Puerto Rico is a living lesson about climate disaster capitalism, the failure and cruelty of austerity, and the need for new ways forward.

"In an epidemic like this, the absolute worst thing is people who don't get tested, or don't get treated, because they're worried about cost. But that's a reality of life in America; lots of people forgo healthcare because they think it's going to be t...

Election Focus 2020: News organizations seemed unable to process that a major national political figure could say something positive about a socialist country, leaving these outlets flailing around in absurd ways.

Economic impacts of epidemics of life-saving and of war-mongering, this week on CounterSpin.

MIT researchers concluded that there “is not any statistical evidence of fraud that we can find,” and that “the OAS’s statistical analysis and conclusions would appear deeply flawed.”

Election Focus 2020: "All of these things have the aura of trying to protect democracy, trying to protect the integrity of the ballot box, but it's based on the lie of massive rampant voter fraud."

Election Focus 2020: When it comes to voter suppression, the fight is less between parties than between democracy and its demonstrated opponents

"Environmental degradation is about... these US corporations, backed by US government, that are allowed to run roughshod over peoples’ lands in the name of, again, profit."

“The question then shifts from, ‘How can the “law and order” approach address or eradicate sex work?’ to ‘How are resources divided up in our societies, and why are people trading sex for survival?’” 

There will only be an increasing number of frontline struggles between extractive, climate-disrupting industry and those willing to stand up to it.  Corporate media's inadequate attention, and unwillingness to truly call out the moneyed interests causi...