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For the past 80 years, the United States and Israeli air power have owned the global and Middle Eastern skies, respectively, but wars are typically won with ground power, not air power.  World War II was won against Germany with ground power, particularly Soviet ground power, and the United States hasn’t been on a winning side since, with the exception of the war with Iraq in 1991 (Desert Storm).  Other U.S. wars have been fought to a standstill (Korea 1950-1953) or to something less than victory over decades of fighting in Vietnam... Читать дальше...

The Israeli killing of medical workers in Gaza is further proof of a lack of any restraint on the part of Israel’s Defense Forces (IDF). They have been accused of executing 15 handcuffed medics before burying them in a mass grave underneath their crushed ambulances in southern Gaza. As Middle East Eye reported on the medics: “They were found over the weekend in a mass grave with around 20 multiple gunshots in each one of them.” According to Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil... Читать дальше...

We live in an age when disappearance is no longer a metaphor. It is both a threat and a governing principle. Under the Trump regime, language is no longer a prelude to violence—it is its echo, its announcement, its choreography. The rhetoric of erasure has been sharpened into policy, and policy has become the staging ground for an unfolding theater of cruelty. Immigrants, dissidents, students, institutions, and even sovereign nations are now targets of an authoritarian imagination that seeks not merely to silence but to unmake. Читать дальше...

March 23 – Bone Valley, Florida If there’s one thing about ecology everybody should know, it’s the story of shit. If you already do(o), or are squeamish, please skip the next paragraph. Back in pre-industrial and pre-capitalist days, farming was sustainable. Poop, and pee too, were collected and used as fertilizer to nourish crops, creating More

No reasonable person now objects to recognizing the Supreme Court as a political body – at least in reference its six-person super majority. And few would question that the same majority is an aggressively Christian body, Roman Catholic in flavor. Politics and religion have made this Supreme Court supreme in ways not intended by the More

In just 24 hours, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nominated Eli Sharvit as the new chief of Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, only to quickly retract the nomination. This episode highlights the lack of coherence in Netanyahu’s leadership, reinforcing the perception that decisions at the highest levels of government are made impulsively and without More

Combat sports journalist Luke Thomas joins Eric Draitser on CounterPunch for a discussion of the politics of MMA, Boxing, and combat sports broadly. The discussion explores the inspiration of Belal Muhammad for Palestinian solidarity and resistance, the right-wing politics and culture of the UFC, the motivations for the Saudi government’s move into sports, the role More

I believe that countries in the Global South are in an abusive relationship with the United States. We don’t want to be in this domineering cycle of abuse but unfortunately the US government will never cease in its ambition to control our lives and resources, which forces us to endlessly resist its aggression. Through personal More

The Trump administration’s EPA has put the home insurance industry, home mortgage industry, real estate industry, and individual homeownership on notice that the rules are changing against their best interests. Already, before these negative changes to EPA policy, radical climate change has forced insurance companies to eliminate home coverage in regions of America. Trump’s EPA More

What we’re witnessing is the calculated use of emergency powers to concentrate power in the hands of the president, enrich the Deep State, and dismantle what remains of economic and constitutional safeguards. Nearly 250 years after our nation’s founders rebelled over abused property rights, Americans are once again being subjected to taxation without any real More

The report to President Nixon submitted on June 11th 1971 by the U. S. Tariff Commission considered the petition of the “Pipe Organ Workers Federal Labor Union, AFL-CIO, with the assistance of the United Furniture Workers of America, AFL-CIO … for a determination of eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance on behalf of production and More

In the colonial view of the world — and, in its own strange fashion, Donald Trump’s view couldn’t be more colonial — White European colonizers were embattled beacons of civilization, rationality, and progress, confronting dangerous barbaric hordes beyond (and even, sometimes, within) their own frontiers. Colonial violence then was a necessary form of self-defense needed More

President Trump vows to “make America wealthy again” as he pursues a global trade policy that favors new, sweeping tariffs, a price hike on foreign-made goods arriving for sale in America. Invoking his authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, he will impose a 10% tariff on all countries to begin April More

Many reporters and commentators have claimed the United States has the upper hand in a trade war with China because we have a large trade deficit with China. We import almost $440 billion a year in goods from China, while they import only a bit over $140 billion from us. That means we can impose More

The fundamental issue Serbian societies (in Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina / Republika Srpska) face with Croatian nationalism lies in the fact that, despite the existence of comprehensive and high-quality studies on its pre-modern origins and modern evolution—its political, cultural, and legal dimensions—authored by scholars such as Radivoje Radić, Milorad Ekmečić, and Mirjana Stefanovski, More

I desire, even with profane words, if I may not use sacred, to indicate the heaven of this deity and to report what hints I have collected of the transcendent simplicity and energy of the Highest Law.  –Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Oversoul All reform aims in some one particular to let the soul have its way More

As someone who strongly opposed disastrous unfettered free trade deals with China, Mexico and other low-wage countries, I understand that we need trade policies that benefit American workers, not just large corporations. Targeted tariffs can be a powerful tool to stop corporations from outsourcing American jobs. They can help level the playing field for American More

Right after the election, Wall Street observers noted that the stock prices for two companies – GEO Group and CoreCivic – soared right away. What was happening? Trump’s threatened policy of mass deportation would be a boon for the private prison industry, and these two companies are the biggest players. The White House’s pledge to More

Thanks to Donald Trump, the 45th AND the 47th President of the Greatest Democracy on Earth (NOT!)—liberal white Euro-America now knows what the two-thirds world (also referred to as the Third World or the Global South)-has always known in its gut– albeit those of us from the ( so-called) global south who immigrated to the More

One of the late Jacques Derrida’s most useful exercises in linguistic play was to hyphenate “represent.” The word that appears after the alteration, “re-present,” offers transformed definition and application. To re-present something, especially a memory, is to present it anew, but also to mark, mangle, and manufacture a different present. The present now, which is More

The central slogan of our times should not be #handsoff but rather #handson, i.e. we need the democratic control of the economy, including firms, budgets, industrial policy and development. The wealth-generating power in the hands of oligarchs, super-wealthy individuals, mega-banks and financiers is what we need to get our hands on. We need to get More

On April 3rd, the Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, issued an Emergency Order (EO) to accelerate logging on national forest lands. The alleged emergency is the presumed increase in wildfires across the West. Unfortunately, most of the rationales for this “emergency” are based on flawed assumptions about “active” management (better known as logging) and the More

It was something Grace Blakeley said that first drew my attention to the little-discussed relationship between young people and trade unions in the UK today. For those unfamiliar with Blakeley, she’s a prominent economist, writer, and journalist known for her sharp critiques of late capitalism. Alongside her economic commentary, she’s released music, travelled through Central More

Journalists attacked, discredited, and labeled “enemies of the people.” Loyalty tests. Court rulings ignored. Judges harassed. Whistleblowers discredited. Protesters rebranded as “extremists” by people who actually are. Books banned. Curricula rewritten to serve a political agenda so thinly veiled it might as well be written in all caps. A sitting president refusing to commit to More

Recently, Verso Books published a translation of Louisa Yousfi’s Rester barbare, giving it the English title In Defense of Barbaraism: Non-whites Against the Empire. Some would call this text a brutal, crude, even savage book. My response to that charge is simple. That is part of its intention. In Defense of Barbarism is a compact More