Joe Kent’s resignation is not an anomaly but an alarm: elite dissent is surfacing early because this war is built on deception. Joe Kent’s resignation is ...
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will go down in history for their respective failures in regime change.  Both Trump and Putin overestimated their military ...
The geopolitical genie is out of the bottle: by capitalizing on geography to disrupt global trade, countries can strengthen their strategic position at ...
Why do so many Americans distrust the Washington Post? “Pro-Iran propaganda network gains traction with posts about Epstein” offers a tankerload of clues. Social media is overflowing with bogus claims ...
Is Donald Trump the ultimate Millennial? What if Trump is not an anomaly in American politics but the purest expression of a generational cultural shift? Trump is not a Millennial by age, but his ...
This week on CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk to journalist Sam Kimball about Israel’s illegal occupation of Syria, Zionist expansion in Lebanon, and the US/Israel war on Iran ...
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Majd Asadi at a protest in Umm al-Fahm, 2025. In his post, Asadi had dared to say that it was a good thing that under Khamanei, Iran hadn’t surrendered to Western imperialists. He also added that the ...
Wars can distract, and for leaders in political purgatory, they can be particularly useful. It remains to be seen whether the UK’s increasing involvement in the illegal war being waged on Iran by ...
There are two wars taking place in Iran – one being fought by the United States, the other by Israel. For the U.S., the war against Iran is a war of ...
An aerial photo shows rectangular tracings etched into dirt, one rectangle after the other, creating a grid across the land. A yellow excavator pulls piles of earth out from within the rectangular ...
Bilateral negotiations are rarely simple, as the late-February negotiations between Iranians and Americans have recently shown. As an American-Swiss citizen, I can recount a story of successful ...