VOICES
Off With Their Tongues!
COMMENTARY - Media hype helped drive the United States into the failed wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Spotify’s Business Model Is Killing Music
PERFORMERS’ RIGHTS - Neil Young’s recent decision to pull his music from Spotify, the world’s largest streaming service, has sparked important questions about how streaming services operate.
We’ll Keep Fighting to Protect Our Bodily Autonomy
WOMEN’S RIGHTS - Earlier this year, a small group of women and I gathered to post artwork around Washington, D.C. We were celebrating the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, which protected women’s constitutional access to abortion.
Help! I’m Addicted to Amazon.
COMMENTARY - The move by many Angelenos to a more sustainable lifestyle was shaken up by the pandemic.
Internet Laughs As Experts Expect Donald Trump’s “Twitter Clone” To Flop Hard
MEDIA WATCH - Donald Trump’s new social media platform’s launch has been delayed yet again, and experts are already saying that it won’t be the smashing success Trump believes it will be as the internet mocks the first post on the site.
Ukraine and the Dangerous Munich Analogy
WORLD WATCH - The crisis over Ukraine, which may be facing an imminent Russian invasion, is an excellent example of the need for greater and more careful analysis of the history, issues, individuals, and institutions that are contributing to the problem—
The Winter Olympics’ American Defectors To China: Reactions Are Appropriate
MARC'S ANGLE - Many people forget that the Olympics is a time for patriotism and national pride in a safe context of sporting events.
The “World’s Greatest Country” is Swirling Down the Drain
COMMENTARY - The United States’ descent into pandemicist and neofascist Hell (something I have documenting for some time here at CounterPunch and recently in a new book titled This Happened Here) under the eco-cidal command of capital continues apace.
Bigotry Unbound: the U.S. Media’s Anti-China Propaganda Blitz
WORLD WATCH - Hate crimes against Asian Americans mushroomed over the past two years.
The Zaibatsu-ization of America
COMMENTARY - Enthusiasts of “the new economy” long cherished the notion that it would be different from the unenlightened, sluggish, and piggish older one.
'Love to Afghanistan' Vigils to Demand Return of $7 Billion Stolen by US
WORLD WATCH - With the people of Afghanistan facing one of the most severe humanitarian crises in the world,