When I was still shaped by my juvenile consciousness during the early Cold War and by the fact that my father was a wounded vet, I believed that he and all his fellows had saved us from the fangs of the venomous Japanese and Nazis. There was nothing in the “history” we were taught straight through high school that digressed from the official mantra. More
The mainstream media have been concerned with the politics, policies, and propaganda of Donald Trump’s terms in office, but have virtually ignored the central question of his presidency: Is Trump psychologically fit to be president of the United States and commander in chief? More
Three days before celebrating children’s rights (November 20, 2025, marked 36 years since the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child), the UN Security Council committed an act so obscene it defies comprehension. Resolution 2803 didn’t just fail to stop the slaughter of 20,000 Palestinian children; it blessed it, legitimized it, and guaranteed its continuation forever. By granting Donald Trump control over Gaza’s future through his “Board of Peace,” we witness yet again what we already knew: the destruction of Palestinian children isn’t collateral damage, isn’t fog of war, isn’t humanitarian crisis. It’s policy. It’s strategy. It’s the international system working exactly as intended. More
Long before there was Jeffrey Epstein and his repulsive rape ring, there was the terror of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls. The MMIW crisis spans decades, arguably centuries, and involves 1000s of cases in the US and Canada, and yet, even as the Epstein story captures mass media attention and builds pressure for More
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk to Presleigh Hayashida and Sophie Shepherd about efforts to evict genocide profiteers out of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Gen Z organizing, and much more.
Presleigh Hayashida is a Brooklyn-based community organizer working on general anti-fascist organizing and the movement for a Free Palestine. In her spare time, she works as a civil engineer, spends time with her two cats, and stares at trees. Sophie Shepherd is a Brooklyn-based community organizer and writer. She graduated summa cum laude from Scripps College in 2024, earning a B.A. in Environmental Analysis and a minor in Writing & Rhetoric.
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On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk to Josh MacPhee and Kennedy Block, authors of the new book, Strike While the Needle is Hot: A Discography of Worker’s Revolt, published by Common Notions Press.
Josh MacPhee is a founding member of the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, the author of An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels, and coeditor of Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture. He cofounded and helps run Interference Archive, a public collection of cultural materials produced by social movements.
Kennedy Block is an independent researcher and archivist participating in, documenting, and connecting contemporary struggles for control over our own lives.
Pick up the book and mixtape at Common Notions.
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On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with anti-Zionist Jewish community organizers in Brazil and Argentina from Vozes Judaicas por Libertação and JudíesxPalestina about their recent protective presence trip to the West Bank with the Center for Jewish Non-violence. They share a report back on the impacts of ongoing settler and occupational violence on Palestinian communities in Massafer Yatta and Burin, connecting issues from the global south, from water rights to police brutality, as well as the ways the movement in Latin America differs from the dominant US and Eurocentric Jewish anti-zionist discourse.
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