1+ week, 4+ day ago   (925+ words) counterpunch.org When the Trump administration abducted the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife on January 3, an open incitement to international lawbreaking was asserted. Here was thuggish impunity, crude acquisition and harsh plunder in operation: the seizure of a…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (579+ words) Before we catch up on the game, here are the latest numbers on market capitalization and P/E ratios: It’s the fourth quarter and the game is tied, but it’s not clear the odds are even. Silicon Valley jumped out…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (724+ words) Low-wage U.S. workers have faced multiple rising threats to their economic and personal security over the past year. How have the largest employers of low-wage workers responded to these threats? This year’s edition of the annual Institute for Policy Studies Executive…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1295+ words) Back in March, when the Trump administration and the Israeli government initiated their attack on Iran, it didn’t take a prophet to foresee the potential for an energy disruption due to the Strait of Hormuz getting blocked off to at…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (50+ words) CounterPunch.org Ed Sanders is a poet, musician and writer. He founded Fuck You: a Magazine of the Arts, as well as the Fugs. He edits the Woodstock Journal. His books include: The Family, Sharon Tate: a Life and the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (361+ words) Many U.S. companies are experiencing long delays in getting export licenses to sell their goods in China. Most of these products, however, are already available in China. Furthermore, 82 percent of these firms say the products stuck in Commerce Department review already…...

2+ week, 11+ hour ago   (167+ words) For the prime-age or population (25 to 54 years old), ideally 80 percent or more of the population should be employed. The American Community Survey data for 2024 – the most recent available – indicate a national average of 82.2 percent of the prime-age population working. This…...

2+ week, 11+ hour ago   (673+ words) The ongoing billionaire-politician surge has tapped into a wider anti-establishment mood in the country, and the shrinking of the permanent bureaucracy under DOGE has further elevated political appointees and outside advisers. But it is neither a new American phenomenon nor…...

2+ week, 11+ hour ago   (730+ words) When monsters square off, they are quick to showcase their asymmetrical superpowers. Put bluntly: China has the rocks, and America has the chips. With these superpowers on display, the two countries have clashed in a series of trade negotiations, tense…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (479+ words) Serkan Fırtına is a Turkish dramaturg, playwright, and culture writer. Fırtına serves as the Artistic Director of Efeler City Theatre, and their essays have appeared in various UK and international publications (including BritRock Heaven). Image by Sumaid pal Singh Bakshi....