A murder in Minneapolis. A kidnapping in Caracas. Genocide in Palestine. Termination of trans people’s healthcare and rights. Criminalization of pregnant people. Detention, disappearance, deportation, ...

Karen Hao reported in her book Empire of AI: “Sam Altman announced he wants to see 250 gigawatts of data-center capacity laid by 2033 just for his company. New York City [uses] on average 5.5 ...

In this special episode of CounterPunch Radio, Bill Ayers, friend of Pilsen Community Books and fellow podcaster at Under the Tree, ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words from his “Beyond Vietnam” speech still ring true. “When machines and computers, profit motives, and property rights ...

…philosophy must re-establish the original truth of the mythological nature of human consciousness. Even philosophy freely recognizes that the world is knowable only mythologically. Plato considered ...

Nicolas Sawaya is a former academic who strongly supports the Palestinian struggle for freedom and justice. He blogs at www.notesfromunderground.me and can also be found on X (formerly Twitter) at ...

A problem-solving principle stating that, when presented with competing hypotheses, the one with the fewer assumptions or entities (the ...

My neighbors are good people. Always ready with a polite nod or wave. Helpful if your car breaks down. In this rural region, they’re farmers and loggers, ...

Americans cannot rely on the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to guarantee that medical devices are safe, and a recent Government Accountability ...

Now that the current US administration has taken us to a whole new dimension of global chaos—where even a nominal respect for treaties among sovereign ...

In January 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, a pamphlet that gave voice to the discontent of a nation struggling to free itself from a tyrannical ...

Silent people are not political subjects but followers. They can also be called losers. If war is in the air, losers are going to, well, lose.