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Millions of Americans who receive health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace are going to see their health insurance premiums double (or worse).
Less for Health Care, More for the Pentagon
The government shutdown ended with a failure to solve the problem of steeply rising health insurance premiums. The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which
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November 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Millions of Americans who receive health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace are going to see their health insurance premiums double (or worse).
The warning we ignore at our peril: From El Salvador’s dungeons to America’s doorstep.
The Warning We Ignore at Our Peril: From El Salvador’s Dungeons to America’s Doorstep
We inhabit a historical moment that resurrects, with chilling familiarity, the state terrorism once made visible under Hitler, Franco, Mussolini, Pinochet, and other dictators who transformed cruelty ...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The warning we ignore at our peril: From El Salvador’s dungeons to America’s doorstep.
President Bone Spurs on Prince Bone Saws: “We have an extremely respected man in the Oval Office today. And a friend of mine for a long time. A very good friend of mine. I’m very proud of the job he’s done. What he’s done is incredible in terms of human rights.”
Roaming Charges: President Bone Spurs Fetes Crown Prince Bone Saws
So it's no surprise thatTrump did more than receive MBS with diplomatic niceties. He lavished praise on the smirking Prince with the eagerness if a supplicant, asserted his innocence with the fervency...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
President Bone Spurs on Prince Bone Saws: “We have an extremely respected man in the Oval Office today. And a friend of mine for a long time. A very good friend of mine. I’m very proud of the job he’s done. What he’s done is incredible in terms of human rights.”
Things happen. Journalists get slain and dismembered. Academics get imprisoned. Activists get tortured. Dissidents disappear. Independent media bows down. Judges kneel.
Political violence, the erosion of free speech, the end of democracy… Things happen.
Political violence, the erosion of free speech, the end of democracy… Things happen.
“Things Happen”: Murder According to Trump
Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018. Seven years later, Donald Trump received Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman—the man U.S...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Things happen. Journalists get slain and dismembered. Academics get imprisoned. Activists get tortured. Dissidents disappear. Independent media bows down. Judges kneel.
Political violence, the erosion of free speech, the end of democracy… Things happen.
Political violence, the erosion of free speech, the end of democracy… Things happen.
One aircraft carrier or health care coverage for tens of thousands? www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/19/o...
One Aircraft Carrier or Health Care Coverage for Tens of Thousands?
There’s an old protest sign I can’t stop thinking about. It read, “It will be a great day in America when our schools have all the money that they need and the Pentagon has to hold a bake sale to pay ...
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November 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
One aircraft carrier or health care coverage for tens of thousands? www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/19/o...
The U.S. military build-up in Latin America and the Caribbean is expanding faster than some may realize. U.S. soldiers and Marines have begun training in the jungles of Panama for the first time in decades.
Trump’s Operation Southern Spear is a New Front in His Widescale Militarization
In an escalation of militarism toward Latin America, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the start of Operation Southern Spear to target so-called
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November 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The U.S. military build-up in Latin America and the Caribbean is expanding faster than some may realize. U.S. soldiers and Marines have begun training in the jungles of Panama for the first time in decades.
The crackdown on Encampments and the surveillance and censorship that followed is only part of a broader and more draconian campaign to restrict students and faculty from criticizing and protesting injustice when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians.
Antisemitism, Campus Censorship and Freedom of Expression
Is it antisemitic to protest the State of Israel for its military occupation of Palestinian territory and its policies toward Palestinians that deny them basic political rights, including the right of...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The crackdown on Encampments and the surveillance and censorship that followed is only part of a broader and more draconian campaign to restrict students and faculty from criticizing and protesting injustice when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians.
The Democrats weren’t going to “win” the shutdown, but they could’ve drawn blood from Trump and his cadre of cruelty in Congress. In the end, they surrendered and all of the bleeding was on their side, from largely self-inflicted wounds.
Roaming Charges: Ask the Houseman
After sweeping the elections last week, the Democrats agreed to a deal to end the shutdown that gave them almost nothing and could have been made weeks ago. It's what they do. The Democrats weren’t go...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The Democrats weren’t going to “win” the shutdown, but they could’ve drawn blood from Trump and his cadre of cruelty in Congress. In the end, they surrendered and all of the bleeding was on their side, from largely self-inflicted wounds.
Dick Cheney created an imperial vice presidency.
Dick Cheney: Two Hearts, But Remained Heartless
Modern medical science gave Dick Cheney one of its greatest gifts when he received a donor heart in 2012 at the age of 71. Thirty-four years earlier, Cheney had suffered his first heart attack; he ha...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Dick Cheney created an imperial vice presidency.
In the high silence of the Andes, where the air thins to a whisper and the earth itself seems to remember older empires, there lies a nation haunted by the sound of waves it can no longer hear.
“The Great Landlocked Rebellion”
In the high silence of the Andes, where the air thins to a whisper and the earth itself seems to remember older empires, there lies a nation haunted by the sound of waves it can no longer hear. It onc...
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November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
In the high silence of the Andes, where the air thins to a whisper and the earth itself seems to remember older empires, there lies a nation haunted by the sound of waves it can no longer hear.
For decades, Washington has sold the world a deadly lie: that “regime change” brings freedom, that U.S. bombs and blockades can somehow deliver democracy. But every country that has lived through this euphemism knows the truth—it instead brings death, dismemberment, and despair.
"Regime Change” in Venezuela is a Euphemism for U.S.-Inflicted Carnage
For decades, Washington has sold the world a deadly lie: that “regime change” brings freedom, that U.S. bombs and blockades can somehow deliver democracy. But every country that has lived through this...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
For decades, Washington has sold the world a deadly lie: that “regime change” brings freedom, that U.S. bombs and blockades can somehow deliver democracy. But every country that has lived through this euphemism knows the truth—it instead brings death, dismemberment, and despair.
The world is failing to prepare for the climate it has already created.
The Global South Is Drowning in Climate Debt
As deadly storms rip through the Caribbean, a new United Nations report delivers a sobering warning: the world is failing to prepare for the climate it has already created.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The world is failing to prepare for the climate it has already created.
One of the worst after-effects of Trump’s radioactive personality is that he is so reviled by many Americans that he has softened the reputation of one of the most evil and destructive figures in American history: Dick Cheney.
Roaming Charges: The Evil Dead
The bipartisan whitewashing of Dick Cheney is as much of a perversion of US history as Trump's eliding any mention of the horrors of slavery, the internment of Japanese-Americans and the genocide agai...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
One of the worst after-effects of Trump’s radioactive personality is that he is so reviled by many Americans that he has softened the reputation of one of the most evil and destructive figures in American history: Dick Cheney.
It is difficult to interpret the Trump administration’s wholesale attacks on governmental programs as anything other than accelerationist efforts to destroy basic features of the American political and economic systems.
Make Aristocracy Great Again: Lost Roots of Techno-Feudalism
It is difficult to interpret the Trump administration’s wholesale attacks on governmental programs as anything other than accelerationist efforts to destroy basic features of the American political an...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It is difficult to interpret the Trump administration’s wholesale attacks on governmental programs as anything other than accelerationist efforts to destroy basic features of the American political and economic systems.
Late last month, the Trump administration deleted funding for the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency. That torpedoed dozens of websites with bevies of reports of federal abuses.
Trump's War on Truth-Tellers
The Trump administration has warred against such truth-tellers since its first week in office. On January 24, President Trump fired 17 inspector generals working for a wide array of federal agencies. ...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Late last month, the Trump administration deleted funding for the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency. That torpedoed dozens of websites with bevies of reports of federal abuses.
Washington Post Editorial Board Endorses Trump’s Golden Dome:
Rightwing Washington Post Editorial Board Endorses Trump's Golden Dome
Over the past several months, the editorial board of the Washington Post has moved steadily to the right, endorsing greater defense budgets, the use of military force, and even making a case for the ...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Washington Post Editorial Board Endorses Trump’s Golden Dome:
Halliburton’s looting of Iraq and the US treasury happened in broad daylight, right under the nose of the press, the Democrats and Michael Moore, who made Dick Cheney’s former company the bete noire of his film “Fahrenheit 9/11.” Nothing deterred.
Dick Cheney, Iraq and the Making of Halliburton
There’s no more pungent symbol of the corrupt nature of the Bush administration’s invasion and occupation of Iraq than Halliburton, the Houston, Texas-based oil services conglomerate, which has made b...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Halliburton’s looting of Iraq and the US treasury happened in broad daylight, right under the nose of the press, the Democrats and Michael Moore, who made Dick Cheney’s former company the bete noire of his film “Fahrenheit 9/11.” Nothing deterred.
With the government shutdown largely over the future of Obamacare, it is a good time to say a bit about the ridiculous cost of healthcare in the United States.
Why is Health Care Expensive?
Healthcare costs were rising far more rapidly before Obamacare was passed in 2010. In the decade before Obamacare passed, healthcare costs increased 4.0 percentage points as a share of GDP, the equiva...
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November 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
With the government shutdown largely over the future of Obamacare, it is a good time to say a bit about the ridiculous cost of healthcare in the United States.
Not too far from Melissa’s flood zone, another kind of disaster has been unfolding in comparative media quiet. This one is caused not by climate, but by our autocratic president, who gave us two month’s warning.
Caribbean Catastrophes: The Hurricane We See and the War We Don't
On September 23, in a thuggish address to the United Nations Donald Trump explicitly threatened to blow “Venezuelan terrorist drug smugglers” “out of existence” in blatant disregard of international l...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Not too far from Melissa’s flood zone, another kind of disaster has been unfolding in comparative media quiet. This one is caused not by climate, but by our autocratic president, who gave us two month’s warning.
There’s no more pungent symbol of the corrupt nature of the Bush administration’s invasion and occupation of Iraq than Halliburton, the Houston, Texas-based oil services conglomerate.
Dick Cheney, Iraq and the Making of Halliburton
There’s no more pungent symbol of the corrupt nature of the Bush administration’s invasion and occupation of Iraq than Halliburton, the Houston, Texas-based oil services conglomerate, which has made b...
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November 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
There’s no more pungent symbol of the corrupt nature of the Bush administration’s invasion and occupation of Iraq than Halliburton, the Houston, Texas-based oil services conglomerate.
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Genocide tends to be recognised “only after a significant portion of the targeted group has already been destroyed and the group as such has suffered irreparable harm.”
When Israelis Call It Out: Finding Genocide in Gaza
It’s been almost an article of faith among Israeli officials: the state they represent is incapable of genocide, their actions always spurred by the
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July 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Genocide tends to be recognised “only after a significant portion of the targeted group has already been destroyed and the group as such has suffered irreparable harm.”
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An extremely important essay by @wsolol.bsky.social on the NYT's favorite genocide denier. www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/25/b...
The New York Times' Bret Stephens, Genocide Denier
In a July 22 essay that is extraordinary even for someone as morally odious as he is, the New York Times columnist and Israeli propagandist Bret Stephens writes that Israel is not committing genocide ...
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July 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
An extremely important essay by @wsolol.bsky.social on the NYT's favorite genocide denier. www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/25/b...
This tragedy is different from past atrocities in one disturbing respect: the suffering, the use of starvation as a weapon, the unrelenting bombardment, the mass murder, they are laid bare for all to see. The violence is not concealed, it is flaunted.
The Silent Cries of Gaza: A Legacy of Innocence Lost and the Urgent Call to Confront Genocide
In Gaza, the atrocities visited upon children are unspeakable, a violence that staggers the imagination. Omer Bartov, a distinguished scholar of Holocaust and Genocide studies, reports in The New York...
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July 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This tragedy is different from past atrocities in one disturbing respect: the suffering, the use of starvation as a weapon, the unrelenting bombardment, the mass murder, they are laid bare for all to see. The violence is not concealed, it is flaunted.
Timber mining is Empire’s latest scorched earth policy.
Genocidal Clowns Plunder Public Forests
Here in Montana, early mining claims at Benetsee Creek (1852); Bannack (1860); Alder Creek near Virginia City (1862); and Last Chance Gulch in Helena
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July 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Timber mining is Empire’s latest scorched earth policy.