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… even though I will probably never get published on there,...
All Power to the Banks: The Winners-take-all Regime of Emmanuel Macron
by Diana Johnstone, via Counterpunch A ghost of the past was the real winner of the French presidential election. Emmanuel Macron won only because a majority felt they had...
British Troops Enter Syria and Libya to Ensure That War Outlives ISIS
by Dan Glazebrook, via CounterPunch The Normandy landings, launched 72 years ago this week, saw the opening of a second front against the Nazis in Europe by the US...
The Myth of the Spoiler: Why the Machine Elites Fear Democracy
by Richard Moser from CounterPunch Spoiler arguments are part of an interlocking set of social control discourses that too often govern our thoughts and actions regarding elections and representational...
Israel, the Media and the Anatomy of a Sick Society
Reading the New York Times, Washington Post, and other allegedly liberal major media outlets, one could be forgiven for thinking that the nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is tit-for-tat,...
Stop Bombing Syria: a Letter from Mark Rylance, Brian Eno, John Pilger et al.
via Counter Punch News Service We are gravely concerned at the possibility of a parliamentary decision to bomb Syria. David Cameron is planning such a vote in the House...
