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Metaphors of Belligerence: Wars by and Against Nature

13Jan

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USA, World

Metaphors of Belligerence: Wars by and Against Nature

BY BINOY KAMPMARK Photo by Zac Durant Metaphor consists in giving the thing a name that belongs to something else. – Aristotle, Poetics (1457b) It all seemed familiar. Anthropomorphised Mother Nature in vengeful mood; humans wondering if they might meet a frozen demise in trapped vehicles; the planners taking stock as to how best to cope with grim circumstances. The New York State governor Kathy Hochul was happy to stick her head out in declaring the latest lethal winter storm in Buffalo to be nothing less than a “war with Mother Nature, and she has been hitting us with everything she has.” Having found her less than imaginative metaphor, the governor ran with it, suggesting that Mother Nature had laid waste to the region around Bu...

They Shot Them Down Like Animals’: Massacre at Peru’s Ayacucho

13Jan

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Peru

They Shot Them Down Like Animals’: Massacre at Peru’s Ayacucho

BY ZOE ALEXANDRA On December 15, 2022, while helicopters flew overhead, members of Peru’s national army shot down civilians with live bullets in the outskirts of the city of Ayacucho. This action was in response to a national strike and mobilization to protest the coup d’état that deposed President Pedro Castillo on December 7. On December 15, hundreds of university students, shopkeepers, street vendors, agricultural workers, and activists gathered at the center of Ayacucho to express their discontent over the removal of Castillo and continued their mobilization toward the airport. Similar action was witnessed in several other cities across the southern Andean region of the country. As protesters approached the airport, members of the armed forces opened f...

13Jan

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Politics, USA

Is Democracy The Big Lie?

BY NICK PEMBERTON “I hate to break it to you, but there is no big lie. There is no system. The universe is indifferent.” —Donald Draper I very much enjoyed Anthony Dimaggio’s piece on January 6th that ran recently here on Counterpunch. I agree wholeheartedly that the insurrection was driven by white supremacy primarily and of course, he has the numbers to back it up. I also think we should ignore, and not obsess over, grifters who claim to be on the left who spend most of their time bashing the left and cozying up to fascists. These people do indeed blame the working class for fascism when it is a bourgeois phenomenon. This is not surprising to anyone except for those educated enough to believe in their own virtue. The left is still confused about the fascists and there ar...

Hot Water: Radioactive Contaminants are Seeping Into Drinking Water Around the US

13Jan

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Health, USA

Hot Water: Radioactive Contaminants are Seeping Into Drinking Water Around the US

BY LYNNE PEEPLES A Recovery Act-funded Study assesses contamination at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. (Photo: US DOE/Wikimedia Commons) When Jeni Knack moved to Simi Valley, California, in 2018, she had no idea that her family’s new home was within 5 miles of a former nuclear and rocket testing laboratory, perched atop a plateau and rife with contamination. Radioactive cesium-137, strontium-90, plutonium-239 and tritium, along with a mix of other toxic chemicals and heavy metals, are known to have been released at the industrial site through various spills, leaks, the use of open-air burn pits and a partial nuclear meltdown. Once Knack learned about the Santa Susana Field Laboratory and the unusual number of childhood cancer cases in the surrounding community, she couldn’...

Envisioning a World Without Nuclear Weapons

13Jan

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World

Envisioning a World Without Nuclear Weapons

BY PATRICIA HYNES Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair January 22 marks the second anniversary of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, a global lifeboat supported by 70% of the world’s countries. Meanwhile, the US Department of Energy’s 2023 budget request for nuclear weapons’ upgrade is more than $21 billion and close to $8 billion for radioactive and chemical cleanup at nuclear weapon sites across the country. Stack this up against the same department’s 2023 budget for energy efficiency and renewable energy – $4 billion – and we see the future: weapons trump wind turbines; war worsens climate crisis. Moreover, the government’s budget has no line items for the massive existential costs of nuclear weapons, three of which are described her...

Waging War on Medicine: From Nixon to Trump

13Jan

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Health, USA

Waging War on Medicine: From Nixon to Trump

BY MICHAEL BARKER Photograph Source: Lord Jim – CC BY 2.0 Cancer Wars Distrust of corporate profiteering by ordinary people has always been a sensible reaction when it comes to maintaining their own longevity; and this explains why alternative cancer treatment like Laetrile managed to assert a firm hold on the public imagination. And while the so-called health and lifestyle magazines promoted by the powerful Rodale stable had done much to undermine public understanding of effective medical interventions, the role of the mainstream (corporate) media in facilitating such confusion should never be underestimated.[1] For example, shortly after President Nixon launched his “war on cancer” in 1971, he reopened diplomatic talks with China, and low and behold, one of t...

Wars and More Wars: The Sorry U.S. History in the Middle East

12Jan

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Middle East, USA

Wars and More Wars: The Sorry U.S. History in the Middle East

BY EVE OTTENBERG Photo by Levi Meir Clancy The American republic morphed well over a century ago into an empire of many endless wars. With U.S. troops still in Syria, Iraq, Somalia and numerous African countries, with over 800 military bases in more than 70 countries and a war budget of roughly one trillion dollars a year, it’s no surprise that one of our main exports is weapons and that arms merchants call the shots in Washington. Presidents come and go, but the wars don’t: they drag on. And when a president does manage to extract the country from one of these military quagmires, as Biden did in Afghanistan, he gets nothing but grief. This only serves to encourage barbarity – like freezing Afghanistan’s $7 billion in the bank, while Afghans starve due to the U.S. having...

What’s Missing from the Congressional Report

12Jan

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USA

What’s Missing from the Congressional Report

BY ANTHONY DIMAGGIO Photograph Source: Elvert Barnes – CC BY-SA 2.0 In the run-up to the two-year anniversary of January 6th (J6), the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack has released a new report highlighting some troubling realities regarding Donald Trump’s failed insurrection. Unfortunately, it falls short in exposing the extent of the threat of rising white supremacy in America. At a whopping 814 pages, the report is incredibly thorough in documenting what happened on J6 and Trump’s role in stoking a failed coup. The report blames “one man” for the insurrection, emphasizing a “multi-part conspiracy” on the former president’s part to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election.” Those who’ve paid close attention t...

12Jan

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Russia, USA

The Radioactive Legacy of the Cold War

BY KOLLIBRI TERRE SONNENBLUME https://www.youtube.com/embed/TdLjtnvs21k?feature=oembed That the world hasn’t been the same since the ignition of the Atomic Age in the 1940s is certainly an understatement, yet the public’s awareness of how the nuclear industry operates has always been dismally low. Secrecy has played a part — especially in relation to bomb-making activities — but so too has the establishment news media, which focuses on individual events and sidelines institutional factors. So an accident is news (if it’s not covered up), but not the regular practices or misguided motivations that led to it, even though they were ultimately responsible. Also, stories about nuclear power can be complicated to tell as they involve, first, technical processes that are arcane to peo...

Roaming Charges: Watching the Detectives, the Year in Police Crime

12Jan

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USA

Roaming Charges: Watching the Detectives, the Year in Police Crime

BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Cops standing around in the hall as kids are slaughtered at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. January 7 + Since 1970, the number of incarcerated people in the US has increased by 700%, to the point that the US prison population is the largest in the world both per capita and in total numbers. As of 2019, there are an estimated 2.3 million people behind bars. + How COINTELPRO returned to Portland (assuming it ever left): “The F.B.I. set up extensive surveillance operations inside Portland’s protest movement, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and current and former federal officials, with agents standing shoulder to shoulder with activists, tailing vandalism suspects to guide the local police toward arrests ...