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Once the darling of the left for championing electric vehicles, even with a hefty $44,000-plus sticker price on a range of best-selling “S3XY” models, Tesla CEO Elon Musk was regularly pilloried by the right for his presumed eco-friendly stance and generous government loans. Back then, the Chinese carmaker BYD was barely a twinkle in Warren Buffet’s investment eye, but now tops Tesla at over $100 billion in annual sales thanks to lower prices, faster charging times, and Musk’s far-right political conversion. Читать дальше...

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk to Mike Prysner about the military, Pete Hegseth’s attacks on Black troops, anti-war resistance, and more. Mike Prysner is a writer and producer of The Empire Files. Since returning from the Iraq war, he has been an organizer of anti-war veterans and service More

A jarring contrast defines the present global landscape. While the IMF forecasts a multiyear drag on growth due to the current tariff wars—and markets eye the United States with crisis-era caution—Beijing is proclaiming an era of regional stability. This divergence isn’t just a matter of differing perspectives. It highlights a fundamental tension in the global More

It’s not a good time to be an American journalist. Or a consumer of American journalism. Or, for that matter, even a skimmer of the headlines crawling across American phones. Donald Trump is suing media corporations and targeting individual journalists on social media. The White House press office is playing musical chairs at its press conferences and More

It took six weeks for the German Army to trample over France. In roughly the same period, President Donald Trump scattered his biggest legal opponents into disarray by issuing over a hundred Executive Orders. The key to both victories, although short-lived for one and still to be decided for Trump, was having a plan and More

California Governor Gavin Newsom and the Israel lobby have enlisted another partner in the frenzy to promote Holocaust education during nationwide protests over Israel’s genocide in Gaza. In San Francisco’s industrial-chic south of Market neighborhood, a data research and education policy firm named West Ed has released a report lamenting that county offices of education More

Back when Elon Musk was just getting his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) off the ground, he was boasting that he would eliminate $2 trillion in annual spending that was waste. That’s almost one-third of the federal budget. Needless to say, this was not a serious target, but Elon Musk is also someone who claimed More

Fuels reduction treatments are the Forest Service’s primary strategy for reducing high severity fire and increasing “resilience” in dry forests. These treatments typically involve cutting large amounts of trees and understory from forests, followed by repeated prescribed burns. But do the benefits of such treatments outweigh the substantial ecological and social risks and costs? This More

Once again, Donald Trump is taking steps to destroy our planet. He signed an executive order fast-tracking deep-sea mining in U.S. and international waters for critical minerals such as cobalt, nickel, and manganese. The problem is that such activity will cause irreversible damage to fragile deep-sea ecosystems. The Trump administration has framed the directive, which More

In February, Elon Musk said he had “accidentally canceled” an Ebola prevention grant, but restored it “immediately.” Now, the same Ebola prevention grant has been canceled again. This is absurd. Was this another thoughtless mistake, or a deliberately cruel decision to make people around the world less safe? Does anyone even know what is going More