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I Was (Almost) Scammed, Twice

1 day ago | counterpunch.org | David Rosen

The other day I got a phone call from someone calling himself “Jason” and claiming he worked for Con Edison, the New York gas and electric company. He said that a Con Ed team were coming to my apartment to turn off my gas and electric service because I hadn’t paid a $450 conversion fee.
The Department of Injustice

1 day ago | counterpunch.org | David S. D’Amato

Today, it would be nearly impossible to overstate the extent to which justice for the criminal defendant in the U.S. has been compromised by prosecutorial misconduct of the most serious kinds. A growing body of evidence from journalistic investigations, scholarly studies, and reports from civil liberties groups reveals a startling pattern of serious misconduct, lack of transparency and accountability, and politicized and racialized enforcement.
When Your Government Shatters the Lives of Two Million People in Gaza, Don’t Expect It to Make Life Better for You

4 days 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.
The Coming Purge of Trans Troops in Context of Broader LGBTQ Struggle

6 days ago | counterpunch.org | Mike Prysner

Trump and Hegseth have a two-pronged agenda for the US military: the first is its use as a domestic police and repression force, which I wrote about in January. The second is to Make the Military Warfighters Again–based on the ultra-online belief that the ranks have become a liberal bastion catering to unqualified slobs and woke indoctrination.
We Were So Close: Life After Conscience and the Abraham Accords

6 days ago | counterpunch.org | Kathy Kelly

“We were so close,” Cassandra Dixon wrote, from Malta -where she had hoped to board Conscience, the aptly named Freedom Flotilla ship which two weaponized drones bombed on May 2, 2025, almost certainly launched by Israel. Cassandra had traveled to Malta after spending six weeks in Masafer Yatta, the West Bank region where, for two months, she lived among villagers whom local Israeli settlers constantly persecuted.
Donald Trump and an Island Called Alcatraz

6 days ago | counterpunch.org | Jonah Raskin

The news that Trump ordered the Federal Bureau of Prisons to reopen Alcatrazreminded me that years ago, after visiting the island soon after it became a national park in the company of two Weather Underground fugitives, Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, I wrote a story about our adventure. I was worried about their safety and changed their names. They weren’t worried.
Inconvenient Facts

6 days ago | counterpunch.org | Seth Sandronsky

Material reality, or kitchen table issues such as groceries and rent, shapes ideology and systemic thinking about the political economy of living and working. The current moment of social tumult has been gathering steam since the end of the Vietnam War, which heralded the sunset of a postwar U.S. economy of broad-based prosperity.
The Obscenity of Collective Punishment in Gaza

6 days ago | counterpunch.org | John Feffer

Maybe you remember an incident like this from your schooldays. Someone in your class has done something wrong, like pass around a caricature of the principal, and the teacher decides to punish the whole class by taking away your recess. Maybe this is done to force the culprit to confess, or to pressure you and your classmates to point the finger. It’s a clever method of drafting students to help police the classroom. Such tactics of collective punishment have fallen out of favor for obvious reasons.
Should America’s Farm Bill Serve Need or Greed?

6 days ago | counterpunch.org | Jim Hightower

The federal budget is not only about money, but fundamentally about our country’s morality — our commitment to fairness, equality, and unity. Which brings me to, of all things, our nation’s Farm Bill. This sprawling piece of legislation, updated every five years, is intended to combine the interests of farmers with consumers, production with conservation, grassroots cultures with corporate systems, etc. It’s not easy. In fact, downright messy.
Expulsion and Occupation: Israel’s Proposed Gaza Plan

6 days ago | counterpunch.org | Binoy Kampmark

Killing civilians wholesale, starving them to convince those unaffected to change course, and shepherding whole populations like livestock into conditions of further misery would all qualify as heinous crimes in international law. When it comes to Israel’s war in Gaza, this approach is seen as necessary politics, unalloyed by the restraints of humanitarianism. When confronted with these harsh realities on the ground, unequivocal denials follow: This is not happening in Gaza; no one is starving.