Last June 2025 Trump bombed Iran. He said to eliminate Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons development. He then proclaimed he had achieved that goal. So what ...

Over the past few years people—and governments—the world over have become increasingly enamored of AI. While some view AI as an economic game changer, the catalytic agent for a coming golden economic ...

This week on CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank interview M.V. Ramana on nuclear power and why it’s not an answer to the climate crisis. Ramana is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, ...

In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. David Masciotra is the author of six books, including Exurbia Now: The Battleground of American Democracy and I Am ...

What are we voting for when we participate in elections? This question seems particularly pertinent these days for Left political activists in light of the recent victories of self-proclaimed ...

Hektoria Glacier (Antarctica) retreated 8 kilometers (5 miles) in only two months; one-half of the structure collapsing in record time. This is the fastest glacier collapse ever, and the message to ...

Nonetheless, the policy still has its critics. Among them are the editors at the New York Times who, in a recent editorial, opinedthat states have rushed to legalize the substance “without adequately ...

It wasn’t long into Pete Hegseth’s Monday morning press briefing that I got the feeling he might reach through the screen, grab my throat, and declare war not just on Iran, but me too. To be fair to ...

It was not just to avoid the tourist crowds, whose numbers were already building at nine in the morning along the Via Nazionale, that I took the stairs down. There were thirty-three steps, one for ...

Americans should not be fooled or led astray by the corporate media or the Beltway consultant class: fact-free fearmongering and warmongering about Iran have been among the most thoroughly bipartisan ...

I often get that question. I can’t say I have a very good answer. Going back to the last bubbles, it would be difficult to identify any events in the world that precipitated the collapse of either the ...

I admit I am confused. Trump, not the US Congress, declared war on Iran to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon by using its civilian nuclear reactor program to make a bomb. Nuclear weapons are bad ...