CounterPunch was founded in 1994 on a simple principle: independent journalism must be accountable only to its readers. For more than 30 years, that has remained unchanged. We have no corporate ...

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg talk with Leona Morgan about nuclear colonialism in the Southwest and beyond.

During my many years of going to Italy as an art tourist, I was only peripherally aware of that nation’s complicated recent political history. Sometimes, ...

Opera thrives on competition as much as collaboration—on who can sing higher, louder, longer, more passionately; what production can seduce or scandalize ...

He had moments of discomfort and embarrassment – pressed into calling the Qatari Prime Minister by his host to apologise for striking Doha and made to pay ...

A Novel by Bart Schneider; Art by Chester Arnold; Kelly's Cove Press; 2025; $20. Artists, Ezra Pound once observed, were “the ...

Sherlock Holmes, the famous fictional detective, believed that his brother, Mycroft, could also have been a brilliant solver of crimes if he had not been ...

Near-death experiences (NDEs) are a widely reported yet poorly understood phenomenon. Though there is no agreed-upon definition of an NDE, it has ...

The era of the Department of Defense is over… From this moment forward, the only mission of the newly restored Department of War is this: warfighting.” — ...

Before I begin relating my four-decade tale about Andy Mahler and Me, I want to share an observation from my granddaughter Raina, which I know you all ...

Ours would be the normal story of imperial powers rising and falling on Planet Earth — nothing new there, of course — if it weren’t for one thing: the ...

World leaders meet every September for the UN General Assembly. There have been plenty of weird moments over the years: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ...