Samcam’s former home in Jinotepe, Nicaragua, daubed with graffiti labelling him a “murderer.” Photo: Confidencial.
InSight Crime, a think tank which claims to fuse “investigative journalism with academic rigor,” accuses Nicaragua’s government of “hiring assassins” to hunt down and kill opponents abroad. This bold accusation is based on no more than “circumstantial” evidence, strongly suggesting political motivation. This fact-impoverished rush to judgment reflects a more general bias of the US-aligned […]
Last members of the Marine security guard at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, exiting their helicopter on the deck of USS Okinawa during Operation Frequent Wind, April 30, 1975. Photo: Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Russ Thurman, U.S. Dept. of Defense.
In this Dec. 4, 1969 file photo, Chicago police remove the body of Fred Hampton, leader of the Illinois Black Panther party, who was slain in a gun battle with police on Chicago's west side. The U.S. Justice Department on Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, is scheduled to release the findings of an investigation of the Chicago Police Department, and a law enforcement official says the report will show a pattern of civil rights violations. The probe was launched after a video showed a white officer fatally shooting a black teenager 16 times. (Chicago Daily News courtesy of Chicago Sun-Times via AP) ORG XMIT: ILCHS201
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A synecdoche is a figure of speech where an individual event is used to represent the whole story. You’d be hard-pressed to find a more exact and unnerving synecdoche for the Israeli genocide in Gaza than turning the str [ . . . ]
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Although any country that challenges domination by United States corporate or military power will inevitably be the target of a sustained demonization campaign, the lies consistently issued in a torrent against Venezuela [ . . . ]
To make Steal This Story, Please! Co-directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin spent about three years wearing out the proverbial shoe leather tailing Amy Goodman, that journalistic scourge of the status quo, for their documentary about her and the daily Pacifica Radio and TV program she hosts. As Democracy Now! – which touts itself as […]
Woody Guthrie (Photo: Courtesy of Woody Guthrie Publications)
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award winner Woody Guthrie, the creator of the beloved people’s anthem “This Land is Your Land,” whose character was dramatized in two films that were O [ . . . ]
The American South has the highest HIV rates in the country, accounting for more than half of new HIV diagnoses nationwide in 2023. This is despite growing availability of a highly effective HIV prevention medication tha [ . . . ]
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This quotation usually attributed to Thomas Jefferson, “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,” is a watchword that investigative reporter Greg Palast lives by. Since the contested 2000 presidential election, Palast’ [ . . . ]
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. Screengrab from US State Department video.
In November 1969, journalist Seymour Hersh, with the help of whistleblower Ronald Ridenhour, stunned a broad swath of the public by managing to get the March 1968 My Lai massacre into the mainstream news. Suddenly, the US military, purported defender of global democracy, was revealed to be the butcher and rapist of defenseless Vietnamese children, […]
Joseph and Friederike (Friedl) Roth : reading on a park bench in Southern France. Image courtesy of the Leo Baeck Institute.
I have been reading Joseph Roth at a plastic table in front of a bar in the Plaza Mayor of a small town in Extremadura whose name, should I give it, would mean nothing to anyone outside a radius of thirty kilometers. This is precisely the point. This is a town that history forgot, or […]
In this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with Dr. Nadine Ortega, co-founder of Tagnawa Hawai’i, about grassroots mutual aid disaster recovery. Dr. Ortega breaks down the socio-economic and historical conditions that have led to the recent Kona Low flooding on O’ahu and the 2023 Lahaina, Maui fires, which have disproportionately affected Native Hawaiian, Filipino, and other immigrant communities. She shares stories about the importance of cross-class and interethnic organizing when state-run disaster response fails.
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In this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with Dr. Nadine Ortega, co-founder of Tagnawa Hawai’i, about grassroots mutual aid disaster recovery. Dr. Ortega breaks down the socio-economic and historical conditions that have led to the recent Kona Low flooding on O’ahu and the 2023 Lahaina, Maui fires, which have disproportionately affected Native Read more
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