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CounterPunch is a biweekly newsletter published in the United States that covers politics in a manner its editors describe as "muckraking with a radical attitude". It includes a website, updated daily, which contains much more material not published in the newsletter. Running six to eight pages in length, the CounterPunch newsletter primarily publishes commentaries by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair with regular contributions by others. It is noted for its critical coverage of both Democratic and Republican politicians and its extensive reporting of environmental and trade ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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On Cherry Pond: Going Up Against Big Coal in West Virginia
The first time I was on Cherry Pond it was ramp season, and I joined Judy, Bo, Larry and Ed for the much anticipated spring ritual, in which the tasty wild onions are ...Posted by Beth Wellington -
Terribly Bloodied, Still Breathing
We have learned the language of the war that the Israelis are waging on the collective captive population of Gaza- to distinguish between the sounds of the weaponry used, the ...Posted by Tony Litwinko -
McCain and the International Republican Institute
Though Arizona Senator John McCain seldom talks about it, he has gotten much of his foreign policy experience working with a cloak and dagger operation called the ...Posted by Mark Adams -
Of Whiners and Poor Losers
Why Hillary Shouldn't Be Obama's VPPosted by Ra Ravishankar -
Linking Internet Censorship and Atomic Reactor Terror
The Times found it "profoundly disturbing that an influential senator would even consider telling a media company to shut down constitutionally protected speech." The ACLU has ...Posted by Mark Adams -
Why Iraq Could Blow Up in John McCain's Face
Seldom has the official Iraqi and American perception of what is happening in Iraq felt so different from the reality. Cocooned behind the walls of the Green Zone, defended by ...Posted by Pam Rasmussen -
Israeli Apartheid is the Core of the Crisis
Apartheid in historic Palestine originated, and has persisted, in the ideology of creating a state in which Jews would be separated from non-Jews in terms of their stake in ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The Language Barrier
Most of the time, I believe that the U.S. and other Western countries, can, if they really work at it, bridge the cultural gap and reach some kind of understanding with the ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
Dershowitz Vs. Finkelstein: Who's Right and Whos' Wrong?
The feud between Alan Dershowitz, a senior professor at Harvard Law School, and Norman Finkelstein, a junior professor of political science at DePaul University, is back in ...Posted by Julian Friedland -
A Momentary Glimpse into Daily Life in Iraq
And just as the students and teachers who perished at the hands of a crazed killer on the Virginia Tech campus had done nothing to deserve their fate, neither have the people ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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Debt Deflation Arrives
6.9 per cent of national income is being earmarked to pay down debt – the highest savings rate in 15 years, up from actually negative rates (living on borrowed credit) just ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
How a Former Prisoner Took Down a Big Shot from the Private Prison Industry (and Cheney Pal)
Puryear's judicial nomination did not go unnoticed; it drew the attention of a former CCA prisoner turned criminal justice advocate who opposes private prisons. By conducting ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Bush's Shocking Biblical Prophecy Emerges: God Wants to "Erase" Mid-East Enemies "Before a New Age Begins"
The revelation this month in GQ Magazine that Donald Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary embellished top-secret wartime memos with quotations from the Bible prompts a question. Why ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
CounterPunch: Trying to Revive the Bubble Economy: Obama's Awful Financial Recovery Plan
Martin Wolf started off his Financial Times column for February 11 with the bold question: “Has Barack Obama’s presidency already failed?” The stock market had a similar ...Posted by Doug Greer -
Obama's Work Ethic
The idea that slaves helped build American greatness because (among other things) they preferred work to leisure is so offensively stupid that it clearly wandered into ...Posted by Adam Florin -
Sam Bahour: No Other Option?
We live every day under the bitter burden of Israeli military occupation and we know that this question, presented as rhetorical—did we really have an option? —has a ...Posted by Tony Litwinko -
The Blood-Stained Monster Enters Gaza
War – every war – is the realm of lies. Whether called propaganda or psychological warfare, everybody accepts that it is right to lie for one’s country. Anyone who ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
America's Own Kleptocracy
Overnight, the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve have radically changed the character of American capitalism. It is nothing less than a coup d'êtat for the class that FDR ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
The Next Cuban Missile Crisis?
AIn a move that undoubtedly set off alarm bells in Washington, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced that Venezuelan and Russian ships could soon hold joint naval ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Raiding Democracy in St. Paul
In the months leading up to the Republican National Convention, the FBI-led Minneapolis Joint Terrorist Task Force actively recruited people to infiltrate vegan groups and ...Posted by Kevin Waters
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