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  • An Undemocratic Union Was Key to César Chávez’s Sexual Abuse

    In 2011 Frank Bardacke published an eight-hundred-page history of the United Farm Workers (UFW) union: Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers. It opened many eyes to the reasons the UFW became a shadow of its former self. Bardacke starts the book with an epigraph, a quote

  • Israel and the US Have Been Waging War on Iran’s Development

    When Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced, with the satisfied air of an industrialist surveying demolished competition, that Israeli strikes had destroyed around 70 percent of Iran’s steel production capacity, he was not describing a military achievement. He was boasting about an act of economic destruction: one aimed not at soldiers or weapons systems, but

  • Ben Lerner Hears Ghosts in the Wires

    In a short story called “Wireless,” published in Scribner’s in 1901, Rudyard Kipling described “a glass tube” with “two tiny silver plugs, and between them an infinitesimal pinch of metallic dust.” Fiddling with the plugs, Kipling’s protagonist slips into a trance and spontaneously transcribes John Keats’s “The Eve of St. Agnes,” a poem he has

  • Capitalist Profits Depend on Stealing Our Future

    We live in an age in which extraordinary wealth seems to arrive from unfathomable sources. When the US firm Uber went public in 2019, the stock market set its value at $82 billion, an immense figure for a ten-year-old car service company that owned no cars and had never made a profit. To explain such

  • Zohran Mamdani’s Toughest Task in 100 Days: Taxing the Rich

    How does a socialist mayor, elected as a consummate outsider, actually govern once elected in the face of pressures from all sides? It’s a question many heads of US cities, from Schenectady mayor George Lunn to the Milwaukee “sewer socialists” to a young Bernie Sanders in Burlington, have had to answer. One hundred days into

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    • After the Attack on Sam Altman’s Home, Will AI CEOs Go On the Offensive?

      Sam Altman suggested that an investigative story describing him as someone “unconstrained by truth” with a “sociopathic lack of concern” for consequences caused an early Friday attack on his San Francisco home. The OpenAI CEO’s unsubstantiated implication came in a post on his personal blog published on Friday, hours after the attack. “There was an

    • Trump: Buy American, Unless It’s for My Ballroom

      President Trump, who has long married “protecting American steel” with his “Make America Great Again” slogan, reportedly accepted tens of millions of dollars in donated steel from a foreign firm for his ballroom just days before he slashed tariffs in half that could help one of its plants.  According to a report by the New

    • Inside America’s Race to Hide the World’s Money

      Alessandro Chesser is a 40-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur. He’s married with two kids and was the first in his family to attend college. His grandfather immigrated from Sicily and worked as a school janitor so his family could have a better life.  Skip forward a few generations, and Chesser is noticing the way wealthy investors

    • “Nonsurvivable”: Today’s Heatwaves Have Surpassed Our Bodies’ Ability to Stay Cool

      This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Extreme heat is already creating “nonsurvivable” conditions for humans in heatwaves that have killed thousands and likely many more, according to new research that warns people are more susceptible to rising temperatures than first thought. Scientists re-examined six extreme heatwaves between 2003

    • The Bizarre Connection Between Iran Negotiations and Trump’s Crypto Firm

      In January, Zach Witkoff sat down at a table in Islamabad and signed a deal with Pakistan’s finance minister. Witkoff is the young CEO of Donald Trump’s crypto finance firm, World Liberty Financial, and the arrangement he struck that day would allow WLF’s stablecoin to be used for Pakistan’s cross-border transactions. It was a hugely

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    • Trapped in Iran, Trump Can Only Be Stopped By The American People!

      While, despite the two-week ceasefire, the war continues to rage, claiming thousands of lives and causing widespread destruction in the Middle East (Persian Gulf) and the Near East (Lebanon), everything now indicates that this Trump—battered by the Iranians, raving mad, delusional, trapped by his own hand, and threatened with soon finding himself in a position

    • Hormuz, Shipping Unions & Sailors

      Corporate media prefer to talk about Donald Trump at a daily rate that has long surpassed other entertainers: the war of the USA and Israel against Iran, oil – where those who helped put Trump into the White House receive a handsome return on their investment – global shipping, and the Strait of Hormuz. Yet

    • Peace for Iran: Declaration of Global Conscience

      Prefatory Note: Two Texts evant to Ongoing US/Israel War Against Iran in the context of a failing Ceaefire Agreement. Iran’s Conditions and Declaration of Global Conscience signed and individually affirmed by listed non-Iranians.] “Six Non‑Negotiable Terms from international Scholars and Former Officials from 30 countries to End the U.S. War on Iran Amid Trump’s Threat of War Crimes”

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    • Gold Mines of the Amazon

      The following report was funded by the CounterPunch Investigative Fund. To support our work and more in-depth reports like this, consider donating. +++ The Los Amigos biological station is perched at the top of a hundred-foot-tall cliff of red clay on the north bank of the Madre de Dios River in southeastern Perú. The river below seethes To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. More The post Gold Mines of the Amazon appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

    • Nick Tilsen, Organizing Through Collapse

      Nick Tilsen has been under indictment for six of the eight years that his organization has existed. The founder and CEO of NDN Collective, a Rapid City-based organization dedicated to building Indigenous power, Tilsen explains it this way: “They’re threatened. They’re not used to Indian people being able to fight back in their systems,” referring most recently to his time in a South Dakota courtroom earlier this year. To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. More The post Nick Tilsen, Organizing Through Collapse appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

    • Nuclear Madness: MV Ramana in Conversation w/ Joshua Frank

      In this episode of CounterPunch Radio, MV Ramana speaks with Joshua Frank about the lies and misconceptions surrounding a nuclear power revival, atomic energy’s ties to weapons proliferation, and much more. The conversation took place in January at Page Against the Machine bookstore in Long Beach, California. M. V. Ramana is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, More The post Nuclear Madness: MV Ramana in Conversation w/ Joshua Frank appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

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    • The War in Iran as International Terrorism

      As someone born in 1944, when Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, who lived through 12 other presidencies before Donald Trump took — and that word has a different meaning with him — office in 2016, the truth is that I’ve simply never experienced anything quite like this (and I know that I’m in good company).