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Review: “The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela”
A divided Korea, a decimated Vietnam, endless war in Afghanistan, a barely functional Iraq, a destroyed Libya, ongoing destruction...
When Warriors Become Saints
Edward Curtin As I sit on the small balcony on the top floor of an old house in the...
Labour’s Necrotising Fasciitis
In the long history of party politics, co-ordinated and systematic attacks on one political party are always initiated and...
REVIEW: Pounding the road with America’s elderly workers
Tony Sutton Now here’s something to ponder as you munch your morning cornflakes: If the US economy is booming,...
REVIEW: Israel, a Beachhead…
Philip Roddis This book is a timely response to three groups: Those yet to grasp that Israel in its...
REVIEW: American Exceptionalism and American Innocence
David William Pear Roberto Sirvent and Danny Haiphong have explored the albatross of myths, legends, lies and damn lies...
REVIEW: Revolution in the Red States
Tony Sutton If you’re one of those sophisticated urbanites who still believe Donald Trump was elected to the US...
REVIEW: “Modified” – A Film About GMOs & Corruption of the Food Supply for Profit
By interweaving personal lives with broader political issues, Modified becomes a compelling documentary. On one level, it's deeply personal....
WATCH: No End in Sight (2007)
Joe Giambrone, The Political Film Blog The Banality of Imperial War Criminals “Not only will America go to your...
Once Upon a Time Never Comes Again
The lobby of the temple of time travel called the Triplex Cinema in Great Barrington, Massachusetts was suffused with...
Answering the Mysterious Call of An Artist’s Spiritual Vocation
Edward Curtin Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive.” Kabir, To Be a Slave of Intensity Strange...
“Only little people pay taxes.”
The Wheel of History Turns To understand the present, we must understand the past, and possibly the future direction...
Looking Through the Screen at the World’s Suffering
Most people on this earth live on the edge of an abyss. Life is a daily struggle to stay...
Between Yes and No, Heaven and Earth with Albert Camus on a Spring Morning
Edward Curtin To give up beauty and the sensual happiness that comes with it and devote one’s self exclusively...
Donbass Borderland
A few months after the e-premiere of Russian Hour’s "New York to Donetsk & Back" documentary on Off-Guardian, there’s...
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Gaza’ by Norman G Finklestein
o, the ultimate question is, do Palestinians have the right to symbolically resist slow death punctuated by periodic massacres,...
Why has CounterPunch spiked Andre Vltchek’s ‘Lies of the Empire’?
Ramin Mazaheri I first started reading Andre Vltchek on the website CounterPunch, which is a truly great leftist website…...
War Criminals Anonymous: A Play in One Act
Hope Kesselring Characters: Ned Diamond – Former Assistant Secretary of State, in his sixties, wearing a WCA T-shirt and...
A Taxing Question: Re-reading Piketty
This book by Thomas Piketty was first published in 2014 and became an instant best seller. It had taken...
A Gentrified Little Town Goes to Pot
Edward Curtin In my little town/ I grew up believing/God keeps his eye on us all.” Simon and Garfunkel,...
