Stan Cox

3 weeks 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.

2 months 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.

2 months 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.

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.

Feb 9, 2025 | 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.