When Israeli troops launched their ground invasion of northern Gaza in 2023, one of the first places they rolled into was the Abu Suffiyeh family farm in the Jabalya area (see pdf, page 301).

The “shock and awe” tactics of the new Trump administration, as opponents have dubbed them, leave no doubt that the Trump coalition of far-Right ideologues, White supremacists, misogynists and ...

The administrative spectacle now unfolding exceeds all expectations. How should we respond? What is appropriate? I remember Abbie Hoffman and the general inclination of New Left times and other ...

Despite the fallout, there was little that was actually new or shocking about Trump and Netanyahu’s press conference last week. What shocked informed people on all sides of the Palestine issue ...

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach ...

“We’re shutting it down,” Elon Musk said over the weekend in reference to USAID, the country’s main aid agency, which oversees around $40 billion a year in spending and has been around ...

Don Trump, current temporary occupant of the elective office of President of the United States, has issued an Executive Order to ferret out “antichristianity” from the federal government.

“There is something sick and rotten about states and societies that not only support and enable mass killings but also make money off of them.” – Pankaj Mishra, January 30, 2025 At a ...

Kent Paterson is a freelance journalist who covers the southwestern United States, the border region and Mexico. He is a regular contributor to CounterPunch and the Americas Program.

The return of one million Palestinians from southern Gaza to the north on January 27 felt as if history was choreographing one of its most earth-shattering events in recent memory. Hundreds of ...

How do we organize elements in a system? One way is through the lens of hierarchy, which presupposes levels, a top-down ranking of elements. Another is homoarchy, which permits one (and only one ...

After two weeks of Donald Trump at the helm, it’s clear the warnings about creeping fascism and America going rogue were too optimistic. The bar wasn’t just low, it’s six feet under, buried ...