Daniel Falcone

Daniel Falcone is a historian, teacher and journalist. In addition to CounterPunch, he has written for The Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab WorldThe Nation, Jacobin, Truthout, Foreign Policy in Focus and Scalawag. He resides in New York City and is a member of The Democratic Socialists of America.

In Defiance of Peru’s Colonial Legacy, Cholas Reclaim Identity

The Mets as The People’s Team

Trump and Netanyahu’s War on Lebanon Threatens Stability and Long-Term Security

The Gulf States Economies are Facing the Challenges of War

The NYU Faculty Strike and the Politics of Workers’ Rights

America’s War of Choice is Israel’s War of Necessity

W.E.B. Du Bois and Civil Society

The Iranian Protests Explained

Bari Weiss Pulls 60 Minutes’ Report on Trump Outsourcing Torture to El Salvador’s CECOT Prison

Venezuela Isn’t the Global Threat, Trump and Rubio Are

How Catherine Connolly Can Redefine Irish Politics: an Interview With Yvonne Galligan

American Jewish Radicalism and the American Empire: an Interview With Benjamin Balthaser

Guinea and the Challenges for Social Democracy and the Left: an Interview With Mohamed Saliou Camara

Disaster Capitalism in Haiti

American Historical Association Members Challenge Veto on Palestinian Scholasticide

African Migration and the Violence of Global Capitalism 

Muhammadu Buhari and the Soldier’s Paradise

China’s Capitalist Turn

Updates on the Iran-Israel War: Conversations with Leading Analysts

All Politics Is Global: The Meaning of Zohran Mamdani’s Insurgent Victory

Activists and Empires, Old and New

History and the Plague of Fascism

End Times Militarism

The Trump Presidency Continues Its Destruction of the Ruling Class

The Tragedy of Realpolitik

Shirley DuBois and Scholars of Color Resistance Efforts Parallel 2025 Visa Struggles

In a World Run by Fascists Can Humans Survive?

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat: A Productive Misunderstanding

The Amsterdam Attacks: The Politics of Collective Violence

African Politics is Invisible to the Wider World: How Nigeria Became a ‘Soldier’s Paradise’

Can the Left Support Resistance in Venezuela Without Promoting US Hegemony?

The Year of Immanuel Kant and Black Enlightenment

Teaching Palestine: The Causes and Consequences of Organized Forgetting

Critics of Campus Protests are Weaponizing Anti-Semitism to Undermine Student Resistance

In Memoriam: H. Bruce Franklin (1934-2024)

Japan’s Visit to America Exposed US Leadership Legitimacy Issues

Attempts to Discredit UNRWA Threatens Its Funding

A Radical Reinvention of the Enlightenment

Unresolved Geographies: The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict & Left Realism

Operation Al-Aqsa: Middle East Scholars Weigh in on Gaza – Israel Conflict

Senegal and the Politics of Protest: an Interview With Kelly Duke Bryant

The Challenges of New Zealand and Progressive Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World 

When Israel Has a ‘Demo but No Democracy’

Understanding Haiti as a Case Study of Capitalist Modernity

Reviewing the 25th Anniversary of Saidiya Hartman’s Scenes of Subjection

Another Noble Dream: AP African American Studies and the Objectivity Question

On the Life and Legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev: an Interview With Richard Falk

Karl Marx: Student and Teacher of Technology

The Politics of the Russo-Ukrainian War Part, Revisited: Q&A with Lawrence Davidson and Stephen Zunes

The Politics of the Russo-Ukrainian War: International Scholars Weigh In