1+ hour, 53+ min ago  (556+ words) Image by Immo Wegmann. America has never been so dry, so thirsty, yet so committed to fossil fuels and CO2-engineered heat as in the years 2025-2026. "Co2 Levels Hit Highest Ever Recorded, WMO Says, Warning of More Extreme Weather," Reuters, Oct. 15, 2025. This…...

2+ hour, 3+ min ago  (538+ words) In Sacramento, more than 150 University of Californian [UC] "residents and fellows gathered for the first of 17 statewide rallies, dubbed "unity breaks," at UC Davis Medical on June 2. The medical professionals there, members of the Committee of Interns and Residents-Service Employees…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (687+ words) This week in the Anthropocene The first major swell of the year pummeled Southern California this week, and onlookers flocked to Balboa Peninsula in ritzy Newport Beach to watch adrenaline junkies attack the Wedge " a mutant wave that ricochets off…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1123+ words) Counter Punch. org The climate catastrophe not only kills people with fires and floods, it also bankrupts them by annihilating their homes " many uninsured. Why no insurance? Because of climate change " a perfectly horrible repeating loop. Our inside the Beltway…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (481+ words) Cancelling Billion: Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us: The Urgent Case for a Wealth Tax By Linda Mc Quaig and Neil Brooks Dundurn Press It's a bit difficult for me to read this book. That's not the fault of the…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago  (388+ words) Hypocritically, MSNOW and CNN express outrage at Donald Trump's takeover of CBS. But do they serve another segment of the oligarchy? Advertisers, some of whom are cozy with the oligarch's employee, Donald Trump? Is this why a parade of white…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (664+ words) For years, Congress and elected officials across the country have sidestepped one of the clearest economic problems facing working families: the minimum wage no longer keeps pace with the real cost of living. Today, even full-time work at the federal…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (1141+ words) Ron Jacobs is the author of several books, including Daydream Sunset: Sixties Counterculture in the Seventies published by Counter Punch Books. His latest book, titled Reality, Resistance, Rock and Roll is a collection of book reviews written for Counterpunch over…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago  (549+ words) Firefighters attempt to cool down GKN Aerospace's leaking tank. You Tube screenshot. This week in the Anthropocene Over the next few days, the worry escalated from trepidation to panic. 50, 000 residents around the facility were evacuated to temporary shelters as water…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago  (350+ words) JD Vance's first claim to national attention was when he admitted to making up lies about pet-eating Haitian migrants. Vance justified the lie by saying that he was prepared to lie if that was needed to push Trump's anti-immigrant agenda....