There is a simple problem professors sometimes challenge their intermediate econ students with on the first day of class.

President Donald Trump’s plans to build a space-based Golden Dome missile defense shield have drawn immediate criticism from ...

Jeffrey St. Clair is co-editor of CounterPunch. His most recent book is An Orgy of Thieves: Neoliberalism and Its Discontents (with Alexander Cockburn). He can be reached at: [email protected] or ...

Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne. Email: [email protected] ...

In Gaza today, hunger has a price—and for far too many civilians, that price has been death. The Israeli Newspaper, Haaretz described the Gaza ...

Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy By Michael Hudson ...

Melvin A. Goodman is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and a professor of government at Johns Hopkins University. A former CIA analyst, Goodman is the author of Failure of ...

Robert Hunziker lives in Los Angeles and can be reached at [email protected].

Call it what it is: a panopticon presidency. President Trump’s plan to fuse government power with private surveillance tech to build a centralized, ...

Bombing the Bombed, Displacing the Displaced, Starving the Starved Jeffrey St. Clair March 29, 2025 ...

You know something is up when the longtime deeply conservative establishment pundit David “Aw Shucks” Brooks calls for a “a comprehensive national civic uprising” against Trumpism, as he ...

In the feverish days leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Colin Powell presented his dubious evidence to the United Nations Security Council, claiming Saddam Hussein possessed WMDs. The result ...