Trump often makes allusions to card playing when discussing his negotiations on various issues, but in the case of trade, it seems he is the one missing ...

I’m in France, in Toulon, visiting my daughter and her family. Summer on the Mediterranean – the heat, the light, the laughter of grandchildren – it all ...

July 29, 2025 Conservation advocates sue Flathead Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Stop Another Massive Clearcutting Project West of Whitefish, Montana Mike Garrity ...

Tomorrow more Palestinians will die, but the unsaid thing is that it is alright because that’s what those people do … – Omar El Akkad, One day, when it’s ...

Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State. --James Angleton,(CIA chief of the counterintelligence department 1954-1975) I grew up in my ...

Israel is meticulously following a textbook model of instigating unrest in the occupied West Bank. The latest such provocations consisted of stripping the Palestinian-run Hebron (Al-Khalil ...

Rob Urie is an artist and political economist. His book Zen Economics is published by CounterPunch Books.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s July 14 decision to allow President Donald Trump and his secretary of education, Linda McMahon, to proceed with dismantling the ...

How many atrocities can the federal government get away with? Americans are still vexed by the answers that Congress failed to deliver in 1995. Thirty summers ago, Washington was fixated by a ...

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How many people are out of work? What is the real unemployment rate? We don’t know. What we do know is that the true number is far higher than the unemployment rate at any given time. There are ...

July 25, 2025 “Everything Beautiful in Their Lives is Gone:” US Physicians Read Aloud the Searing Testimony of Desperate Doctors and Patients in Gaza Linda Pentz Gunter ...