The Used Car Market Is Imploding
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/used-car-market-wall-street/
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/used-car-market-wall-street/
Jacobin
The Used Car Market Is Imploding
Huge bankruptcies for used car firms have exposed Wall Street’s entanglement with the sector. Far from derisking after the Great Recession, banks rebuilt the economy on obscure financial intermediaries that are now sinking.
What Is Going on in the Grocery Industry?
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/grocery-industry-walmart-mamdani-schweizer/
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/grocery-industry-walmart-mamdani-schweizer/
Jacobin
What Is Going On in the Grocery Industry?
Will Amazon disrupt groceries? How did Walmart take over food sales? Is Zohran Mamdani’s public grocery plan too small? Why is the market increasingly polarized between Erewhons and dollar stores? An ex–Whole Foods vice president gives us an industry tour.
How to Save the Internet From “Enshittification”
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/internet-enshittification-antitrust-tech-doctorow/
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/internet-enshittification-antitrust-tech-doctorow/
Jacobin
How to Save the Internet From “Enshittification”
The activist and writer Cory Doctorow spoke to Jacobin about the steady decline of the “enshittified” internet and what we can do to save it.
How María Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize Could Lead to War
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/nobel-peace-prize-venezeuala-war/
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/nobel-peace-prize-venezeuala-war/
The Nation
How María Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize Could Lead to War
Machado’s record makes a mockery of the idea she is a committed champion of peace, promoter of democracy, or unifying figure.
New Mexico Is Providing Free Childcare for All. It’s Time for Others to Do the Same
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/childcare-for-all-progressivism-new-mexico/
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/childcare-for-all-progressivism-new-mexico/
The Nation
New Mexico Is Providing Free Childcare for All. It’s Time for Others to Do the Same
The state is setting a powerful example with its first-in-the-nation plan. But the policy has support across the US.
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/15/freedom-is-a-constant-struggle-2/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/15/freedom-is-a-constant-struggle-2/
CounterPunch.org
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
I’d read and heard loads about One Battle After Another and invited a friend who came through the long Sixties to see it with me. She has studied the kind
László Krasznahorkai’s Grand Tales of Alienation Speak to Our Times
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/15/laszlo-krasznahorkais-grand-tales-of-alienation-speak-to-our-times/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/15/laszlo-krasznahorkais-grand-tales-of-alienation-speak-to-our-times/
CounterPunch.org
László Krasznahorkai’s Grand Tales of Alienation Speak to Our Times
Awarding the Nobel prize for literature to László Krasznahorkai today, the Swedish Academy commended the author’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that,
When Maria Corina Machado Wins the Nobel Peace Prize, “Peace” Has Lost Its Meaning
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/15/when-maria-corina-machado-wins-the-nobel-peace-prize-peace-has-lost-its-meaning/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/15/when-maria-corina-machado-wins-the-nobel-peace-prize-peace-has-lost-its-meaning/
CounterPunch.org
When Maria Corina Machado Wins the Nobel Peace Prize, “Peace” Has Lost Its Meaning
When I saw the headline Maria Corina Machado wins the Peace Prize, I almost laughed at the absurdity. But I didn’t, because there’s nothing funny about
Worlds Extinguished: Hostage Returns, Central Casting and the Gaza Ceasefire
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/15/worlds-extinguished-hostage-returns-central-casting-and-the-gaza-ceasefire/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/15/worlds-extinguished-hostage-returns-central-casting-and-the-gaza-ceasefire/
CounterPunch.org
Worlds Extinguished: Hostage Returns, Central Casting and the Gaza Ceasefire
Depending on which source you consult, the twenty-point peace plan of President Donald Trump for securing peace in Gaza shows much exultance and
India’s American Dream in Tatters
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/15/indias-american-dream-in-tatters/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/15/indias-american-dream-in-tatters/
CounterPunch.org
India’s American Dream in Tatters
The last couple of months have exposed the humiliating realities of the subordinate alliance that India has been gradually sliding into with the U.S. over
Body Count for the American Century
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/15/body-count-for-the-american-century/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/15/body-count-for-the-american-century/
CounterPunch.org
Body Count for the American Century
This essay is adapted from “Measuring Violence,” the first chapter of John Dower’s book, The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War Two.
The AI Bubble and Counterfeit Money
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/15/the-ai-bubble-and-counterfeit-money/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/15/the-ai-bubble-and-counterfeit-money/
CounterPunch.org
The AI Bubble and Counterfeit Money
I heard people who read the column I wrote last week on the AI bubble complain that, by rooting for its collapse, I was hoping for the failure of the U.S.
Palestinians’ Fate: Victims of Genocide While Alive, Vastly Uncounted By the Media When They Are Killed
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/15/palestinians-fate-victims-of-genocide-while-alive-vastly-uncounted-by-the-media-when-they-are-killed/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/15/palestinians-fate-victims-of-genocide-while-alive-vastly-uncounted-by-the-media-when-they-are-killed/
CounterPunch.org
Palestinians’ Fate: Victims of Genocide While Alive, Vastly Uncounted By the Media When They Are Killed
Ben Hubbard, the long-time Middle East correspondent for the New York Times, is known for his high standards. So too is Karen DeYoung, the long-time reporter and foreign affairs editor for the Washington Post. Yet they, and their editors, share a common,…
Gaza Will Not Forget, Palestine Will Remember
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/15/gaza-will-not-forget-palestine-will-remember/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/15/gaza-will-not-forget-palestine-will-remember/
CounterPunch.org
Gaza Will Not Forget, Palestine Will Remember
Gaza will not forget. The suffocating smoke still hangs over her ruins, thick with the acrid stench of explosives powder and dust carrying the scent of
One More Betrayal of the Palestinians
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/15/one-more-betrayal-of-the-palestinians/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/15/one-more-betrayal-of-the-palestinians/
CounterPunch.org
One More Betrayal of the Palestinians
The history of the Palestinians is a history of betrayal. In the wake of World War I, Britain and France redrew the map of the Middle East to suit their own ends. They created countries with artificial borders, which led to unrest and uprisings. They had…
How the IMF and US Helped Loot and Entrap Argentina with Debt
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/15/how-the-imf-and-us-helped-loot-and-entrap-argentina-with-debt/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/15/how-the-imf-and-us-helped-loot-and-entrap-argentina-with-debt/
CounterPunch.org
How the IMF and US Helped Loot and Entrap Argentina with Debt
Milei took office in December 2023, and Argentina has been in deep recession since then. The recession has been caused by extreme fiscal austerity which slashed public services and investment; a hugely over-valued exchange rate which weakened the trade balance;…
Hezbollah and MS-13 'R Us, Naked On Bikes In Frog Ears
https://www.commondreams.org/further/hezbollah-and-ms-13-r-us-naked-on-bikes-in-frog-ears
https://www.commondreams.org/further/hezbollah-and-ms-13-r-us-naked-on-bikes-in-frog-ears
Common Dreams
Hezbollah and MS-13 'R Us, Naked On Bikes In Frog Ears | Common Dreams
Despite court losses, public antipathy, giddy ridicule - unicorns! - and a shutdown they studiously ignore, a nascent police state lurches on with its daft apocalyptic narrative of an America in flames. Their victims include brown parents torn from their…
Mumbai Police detain TISS students who attended gathering in honour of G.N. Saibaba
https://mronline.org/2025/10/15/mumbai-police-detain-tiss-students-who-attended-gathering-in-honour-of-g-n-saibaba/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mumbai-police-detain-tiss-students-who-attended-gathering-in-honour-of-g-n-saibaba
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MR Online
Mumbai Police detain TISS students who attended gathering in honour of G.N. Saibaba | MR Online
Students say they simply gathered on campus yesterday and held up posters of Saibaba, who died last year after a decade of wrongful incarceration.
The Voice of the Peoples: Hadash lawmakers Odeh and Cassif defy imperialists in the Knesset
https://mronline.org/2025/10/15/the-voice-of-the-peoples-hadash-lawmakers-odeh-and-cassif-defy-imperialists-in-the-knesset/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-voice-of-the-peoples-hadash-lawmakers-odeh-and-cassif-defy-imperialists-in-the-knesset
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MR Online
The Voice of the Peoples: Hadash lawmakers Odeh and Cassif defy imperialists in the Knesset | MR Online
In refusing to bow to the applause of killers, Odeh and Cassif embody what it means to act with conscience in a place built on coercion and military might.
