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Who controls the U.S. military and decides when we go to war? The Constitution says the people via Congress have war-making powers.…
As it did last year, the 2023 United Nations General Assembly has been debating what role the United Nations and its members…
The Third Way is a political term that gained currency in the late 1970s and early 1980s and is associated with the…
Last month CNN published a poll revealing 55% of people surveyed in the United States do not support spending more money on the Ukraine war. A…
Recent news reports have been filled with results of one poll after another after another showing that President Biden continues to weaken as a candidate for re-election. With…
Two island nations on Saturday joined the growing bloc of countries endorsing a fossil fuel nonproliferation treaty amid a worsening climate emergency…
Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. John Fetterman on Saturday joined a growing list of Democrats calling on Sen. Bob Menendez to step down in the wake…
Listen to the audio version >> While protecting the climate will require millions of jobs, there is no guarantee that those jobs…
From its very onset, Israel has constructed a brand for itself, a powerful gimmick that was predicated on two main pillars: democracy…
The first time I heard the chant it was while helping to block the street in front of leading fossil fuel financer…
When Joe Biden flew out of Hanoi last week, he was leaving a country where U.S. warfare caused roughly 3.8 million Vietnamese deaths. But,…
Rich Men North Of Richmond is the title of the hugely popular Oliver Anthony folk/country song that has incredibly rocketed to number…
What if the “epidemic of coups” in West and Central Africa is not that at all, but a direct outcome of outright…
Since 9/11, US wars have become widespread, everyday affairs that most Americans know next to nothing about. The largest wars like Iraq,…
What happens when corporate values intersect with health care and labor organizing? Members and stakeholders of Kaiser Permanente (KP), one of the…
The humiliation of Palestinian women by Israeli soldiers in the occupied city of Al-Khalil (Hebron) on July 10 was not the first…
When I heard that Salvador Allende won the Chilean presidential elections in September 1970 and sought to bring his country to socialism…
Autoworkers are readying themselves for a potential strike as contract negotiations with the so-called “Big Three” drag on. The United Auto Workers…
Israel kills Palestinian children as a matter of policy. This claim can easily be demonstrated and is supported by the latest findings…
The day after the U.S. government began routinely bombing faraway places, the lead editorial in the New York Times expressed some gratification. Nearly four…
Lost in a chaotic hall of mirrors of its own creation, the CIA has generally failed in its one and only legitimate…
There is a refugee trail that goes from the Sahel drought region in Africa, into war-ravaged Yemen, and up through Saudi Arabia…
At the zenith of the mass protests in Egypt on January 25, 2011, Twitter, Facebook and other Western-based social media platforms appeared…
‘Panem et circenses’, said the Romans – ‘Bread and circuses’. This maxim served the Romans well. In times of crisis and whenever…
Strategic locations, key occupations, networked relations—all bring workers power. “Labor Power and Strategy” offers an extended conversation among veteran organizers on how…
Three weeks ago there were 370 organizations which had endorsed the March to End Fossil Fuels in New York City on September 17. Today,…
Having an analytical framework to understand the key relationships that define the social conditions and political battles we face can guide us…
Review of Purple Power: The History and Global Impact of SEIU edited by Louis Aguiar and Joseph McCartin (University of Illinois Press, 2023) and The…
What do billionaires do with all their money? Maybe they buy off a Supreme Court justice. Maybe they get their kicks from diving…
Despite their complicated and often uneasy relationship, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant agree on one thing:…
Despite opposition to a national Green New Deal by rightwing politicians and the fossil fuel industry, many “Little Green New Deals” are…
Eric Draitser welcomes to CounterPunch author, activist and organizer Bill Fletcher, Jr. to discuss his recent writing, his past as a labor…
The Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) summit in Johannesburg concluded on August 24 after a major disappointment: the long-overdue challenge to U.S. dollar hegemony…
Ever since Donald Trump became a former president, news outlets and commentators have cited polls showing that many Republicans believe violence might be needed…
[What follows is a 2013 piece by the remarkable, now 94-year-old Noam Chomsky looking at a future that — from the latest…
American conservatism has always been excellent at storytelling. Convincing people to back regressive policies isn’t easy and therefore stories generating fear and…
Oppenheimer is a film about the brilliant, enigmatic physicist who led the Manhattan Project that produced the atomic bomb. The relationship of…
‘Barbie stages in Barbieland the equivalent of the Protestant Reformation’ I finally got what director Greta Gerwig was up to in her…
In a recent conversation with an otherwise well-informed young labor activist, I made a passing reference to Change to Win, a national…
Since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, a global cold war has also kicked in. As a strong ally of Washington and…
At first, I admit, I was a bit flattered to learn that online entrepreneurs are selling study guides for my new book.…
Racism goes beyond the use of certain words or the discriminatory practices of everyday life. It is also about political perceptions, intellectual…
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is waging a war on history. The GOP’s aspiring presidential candidate saw how effectively Donald Trump tapped into…
The richest tenth of U.S. households are responsible for 40% of all the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, a study published Thursday revealed, underscoring what…
Two-thirds of likely U.S. voters support the ongoing writers’ and actors’ union strikes, while an overwhelming majority of voters across party lines agree…
Before the August 22-24 summit in Johannesburg raised expectations for a new counterbalancing force in global politics – and struck fear into…
(Image of: Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin by Giuseppe Milo) Back in April of this year, Joe Biden paid a presidential visit to Ireland…
President Biden wrote in the New York Times in June 2022 that the United States was arming Ukraine to “fight on the…
Listen to the audio version >> Boris Kagarlitsky, an internationally known scholar and a longtime political activist, was arrested by the Russian Federal…
It is feasible for China to continue playing an important role in mediating Middle East conflicts. In fact, it already has. In…
