Leonard Peltier, perhaps the most famous political prisoner on the planet, is in poor health after 40 years of imprisonment for a crime he did not commit. As President Barack Obama prepares to leave office, activists, friends and supporters are renewing their push to convince Obama to grant clemency to Peltier – a broad array…
While exceedingly eager to accept credit for California’s climate leadership at the recent COP21 talks in Paris, Governor Jerry Brown’s actual record on climate policy has been considerably less appealing to climate activists than one might realize by reading and watching the mainstream press. Here are a few news items that observers of California’s climate policy…
The Queen of Chaos by journalist Diana Johnstone, published Nov. 2, 2015 by CounterPunch books. CounterPunch: United State wars are getting repetitive. Always the same old scenario. The mainstream media alert public opinion to the latest “villain” supposedly threatening to slaughter “his own people”. The U.S. does the job instead with its drones and missiles.…
Shameless fundraising for the best political newsletter around. From CounterPunch: This is Why Henry Kissinger Hates Us. Over the course of 22 years, we’ve published many unflattering stories about Henry Kissinger. We’ve recounted his involvement in the Chilean coup and the illegal bombings of Cambodia and Laos; his hidden role in the Kent…
