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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Rebecca Gordon |Ranjan Solomon |Michael Albert |Brett Wilkins
This past weekend my partner and I got together with a group of friends. We’ve been meeting every six weeks or so since 1982. Originally, this group of lesbians convened to talk about sex: what we were doing, what we wanted to do, what we fantasized about doing. But you know how it is with any relationship. Over time, it can come to embrace so many other things. That’s how it’s been with the group we call “Group” (or sometimes “A Closed Group with No Name”).
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Andrew B. Bacevich |Arun Mitra |Bharat Dogra |Rebecca Gordon
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” So declared Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ah, if only it had proved to be so. Although my respect for MLK is enduring, when it comes to that upward-trending curve connecting past to present, his view of human history has proven to be all too hopeful. At best, history’s actual course remains exceedingly difficult to decipher.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Arun Mitra |Bharat Dogra |Rebecca Gordon |Tom Engelhardt
Trump’s warning that “all hell will break out in West Asia” if the hostages being held by Hamas are not released by Inauguration Day has put the world into great worry and put away off the hopes of an early peaceful settlement. The whole world knows that hell has already broken on the Middle East particularly the Gaza. It seems Trump is not satisfied with the death of 46000 persons as reported by the ministry of health in Gaza today. More than 70% of them being, women and children.
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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 8, 2025 | 
counterpunch.org | Rebecca Gordon
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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Jan 7, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Pieter Friedrich |J Hester |Rebecca Gordon |Vikas Meshram
I was in New Delhi when it all started. It was August 2018.
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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 5, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Ira Chernus |Abdel Bari Atwan |Tom Engelhardt |Rebecca Gordon
Resistance to Trump’s Mean and Nasty Version of America Is Necessary, But Not SufficientCount on one thing: the next four years are going to be tough. If you can muster the energy for political action while Donald Trump and his minions rule Washington, it will have to be channeled in two ways: first, resisting the worst excesses of him (and his party of billionaires); and second, keeping up the effort to make life truly better for everyone, especially the most vulnerable among us. Or wait.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Tom Engelhardt |Rebecca Gordon |Arnold R. Isaacs |Kim Petersen
Give him credit. As a start, for that first surprise victory in 2016. No, I didn’t fully get it at the time, but I kind of get it now (since, like the rest of us, I’ve lived through it all, including his close loss in 2020). Still, twice? Him? A convicted felon, no less! And yes, I do think italics are all too appropriate under the circumstances. Two times as the president of these increasingly disunited states of America?
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vidyadhar Date |J Hester |Rebecca Gordon |Manas Jena
The BJP has scored a big if questionable win in the just held legislative assembly elections in Maharahtra. But the state administration has scored a self goal or shot itself in the foot when it comes to it boasts about so called modern, high technology and urban transport with the miserable failure of its hobby horse the Metro rail network in Mumbai. The Metro was touted as a technology marvel and the actual result has blown into the authorities’ face.
