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On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg are joined by Thomas Zietzoff to talk about his new book, No Option But Sabotage The Radical Environmental Movement and the Climate Crisis.  No Option But Sabotage explores how far activists are willing to go to defend the planet in the face of repression More

Assassinating the president is a crime under federal statute 18 U.S. Code § 1751. The same law forbids assassinating, kidnapping or assaulting the Vice-President or anyone in line to become president following the office holder’s death or incapacity. There is also a law, 18 U.S. Code § 871, that protects the president, vice-president, etc., against threats of death, kidnapping or other bodily harm. These laws are in addition to other state and federal or state laws against murder, kidnapping, assault, threats of violence and all the rest. Читать дальше...

Let’s start with the bad. Carbon dioxide levels just hit a new record of 431 parts per million. Some of you may remember that 350 was the safe upper limit for atmospheric carbon. Oh, how times have changed.  What does this mean for the planet? We’re already seeing the consequences. Corpus Christi, Texas (population 317,000), may be the first major city in the country to run out of drinking water entirely, possibly before the end of the year. Climate-induced drought is the culprit.  More

In March, with the US and Israel having launched their unprovoked war on Iran, Wissam Charafeddine of Dearborn Blog wrote against the kind of “realism” that pundits always use to justify the initiation of such illegal military conflict—lame arguments that, he wrote, go something like this: “Yes, there is aggression, but what about Iran? Yes, there is an illegal war, but what about the regime?” Of course, he noted, this illogic is routinely applied to Israel’s long history of aggression against the Palestinians... Читать дальше...

One day, I got a call from Peter Bahouth, a former Greenpeace honcho whom Ted Turner had swiped to run his grant-making operation. Peter said, “Jeff, can you hold for a sec? My boss wants to talk to you." I was going to say, "No," to Ted Turner? I waited longer than “a sec,” more like two or three minutes. Billionaires must be busy managing their billions, I thought.  I was expecting to hear Ted's southern drawl. Instead, it was Jane, who babbled on for about 20 seconds, thanking me for mentioning... Читать дальше...

The expression “coalition of the willing” was first coined by an American political scientist in the 1970s and used by George W. Bush during the Iraq war. It was an American attempt to circumvent the United Nations to carry out peacekeeping or stabilization missions. Now that logic is being turned on its head. Coalitions of the willing are no longer imagined as supporting U.S. action, but as a hedge against U.S. uncertainty. What began as a tool of American leadership is now being reimagined.... Читать дальше...

If you’re in like Flynn in the Trump administration, what’s great is that you can lie to Congress, take money and lavish gifts from the Qataris, obstruct justice as you please, go to work shit-faced drunk, ignore the law on the release of the Epstein files, vote to give Trump $1 billion to fulfill his More

Romania was late to politics which saw parties representing the left and right unite against liberals. But unite they did this week, in what the founder of Russia’s former “National Bolsheviks,” Alexander Dugin, presciently described in 2008 as movements “against the center.” Dugin predicted these left/right alliances would crush liberalism. Instead, they mostly acted performatively More

President Obama refuses to go low, and so he politely compares the nightmare that Americans are living through to “every day is Halloween.” I find myself seething every day. Some of my friends, among the brightest indivi [ . . . ]

The Santa Marta Conference – Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels – An energetic multi-nation well-organized effort to get off fossil fuels with the underlying motto: “Make Science Great Again” This article discusses this exciting new approach to hopefully mitigate climate change as well a discussion of the steep difficulty of overcoming the “monumental challenge” already More