predator Associations and Legacy Twists'Counterpunch...
Cover the Election, Not Just the Candidates
2+ hour, 22+ min ago (395+ words) Image by Katelyn Perry. More than five years later, with less than seven months to go before the midterm elections, that question is before us again, but in far starker terms than I could have imagined in 2020. So, here's an…...
Are We Good Americans?
2+ hour, 16+ min ago (675+ words) The population of the United States, I suspect, more even than the population of Germany circa Hitler's reign, has been told, over and over, that our government is hell-bent on sadistic mayhem and gore. If Trump can, Trump gleefully acknowledges…...
On Iran's Ten-Point Proposal for Peace
2+ hour, 13+ min ago (118+ words) The United States should commit, in principle, to guarantee non-aggression (no. 1), Withdrawal of US combat forces from the region (no. 9), and Cessation of the war on all fronts, including against the heroic Islamic resistance in Lebanon (no. 10). Payment of compensation…...
Haiti: Solidarity in a World at War
2+ hour, 15+ min ago (119+ words) The Crisis in Haiti Haitian Civilians: Caught Between A Rock and A Hard Place So now, Haitians stand between a rock and a hard place: on the one hand, emboldened and well-connected paramilitary death squads determined to have their share…...
Architecture of Cities: Mapping Beauty XXIX
2+ hour, 20+ min ago (241+ words) A collective of New York buildings. Every city reminds of "City'The unknown elevates the senses: It is a prickly sensation that surges to the tips of a mass of nerve endings: Visions in the dark, shadows in my vision invoke…...
We Need a Movement to End US Wars in the Middle East, Latin America and at Home
2+ hour, 15+ min ago (193+ words) In 1953, the CIA overthrew the democratic Iranian Government led by Mohammed Mossadegh and replaced him with the repressive, pro-Israeli Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In 1979, a popular uprising overthrew him, bringing Ruhollah Khomeini and Ali Khamenei to power. However, recent popular…...
Trump, Hegseth and the Language of War Crimes
2+ hour, 15+ min ago (961+ words) Counterpunch He's out of ideas, a mind running on empty. Increasingly, he is also short of reason, zapped by geopolitical addling and meddling. Now that US President Donald J. Trump has reached an uneasy understanding with Teheran that a two-week ceasefire…...
Trump's Persian War
2+ hour, 18+ min ago (949+ words) I don't think there is anything that gives Donald Trump quite so much pleasure as failure, perhaps one of the reasons why he is so enjoying blowing through $50 billion in taxpayer money on his way to numerous defeats in the…...
When Will the Trump Nightmare End? Have Too Many Thresholds Already Been Crossed?
2+ hour, 10+ min ago (511+ words) But the real question may not be when it ends. It may be whether the United States can ever return to what it was before Trump. Have too many thresholds already been crossed to return to a pre-Trump era? Have…...