‘no legal notice was more gratifying than the one CounterPunch received when Ken Silverstein published these photos of Henry Kissinger picking his nose during a press conference on Brazil. As Ken noted, “Kissinger was OK having his picture taken with murderers like Pinochet but upset when outed as a snot eater‘ (The Cabinet of Dr.… Read More Henry Kissinger: the Dr. Caligari of American Empire
See exclusive drone footage revealing the full extent of Israel’s devastation of Al-Zahraa, a densely populated area southeast of Gaza City… US Sent Israel 15,000 Bombs Since October 7 Chris Hedges: Israel Reopens the Gaza Slaughterhouse The skies over Gaza are filled — after a seven-day truce — with projectiles of death. Warplanes. Attack helicopters.… Read More Drone Footage Shows Shocking Gaza Destruction / Chris Hedges: Israel Reopens the Gaza Slaughterhouse
By Daniel Jaffee / CounterPunch The price of bottled water has frequently been the focus of both ridicule and concern. While often priced competitively with soda and other beverages, this commodity is vastly more expensive than the tap water it often replaces for consumers. Depending on the brand and package, the cost of the average yearly… Read More The Real Cost of Bottled Water
The climate and cost of living crises make belief in expanding GDPs look as stale as last year’s mince pies. But when central governments rely on consumerism to shore up spending, it will be hard for ‘degrowth’ to gain any traction When Kat Butler made her first post-lockdown trip to the high street in 2021,… Read More Are young people poised to slam the brake on endless economic growth?
He first became prime minister in 1996, and has been pushing the country further right ever since. Most agree his political days are numbered – but the approach he established will prove very difficult to shift by Joshua Leifer An attack like Hamas’s 7 October massacre was not supposed to have been possible. Certainly not while… Read More The Netanyahu doctrine: how Israel’s longest-serving leader reshaped the country
For U.S. mass media, Henry Kissinger’s quip that “power is the ultimate aphrodisiac” rang as an obvious truism. Influential reporters and pundits often expressed their love for him. For decades, the media establishment swooned over one of the worst war criminals in modern history. After news of his death broke on Wednesday night, prominent coverage echoed the… Read More Henry Kissinger was the definition of elite impunity
Bharat Bhushan The United States has clearly put the squeeze on the Narendra Modi government with the filing of an indictment in New York of murder-for-hire charges against Indian national Nikhil Gupta (a.k.a. Nick). He is accused of participating in a foiled plot to assassinate a US citizen in New York City, widely believed to be Sikh separatist… Read More India’s reckless cowboys
The dodo, extinct for over three centuries, could return to Mauritius thanks to an audacious plan from biotech company Colossal Biosciences and the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation. If the partnership achieves its goal, the dodo would be following in the footsteps of other species once extinct in the wild but successfully returned to nature. Scroll through the… Read More ‘De-extinction’ plan to reintroduce the Dodo bird to Mauritius
One Fine Day: 29 September 1923 – Britain’s Empire on the Brink. By Matthew Parker Reviewed by SAUL DAVID On 29 September 1923, the addition of Mandatory Palestine increased the British Empire to its greatest size: nearly fourteen million square miles (150 times the size of Great Britain, a quarter of the world’s land area).… Read More One Fine Day: 29 September 1923 – Britain’s Empire on the Brink
Ronan Lee Myint Swe, the acting president of Myanmar’s military government, has warned that the country “will be split into various parts” after his armed forces suffered huge territorial losses to resistance fighters recently. His response was to call on Myanmar’s people to support his military forces, a call that is likely, based on previous experience, to… Read More Myanmar’s Military Junta Appears to Be in Terminal Decline
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