On reading of the shadow of the Virgin Mary appearing on the bathroom floor of an auto parts store in the border town of Progreso, Texas. At the Vatican, ...

Friedman’s dreamscape for the Middle East makes no sense on any level.  Even former secretary of state Antony Blinken ...

The re-coronation of the lumpen-capitalist Donald Trump as US president is a no-doubt consequential moment. Yet Trump has ...

When I read Thomas Gaither’s obituary in the New York Times, “Thomas GaitherKeep Your Head Down, Who Chose Jail After Civil ...

The idea of slavery in modern times is a foreign concept for most Westerners. Of course, the Black Lives Matter movement was ...

It was from the US that the grey squirrel was first introduced to the UK. Two of them have now moved into the attic. I woke ...

I’m always happy when something I and others have been talking about for years makes it to the New York Times. For that ...

This week on CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk to David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz about their new book, "Building the Worlds that Kill Us: Disease, Death and Inequality in ...

While it is debatable as to exactly which of the many war-mongering lies told by politicians has resulted in the most disastrous outcome, when it comes to falsehoods declared by the psychiatry ...

The weekend after Christmas, one of my sources was stabbed in Bullock Prison. He and several witnesses to the stabbing described the incident to me in ...

With Republicans in control of all three branches of the federal government, liberal states should increasingly fund cultivated-meat research. For those ...

I interviewed three anti-nuke activists to understand the Doomsday Clock and how our society thinks about the very real threat of nuclear war. “Dear young ...