Michael A. McCarthy’s The Master’s Tools is about the power that finance exerts over people. He inquires into the problem and how it could realistically ...

The history of humanity is not...a vehicle which we board or get out of at random.  Our past will be for us a burden beneath which we can only collapse as ...

Exclusive to CounterPunch The fragment below was taken from the transcript of an intercepted phone call, no doubt intended for the “ears only” of Russian ...

There was a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth when Trump did away with DEI initiatives. The sad truth, though, is that these initiatives were often ...

The new tax law President Trump and congressional Republicans passed this summer drastically reduces taxes on the wealthiest, slashes essential spending, ...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is calling it a “world-first” contraceptive: an eight-year hormonal IUD. The launch site? Kenya. Not Seattle. Not ...

There’s a growing clamor toss all the poets in the              slammer to bring down hard that poet-pounding hammer. Every Goddamn thing you do no is on ...

Last month, a small brick was removed from our Constitutional wall that separates the state and church. The New York Times’s investigative reporters ...

Peace is the highest good – every day that passes, more soldiers and civilians are killed in the Ukrainian war.  It is ...

Let’s not mince words: every American should be alarmed by President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tactics, theatrics and threats. What is unfolding in the ...

There is increasing evidence that “widespread starvation, malnutrition and disease” are driving a rise in hunger-related deaths“ in Gaza, a group of ...

Zohran Mamdani’s remarkable campaign for New York mayor has left the Democratic party deeply divided. Moderates and ...