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Venezuela is *only* about oil or crushing what remains of the Bolivarian revolution. It's also about critical minerals. Venezuela has a bunch of coltan and bauxite. While China controls many of these minerals globally, naked imperialist Trump is trying to play catch-up by all means necessary.

Beyond law and precedent lies the most important reality: the cost of this aggression is paid by ordinary people in Venezuela.

2025 will go down as the second or third hottest year on record. The last decade has been the hottest decade in human history.

"Pilsen Community Books embodies the true Chicago spirit—earnest without being precious, opinionated without being smug..." Thanks to Timeout Chicago for these tender words! Now we just need to get you guys some updated pics. 😎 www.timeout.com/chicago/news...

"From Congo to Gaza, Sudan to West Papua, the same logic of resource-driven exploitation." "[E]ntire peoples are sacrificed so corporations and states can gorge on what lies beneath their land." #DRC #Gaza #Palestine #Sudan #WestPapua #Israel #EU #USA #Genocide #Mining #Forests #Climate #Military

"Why we are on hunger strike in UK jails."

Israel has approved 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, a move that further entrenches illegal occupation and fuels deadly Israeli military raids and escalating settler attacks across Palestinian communities.

Green energy and renewables are heralded as the only way to mitigate our ever-worsening ecological crisis. But that’s not the whole story... Hey friends! I am excited to announce the upcoming release of 𝘽𝙖𝙙 𝙀𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙮, scheduled for September 2026 @haymarketbooks.org bookshop.org/p/books/bad-...

The U.S. military build-up in Latin America and the Caribbean is expanding faster than some may realize. U.S. soldiers and Marines have begun training in the jungles of Panama for the first time in decades.

From Junkie to Judge How Mary Beth O’Connor’s survival and success showcase the flaws in our drug policies and failures of our justice system NEW ✍️ + 🎥 for @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/junkietojudge

Want to look through Jeffrey Epstein’s documents yourself? We published a searchable database of the entire set of new Epstein files and emails. Despite Trump saying this is a scam, Trump is mentioned more than anyone else. Search for yourself here: journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/sea...

Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising Trump’s campaign to quell dissent by deploying the American military to U.S. cities comes at an immense price theintercept.com/2025/11/11/c...

Ramzy Baroud via @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/04/i...

Cancer deaths from environmental devastation and the decimation of healthcare will likely continue long after bombs are dropped in Gaza, writes Joshua Frank, citing our research. tomdispatch.com/gazas-loomin...

A U.S. official says the Biden administration buried his finding that the IDF intentionally shot a journalist, alleging the State Department downplayed it to avoid angering Israel.

Not a word in this entire piece about the Michigan maniac's love for Trump and Charlie Kirk (he shared posts of the latter), or the fact that Kirk's alleged murderer was raised in a Mormon home. Some facts (spurious or not) that would be very inconvenient for MAGA. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

@joshuafrank.bsky.social via @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/26/v...

The regime is now directly stepping in to influence the media. Companies see what’s happening and they’re paying to play. The classic fascist arrangement — an alliance between corporate and government power to kill democracy and attack the left — is in full swing. www.jphilll.com/p/full-blown...

"If we are going to be truthful in this moment, the hate that Charles Kirk put out came back on him."

Cancer, One More Weapon in Israel’s Genocide Arsenal by @joshuafrank.bsky.social

Gaza's Looming Cancer Epidemic: The Many Ways Bombs Can Kill by @joshuafrank.bsky.social

Israel Kills 113 More Palestinians in Gaza, Including 33 People Seeking Aid

Not just an attack on “experts” or science. It’s an attack on facts, knowledge, education or anything that could support someone questioning their iron rule. The bedrock of totalitarian, authoritarian regimes and dictatorships. That’s what RFK Jr is calling for. Only the dictator knows “the truth.”

The chaos at the CDC is a culmination of anti-science, authoritarian hackery - everything braindead MAGA voted for. With public health guardrails now almost destroyed, the next pandemic that strikes may well catapult us into a Mad Max dystopian future. As if this one wasn't dystopian enough.

Airdrops of aid in Gaza fall on desperate, hungry civilians and crush them to death. The air drops are not a solution to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. They are a publicity stunt so that Western governments can avoid holding Israel accountable for the blockade.

“Every time you ask Al to write a paper, remix a photo, or curate your dream playlist, something else is happening behind the screen.”

What is the Cancer-Industrial Complex? Great discussion with METASTASIS author @cannafis.bsky.social and @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social! www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/05/t...

This is my friend. His name is Christian Smalls. He founded the Amazon Labor union Not as a professional activist, but as a worker who decided he’d had enough. Recently, he was beaten and detained by the IDF And no one in the MSM is talking about it. paydayreport.com/amazon-union...

The Israeli genocide in Gaza has brought two chilling truths into our focus: first, Israel is deliberately and aggressively undermining the security and stability of the entire Middle East and, second, Israel is utterly incapable of surviving on its own.

An extremely important essay by @wsolol.bsky.social on the NYT's favorite genocide denier. www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/25/b...

Jacobin, always uncritically keen on nuclear power while ignoring every externality but CO2 emissions. Uranium mining on the Navajo Nation? Fine. Accidents? No prob. Links to proliferation? Yeah right. Nuke plants in war zones? Safe! Forever waste? We'll figure it out. jacobin.com/2025/07/hoch...

Ann Coulter wants to kill Native Americans (so do some on the Left) by @joshuafrank.bsky.social

I get this instinct but based on years of evidence it has just reinforced the idea that immigration is about public safety (a lie) rather than about labor and seeking refuge. Instead of arguing on their terms it's much more effective to do what Mamdani did when Trump threatened to denaturalize him..

BREAKING NEWS: Senate Republicans voted to pass Trump’s budget bill. This bill strips Americans of health care and food assistance, just to give the ultra-wealthy a huge tax handout. This is a devastating blow for working people.

New research shows we're losing about a billion pickup trucks worth of water a year as glacier melt accelerates www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The targeting of immigrant communities has reached new levels of shamelessness, sparking confrontation against the state's militarized police forces. We're selected books that provide histories of immigration enforcement and more - all 30% off.

"NO SLEEP FOR ICE" - the campaign to keep the Gestapo thugs up at night. A video report. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zKZ...

In an incredible and historic interview, Lakota historian, writer, and scholar Nick Estes sat down with Leonard Peltier for an in-depth conversation— about Leonard’s origins with the Red Power movement and ultimately AIM, about the sinister tactics of the FBI, and about Anna Mae Pictou Aquash.

Cuomo's campaign was not based on a return to leadership, but rather a cynical power grab rooted in his own knowledge of the structural elements of the Democratic Party machine, still designed to dismiss any past transgressions.

NYTs losing their shit. They literally said this was going to be a nail-biter.

Note to New Yorker, Mamdani's rise is not a "surprise." People are sick of liberal establishment politics dominated by billionaire funders. The tenants of socialism are actually pretty damn popular.

The *real* story of Black Lives Matter Based off my interview with Dr. Melina Abdullah, original BLM founding member and co-founder of BLM-LA and @blmgrassroots.bsky.social My first for @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/15/h...

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg talk with Hadley Austin, director of the new documentary, Demon Mineral, which traces the radioactive legacy of uranium mining on the Navajo Nation.

Please, someone, tell the bros at Jacobin that this is precisely why nuclear power will never be safe. Lunatics can bomb facilities at any moment.

Understanding that its existence depended on having a superior military in a hostile region prompted Israel to initiate a nuclear weapons program soon after its founding in 1948.

Our report from the streets of LA. #noice www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/20/c...

Trump is sending 2,000 ADDITIONAL National Guard troops to LA. There haven't been any protest-related arrests since Saturday. Hell - many of the protests have already died down. Trump is using the military as a personal political weapon to inspire fear in people who oppose him.

To be clear, the LAPD just escorted ICE into the parking lot. I do not know where they are going. Probably 100 protestors here at Gate E. It’s possible they are escorting them to another gate to exit to avoid a clash with protestors. The Dodgers are saying ICE is not allowed in their parking lot