Before I begin relating my four-decade tale about Andy Mahler and Me, I want to share an observation from my granddaughter ...

CounterPunch was founded in 1994 on a simple principle: independent journalism must be accountable only to its readers. For ...

A Novel by Bart Schneider; Art by Chester Arnold; Kelly's Cove Press; 2025; $20. Artists, Ezra Pound once observed, were “the ...

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg talk with Leona Morgan about nuclear colonialism in the Southwest and beyond.

Years ago, a rabbi I greatly admire confided in me how he worried that an Israeli government with Benjamin Netanyahu at the helm might lead to the ...

During my many years of going to Italy as an art tourist, I was only peripherally aware of that nation’s complicated recent political history. Sometimes, ...

Watching Donald Trump’s disjointed, narcissistic ramble at the United Nations, I kept thinking: “Why don’t the delegates walk out?” After all, he insulted many of their countries. “You’re destroying ...

Since Charlie Kirk was killed on September 10, amongst the obfuscation and outright misrepresentation of his politics, and ...

Sherlock Holmes, the famous fictional detective, believed that his brother, Mycroft, could also have been a brilliant solver of crimes if he had not been ...

The government shutdown is …taking over the political conversation…But I urge everyone not to overlook the dangerous speech Donald Trump (and Pete ...

What is happening in Italy regarding Gaza is unprecedented in the history of solidarity between the country and any other international cause anywhere. A ...

The recent Pakistan-El Salvador Bitcoin deal exemplifies how the adoption of cryptocurrency can allow emerging economies to ...