5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (529+ words) As of September 8, Forbes reports, more than 100,000 people have signed a petition asking organizers of New York City’s 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony to “carefully consider whether [New York City mayor Zohran] Mamdani’s participation would align with the intention of the ceremony and…...

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, 4+ day ago   (1230+ words) CounterPunch.org Those who call themselves “pacifists” and have been fighting for more than four years to prevent Ukrainians from receiving weapons should now be rejoicing, for they have just gained a high-profile supporter: U.S. President Donald Trump has…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (281+ words) Over the last half-century, pornography has been increasingly “democratized” and, in the process, transformed. Once upon a time men (and some women), often dubbed “the raincoat crowd,” slinked into shops in down-market parts of town to purchase print porn magazines,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1185+ words) CounterPunch.org This is a summer of extreme heat that refuses to end. Record temperatures have fallen one after another across Germany, Czechia, Poland, Denmark, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Italy and beyond. Germany recorded provisional highs above 41.7°C. Czechia reached…...

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   (1442+ words) There is a very real and increasingly noisy meeting point between parts of the American MAGA right, several European far-right parties, and positions which, whatever their motivation, increasingly favour catering to Moscow. Remarkably, this is right at a time when…...

2+ week, 16+ hour 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…...