CounterPunch+ Articles Archive

Did Timothy Leary Save my Life?

February 5, 2023 Peter Bach

Mandela’s Death or Other Dramatic Developments…

January 29, 2023 T.J. Coles

The Murder of Tyre Nichols and the Death of Police Reform

January 29, 2023 Jeffrey St. Clair

The Harms of Solitary Confinement During Covid

January 29, 2023 Christopher Blackwell

West Papua: What the UN Did and Must Undo

January 22, 2023 Julie Wark

The Enemy Paradox

January 22, 2023 Scott Remer

Central Banks are a Symptom, Capitalism is the Cause

January 15, 2023 Pete Dolack

On Being Called “Terrorist”

January 15, 2023 Susie Day

Contra Contrarianism

January 8, 2023 Chris Floyd

Corsage, a Review

January 8, 2023 Ed Rampell

CounterPunch+, Feature Articles, Trouble Ahead Trouble Behind

A (Bad) Trip to the Most Radioactive Place in America

January 1, 2023 Joshua Frank

The Future of Iran

January 1, 2023 Ibrahim Quraishi

The Shape of Things

January 1, 2023 Nicky Otis Smith

Bridges, Buses and Barbed Wire

December 25, 2022 Kent Paterson

Right-wing Attempts to Eliminate Constitutional Protections are No Joke

December 25, 2022 Pete Dolack

The Nasty Boy: Coming to Grips with Alleged Genocide in Israel

December 18, 2022 Ed Rampell

A Conversation With Yanis Varoufakis

December 18, 2022 Charles Stevenson – Matthew Stevenson

How Alaa Abd El-Fattah Connects Everything

December 11, 2022 Susie Day

Imagining Public Affluence: Redesigning Cities and Reclaiming Public Space

December 11, 2022 Scott Remer

COP27 Continues the Climate Summit Ritual of Words Without Action

December 4, 2022 Pete Dolack

Borderzone Notes, CounterPunch+, Feature Articles

Latin America’s New Left

December 4, 2022 Laura Carlsen

What Rishi Sunak Signifies

November 26, 2022 Dan Glazebrook

Understanding Haiti as a Case Study of Capitalist Modernity

November 26, 2022 Daniel Falcone

China talks Marxism, but Still Walks Capitalism

November 20, 2022 Pete Dolack

Language, Denaturing, and the Jaguar’s Gaze

November 13, 2022 Julie Wark

Concrete Compassion

November 13, 2022 Antoine Davis

Democrats Burn it All Down

November 6, 2022 Arun Gupta

Out of Prison, Meat in the Game

November 6, 2022 Susie Day

Understanding Britain’s Political Crisis

October 30, 2022 T.J. Coles

Philly Judge Blows Off Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Latest Appeal

October 30, 2022 Dave Lindorff

It’s a Clean Sweep! Not One Country Guarantees Workers’ Rights

October 22, 2022 Pete Dolack

Ken Burns and the Holocaust

October 22, 2022 Andrew Stewart

What My Grandmother Talked About When She Talked About Whiteness

October 16, 2022 Lawrence Ware

See If You Are Really Real

October 16, 2022 Nicky Otis Smith

Extremism, the BBC, and Why the Center Cannot Hold

October 9, 2022 Susie Day

Masters of Perfidy

October 9, 2022 Jeffrey St. Clair

CounterPunch on Instagram, CounterPunch+, Feature Articles

Liberals and Magical Thinking

October 2, 2022 Scott Remer

Going to Prison as an Act of Resistance to Empire

October 2, 2022 T.J. Coles

Long Time Coming: The Second Sino-American War

September 25, 2022 Ben Seattle

The Usefulness of the “POC” Identity and its Limits

September 25, 2022 Sudip Bhattacharya

Five Years On, What About #Metoo?

September 25, 2022 Julie Wark

Britain in the Bardo

September 18, 2022 Chris Floyd

The Financial Industry is a Lot Bigger than a Giant Vampire Squid

September 18, 2022 Pete Dolack

Gerald Horne on the Counterrevolution of 1836

September 11, 2022 Andrew Stewart

It’s All Gonna Break

September 11, 2022 Nicky Otis Smith

The Case of the Missing H-Bomb

September 11, 2022 Jeffrey St. Clair

CounterPunch+, Feature Articles, Trouble Ahead Trouble Behind

Nuclear Warning: A Scientist in Distress

September 4, 2022 Joshua Frank

Phillips’ Formula: The Art of Politicizing Noir on Page and Screen

September 4, 2022 Ed Rampell

Love, Sex, and Politics

August 28, 2022 Scott Remer

Blowing Up is Hard to Do

August 28, 2022 Susie Day

CounterPunch on Instagram, CounterPunch+, Feature Articles

Afghanistan Beyond the Narratives of Insiders

August 21, 2022 Julia Schiwal

The Burma Front

August 21, 2022 Jeffrey St. Clair

The Border’s Wheels of Fortune Spin

August 14, 2022 Kent Paterson

The Spoils of War

August 14, 2022 Ben Terrall

We Have No Cheering Interests When Two Oligarchic Right-Wing Governments Fight

August 7, 2022 Pete Dolack

The CIA’s First War on China

August 7, 2022 Jeffrey St. Clair

Melilla and the Monster the EU Made

August 7, 2022 Julie Wark

Nothing to be Afraid of in Here

July 31, 2022 Nicky Otis Smith

The Resounding Right of Mutulu Shakur to Die in Freedom

July 31, 2022 Susie Day

Michael Hudson – The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism

July 27, 2022 CP+ Video

The Big Case: On the Trail of the Mole on the CIA’s 7th Floor

July 24, 2022 Ed Rampell

Sayonara Glaciers

July 24, 2022 Phil Knight

How the US Went From a War on Poverty to a War on the Poor

July 24, 2022 Jeffrey St. Clair

Imagining a “Half-Earth” Sustainable Economy

July 17, 2022 Pete Dolack

CounterPunch on Instagram, CounterPunch+, Feature Articles, Trouble Ahead Trouble Behind

The Fiery Death of Giant Sequoias

July 17, 2022 Joshua Frank

The Gospel According to Darwin

July 17, 2022 Ed Rampell

When History Called on the General

July 10, 2022 Jeffrey St. Clair

George Carlin: the Triumph of Bullshit

July 10, 2022 John Kendall Hawkins

How Boris Johnson Became a Footnote

July 10, 2022 Chris Floyd

The Impact of Criminalizing Abortion on Prisoners and Mass Incarceration

July 3, 2022 Paul Wright

Climate Nemesis

July 3, 2022 Evaggelos Vallianatos

Oyez, Oyez, Oy Vey, The People’s Choice: Roe

July 3, 2022 Ed Rampell

Exploring Reflections of Modern Capitalism within Science Fiction

July 3, 2022 Marvin Palencia

On the Precipice of Global Civil (Class) War?

June 26, 2022 Ron Jacobs

Financial Manipulation and Inequality Keep Rising

June 26, 2022 Pete Dolack

The (Migrant) Season of Death is Upon Us

June 26, 2022 Kent Paterson

Free Soloing

June 26, 2022 Jeffrey St. Clair

Forced Motherhood as Democratic Electoral Strategy

June 19, 2022 Paul Street

How Veronica Died

June 19, 2022 Julie Wark

The Spy in the Torture Chamber

June 12, 2022 Jeffrey St. Clair

A New Film Inspired By the Murder of George Floyd

June 12, 2022 Ed Rampell

Rep. Krishnamoorthi’s Ties to Hindu Nationalists

June 12, 2022 CJ Werleman

The U.S. Left and Empire

June 5, 2022 Sudip Bhattacharya

Common Sense in the Form of Theory

June 5, 2022 Chris Wright

As Long as Housing is a Commodity, Rents Will Keep Rising

June 5, 2022 Pete Dolack

Animal Factory

May 29, 2022 Jeffrey St. Clair

James Cromwell Vs. Starbucks

May 29, 2022 Ed Rampell

Modern America’s Murderous Apotheosis at Uvalde

May 29, 2022 Chris Floyd

America’s Role in the Syrian Civil War

May 22, 2022 Noam Chomsky - Raghav Kaushik

CounterPunch+, Feature Articles, Trouble Ahead Trouble Behind

Remembering the Palomares Disaster

May 22, 2022 Joshua Frank

The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh

May 15, 2022 Jeffrey St. Clair

All Our Relatives

May 15, 2022 Julie Wark

Ukrainian Actress Presents Antiwar Cinematic Stunner at SEEfest

May 15, 2022 Ed Rampell

Banks Fueling Global Warming is Business as Usual

May 7, 2022 Pete Dolack

The Solution to Homelessness Is Not Death

May 7, 2022 Steve O’Keefe

The Bias in the Ukraine War Coverage

May 1, 2022 Dave Lindorff

What About History?

May 1, 2022 Ron Jacobs

The Origins of America’s Vicious War on Its Own Kids

May 1, 2022 Jeffrey St. Clair

The Industrial Workers of the World Ride Again

April 24, 2022 Ed Rampell

Travels With Charley at Age 60

April 24, 2022 Tony McKenna

The Growing Need for Insurgent Black Studies

April 24, 2022 Johnny Eric Williams – David G. Embrick

George Orwell, Snitch

April 17, 2022 Alexander Cockburn

Corporate Greed Keeps the Pandemic Alive

April 17, 2022 Pete Dolack

CounterPunch+, Culture & Reviews, Feature Articles, Pressure Drops

This Year at Marienbad

April 17, 2022 Jeffrey St. Clair

Alexander Dugin and Fascism on the Left

April 10, 2022 Dan Glazebrook

CounterPunch+, Feature Articles, Pressure Drops, Top Stories

The Politics of Lesser-Imperialism

April 10, 2022 Jeffrey St. Clair

What Really Cost Donald Trump the 2020 Election

April 10, 2022 Steve O’Keefe

Ruth First and the FBI’s Historical Role of Enforcing Inequality

April 3, 2022 David Price

Will’s Smith’s Gift to Racists

April 3, 2022 Ed Rampell

The Price America Paid for Madeleine Albright

March 27, 2022 Jeffrey St. Clair

CounterPunch+, Feature Articles, Trouble Ahead Trouble Behind

One More Reason to Oppose Nuclear Technology

March 27, 2022 Joshua Frank

Re-Reading Theodor Adorno’s The Authoritarian Personality in an Age of Authoritarianism

March 27, 2022 Scott Remer

The Empyreal Horn of Wadada Leo Smith

March 27, 2022 Ron Jacobs

Marcus Rediker on History from Below, Anti-Slavery Resistance, and the Fearless Benjamin Lay

March 26, 2022 CP+ Video

Shoot Out the Lights

March 20, 2022 Jeffrey St. Clair

#MeToo, #NiUnaMenos, and Human Rights

March 20, 2022 Julie Wark

Another Global Warming Worry

March 20, 2022 Pete Dolack

The Benedict Arnold of LSD

March 13, 2022 Jeffrey St. Clair

The Kremlin Goes Neocon

March 6, 2022 Eric Draitser

The New Deal, Writers and Rediscovering America

March 6, 2022 Ben Terrall

Going Rittenhouse in Portland

February 27, 2022 Jeffrey St. Clair

Greed is Us: Titans, The Rise of Wall Street

February 27, 2022 Ed Rampell

Ku Klux Climate: Coal, Petro-Palingenesis, and the Historical Materialism of Fossil Fascism

February 27, 2022 Paul Street

There’s No Money? Then How Can There be $10 Trillion for Financiers in Two Years?

February 27, 2022 Pete Dolack

The Ugly Marriage of Postmodernism and Neoliberalism

February 20, 2022 Ron Jacobs

“Put the Blood Back In”: Martín Espada on Poetry, Book Banning, and Radical Politics

February 20, 2022 David Masciotra

We Cannot Truly Die

February 13, 2022 Robert Hunziker

The Police Killing of Amir Locke

February 13, 2022 Jeffrey St. Clair

Historical and Cultural Developments in the Black Atlantic World

February 13, 2022 Daniel Falcone

CounterPunch+, Culture & Reviews, Feature Articles, Pressure Drops

Hendrix in Our Time

February 6, 2022 Jeffrey St. Clair

Biden’s Munich: Origins of the Ukraine War

February 6, 2022 Matthew Stevenson

Fortress Against The Defenceless

February 6, 2022 Julie Wark

What Capitalism’s Brought to Tonga

January 30, 2022 Gary Leupp

On the Misuse (and Invention) of Words

January 30, 2022 Paul Street

Give Them A Migraine! Fan-boy Ben Burgis Slobbers over Christopher Hitchens

January 30, 2022 Andrew Stewart

Vaccine Hucksterism: VAERS and the War on Medical Science

January 23, 2022 Anthony DiMaggio

Fromm, Arendt, and Today’s Authoritarian Moment

January 23, 2022 Scott Remer

Peter Weiss and His Pièce de Résistance

January 23, 2022 Ron Jacobs

Shortage by Design: Trucking in America

January 16, 2022 Joseph Grosso

Spector Calling

January 16, 2022 Jeffrey St. Clair

As Long as Capitalism Exists, the Threat of Fascism Exists

January 16, 2022 Pete Dolack

Onokhov of the North: Coming of Age in Chukotka

January 16, 2022 Ed Rampell

Jacqueline Keeler on Native Struggle and the Need to Rethink Everything about America

January 16, 2022 CP+ Video

CounterPunch+, Feature Articles, Top Stories

Origin Stories

January 9, 2022 Jacqueline Keeler

Cheney’s Inferno Comes to Capitol Hill

January 9, 2022 Chris Floyd

Mailer and Me

January 9, 2022 Jeffrey St. Clair

Red Alert: The Redhead, the Red Scare and Aaron Sorkin’s Big Lie Caught Red-handed

January 9, 2022 Ed Rampell

Settler-Colonialism in a Cross-Cultural Perspective

January 2, 2022 Mark Ashwill

It Goes Back to the Days of the Founders

January 2, 2022 Paul Street

The “Hellraising Humanitarian” on “Dreaming a New Dream”

January 2, 2022 Ed Rampell

How the U.S. Government Was Sold to a Hedge Fund

December 26, 2021 Steve O’Keefe

Envisioning a World With No Bosses

December 26, 2021 Pete Dolack

Are U.S. Charities Backing Hindu Nationalism?

December 26, 2021 CJ Werleman

Back to the Future: The Long Roots of Venezuela’s Communal Tradition

December 19, 2021 Chris Gilbert

Borderzone Notes, CounterPunch+, Feature Articles

Religion, Science, Politics

December 19, 2021 Daniel Raventós - Julie Wark

The Young Lords Ride Again

December 19, 2021 Ed Rampell

Digging for John Paul Jones

December 12, 2021 Jeffrey St. Clair

Why So Many US-American Whites So Messed Up on Race

December 12, 2021 Paul Street

CounterPunch+, Feature Articles, Trouble Ahead Trouble Behind

The Problems with the Pro-Nuclear Left

December 12, 2021 Joshua Frank

Millennials: The Generation in Waiting

December 5, 2021 Scott Remer

The White Supremacy Lie

November 28, 2021 Anthony DiMaggio

Not “A Nation of Immigrants”

November 28, 2021 Ben Terrall

A Film for Our Time

November 28, 2021 Steve Martinot

CIA, MKULTRA and the Cover-up of U.S. Germ Warfare in the Korean War

November 21, 2021 Jeffrey Kaye

When the Democrats Ran the Culture Wars

November 21, 2021 Jeffrey St. Clair

Imperialism, Satire, and the World of Dune

November 21, 2021 CP+ Video

CounterPunch+, Feature Articles, Trouble Ahead Trouble Behind

Stately Deception: Obama at COP26

November 14, 2021 Joshua Frank

If You Don’t Give People a Reason to Vote, They Won’t

November 14, 2021 Pete Dolack

Do Not Underestimate Evangelical Politicians In Latin America

November 14, 2021 Daniel Raventós - Julie Wark

Arctic Exploits

November 7, 2021 Adam Federman

In the Heart of the Gorge

November 7, 2021 Jeffrey St. Clair

COP26 Exposes Failure of Neoliberalism

October 31, 2021 Robert Hunziker

Liberation or Bust

October 31, 2021 Lee Hall

When Goldman Sachs Killed the Peace Dividend

October 31, 2021 Jeffrey St. Clair

China’s Winding Road Toward Capitalism

October 24, 2021 Pete Dolack

On the Fascist Stench That Hangs Over this Still-Trumped Land

October 24, 2021 Paul Street

Life and Death on the Fire Planet

October 24, 2021 Eve Ottenberg

Checking in With Dave Zirin: Kaepernick, COVID and the MLB Playoffs

October 17, 2021 Ron Jacobs

The Political Economy of Timber Theft

October 17, 2021 Jeffrey St. Clair

The CIA’s View of Left Political Parties in Afghanistan, 1948-79

October 10, 2021 T.J. Coles

What Happens in the Red States

October 10, 2021 Paul Street

The Collapse of Liberal Zionism

October 10, 2021 Anthony Fulton

Andrew Cockburn on Power, Profit, and the American War Machine

October 5, 2021 CP+ Video

If You Work in the U.S., You Don’t Know How Bad You Have It

October 3, 2021 Pete Dolack

Counter-Revolution in Arabia

October 3, 2021 Dan Glazebrook

The 50 Greatest Singles: an Exercise in the Absurd

October 3, 2021 Jeffrey St. Clair

Smoke and Ruins: Deep Time in Paquimé

September 26, 2021 Jeffrey St. Clair

The Murky Politics of Film Noir

September 26, 2021 Ed Rampell

CounterPunch+, Feature Articles, Trouble Ahead Trouble Behind

Nazis in the Heartland

September 26, 2021 Joshua Frank

Michael Roberts on American Imperialism and Marx’s Law of Profitability

September 21, 2021 CP+ Video

Tesla and the Anthropocene

September 19, 2021 Lee Hall

The War on Terror, Twenty Years and Counting

September 19, 2021 Sudip Bhattacharya

Hitchcock’s Sabotage: Film as Terrorism

September 19, 2021 Jeffrey St. Clair

Arendt and QAnon

September 12, 2021 Scott Remer

9/11: The Doctrines of Bush, Obama, Trump & Biden

September 12, 2021 Richard Falk – Daniel Falcone

Central America’s Forgotten History

September 12, 2021 Ben Terrall

9/11 and the American Mind

September 12, 2021 Jeffrey St. Clair

Republicanism For The Anthropocene

September 5, 2021 Daniel Raventós - Julie Wark