On and off, I have spent decades studying Greek history. I am not so sure, however, that I fully understand what made the ancient Greeks so original and, at times, so self-destructive. Greatness ...

City-owned grocery stores are a promising solution for communities that suffer from the hunger and food insecurity that comes from living in food deserts, urban or rural neighborhoods with limited ...

The leveling of Gaza by the equivalent of 6 Hiroshima bombs is said to be the greatest destruction of an urban area in modern history.

The Middle East is a tinderbox, and America has struck a match. Last month’s U.S. airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities—Fordo, Natanz, Isfahan—ignited a firestorm. Iran’s Supreme ...

What can be said about President Donald Trump’s attempt to exercise a “tariff-war” against countries which do not comply with his terms? This economic policy of his has been described by ...

CounterPunch recently published a piece by former USAID employee Jared O. Bell titled A Real-Time Cautionary Tale of Stolen Democracy from Nicaragua in which he compared the rapid transition to ...

The day before that, the US Army Corps of Engineers increased the outflow of Little Caesar Lake into Ohio’s Miami River at the request of the Secret Service. Why? Vice-president JD Vance went ...

It’s not exactly big news that the Trump administration – famous for slashing Biden era clean energy subsidies and cheering on fossil fuels to the tune of ...

De-industrialization in the northeast spawned a service sector that didn’t quite match the employment opportunities of the old, manufacturing-based economy. The resulting lower wages, limited ...

The memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki cast a long shadow over global efforts to contain nuclear arms. The 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, more commonly known as the ...

There were the doomsdayers, the moaners and, let’s face it, the ill-wishers, hoping that a march across one of the most famous bridges in Australia would not take place. Despite this, some ...

As you read the title, anyone with a sharp eye for spelling or a love of language is probably scratching their head and asking, "What the devil is ...