Mainstream Groupthink and Artificial Intelligence Could Stifle Dissent in an Orwellian Future

By Robert Parry / Consortium News Jul 31, 2017 Since the election, some U.S. media and tech companies are using "fake news" hysteria to establish a Ministry of Truth. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Without a Serious Middle East Peace Effort, Hatred Will Only Grow

Staff / Truthdig Jul 17, 2016 I am convinced that it is in the vital interest of Israel to make peace with the Palestinian people, and with the Arab world at large, before the dangerous infection of extreme ideology engulfs the entire region. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Hillary Clinton’s Foreign Policy Resumé: What the Record Shows

By Gary Leupp / CounterPunch May 6, 2016 To many Americans, Clinton is best-known for her advocacy of a national health care system, her assertion that it takes a village to raise a child, and her championing of women’s empowerment. The rest of the world knows her better for her passion for bombing. Dig deeper ( 41 Min. Read )

America’s Addiction to Violence

By Henry A. Giroux / CounterPunch Dec 28, 2015 Mass shootings have become routine in the United States and speak to a society that both lives by violence and uses it as a tool to feed the coffers of the merchants of death. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

The Curse of Totalitarianism and the Challenge of an Insurrectional Pedagogy

By Henry A. Giroux, CounterPunch Oct 1, 2015 It is frightfully clear that the conditions for totalitarianism and state violence are with us, smothering critical thought, social responsibility, the ethical imagination and politics itself. Dig deeper ( 26 Min. Read )

Bubbles Always Burst: The Education of an Economist

By Michael Hudson, CounterPunch Sep 30, 2015 To learn about the topics that interested me most as a young economist, I had to leave university and go to work for banks. Dig deeper ( 16 Min. Read )

The Far Left Needs to Relax a Little and Support Bernie Sanders

By William Kaufman, CounterPunch Sep 19, 2015 Sanders' leftist critics can fantasize that they are doing humanity a great service by scoffing at his campaign, but who is making greater strides toward triggering the mass enlightenment that is key to empowering the oppressed? Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )

The Fight Against the ‘Former People’ of the Yanukovych Regime

By Halyna Mokrushyna, Counterpunch Feb 26, 2015 I would love to believe this wonderful story of how a new, democratic Ukraine is fighting against an old, authoritarian bureaucracy, but there are too many indications that this story is flawed. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

The Economics of Contempt

By Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch May 23, 2014 If it’s spring, it must be time for Barack Obama’s annual drive-by of black America, where he piously lectures them on the state of their lives. He didn’t disappoint this year, treating the nation to two speeches on civil rights in a single week. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Obama Killed the American Dream

By Mike Whitney, CounterPunch Feb 8, 2014 Here's your shining city on the hill in a nutshell: a privately owned gulag where petty drug offenders are locked up for life so some chiseling hedge fund manager can report record profits to his shareholders. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

The True State of the Economy

By Mike Whitney, CounterPunch Oct 5, 2013 There is a tradeoff for all the loot Obama’s friends have been pilfering from working people, and that tradeoff is trust. Americans no longer have confidence in the government, the market or the justice system. And while the effects might not appear in the next month or two, there are sectors of the economy that are showing signs of weakness already. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

America’s Descent Into Madness

By Henry A. Giroux, CounterPunch Aug 19, 2013 A predatory culture celebrates narcissistic hyper-individualism that radiates a near sociopathic lack of compassion for others, while anti-public intellectuals dominate the screen and aural cultures urging us to shop more, indulge more, and make a virtue out of the pursuit of personal gain. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )