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NRC Asked to Reclassify Uranium Mine Waste
12+ hour, 26+ min ago (90+ words) Infographic courtesy of Dooda Disa. The NRC record tells a different story. Letter from Navajo Nation President Dr. Buu Nygren to NRC Chairman Ho K. Nieh, March 18, 2026, included in DISA's NRC filing. If approved, uranium concentrated from mine waste under a…...
Israel Moves Toward Executing Palestinian Children
10+ hour, 50+ min ago (705+ words) Image by Mohammed Ibrahim. According to Israel's new death penalty law, Palestinian children, like adults, could, in practice, find themselves facing the gallows. This might take some by surprise, or even be dismissed as an exaggeration. Sadly, it is neither....
Trump's Nightmare is Now Ours
10+ hour, 54+ min ago (937+ words) Melvin A. Goodman'is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and a professor of government at Johns Hopkins University.' A former CIA analyst, Goodman is the author of Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA'and'National Insecurity:…...
War Abroad, Tyranny at Home'and the Theft of a Nation
10+ hour, 58+ min ago (1031+ words) We're fighting wars, we can't take care of " daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things" We have to take care of one thing: military protection." "President Donald J. Trump Every bomb dropped abroad is a bill sent home. Every war waged…...
Cesar Chavez and the Continuous Cycles of Harm
10+ hour, 53+ min ago (385+ words) We are three women. Two Chicanas, and one white and Jewish. Two elders and one in her 30s. We, like you, are outraged by the recent revelations of Cesar Chavez's abuse of girls and his rape of Dolores Huerta. None of…...
Omissions on a Cruel Trade: The Neglected Role of African Slavers
11+ hour ago (1085+ words) Counterpunch The Old Plantation, watercolor attributed to John Rose, possibly painted 17851795 in the Beaufort District of South Carolina Public Domain Last month, the United Nations General Assembly was unimpeachably correct in condemning the hideous practice of slavery in a resolution…...
The Play Truly is the Thing
11+ hour, 4+ min ago (901+ words) Ron Jacobs is the author of several books, including Daydream Sunset: Sixties Counterculture in the Seventies published by Counter Punch Books. His latest book, titled Reality, Resistance, Rock and Roll is a collection of book reviews written for Counterpunch over…...
I Met the "Enemy." They Were Just People.
11+ hour, 38+ min ago (544+ words) Image by Mohammed Ibrahim. The U. S. government, under President Trump, has been bombing Iran since June 2025, bypassing Congress and the checks meant to restrain any president. In the latest wave of strikes, launched February 28 without a vote in Congress, a school…...
Trump Announces Iran Ceasefire: US Offramp or Just Another Deception?
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (1679+ words) After threatening to destroy Iran's civilization "for now and ever', Trump announced a tentative ceasefire with Iran and temporary ceasefire of mutual hostilities for another two weeks. In the interim the parties'US and Iran (Israel notably excluded)'will reportedly attempt…...
Vessels of Revolution: On Akinsanya Kambon, Suppressed History and the Fire We're Living Through
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (431+ words) I could have talked with Akinsanya Kambon for hours. As the full, uncut version of our conversation reveals, Akinsanya is simply full of stories " especially history stories. He seems to know the name of every freedom fighter there ever was,…...