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Marco Rubio is the uber-mensch of the Trump administration.  He is the secretary of state, the acting national security adviser, the acting director of (what’s left) of the Agency for International Development, and the acting director of the National Archives.  His only full-time job has never been performed by a secretary of state, canceling visas for international students and making sure that migrants are sent to horrific prisons in El Salvador or the South Sudan where a civil war is taking place. Читать дальше...

“We woke up to the horrifying news that over 100 children had been killed in Gaza that very night. The four of us—myself, Amit, Alma, and Danielle—were devastated. We couldn’t stop crying. We felt we had to do something. We, Israeli Jews are also against this terror and this oppression. This matters. The memory of Shoah is alive for us and Never Again also means Never Again for the Palestinians as well” says Neora Shem. More

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg talk to Sim Kern, author of the brand new, New York Times bestseller, Genocide Bad: Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation. Sim is also the author of The Free People’s Village and an environmental journalist who made a name for themself investigating More

Introduction On October 24, 1970, in writing for the Amsterdam weekly, Vrij Nederland, Dutch journalist and Trotskyite Igor Cornelissen, (1935–2021) known for his cutting-edge surveys of the second world war, communism, and the history of leftist movements in the Netherlands, wrote a series of book reviews on the leading works in the context of analyzing More

Five years ago, George Floyd, an African American, was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made after a store clerk suspected Floyd had used a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill and called the cops.  When the cops arrived they pulled Floyd from his vehicle and during the arrest threw him to the More

Remember when Donald Trump was worried about our trade deficit? Yeah, that must have been days ago. But anyhow, as I and others have pointed out, the tuition and other expenses that foreign students pay to study at places like Harvard is a major source of foreign exchange earnings. Last year, we got more than More

When ICE and other agencies began arresting, detaining, and deporting immigrants this past January under orders from Donald Trump, unions stepped up to support immigrant workers. They called for the release of workers detained and imprisoned without due process, offered know-your-rights workshops and legal assistance, accompanied workers to their ICE check-ins, and gave public displays More