Joshua Frank

JOSHUA FRANK is co-editor of CounterPunch and co-host of CounterPunch Radio. He is the author of Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America, and the forthcoming, Bad Energy: The AI Hucksters, Rogue Lithium Extractors, and Wind Industrialists Who are Selling Off Our Future, both with Haymarket Books. He can be reached at joshua@counterpunch.org. You can troll him on Bluesky @joshuafrank.bsky.social

Vampire Planet: The Case for Letting Malibu Flood

Vampire Planet: Data Centers, Far Bigger Disasters Than You Even Thought

Vampire Planet: So Cal’s Chemical Disaster, a Gift from the War Machine

Vampire Planet: When the Oceans Die

Vampire Planet: China’s (Green) Economic Imperialism

Vampire Planet: Cyanide Bombs and a “Shark Tank” Data Center

Vampire Planet: This Week in the Anthropocene

The Relentless Nightmare of Fukushima, 15 Years On

My Favorites of 2025

Someone (Trump? Israel?) Wants us Shut Down

No Fascist USA

Cancer, One More Weapon in Israel’s Genocide Arsenal

Ann Coulter Wants to Kill Native Americans (So Do Some on the Left)

Israel’s Nuclear Deception: Flagrant Lies and Brazen Hypocrisy

Why My Ancestors Would be in the Streets

Trump’s Greed Energy Plan

They’re Coming For Us: Media Censorship in the Age of Palestinian Genocide

Trump’s Obsession with Greenland Is All About China

RFK Jr. and the Science of Misinformation

Burn, Hollywood, Burn?

Los Angeles on Fire

My Favorites of 2024

Murdering Birds to Save the Climate?

Pissing Everyone Off for 30 Damn Years

Robbing Africa’s Riches to Save the Climate (and Power AI)

What the Hell is Going On?

Socialism 2024, a Short Response to Joe Allen

Cal State Professors Targeted for Exposing School’s Ties to Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

Of Leaks and Lies: A Looming Nuclear Catastrophe Threatens the Pacific Northwest

Gavin Newsom’s War on Rooftop Solar Is a Bad Omen for the Country

You Can’t Turn Back the Clock on Genocide: “Easily 200,000 Deaths in Gaza.”

Columbia Professor Shai Davidai’s Family Tied to Weapons Manufacturing

Of Life and Lithium: Why the “White Gold” Rush Won’t Save The Planet

Electric Water Wars: It’s a Dam Crazy World

Making Gaza Unliveable

My Favorites of 2023

Condemn Hamas? It’s Time We Flipped the Script

Israel’s Nuclear Threat: The Dangers Only Multiply

イスラエルの核の脅威 危険は増すばかり

Bot Attacks and Pro-Israeli Propaganda

CounterPunch Under (Bot) Attack

A Vital Resource in a Time of War

Beating the Devil Ain’t Easy, or Cheap

The South China Sea’s Resource Wars: It’s Not Only About Fossil Fuels

The Sins of Butte

Revisiting the Bombing of Nagasaki, 78 Years Later

The Forever Dangers of Small Modular Nuclear Reactors

Elon Musk and the New Era of Extractive Geopolitics

Accountability Needed at the Country’s Most Toxic Site

Help Us Fight Fascism