Stan Cox

2 weeks ago | counterpunch.org | Stan Cox

The contrast could not be starker. Even with their campuses destroyed by US-supplied aircraft dropping US-supplied bombs, Gaza’s universities are persevering and supporting their students as best they can, under the banner “Education Is Resistance.” Meanwhile, big US universities that have come under a barrage of legal and financial threats for not cracking down hard […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.

1 month ago | counterpunch.org | Stan Cox

The Trump regime’s approval numbers are sinking. Americans are in the streets protesting the regime’s cruel abuses of power. And Democratic voters are yelling at their party’s leaders to show some backbone. Party operatives are counting on this nationwide backlash to gain them House and Senate majorities in next year’s congressional elections. Many liberals and […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.

Mar 29, 2025 | counterpunch.org | Jeffrey St. Clair |Stan Cox

+ Hossam Shabat, a young (23) Palestinian reporter for Al Jazeera, whose vivid dispatches from Gaza over the last year and a half I’ve quoted numerous times here in Gaza Diary, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in what appears to be a targeted assassination. (The Committee for the Protection of Journalists considers his killing […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.

Mar 23, 2025 | counterpunch.org | Ari Paul |Stan Cox

The consensus in the economic research community and the business press is that the US economy is in serious trouble thanks to President Donald Trump’s wildly shifting tariff policies, plundering of the federal government and other factors. Unemployment has been slowly rising for the last year (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 3/7/25). Tariffs are hurting American […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.

Mar 9, 2025 | counterpunch.org | Stan Cox |Ed Rampell

Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people has provoked the largest, most energetic international campaign of boycotts, divestment, and sanctions since the movement against apartheid in the 1980s and early 90s. The multipronged strategy now known as BDS played an important role in freeing South Africa from white minority rule, and now it’s being deployed to […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.