Stan Cox

3 weeks ago | 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.

1 month ago | 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.

1 month ago | 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.

2 months ago | counterpunch.org | Stan Cox |Jeffrey St. Clair

When Israeli troops launched their ground invasion of northern Gaza in 2023, one of the first places they rolled into was the Abu Suffiyeh family farm in the Jabalya area (see pdf, page 301). The attackers had targeted the farm, with its thriving olive, pomegranate, and citrus orchards, for total destruction, because it lay in […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.

Jan 23, 2025 | thenation.com | Stan Cox

January 23, 2025 Under Trump, Taxpayers Will Continue to Foot the Bill for Israel’s War CrimesWere it just about any other country than Israel committing such a genocide, Washington would have cut off arms shipments months ago. Edit Ad Policy Boys watch smoke billowing during Israeli strikes east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 13, 2024. (AFP via Getty Images)This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com.