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We saw millions of workers displaced in manufacturing, as our trade deficit ballooned from 1997 to 2007. Communities across the industrial heartland were devastated as the factories that supported ...
Election 2024: Prediction and Reasoning - CounterPunch.org
Oct 22, 2024 · The last few weeks (sometimes the last few months) of a presidential election cycle always leave me feeling somewhat burnt out. As a political columnist, I prefer to focus on events, policy, and ...
Wanted! - CounterPunch.org
Nov 23, 2024 · The ICC has finally charged Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant with war crimes in Gaza and issued warrants for their arrests. The ICC charges against Netanyahu and Gallant include not only specific ...
Children of the Grave - CounterPunch.org
Dec 15, 2024 · The aftermath of the December 12 Israeli airstrike on Al-Nuseirat Refugee Camp in central Gaza, which claimed the lives of 28 civilians and left over 50 others injured, mostly women and children.
American Journalism on the Brink - CounterPunch.org
Nov 10, 2024 · Ed Rampell was named after legendary CBS broadcaster Edward R. Murrow because of his TV exposes of Senator Joe McCarthy. Rampell majored in Cinema at Manhattan’s Hunter College and is an L.A ...
The Collapse of Antiquity - CounterPunch.org
The Collapse of Antiquity, the sequel to Michael Hudson’s “…and forgive them their debts,” is the second and latest book in his trilogy on the history of debt.It describes how the dynamics ...
Block-Busting Beirut - CounterPunch.org
Sep 28, 2024 · + Recall that this week of ferocious Israeli airstrikes inflicting mass civilian casualties across Lebanon began with Emanuel Macron and Joe Biden introducing a plan for a 21-day ceasefire in ...
On the Joint Resolutions of Disapproval to Block the Sale of …
Nov 19, 2024 · Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli airstrike on the El-Remal aera in Gaza City on October 9, 2023. Israel continued to battle Hamas fighters on October 10 and massed tens of ...
A Punk Rock Paean - CounterPunch.org
Aug 17, 2024 · Any rock music fan worthy of being considered as such knows that the Pacific Northwest was a major focal point of the music in the late 1980s and the 1990s. Indeed, a sound the industry called ...
The Song Remains the Same: Detuning the Democratic Defeat
Nov 22, 2024 · Released only the day before the election, will.i.am’s sonic squib, “Yes She Can,” was the final political misfire of the musical campaign, the cannon’s