Pity Hillary. Evicted from her home, jobless, and, as she evocatively put it to Diane Sawyer, ādead brokeā
The dream is coming to an end. A reckoning is fast approaching. The water is running out
I held a strangely shaped blob of dough in my chopsticks. It didn’t look exactly edible. “What is this Saul?” “Don’t ask.…
The United States, which has deployed its chemical-biological warfare arsenal against the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Vietnam, China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia,…
Is there a Left in America today? There is, of course, a Left ideology, a Left of the mind, a Left of…
Damaged goods, send them back I can’t work, I can’t achieve, send me back Open the till, give me the change You…
Things go missing. It’s to be expected. Even at the Pentagon. Last October, the Pentagon’s inspector general reported that the military’s accountants…
The following is an excerpt from the new book Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland, published this month…
The nation’s biggest polluter isn’t a corporation, it’s the Pentagon. Every year the Department of Defense churns out more than 750,000 tons…
Jeffrey St. Clair is the co-editor of CounterPunch (online at CounterPunch.org) and the author of numerous books, most recently Grand Theft Pentagon:…
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