ICE agents surround Alex Pretti, moments before shooting him. (Screengrab from video posted to X.)
When ICE murdered Renee Good and Alex Pretti in the streets of Minneapolis cellphone footage went viral and the visual documentation outraged the public, just as Palestinian journalists on the ground in Gaza bore witness to Israel’s genocide and global publics were horrified. On Saturday morning January 24, in Minneapolis, masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “agents” Read more
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Jesse Jackson leading a march to the border near San Diego, 1984. (Screengrab from local TV coverage.)
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Although any country that challenges domination by United States corporate or military power will inevitably be the target of a sustained demonization campaign, the lies consistently issued in a torrent against Venezuela [ . . . ]
Joint press conference by the NATO Secretary General with the Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz
The strained smiles and fixed expressions of European and Ukrainian leaders in London recently told their own story. President Zelenskyy met with Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, and Friedrich Merz to coordinate and assess the latest version of a US-authored peace proposal aimed at ending the war with Russia. In a less acrimonious world, the European […]
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Leslie Groves press conference. Still from "Bombshell." Courtesy PBS.
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In this episode, CounterPunch shares voices from participants in the Zapatistas’ most recent gathering of activists, the “Semillero de Piramides, de historias, amores, y claro desamores,” in CIDECI, Universidad de la Tierra, Zapatista territory in San Cristóbal de las Casas, México. The 5 day event featured seminars and discussions with over 1000 attendees from 30 countries, to address resistance to this era of fascism.
Roberto Hernandez, from San Isidro, CA, is a Chicano professor at San Diego State University, who discusses the parallelism between the ethnic cleansing of Zapatistas, Chicanxs and Palestinians. We speak with Bruno from the Comité Argentino con el Pueblo Argentino, and Ana Vázquez, a professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Chiapas, and other messages of solidarity with Palestine direct from Zapatista territory.
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In this episode, CounterPunch shares voices from participants in the Zapatistas’ most recent gathering of activists, the “Semillero de Piramides, de historias, amores, y claro desamores,” in CIDECI, Universidad de la Tierra, Zapatista territory in San Cristóbal de las Casas, México. The 5 day event featured seminars and discussions with over 1000 attendees from 30 Read more
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank welcome Sean J Partick Carney to discuss his 10-part series, Time Zero, on the nuclearized world. Sean J Patrick Carney is a visual artist, composer, and writer. His essays, criticism, and interviews appear frequently in publications including Artforum, Art in America, VICE, Southwest Contemporary, Read more
In this special episode of CounterPunch Radio, Bill Ayers, friend of Pilsen Community Books and fellow podcaster at Under the Tree, introduces Amos Kennedy and fellow artists and activists Monica Trinidad and Chi Nwosu. This evening at Pilsen Community Books in Chicago included a packed-house crowd for a celebration for the release of Citizen Printer by renowned letterpress Read more
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank welcome Ellen Schrecker to discuss the legacy of McCarthyism and the current right-wing attack on academic freedom in the U.S., and why the situation is even worse today than it was in the 1950s. Ellen Schrecker is an American historian and author who has Read more
