1+ week, 1+ day ago   (70+ words) CounterPunch.org Image by Cole Keister. A look at Jewish views on war and justice as we approach the three-year anniversary of October 7 Throughout its response to Hamas’ heinous attacks, the Israeli government used unusually uncompromising language to defend its…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (746+ words) The eye of a crocodile. Wikimedia. CC BY 2.0 When Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir proposed surrounding a prison holding Palestinian security detainees with Nile crocodiles, many people dismissed the idea as political theater. After all, the image of crocodiles…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (927+ words) Irrational Fear: From Gaza’s Paper Kites to “Unsafe” in Campuses counterpunch.org I recall my childhood growing up in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr el Bared, in Lebanon. We were creative in devising seasonal games that didn’t require much…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (814+ words) CounterPunch.org Iran does not need to defeat the U.S. military if prolonged conflict can turn energy disruption and war fatigue into political pressure in Washington. On August 31, renewed fighting between the United States and Iran pushed Brent crude above $91 a…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1351+ words) CounterPunch.org The lesson of the U.S. defeat in the Iran War is that there’ll be no U.S. war on China over Taiwan and Russia will win, on its own terms, in Ukraine. All Donald “Blockade Everybody” Trump has left is…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (454+ words) Israeli soldier faces Palestinians waiting at the Huwara checkpoint, at the entrance to Nablus, in the occupied West Bank – CC BY-SA 3.0 “President Trump and I often say: peace through strength – first comes strength then comes peace.” – PM Benjamin Netanyahu, 22/06/2025 The…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (255+ words) Image by Javad Esmaeili. Health problems among U.S. veterans often mirror those of local communities in war zones as they are exposed to the same toxic substances. Just as American troops returned home from Iraq with higher rates of diseases like…...

2+ week, 7+ 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…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (310+ words) Netanyahu and Trump at the White House. (Screen capture from video posted to YouTube.) What Antonio Piccarolo’s A Guerra e a Paz na História (War and Peace in History – 1940) tells us about recent armed conflicts. A Guerra e a Paz…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (815+ words) Strip away the diplomatic briefings, Congressional hearings and the endless cable news loops about centrifuges, regional proxies and cyber attacks, and you hit a raw unvarnished nerve. What truly disturbs the United States about the Islamic Republic is not its…...