Jeffrey St. Clair

1 week ago | counterpunch.org | Jeffrey St. Clair

+ Two days in Gaza: On Saturday, Israel targeted the home of two International Committee of the Red Cross workers in Khan Younis, killing Ibrahim Eid and Ahmad Abu Hilal. Ahmad worked as a Security Guard at the Red Cross Field Hospital in Rafah, while Ibrahim was a Weapon Contamination Officer for the ICRC. On […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.

2 weeks ago | counterpunch.org | Jeffrey St. Clair

I think it’s very sad, actually. I’m surprised that it wasn’t—you know—the public wasn’t notified a long time ago, because to get to stage 9, that’s a long time. I just had my physical. You saw that. You saw the results of that particular test. I think that test is standard to pretty much anybody getting a physical—a good physical. We had the doctors at the White House and over at Walter Reed, which is a fantastic hospital, do it. I did a very complete physical, including a cognitive test.

2 weeks ago | counterpunch.org | Jeffrey St. Clair

Always turned on by his most extreme ideas, Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison. He apparently got this twisted idea after watching Don Siegel’s 1979 film with Clint Eastwood, Escape from Alcatraz, one of the best prison movies ever made, a film with a deep sensitivity to those who live under confinement.

3 weeks ago | counterpunch.org | Jeffrey St. Clair

+ A decapitated dolphin was found on a North Carolina beach this week. Officials are offering a $20,000 reward for information on its death and mutilation. Have they checked the back of RFK, Jr’s Bronco? + While Trump tries to annex Canada and Greenland and gives the green light for a foreign mining company to destroy the Apache sacred site of Oak Flat, my president by proxy, Claudia Sheinbaum, is returning thousands of acres of land to indigenous tribes in Mexico.

4 weeks ago | counterpunch.org | Jeffrey St. Clair

The problem with writing about Gaza is that words can’t explain what’s happening in Gaza. Neither can images, even the most gut-wrenching and heartbreaking. Because what needs to be explained is the inexplicable. What needs to be explicated is the silence in the face of horror. Israel has been brazenly upfront about its plans to […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.