“The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.”  – Jeremy Bentham, 1843 As frequently done since Bentham

My first book fifty years ago was a study of television news, called Creating Reality. The title was intended to show the irony of how news reporting

For the last two years, my social media algorithm has been relentlessly dominated by Gaza, particularly by the voices of ordinary Gazans, displaying a

It’s the largest living structure on Earth, 3,000 individual reefs, 900 islands, 1,430 miles, and it may be collapsing. Alas, The Great Barrier Reef Annual Summary Report of Coral Reef Conditions, 2024-2025 presents a dire picture, the poorest condition ever…

The facts show that, in this six-decade-plus crime against humanity, Indonesia has been the tool of other interests, that the role of the United Nations (by which I mean some of its dominant powers and personalities) has been particularly egregious, and this…

The story of British abolitionism, its many failures and long overdue success, is a lesson in the limits of reform. Lacking a wider context of change, reform in one sector is likely to fail or be indefinitely delayed. British radicalism in the 1790s was confined…

We're not afraid, we're not trembling and our objective as journalists remains the same as it was in the 1990s when the first CounterPunch newsletter went to press: to question the received wisdom, call out political cant and cliches, expose injustices and…

These five student journalists will receive stipends and mentorship from ProPublica’s staff as they begin to navigate careers in investigative journalism.

The Italian philosopher Lucio Colletti was one of the outstanding postwar Marxist thinkers. But Colletti’s subsequent drift to the right symbolized a wider shift in Italy’s whole political axis as its once-powerful left-wing movements went into decline.

Ironic fascism is a disturbing symptom of the Trumpist right’s mounting ethnonationalism and authoritarianism.

The issue of Palestine speaks to a range of constituencies that Zohran Mamdani is trying to stitch together into a new coalition — and creates a cleavage with the establishment leaders of the Democratic Party like Andrew Cuomo and Chuck Schumer.

Traditionally, August is ‘silly season’ in the UK, and things certainly got silly on 14 August of this year, when we published our media alert, ‘“Israel Says” Is Not Journalism’.



If reader reaction was more muted than usual, we put it down to the summer…

The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding the announcement that there will be a 2.8% cost-of-living (COLA) benefit increase for millions of Social Security beneficiaries, disabled…

From Toshiba to Huawei: America’s Long War on Superior Competitors.

U.N. Urges Israel to Open Rafah Border Crossing to Allow Aid into Gaza; Trump: “Israel’s Not Going to Do Anything with the West Bank”; Israeli Minister Smotrich Resorts to Stereotypes When Talking About Saudi Arabia; “We’re Going to Kill Them”: Trump Claims…

Israel’s Knesset has advanced legislation that would effectively annex the West Bank, prompting rare criticism from the Trump administration, which says it does not support annexation. We get a report on the state of illegal settlement activity in the Palestinian…

“The Republican Party has really become an extremist movement.” Amid a growing political divide in the Republican Party over the release of federal documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, we speak to former Republican political operative Stuart…

The new short film Criminal highlights the injustices of the criminal legal system with a look at how for-profit bail preys on the poor and mentally ill. We’re joined by three contributors to the film, musician Stew Stewart and bail reform advocates Krish…

In The Graduate (1967), a family friend corners young Benjamin Braddock with one word of advice for his future: “Plastics.”

A ceasefire is only the beginning. Without justice, there can be no peace.