Translator’s note: Opening the AI Action Summit, 10 February 2025, President Emmanuel Macron vaunted France’s ‘comparative advantage’ in hosting AI centres. Plentiful and ‘clean ...

When the US entered the war, Miller went back to work for American Vogue and followed the D-Day landings into France. She was no embedded reporter. In fact, during her first week in France, Miller ...

Trump’s EPA to repeal core of greenhouse gas rules,” was the Reuters headline this week as Lee Zeldin, chosen by Donald Trump ...

(This is a presentation, titled “No Nukes for Power, Posturing or Destruction,” that I gave at the 2025 Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemorative Event on Long ...

The leveling of Gaza by the equivalent of 6 Hiroshima bombs is said to be the greatest destruction of an urban area in modern history.

On and off, I have spent decades studying Greek history. I am not so sure, however, that I fully understand what made the ancient Greeks so original and, at times, so self-destructive. Greatness ...

Imagine: it’s the summer of 2025, and the United States has been surrounded by foreign military bases. The bases have been built by some antagonistic ...

City-owned grocery stores are a promising solution for communities that suffer from the hunger and food insecurity that comes from living in food deserts, urban or rural neighborhoods with limited ...

Extreme weather terror, or turbochuggf*cks in the vernacular, is most recently evident in July 2025, in the human catastrophes caused by floods in Texas, New Mexico, and North Carolina, as well as ...

There were the doomsdayers, the moaners and, let’s face it, the ill-wishers, hoping that a march across one of the most famous bridges in Australia would not take place. Despite this, some ...

For 80 years, since the atomic bombs were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world has stood at the brink of nuclear war with the potential for catastrophic loss, threatening all of humanity ...

CounterPunch recently published a piece by former USAID employee Jared O. Bell titled A Real-Time Cautionary Tale of Stolen Democracy from Nicaragua in which he compared the rapid transition to ...