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Hammouri had been held in Israeli administrative detention based on ‘secret evidence’ without charges since March.

Year end reflections on the ever-changing world of communications

Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone chronicled the growing loneliness and isolation of wealthy societies. Twenty years later, the problem is far worse than he could have imagined.

My CounterPunch focused on the radioactivity involved in fusion—that it is not “clean” despite what the press release of the Department of Energy asserted.

The Best of Trevor Taking on Conservatives. How Iran's Repression Machine Works. Feliz Navidad | Grandpa Elliott Tribute. Inside Trader Joe's Workers' Fight for a Union Contract. Trump's White House 'Ethics' Lawyer Is in Very Big Trouble.

It’s a long shot, but not out of the question.

Charlene Mitchell led a long and multi-faceted political career, including first Black woman to run for President, leader of the movement against racial and political repression, advocate for democracy, socialism and internationalism.

A baby born in the U.S. in 2021 has a life expectancy at the lowest level since 1996. Native Americans, Black people and Hispanics are hardest hit. “Our increasingly potent and deadly drug supply is a result of the war on drugs.”

The recent coup attempt may have seemed farcical, but the growing Nazi threat in Germany is very real,

Each state appears here in alphabetical order. With a poem for the District of Columbia, and a poem serving as Preface, 52 poems. But This Land invites (and even demands) that its organization and its meanings be constructed by each reader.