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RFK Jr. and the Science of Misinformation

Jan 31, 2025 | counterpunch.org | Joshua Frank

The following first ran on CounterPunch at the height of the COVID pandemic in January of 2022. Are anti-vaccine propagandists really being censored? That’s the claim RFK Jr. and his raucous admirers make as they point out the lawyer-turned anti-vaccine crusader was kicked off of Instagram and has yet to appear on MSNBC or snag a seat on a late night show. But last I checked his new anti-Fauci book has thus far sold over 500,000 copies. Censorship sells, I guess.
Burn, Hollywood, Burn?

Jan 10, 2025 | counterpunch.org | Joshua Frank

“LA is vast. It is a city and a county. It is a global place, a Pacific Rim space, a “Third World” metropolis. It has all the contradictions of the world and all the world is condensed in it. The homes of rich, poor, middle class, Black, white, Asian, Latino have burned. Fire is coming for all of us.” – Viet Thanh NguyenAs I sit at my desk to write, the light shining through my office window is a distinct orange, and the sky outside is a murky, polluted shade of brown.
Los Angeles on Fire

Jan 8, 2025 | counterpunch.org | Joshua Frank

Beyond Mike Davis’s provocative title to his classic essay, “The Case for Letting Malibu Burn,” is the thesis that resources and attention are disproportionately allocated to save the rich and their property at the expense of the poor. While this is historically the case in Los Angeles, the raging fires here are far worse than even the great Mike Davis could have foreseen. Schools are burning, libraries, restaurants, stores, state parks, mobile homes, apartment complexes, horses, mountain lions.
The Downsides of the Wind Energy Boom

Dec 20, 2024 | thenation.com | Joshua Frank

Independent journalism relies on your support With a hostile incoming administration, a massive infrastructure of courts and judges waiting to turn “freedom of speech” into a nostalgic memory, and legacy newsrooms rapidly abandoning their responsibility to produce accurate, fact-based reporting, independent media has its work cut out for itself.
Murdering Birds to Save the Climate?

Dec 18, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Joshua Frank

Like many roads that cut through Wyoming, the highway into the town of Rawlins is a long, winding one surrounded by rolling hills, barbed wire fences, and cattle ranches. I’d traveled this stretch of Wyoming many times. Once during a dangerous blizzard, another time during a car-rattling thunderstorm, the rain so heavy my windshield wipers couldn’t keep pace with the deluge.
The Cash Will Soon Flow

Oct 18, 2024 | resilience.org | Joshua Frank |Tom Dispatch

Considered Angola’s crown jewel by many, Lobito is a colorful port city on the country’s scenic Atlantic coast where a nearly five-kilometer strip of land creates a natural harbor. Its white sand beaches, vibrant blue waters, and mild tropical climate have made Lobito a tourist destination in recent years. Yet under its shiny new facade is a history fraught with colonial violence and exploitation. The Portuguese were the first Europeans to lay claim to Angola in the late sixteenth century.
Pissing Everyone Off for 30 Damn Years

Oct 18, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Joshua Frank

It’s hard to believe that a little, rag-tag radical publication like CounterPunch could survive thirty long years. Yet, here we are, three decades in, and still at it. We all have a story about when we landed on the CounterPunch homepage. Mine dates back to 1999, shortly after the WTO protests in Seattle. I was going to college in Oregon and hopped on a bus to join others in waging our collective disgust against the impacts of unfettered globalization.
Robbing Africa’s Riches to Save the Climate (and Power AI)

Oct 11, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Joshua Frank

Considered Angola’s crown jewel by many, Lobito is a colorful port city on the country’s scenic Atlantic coast where a nearly five-kilometer strip of land creates a natural harbor. Its white sand beaches, vibrant blue waters, and mild tropical climate have made Lobito a tourist destination in recent years. Yet under its shiny new facade is a history fraught with colonial violence and exploitation. The Portuguese were the first Europeans to lay claim to Angola in the late sixteenth century.
What the Hell is Going On?

Oct 9, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Joshua Frank

JOSHUA FRANK is the managing editor of CounterPunch and co-host of CounterPunch Radio. He is the author of the new book, Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America, published by Haymarket Books. He can be reached at [email protected]. You can troll him on Twitter @joshua__frank.
Socialism 2024, a Short Response to Joe Allen

Sep 13, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Joshua Frank

Last week, we ran an article by Joe Allen on his experience at Socialism 2024, which took place over Labor Day weekend in Chicago, sponsored by Haymarket Books. Joe’s piece, which addressed “The Palestine Wave” at this year’s conference, was good but missed the mark. He writes:Diversity of opinions is not the issue, but the lack of a concrete perspective to lead the left is, especially when it comes to the Democratic Party.