On this episode of Counterpunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with Dr. Shahd Abusalama, Palestinian academic, writer, and artist, born and ...

CounterPunch surpassed 2.7 million readers in 2025 — a milestone we could not have reached without the support of our readers. The website has seen a steady uptick in readership since Jeffrey St.

In 1965, the United States took a decisive step toward democracy with the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. At the ...

One of the few guarantees in life is loss. The unmerciful realities of temporal existence and entropy make the pain of ...

Where is today’s public discussion on how much the U.S. economy will have to pay to rebuild an even vaster ...

In the early hours of April 30, 2026, Israeli forces committed an act of piracy in international waters off the coast of Crete — more than 1,000 ...

He came, he saw, he conquered. Then he went—first to the New World, before returning to the Old. His victories began in ...

A.M. Gittlitz is an organizer, writer and the author of I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs and Apocalypse Communism. His latest work, Metropolitans: New ...

Civil Rights Summer, that remarkable upsurge of practical action intended to break the grip of the political oligarchy that had ruled the states of the old Confederacy through terror and violence ...

A respected human rights activist has spoken repeatedly against the US-Israeli aggression on Iran. She recognizes the ...

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them.  You can crush them by ignoring them.  By refusing to think, refusing to change.  And that's precisely what ...

Now tumbling down the hill of time in an avalanche of emotion is the first anniversary of Max’s death. It’s been a year of immeasurable loss, bottomless ...