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Jan 20, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini |Andrea Mazzarino |Jay Janson |Bharat Dogra
To the delight of the MAGA crowd, today’s inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States is a dream achieved. In ensuring a peaceful transition, the streets have been flooded with police from across the country, accompanied by road closures and blockades along with security fencing to create a wide perimeter around the Capitol and the White House. The net effect, oddly, is not too dissimilar to that which existed in the aftermath of the J6 insurrection.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Andrea Mazzarino |Jay Janson |Bharat Dogra |Phil Pasquini
This country, once a haven for immigrants, is now on the verge of turning into a first-class nightmare for them. President Donald Trump often speaks of his plan to deport some undocumented immigrants from the United States as “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” Depending on how closely he follows the Project 2025 policy blueprint of his allies, his administration may also begin deporting the family members of migrants and asylum seekers in vast numbers.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Aftab Alam |Binoy Kampmark |Countercurrents Collective |Jay Janson
Geneva – With the announcement of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas effective as of tomorrow, Sunday, 19 January 2025, the international community must act quickly and decisively to guarantee accountability and justice for the crime of genocide in the Gaza Strip.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Countercurrents Collective |Rima Najjar |Jay Janson
Twinning the terms “ceasefire” and “Gaza” seems not only incongruous but an obscene joke. This is largely because the ceasefire announced on January 15 between Israel and Hamas could have been reached so much earlier by all the concerned parties. But will was lacking in Washington to force Israel’s hand, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was repeatedly of the belief that Hamas had to be unconditionally defeated, if not extirpated altogether, for any such arrangements to be reached.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Jay Janson |Bharat Dogra |Phil Pasquini |Andrew B. Bacevich
Noting a Coincidence As it turned out, Trump’s 2nd Inauguration as President of the United States of America falls on Martin Luther King’s birthday, a federal holiday (King being the only American to be presently so honoured).
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Edward Curtin |Romi Mahajan |Bharat Dogra |Jay Janson
Before my mind was turned to the subject of my title, I started to write a piece called “Are the Dead Nostalgic?”It’s a touchy philosophical question that has no definitive answer. It seems flippant in an impossible way, which it is, but its flippancy holds a secret message. So I asked the dead who would speak to me and got a few mixed and muffled replies. You can understand their reluctance to say anything.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Romi Mahajan |Bharat Dogra |Jay Janson |Ranjan Solomon
“Hypocrisy is the compliment vice pays virtue. “ Indeed. Take for instance the outpouring of rhetorical grief after George Floyd’s brutal murder. Leaders of companies of all sizes instructed their social media teams to send messages of solidarity, lamentation, and hope too– via the usual channels. Some even pledged money to help “lift” communities that had been disadvantaged.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Rebecca Gordon |Tom Engelhardt |Jay Janson
The “only thing worse than being the United States’ enemy is being its friend.”—Henry KissingerThis embarrassing statement by one of USA’s top diplomats was wished away by saying that it was meant to be a joke. Yet at times it came frighteningly close to reality, particularly in the case of those countries—Ukraine is the latest example—which had the misfortune of being selected to fight the USA’s proxy wars.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Rebecca Gordon |Tom Engelhardt |Jay Janson |Medea Benjamin
The expression “punch-drunk,” Google informs me, means “stupefied by or as if by a series of heavy blows to the head.” Google’s Oxford Language entry then offers a not-terribly-illuminating example of the term’s use: “I feel a little punch-drunk today.” Right now, a better one might be something like: “After November 5, 2024, a lot of people have been feeling more than a little punch-drunk.” Learning on the night of November 5th that Donald Trump had probably been reelected president...
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
dissidentvoice.org | Jay Janson
Joe Biden should be tried and convicted of illegally providing American bombs and planes for genocide, but not before being forced to watch videos of some of the thousands of Palestinian kids murdered or maimed by Biden’s bombs and warplanes.
