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On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt talks with members of Punks Against Apartheid to discuss the history of the network, their entry points into Palestine organizing, and the current watershed moment of cultural intifada across global stages. In 2011, PAA launched a successful cultural BDS campaign against Dead Kennedys’ Jello Biafra, who More

With the student debt crisis spiraling out of control, some media outlets have called it a “national emergency.” Outpacing most other borrowings by consumers, Americans who owed federal student loans more than doubled between 2000 and 2020, “from 21 million to 45 million, and the total amount they owed more than quadrupled from $387 billion to $1.8 trillion,” accordingto a 2024 article in Brookings. More

A big Cadillac limo with Jersey plates was parked down the block. Few locals in East Harlem even owned cars, let alone new ones. Curious, I asked the street kids what’s up. They casually explained that the mafioso come weekly to collect their drug money. Later I found a playground, which served as a veritable narcotics flea market each night. If a blanquito from the suburbs and some third graders could uncover the illicit trade, I wondered why the officials – who plastered the city with “keep New York drug free” signs – couldn’t do the same.

It seems like just yesterday, I was on my school’s campus having meetings with administrators, voicing demands to cut ties with Israel. Whether that was cancelling their study abroad trip to Israel or divesting from zionist institutions, the movement to boycott Israel was alive and well years ago – before October 7th, 2023. More

Bullies, never able to hit upwards, always kick down.  The United States beats their vassals in the Indo-Pacific and Europe with vulgar presumption.  Their vassals kick down to their own appointees, expecting compliance and respect to various degrees.  Australia, long known as Washington’s regional deputy sheriff, looks down on its Pacific Island neighbours as basket More

The concept of “utopia” has essentially disappeared from the American vocabulary.  Amidst all the 2024 electoral clamor and Donald Trump’s call to “Make America Great Again,” no candidate – including the “democratic socialist” Bernie Sanders — invoked the notion of utopia to suggest a better tomorrow.  (Another democratic socialist, New York’s current mayoral candidate Zohran More

A few weeks back, Bill Pulte, the Federal Housing Finance Agency Director (FHFA) and the billionaire heir to a housing construction firm, claimed to have found evidence that Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook had committed mortgage fraud. Donald Trump immediately tried to fire Cook from her position at the Fed, with the intention of More

Last Sunday’s New York Times featured the paper’s top White House correspondent Peter Baker’s late-breaking discovery that “In an Era of Deep Polarization, Unity Is Not Trump’s Mission.” Below I dig into the Times’ stunning unearthing of this breakthrough story—who knew? – and how “the national paper of record” relates its discovery to Donald Trump’s response to the More

So, is living off the grid worth it? If you asked me on that particular night, maybe not. If you asked me today, after not having had a power bill in over a decade, I’d definitely say yes. I like telling this story to help others realize that unplugging from society’s standard systems—public utilities, sewage More

The day after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University, commentators repeated a familiar refrain: “This isn’t who we are as Americans.” Others similarly weighed in. Whoopi Goldberg on “The View” declared that Americans solve political disagreements peacefully: “This is not the way we do it.” Yet other More

The huge Labor Day banner outside the Labor Department building with Trump’s picture and the words “American Workers First” depicts one of Donald’s most disgusting lies. With multiple factual examples, Steve Greenhouse, former labor reporter for the New York Times, provides proof that Trump is the most brazenly “anti-worker” president in U.S. history. With his Big More

Charlie Kirk rose to prominence by promoting a racist, sexist, and bigoted agenda under the guise of Christianity, using distorted, barroom-style arguments that masquerade as sincere debate. Prove me wrong. It is not an argument or debate. It is fallacy. A trick that is dressed up as logic—if I’m not right, then prove it. It More