Bill Weinberg
@billweinberg.bsky.social
Journalist, blogger, ranter, raconteur. Pragmatic anti-dogmatic anarchist. Obsessive copy-editor. Support my CounterVortex podcast on Patreon. http://patreon.com/countervortex
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Podcast: NYC turns up the volume! II
Zohran Mamdani hasn't even taken office, and already there has been a physical skirmish between ICE agents and NYPD cops in Washington Heights. This portends a full-on confrontation between federal an...
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The #CounterVortex podcast continues its discussion of how #ZohranMamdani's election heightens the contradictions in American society in a salubrious way—despite his own internal contradictions that activists will need to challenge him on. countervortex.org/blog/podcast...
#CounterVortex podcast argues that Mamdani's election heightens the contradictions in American society in a salubrious way. Yet his pledge to destroy Manhattan's Elizabeth St Garden points to contradictions in Mamdani's own politics. Listen (& support) on #Patreon... www.patreon.com/posts/nyc-tu...
NYC turns up the volume! II | Bill Weinberg
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November 17, 2025 at 6:25 AM
#CounterVortex podcast argues that Mamdani's election heightens the contradictions in American society in a salubrious way. Yet his pledge to destroy Manhattan's Elizabeth St Garden points to contradictions in Mamdani's own politics. Listen (& support) on #Patreon... www.patreon.com/posts/nyc-tu...
The latest #CounterVortex headlines from #Gaza, #Lebanon, #Brazil, #ElSalvador, #Mexico, #Texas and #NewYorkCity ...
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Gaza and Lebanon: the ceasefires that aren’t
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November 17, 2025 at 6:11 AM
The latest #CounterVortex headlines from #Gaza, #Lebanon, #Brazil, #ElSalvador, #Mexico, #Texas and #NewYorkCity ...
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The #CounterVortex podcast continues its discussion of how #ZohranMamdani's election heightens the contradictions in American society in a salubrious way—despite his own internal contradictions that activists will need to challenge him on. countervortex.org/blog/podcast...
Podcast: NYC turns up the volume! II
Zohran Mamdani hasn't even taken office, and already there has been a physical skirmish between ICE agents and NYPD cops in Washington Heights. This portends a full-on confrontation between federal an...
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November 17, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The #CounterVortex podcast continues its discussion of how #ZohranMamdani's election heightens the contradictions in American society in a salubrious way—despite his own internal contradictions that activists will need to challenge him on. countervortex.org/blog/podcast...
My latest for #CannabisNow Magazine... The budget bill that ended the government shutdown includes a provision that bans hemp-derived #THC... cannabisnow.com/thc-at-issue...
New Legislation Bans Hemp-Derived THC
It was federal subsidies for healthcare that were center stage in the government shutdown and the Capitol Hill deal that finally ended it. But the fight over the heretofore ambiguous legal status of h...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
My latest for #CannabisNow Magazine... The budget bill that ended the government shutdown includes a provision that bans hemp-derived #THC... cannabisnow.com/thc-at-issue...
Fortunately, they have now been released, but it was not at all clear that they would be when they were sent to the CECOT for indefinite detention, without charge or conviction. I don't think people apprehend how close we are to Nazi-like levels of evil... countervortex.org/blog/deporte...
Deportees in El Salvador were tortured: report
Venezuelan nationals deported to El Salvador by the US government earlier this year were tortured and ill-treated, advocacy groups reported. According to a report jointly released by Human Rights Watc...
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November 16, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Fortunately, they have now been released, but it was not at all clear that they would be when they were sent to the CECOT for indefinite detention, without charge or conviction. I don't think people apprehend how close we are to Nazi-like levels of evil... countervortex.org/blog/deporte...
The latest #CounterVortex weekly headlines from #Sudan, #Nigeria, #Tunisia, #Venezuela, #Alaska, #Chicago and #NewYorkCity .... open.substack.com/pub/counterv...
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Sudan: atrocities as North Kordofan city falls to RSF
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November 10, 2025 at 6:03 AM
The latest #CounterVortex weekly headlines from #Sudan, #Nigeria, #Tunisia, #Venezuela, #Alaska, #Chicago and #NewYorkCity .... open.substack.com/pub/counterv...
The #CounterVortex podcast offers its take on the #ZohranMamdani victory. Paradoxically, it is the threat of #MAGA backlash that could keep Zohran true to his progressive and working class base. Listen (and support us!) on #Patreon... www.patreon.com/posts/nyc-tu...
NYC turns up the volume! | Bill Weinberg
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November 10, 2025 at 5:26 AM
The #CounterVortex podcast offers its take on the #ZohranMamdani victory. Paradoxically, it is the threat of #MAGA backlash that could keep Zohran true to his progressive and working class base. Listen (and support us!) on #Patreon... www.patreon.com/posts/nyc-tu...
#ZohranMamdani suffers from limitations that make him vulnerable to pressure from NYC's permanent government to betray his prole base. However, the #MAGA backlash to his mayoralty may help keep him true to that base. The #CounterVortex podcast breaks it down... countervortex.org/blog/podcast...
Podcast: NYC turns up the volume!
The anarchist critique of Zohran Mamdani's election in the New York City mayoral race reminds us that "socialist faces in high places" do not bring fundamental change, and Gotham has seen mayors befor...
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November 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
#ZohranMamdani suffers from limitations that make him vulnerable to pressure from NYC's permanent government to betray his prole base. However, the #MAGA backlash to his mayoralty may help keep him true to that base. The #CounterVortex podcast breaks it down... countervortex.org/blog/podcast...
I can't get over how lucky we are that we elected the isolationist peacenik Trump and not that neocon war-monger Kamala. Can you imagine? countervortex.org/blog/potenti...
Potential war crimes seen in Trump’s Caribbean airstrikes
UN human rights experts raised concern over "repeated and systematic lethal attacks" by the US military against vessels in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, which they said could constitute war crime...
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November 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I can't get over how lucky we are that we elected the isolationist peacenik Trump and not that neocon war-monger Kamala. Can you imagine? countervortex.org/blog/potenti...
It isn't just #Darfur. A second #ElFasher is unfolding at #Bara in #NorthKordofan state —to virtual silence from the outside world. countervortex.org/blog/sudan-a...
Sudan: atrocities as North Kordofan city falls to RSF
Summary executions of civilians by fighters of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are being reported from Bara city, in Sudan's North Kordofan state, after it was captured by the paramilitary army followi...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
It isn't just #Darfur. A second #ElFasher is unfolding at #Bara in #NorthKordofan state —to virtual silence from the outside world. countervortex.org/blog/sudan-a...
It was not just a blustering tweet this time, there is a bureaucratic process in motion. #Nigeria, #Venezuela.... while appeasing Russia and virtually finking out on #Article5? See a pattern here? Bullies never pick on someone their own size. countervortex.org/blog/trump-t...
Trump threatens Nigeria with military action, aid cut
US President Donald Trump said that he has ordered the Pentagon, or "Department of War," to prepare contingency plans for potential military action in Nigeria. Trump alleged that the Nigerian governme...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
It was not just a blustering tweet this time, there is a bureaucratic process in motion. #Nigeria, #Venezuela.... while appeasing Russia and virtually finking out on #Article5? See a pattern here? Bullies never pick on someone their own size. countervortex.org/blog/trump-t...
The latest #CounterVortex weekly headlines from #Sudan, #Cameroon, #Tanzania, the #WestBank, #Colombia and #Bolivia... open.substack.com/pub/counterv...
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Sudan: massacres, ‘execution spree’ as El Fasher falls to RSF
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November 3, 2025 at 6:25 AM
The latest #CounterVortex weekly headlines from #Sudan, #Cameroon, #Tanzania, the #WestBank, #Colombia and #Bolivia... open.substack.com/pub/counterv...
Remember #SaveDarfur? There is a sickening sense of deja vu here. How did the world allow this to happen? A view from the #CounterVortex on #Patreon... www.patreon.com/posts/darfur...
Darfur again —a genocide foretold | Bill Weinberg
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November 3, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Remember #SaveDarfur? There is a sickening sense of deja vu here. How did the world allow this to happen? A view from the #CounterVortex on #Patreon... www.patreon.com/posts/darfur...
Throughout the siege of #ElFasher, rights observers warned the city faced a general massacre when it fell to the Rapid Support Forces ( #RSF ). Amid the foretold massacre, calls now mount for #BDS against the #UAE, apparent underwriter of the genocidal RSF. countervortex.org/blog/podcast...
Podcast: Darfur again —a genocide foretold
Throughout the 18-month siege of El Fasher, capital of Sudan's North Darfur state, international human rights observers had been warning that the city's residents faced a general massacre when it even...
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November 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Throughout the siege of #ElFasher, rights observers warned the city faced a general massacre when it fell to the Rapid Support Forces ( #RSF ). Amid the foretold massacre, calls now mount for #BDS against the #UAE, apparent underwriter of the genocidal RSF. countervortex.org/blog/podcast...
@newhumanitarian.bsky.social The favela raid was Oct. 29, not Sept. 29. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/10...
Massacre in El Fasher, Melissa’s devastation, and Gaza’s violent limbo: The Cheat Sheet
A weekly read to keep you in the loop on humanitarian issues.
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November 1, 2025 at 1:27 AM
@newhumanitarian.bsky.social The favela raid was Oct. 29, not Sept. 29. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/10...
Zohran is next. countervortex.org/blog/us-impo...
US imposes sanctions on Colombian president
The US administration announced sanctions against Colombian President Gustavo Petro, his family, and Colombia's Minister of the Interior Armando Benedetti. The US will also reduce financial assistance...
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October 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Zohran is next. countervortex.org/blog/us-impo...
I can't believe how little attention this is getting. The REAL double standard about #genocide is very helpful to Israel and its propagandists. The deeper the silence about #Darfur, the happier Bibi Netanyahu is.
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Sudan: massacres, ‘execution spree’ as El Fasher falls to RSF
Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have fired on fleeing civilians, plundered hospitals, and carried out over a dozen "field executions" in El Fasher in the days since the paramilitary army took the c...
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October 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I can't believe how little attention this is getting. The REAL double standard about #genocide is very helpful to Israel and its propagandists. The deeper the silence about #Darfur, the happier Bibi Netanyahu is.
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The Trump regime, in its own mercurial calculus, is putting breaks on the annexationist agenda for the moment, but this is still happening... countervortex.org/blog/skyrock...
‘Skyrocketing’ settler attacks on West Bank
The regional head of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) for the Occupied Palestinian Territory warned that Israeli settlers are increasing violence against Pal...
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October 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The Trump regime, in its own mercurial calculus, is putting breaks on the annexationist agenda for the moment, but this is still happening... countervortex.org/blog/skyrock...
The latest #CounterVortex weekly headlines from #Ukraine, #Russia, #Iraq, #Kurdistan, #Libya, #Chad, #Guatemala, #Nicaragua and #NewYorkCity... open.substack.com/pub/counterv...
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Russia calls up more reserves as Ukraine war stalls
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October 27, 2025 at 5:00 AM
The latest #CounterVortex weekly headlines from #Ukraine, #Russia, #Iraq, #Kurdistan, #Libya, #Chad, #Guatemala, #Nicaragua and #NewYorkCity... open.substack.com/pub/counterv...
The #CounterVortex podcast offers a sarcastic but didactic anarchist annotation of the #NYC mayoral debate. Listen (and support us!) on Patreon...
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Fascism, socialism and the NYC mayoral race | Bill Weinberg
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October 27, 2025 at 3:34 AM
The #CounterVortex podcast offers a sarcastic but didactic anarchist annotation of the #NYC mayoral debate. Listen (and support us!) on Patreon...
www.patreon.com/posts/fascis...
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The #CounterVortex podcast argues that the promise of #socialism represented by #ZohranMamdani is (alas) not as real as the threat of #fascism represented by #CurtisSliwa—or MAGA-acquiescence represented #AndrewCuomo... countervortex.org/blog/fascism...
Fascism, socialism and the NYC mayoral race
In Episode 301 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg offers his anarchist annotation of the New York City mayoral candidates' debate. He makes the case that the promise of "socialism" represente...
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October 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The #CounterVortex podcast argues that the promise of #socialism represented by #ZohranMamdani is (alas) not as real as the threat of #fascism represented by #CurtisSliwa—or MAGA-acquiescence represented #AndrewCuomo... countervortex.org/blog/fascism...
I'm jealous that they got to him first.
October 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I'm jealous that they got to him first.
I'm old enough to remember when #Sandinista #Nicaragua was looked to as a hopeful example for the world, and US-backed right-wing dictatorships in Latin America were carrying out "dirty wars." #ThroughTheLookingGlass
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UN experts press Nicaragua on fate of ‘disappeared’
United Nations human rights experts called on Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s government to clarify the fate and whereabouts of more than 120 individuals who appear to have been forcibly disappea...
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October 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I'm old enough to remember when #Sandinista #Nicaragua was looked to as a hopeful example for the world, and US-backed right-wing dictatorships in Latin America were carrying out "dirty wars." #ThroughTheLookingGlass
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The latest #CounterVortex headlines from #Afghanistan, #Pakistan, #Kashmir, #Tunisia, #IvoryCoast, #Peru and #Russia ....
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Fighting breaks out along Durand Line
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October 20, 2025 at 3:57 AM
The latest #CounterVortex headlines from #Afghanistan, #Pakistan, #Kashmir, #Tunisia, #IvoryCoast, #Peru and #Russia ....
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In Episode 300 of the #CounterVortex podcast (which also marks 24 years since the launch of our news blog in the aftermath of 9-11), we take stock of our mission in light of the now urgently dire world situation....Listen (and support us!) on #Patreon.... www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
Episode 300: the CounterVortex meta-rant | Bill Weinberg
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October 20, 2025 at 3:10 AM
In Episode 300 of the #CounterVortex podcast (which also marks 24 years since the launch of our news blog in the aftermath of 9-11), we take stock of our mission in light of the now urgently dire world situation....Listen (and support us!) on #Patreon.... www.patreon.com/posts/episod...