Archive | June, 2025

Aid sites operating under a U.S.-backed model are now scenes of repeated massacres, with no pause even amid regional war escalations.

If you were wondering about changes in the use of the death penalty at either the state or federal level since Donald Trump reassumed the presidency, well, wonder no more.

If the President and his allies were serious about improving lives, they would back bills that reform our immigration system and protect the farm economy.

Devin Thomas O’Shea pores over Andrew Hartman’s “Karl Marx in America.”

As profit-driven exploitation imperils Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, some unique conservation strategies are working to save it.

According to the Unified Rules of Boxing issued by the U.S. Association of Boxing Commissions and Combative Sports, when the bell sounds for the end of each round, there is a “rest period” before the boxers resume their fight, or one retires too hurt to continue.

Surplus heat is accumulating in the Earth system at an accelerating rate.

CounterSpin interview with Farrah Hassen on criminalizing homelessness

Today, SCOTUS released its ruling on Skrmetti, allowing Tennessee to ban transgender healthcare. The ruling was both devastating and limited, leaving many fights unsettled.

(6 June 2025) In a new publication, historian and legal scholar David Keanu Sai establishes (again) that the Kingdom of Hawaii never ceased to exist, as its 1898 annexation by the USA was void even under U.S. law.

According to General Daniel Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the U.S. has knocked out Iran’s nuclear enrichment and nuclear weapon preparation plants with “extremely severe destruction”; “completely and totally”, according to President Donald Trump.

In this episode, we share Part 2 of our coverage of The Black University & Community Currencies workshop. Held April 25, 2025 on the campus of Morehouse College, the workshop fostered dialogue between students, faculty, and activists about the radical possibilities of public money for higher education, broadly, and for communities at and around Morehouse, specifically. The occasion for the workshop was the conclusion of a semester in which students enrolled in Professor Andrew Douglas’s advanced political theory course at Morehouse implemented a classroom currency called the CREDO for use by Morehouse students. 

The holiday’s public recognition has fallen victim to‘anti-woke’ backlash, leading to a quiet retreat from public memory.

From diplomatic arm-twisting and economic and political blackmail to wars and hegemonic trade and tariff mechanisms, Yankee imperialism and its European minion lapdogs continue to wreak havoc on the lives of working people—destroying their homes, happiness, and livelihoods.

The story: U.S. President Donald Trump says three key nuclear facilities in Iran have been “obliterated,” while threatening more strikes “if peace does not come quickly.”

The IRGC said it has identified and surveilled the bases from which the U.S. attack on Iranian nuclear facilities was launched, affirming its entitlement to respond in self-defense.

In her powerful reflection, Nahid Poureisa shows how Israeli aggression has catalyzed the reunification of the Iranian nation and state, forging solidarity, resistance, and clarity in the face of war.

A Pentagon rift over military aid to “Israel” reveals tensions between advocates of Middle East engagement and those prioritizing Asia, shaping Trump’s foreign policy.

Ana Sofía Cabezas is a Venezuelan activist, political scientist, and the vice president of the Comandante Eterno Hugo Chávez Foundation.

A significant economic slowdown into stagnation, alongside still relatively high inflation; a crippling debt burden for the majority of the world’s population eking out a bare living; and an accelerating climate crisis—none of these issues will be discussed in the Rockies or in the Grand Hotel in Stockholm.