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CounterPunch

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CounterPunch
CounterPunch logo.png
EditorsJeffrey St. Clair
Joshua Frank
Staff writersFrank Bardacke,
Daniel Burton-Rose,
Andrew Cockburn,
Laura Flanders,
Annys Shinn,
Ken Silverstein,
JoAnn Wypijewski
CategoriesPolitics
FrequencyBi-Monthly
First issue1994
CountryUnited States
Based inPetrolia, California
LanguageEnglish
Websitewww.counterpunch.org
ISSN‹See Tfm›1086-2323

CounterPunch is a bi-monthly magazine published in the United States that covers politics in a manner its editors describe as "muckraking with a radical attitude".[1] It has been described as left-wing by both supporters and detractors.[2][3][4]

CounterPunch magazine has published frequent commentaries by Alexander Cockburn, current editor-in-chief Jeffrey St. Clair, editor Joshua Frank, and includes regular contributions by a wide range of others. Topics include critical coverage of bothDemocratic and Republican politicians[5][6] and its extensive reporting of environmental and trade union issues, American foreign policy, and the Israeli-Arab conflict.[7]

History[edit]

The newsletter was established in 1994 by the Washington, D.C.-based investigative reporter Ken Silverstein.[8] He was soon joined by the journalists Cockburn and St. Clair.[9] In 1996, Silverstein left the publication and Cockburn and St. Clair became co-editors.[10] In 2007, Cockburn and St. Clair wrote that in founding CounterPunch they had "wanted it to be the best muckraking newsletter in the country", and cited as inspiration such pamphleteers as Edward Abbey, Peter Maurin, and Ammon Hennacy, as well as the socialist/populist newspaperAppeal to Reason (1895–1922).[11]

CounterPunch-sourced news stories have frequently featured in the Project Censored annual list of top 25 "underreported, mis-reported, or censored" news stories, including three in 1997 ("Dark Alliance: Tuna Free Trade, and Cocaine";[12] "Corporate America Spends Big $$ on Pro-China PR";[13] and "U.S. Alone in Blocking Export Ban of Toxic Waste to Third World"[14]). Other entries include 1998 ("The Scheme to Privatize the Hanford Nuke Plant"[15] and "American Drug Industry Uses the Poor as Human Guinea Pigs"[16]), several in 2000[17][18] and others in 2001[19] 2003[20] and 2004.[21]

Regular CounterPunch contributor Israel Shamir was part of the WikiLeaks organisation and an associate of its director, Julian Assange,[22] and in late 2010 and early 2011 wrote a series of exclusive articles for CounterPunch drawing on materials from the United States diplomatic cables leak.[23] He has also written and co-written articles forCounterPunch on what he alleges to be a campaign of harassment against Assange.[24] One of these articles, "Assange Betrayed",[25] made allegations against a plaintiff in a Swedish rape case against Assange that were widely circulated in the media.[26][27] The allegations in CounterPunch were the topic of controversy in the mainstream media.[28]

Contributions and topics[edit]

CounterPunch's "muckraking with a radical attitude" has seen it welcome contributions from a range of contributors critical of conventional wisdom on particular topics. This stance is perhaps most controversial in relation to the Arab-Israeli conflict, where its contributions are critical of Israeli government actions. This includes contributions from such controversial anti-Zionist figures as Gilad Atzmon, Norman Finkelstein,[29] Ron Jacobs,[30] and Israel Shamir, as well as left-wing Israeli Uri Avnery, founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement. Others include Jonathan Cook[31] and Alison Weir of If Americans Knew. Anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes has described organ trafficking and tissue harvesting within Israel.[32] CounterPunch has been criticized by some Jewish and anti-racist groups for some of this material.[33][34]

Within the broader area of American foreign policy, contributors include William Blum and Patrick Cockburn. CounterPunch also has a strong tradition of criticizing US financial and economic policy, including the financial regulation deficits which led to the 2008 crisis. In this area contributors include former Financial Times and Forbes editorEamonn Fingleton,[35] Paul Craig Roberts (Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration), Winslow T. Wheeler and Michael Hudson.[36] On environmental issues, contributors include Joshua Frank[37] and Harvey Wasserman.[38] Some more frequent contributors, such as Dave Lindorff and Saul Landau, cover a wide range of subjects.

Contributors[edit]

Contributors to CounterPunch have included Robert Fisk,[39] Edward Said,[40] Faisal Kutty,[41] Tim Wise,[42] Ralph Nader,[43] M. Shahid Alam,[44] Tariq Ali,[45] Ward Churchill,[46]Lila Rajiva,[47] Peter Linebaugh,[48] Tanya Reinhart,[49] Noam Chomsky,[50] Frank "Chuck" Spinney,[51] Paul Street[52] Diana Johnstone,[53] Boris Kagarlitsky, Franklin Lamb,[54] and Alexander Cockburn's two brothers: Andrew[55] and Patrick,[56] both of whom write on the Middle East and Iraq in particular.[57][58]

The site regularly publishes articles by left-wing authors, such as Lenni Brenner,[59] Fidel Castro,[60] and the late Stew Albert,[61] as well as newer contributors, such as Vijay Prashad, Diane Christian,[62] Joshua Frank,[63] Pam Martens,[64] Gary Leupp,[65] Cynthia McKinney,[66] Kelly Overton,[67] David Price,[68] Sherry Wolf and Richard Silverstein.[69]Some paleoconservative and libertarian writers, such as Paul Craig Roberts,[70] William Lind,[71] Sheldon Richman,[72] Sarah Gillespie and Anthony Gregory[73] are also regularly published in CounterPunch. Franklin Lamb contributed a series of articles on the Libyan Civil War from his location in Libya[74] American journalist Patrick O. Strickland is also a regular contributor of on-the-ground dispatches and editorials on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the broader Middle East.[75]

Reception[edit]

In 2003, The Observer described the CounterPunch website as a "popular political sources in America, with a keen following in Washington".[76] Other sources have variously described CounterPunch as a "left-wing",[2][3][4] "extreme" or "radical"[77][78] a "political newsletter",[79] and a "muckraking newsletter".[80]

The Anti-Defamation League in 2007 described CounterPunch as an "anti-Zionist radical left newsletter".[81] The pro-Israel media watchdog group Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) in 2007 described CounterPunch.org as an "extremist anti-Israel web site".[82]

In 2004, Max Boot described CounterPunch as an "extreme" "conspiracy-mongering website", citing a 2003 article by Dave Lindorff comparing George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler.[77][83] The same article was also referred to by James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal as similarly permitting the dismissal of CounterPunch ("an outfit whose staple is stuff comparing Bush to Hitler"). Lindorff has defended his article against this characterization.[84]

Books[edit]

CounterPunch Books, an imprint of AK Press,[85] has published a number of books, typically works by individual CounterPunch contributors, or collections of essays byCounterPunch contributors. The most controversial books, reflecting CounterPunch' stance on criticism of the Israeli government, are The Politics of Anti-Semitism (2003), edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, and The Case Against Israel (2005) by Michael Neumann, a philosophy professor at Trent University Ontario in response toAlan Dershowitz's The Case for Israel. Of the former book, CounterPunch said "Is this the most controversial book of 2003? It was denounced by liberals and neocons alike, numerous reviews in mainstream papers were quashed by editors."[86]

A number of CounterPunch books focus on environmental issues, including St Clair's Born Under a Bad Sky: Notes from the Dark Side of the Earth (2008)[87] and Andrea Peacock's Wasting Libby: The True Story of How the WR Grace Corporation Left a Montana Town to Die (2010), on W. R. Grace and Company's role in Libby, Montana.[88] A Dime's Worth of Difference: Beyond the Lesser of Two Evils (2004), a collection of essays, illustrates CounterPunch's criticism of both the Republican and Democratic parties.[89]

Other books include Serpents in the Garden: Liaisons With Culture & Sex (2004), Imperial Crusades: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia (2004), and End times: the death of the fourth estate (2007), all edited by Cockburn and St Clair, and How the Economy Was Lost: The War of the Worlds (2009) by Paul Craig Roberts.

References[edit]

  1. Jump up^ "We've got all the right enemies". CounterPunch. Archived from the original on 2011-04-25. Retrieved 2010-10-01.
  2. ^ Jump up to:a b Ralph Blumenthal (May 12, 2006). "Army Acts to Curb Abuses of Injured Recruits". The New York Times. Retrieved June 14, 2011.
  3. ^ Jump up to:a b "The Devil You Know". new Republic.
  4. ^ Jump up to:a b "Olbermann, Assange, and the Holocaust Denier When you want to believe, you'll believe anything.". Reason.
  5. Jump up^ Richard Keeble, Ethics for Journalists (2nd edn; New York: Routledge, 2009), p. 170; James Walch and Jim Walch, In the Net: An Internet Guide for Activists (London and New York: Zed Books, 1999), p. 127.
  6. Jump up^ "largely progressive political commentary—commentary that transcends the "good Democrat, bad Republican" dichotomy by taking aim at any policy, policy-maker, or too-comfortable consciousness that conserves the status quo." - Gorski, Paul (2007), "Beyond the Network News: Progressive Sources for the News You and Your Students Won’t See on Fox or CNN", Multicultural Perspectives, 9(1), 29–31. p30
  7. Jump up^ Richard Paul and Linda Elder, The Thinker's Guide for Conscientious Citizens on How to Detect Media Bias and Propaganda (3rd edn; Dillon Beach, California: Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2006), p. 29.
  8. Jump up^ "Counterpunch is the brainchild of Ken Silverstein, a former AP reporter in Rio de Janeiro." Lies of Our Times, vols 4-5 (1993), p. 26.
  9. Jump up^ Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair, Five Days that Shook the World: Seattle and Beyond (London and New York: Verso, 2000), p. 151; Alexander Cockburn, Ken Silverstein, Washington Babylon (London and New York: Verso, 1996), p. 302.
  10. Jump up^ Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair, End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate(Petrolia, California, and Oakland, California: CounterPunch and AK Press, 2007), pp. 2, 44.
  11. Jump up^ Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair (2007), End times: the death of the fourth estate, CounterPunch and AK Press, p383
  12. Jump up^ Project Censored, Dark Alliance: Tuna Free Trade, and Cocaine, story by Ken Silverstein and Alexander Cockburn
  13. Jump up^ Project Censored, Corporate America Spends Big $$ on Pro-China PR, story by Ken Silverstein and Alexander Cockburn
  14. Jump up^ Project Censored, U.S. Alone in Blocking Export Ban of Toxic Waste to Third World, story by Ken Silverstein and Alexander Cockburn
  15. Jump up^ Project Censored, The Scheme to Privatize the Hanford Nuke Plant, story by Jeffrey St Clair and Alexander Cockburn
  16. Jump up^ Project Censored, American Drug Industry Uses the Poor as Human Guinea Pigs, story by Scott Handelman
  17. Jump up^ Project Censored, U.S. Agency Seeks to Export Weapons-Grade Plutonium to Russian Organization Tied to Organized Crime, story by Jeffrey St Clair and Alexander Cockburn
  18. Jump up^ Project Censored, America’s Largest Nuclear Test Exposed Thousands, story by Jeffrey St Clair and Alexander Cockburn
  19. Jump up^ Project Censored, U.S. Army’s Psychological Operations Personnel Worked at CNN, story by Alexander Cockburn
  20. Jump up^ Project Censored, United States' Policies in Colombia Support Mass Murder, story by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair
  21. Jump up^ Project Censored, Rumsfeld’s Plan to Provoke Terrorists, story by Chris Floyd
  22. Jump up^ Index on Censorship "WikiLeaks, Belarus and Israel Shamir" 5 February 2011]
  23. Jump up^ e.g. http://www.counterpunch.org/shamir05042011.html
  24. Jump up^ e.g. http://www.counterpunch.org/shamir02012011.html
  25. Jump up^ "14 September 2010". Counterpunch.org. 2010-09-14. Retrieved 2014-08-12.
  26. Jump up^ e.g. David Edwards Revealed: Assange ‘rape’ accuser linked to notorious CIA operative The Raw Story 6 December 2010
  27. Jump up^ on his Twitter feed, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann (162,000 followers) links to a rambling blog post arguing that ... a Swedish feminist who accused Assange of rape, is an anti-Castro activist with connections to CIA front groups. Elsewhere on the Internet, NYU professor Mark Crispin Miller, the popular liberal website FireDogLake, Bianca Jagger, and The First Post (a British news website "brought to you by The Week") all circulated the charges without an ounce of skepticism... [The original source was] one comes to an article posted on Alexander Cockburn’s far-left website Counterpunch by the writers Israel Shamir and Paul Bennett". Michael C. Moynihan "Olbermann, Assange, and the Holocaust Denier" reason.com December 7, 2010
  28. Jump up^ Kate Harding "Accusations against Assange's accuser" Australian Broadcasting Company 9 December 2010; David Leigh and Luke Harding "Holocaust denier in charge of handling Moscow cables" The Guardian 31 January 2011
  29. Jump up^ "The Cleanser". CounterPunch. 2009-02-19. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  30. Jump up^ "A Life Worth Saving". CounterPunch. 2010-01-10. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  31. Jump up^ Jonathan Cook, CounterPunch, 28 June 2008, Israel's Encaging of Gaza
  32. Jump up^ Nancy Scheper-Hughes, CounterPunch, 25 October 2010, Body Parts and Bio-Piracy
  33. Jump up^ Tony Greenstein (Jews Against Zionism) Open Letter to Counterpunch: Who’s Afraid of Gilad Atzmon and the Holocaust Deniers? or Why Alex Cockburn Refuses to Print a Reply to Mary Rizzo What Next? 2005
  34. Jump up^ Anti-Defamation League Alison Weir: ｅxpressions of Anti-Semitism ADL.org
  35. Jump up^ Harry Browne, CounterPunch, 19 February 2009, How Ireland Went Bust
  36. Jump up^ Michael Hudson, 19 September 2008, The Dow Jones' Wonderfully Cheesy Addition
  37. Jump up^ "Big Sky Rebels", July 26, 2008, Joshua Frank, CounterPunch, retrieved 5 September 2008
  38. Jump up^ Harvey Wasserman, 25 July 2008, New Nukes Not Ready for Prime Time
  39. Jump up^ "Who Killed Bhutto?". CounterPunch. 2007-12-31. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  40. Jump up^ "A Tiny, Unelected Group, Backed by Powerful Unrepresentative Interests". CounterPunch. 2003-03-08. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  41. Jump up^ "Five Truths You Should Know About Terrorism And Islam". CounterPunch. 2015-11-18. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  42. Jump up^ "What Kind of Card Is Race?". CounterPunch. 2006-04-24. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  43. Jump up^ "Obama's Afghan Formula". CounterPunch. 2010-08-02. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  44. Jump up^ "Bernard Lewis and the New Orientalism". CounterPunch. 2003-06-28. Retrieved2010-10-02.
  45. Jump up^ "From Reconquista to Recolonization". CounterPunch. 2010-01-06. Retrieved2010-10-02.
  46. Jump up^ "What Did I Really Say? And Why Did I Say It?". CounterPunch. 2005-02-21. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  47. Jump up^ "Unnatural Disaster?". CounterPunch. 2004-12-30. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  48. Jump up^ "Some Principles of the Commons". CounterPunch. 2010-01-10. Retrieved2010-10-02.
  49. Jump up^ "Jenin: The Propaganda Battle". CounterPunch. 2002-04-24. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  50. Jump up^ "The New War against Terror". CounterPunch. 2001-10-24. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  51. Jump up^ "Obama's Toxic 'Green' Policy". CounterPunch. 2010-03-14. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  52. Jump up^ "The Liberal Apologies for Obama's Ugly Reign". CounterPunch. Retrieved 29 May2015.
  53. Jump up^ "Disillusion With the Euro and Europe". CounterPunch. 2012-04-24. Retrieved2012-05-10.
  54. Jump up^ "Waiting for the Endgame in Libya". CounterPunch. 2011-08-19. Retrieved2011-08-20.
  55. Jump up^ "The Wall Street White House". CounterPunch. 2009-07-02. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  56. Jump up^ "Erdogan Rising?". CounterPunch. 2010-06-10. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  57. Jump up^ "How Many Iraqis Have Died Since the US Invasion in 2003?". CounterPunch. 2008-05-02. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  58. Jump up^ "Uproar Before Iraqi Elections". CounterPunch. 2010-03-02. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  59. Jump up^ "Dave Van Ronk". CounterPunch. 2002-02-17. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  60. Jump up^ "The Secret Summit". CounterPunch. 2009-04-21. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  61. Jump up^ "Cops of the World". CounterPunch. 2003-05-29. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  62. Jump up^ "War Corrupts". CounterPunch. 2008-02-17. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  63. Jump up^ "Blackwash". CounterPunch. 2010-02-03. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  64. Jump up^ "How Wall Street Blew Itself Up". CounterPunch. 2008-01-21. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  65. Jump up^ "Is Iran Being Set Up?". CounterPunch. 2005-07-27. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  66. Jump up^ "Goodbye to All That". CounterPunch. 2002-09-18. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  67. Jump up^ "Animal Rights and Obama". CounterPunch. 2008-07-06. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  68. Jump up^ "Silent Coup". CounterPunch. 2010-04-11. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  69. Jump up^ "Dimona: Israel's "Little Hiroshima"". CounterPunch. 2015-05-21. Retrieved2015-05-21.
  70. Jump up^ "Truth Has Fallen and Taken Liberty with It". CounterPunch. 2010-03-24. Retrieved2010-10-02.
  71. Jump up^ "Why Obama Is Wrong". CounterPunch. 2008-09-18. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  72. Jump up^ "Obama the Neoconservative". CounterPunch. 2010-09-14. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  73. Jump up^ "When Killer Cops Walk". CounterPunch. 2007-07-02. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  74. Jump up^ "Whither Gaddafi and Libya?". CounterPunch. 2010-08-22. Retrieved 2010-08-25.
  75. Jump up^ "The Struggle for Rachel Corrie's Legacy". CounterPunch. 2012-09-17. Retrieved2012-09-17.
  76. Jump up^ Christopher Reed (March 2, 2003). "Battle of the bottle divides columnists". The Observer.
  77. ^ Jump up to:a b Boot, Max (March 11, 2004). "The Fringe Fires at Bush on Iraq". LATIMes.
  78. Jump up^ "The Assange allegations". December 21, 2010. Archived December 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine..
  79. Jump up^ Dan Mitchell (October 29, 2006). "Royalty checks aren't in the mail - Business - International Herald Tribune". The New York Times. Retrieved June 14, 2011.
  80. Jump up^ MELINDA TUHUS (March 22, 1998). "Who Pays For Mistakes In Making Electricity?".The New York Times. Retrieved June 14, 2011.
  81. Jump up^ "Pro-Palestinian Groups Praise Jimmy Carter's Book". Anti-Defamation League. January 3, 2007. Retrieved June 14, 2011.
  82. Jump up^ "Norman Finkelstein, Benny Morris and Peace not Apartheid". CAMERA. February 7, 2007. Retrieved June 14, 2011.
  83. Jump up^ Dave Lindorff (February 1, 2003). "Bush and Hitler and the Strategy of Fear".CounterPunch.
  84. Jump up^ Dave Lindorff (July 17, 2003). "Is Bush Another Hitler?: Bush and Hitler...Compare and Contrast A Response to the WSJ's James Taranto". CounterPunch.
  85. Jump up^ CounterPunch.org, CounterPunch Books, an Imprint of AK Press
  86. Jump up^ CounterPunch, NEW BOOKS FROM COUNTERPUNCH / AK PRESS, accessed 22 May 2011
  87. Jump up^ AK Press, Born Under a Bad Sky: Notes from the Dark Side of the Earth
  88. Jump up^ AK Press, Wasting Libby: The True Story of How the WR Grace Corporation Left a Montana Town to Die
  89. Jump up^ CounterPunch, A Dime's Worth of Difference:Beyond the Lesser of Two Evils

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