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, 6+ day ago   (1197+ words) CounterPunch.org Restricting access to social media platforms to children of a certain age has become something of a spreading mania. This prohibitionist urge has captured the interest of governments for its shallow, meretricious appeal. Refusing to deal with the…...

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, 9+ 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, 6+ day ago   (516+ words) Yesterday, I wrote that I was far more concerned about Donald Trump’s regime of rampant corruption than the $40 trillion debt. I had a lot of pushback from people telling me that the $40 trillion debt is actually a really big deal....