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The new report from the UK’s Lancet medical journal does not mention Cuba, but its main finding – that sanctions are often lethal – clarifies to what ...
We decided to write Abortion and Reproductive Justice in 2018. Just two years into Trump’s first presidency, the opposition to reproductive health, ...
Headlines across Washington warn of an emerging “Axis of Upheaval.” Yet this framing misleads: the alliance in question isn’t built on mutual trust or ...
After World War I, Germany became a constitutional democratic republic for the first time. The country was in desperate circumstances subsequent to the ...
The phrase "Rule of Law" (ROL) is frequently referenced in the major media but seldom defined.  Google calls it "a principle ...
Donald Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer because he said she rigged the numbers to make ...
After 30 years of service to a rural Nebraska community, the Curtis Medical Center will close.  Troy Bruntz, CEO of Community ...
Putin and Trump last week agreed to meet at a location in Alaska. Indications are the meeting will occur as soon as August 15, 2025 or soon after. In ...
Assassination,” wrote George Bernard Shaw in The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, “is the extreme form of censorship”.  Such extremism visited Al Jazeera ...
You are seated at your cramped desk, eyes half-closed against the glare, coffee gone cold two hours ago. You have an idea. Not just any idea. A story that ...
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On Panic

There is an inclination to recoil from prognostications of doom, not merely because such prognostications have often been wrong but also because they are ...
(As I was getting ready to send this to CounterPunch, I received word from Marc’s wife that he had passed in the night. I will write a tribute to him once ...