FARC: “terrorists” or “belligerents”?
Bill Weinberg Chávez: kidnapping “mistaken policy” Chávez earlier this week called upon the FARC to abandon the tactic of kidnapping, calling it a “mistaken policy” (política equivocada). The comment came…
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Podcast: What will it take to stop Trump?
In Episode 14 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg notes the national protest wave that brought down president Park Geun-Hye in South Korea in December 2016, and asks why Americans can’t…
Iran: uprising against austerity —and clerical rule?
Bill Weinberg Iran: good news and bad news The new protests in Iran come just as the regime took an important but little-noted move to relax the strictures of clerical…
Another independent journalist arrested in Wuhan
Bill Weinberg Strange politics of COVID-era dissent in China Liang Yanping, a professor of literary criticism at Hubei University, has been stripped of her position and Communist Party membership for…
Japan to be nuclear-free by April
Bill Weinberg Bird life takes hit in Fukushima disaster: study Take your “safe nuclear power” and shove it, techno-geeks. No really, we mean that. From The Independent, Feb. 3: Bird…
Podcast: against the anti-bicycle backlash
In Episode 142 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg takes on the ugly backlash against bicyclists in New York City, which has escalated from petitioning against bike lanes to dangerous…
Israel denies backing Nusra after Golan lynching
Bill Weinberg US and Mossad backing ISIS: yet more bullshit When even the perennially wacky conspiranoid website Global Research adds a disclaimer saying the report has “not been fully corroborated,” you…
Iraq: Yazidi workers massacred in Mosul
Bill Weinberg International Campaign against killings of women in Kurdistan A petition: To: Kurdistan Regional Government International Campaign against killings and stoning of women in Kurdistan Condemn the brutal stoning…
Indigenous leader Alberto Pizango arrested on return to Peru
Bill Weinberg Alberto Pizango speaks In a statement released by AIDESEP May 27, Pizango says he initially sought exile in Nicargua because he was afraid that his arrest would escalate…
Pro-settler IDF troops mutiny on West Bank
Bill Weinberg 10,000 West Bank settlers protest Some 10,000 West Bank settlers and their supporters protested in downtown Jerusalem Dec. 9, pledging to defy a temporary building ban imposed by…
Verizon threatens survival of CounterVortex
CountertVortex editor and main contributor Bill Weinberg (that would be me) is currently without phone service, and only intermittent Internet access, due to a Verizon equipment failure. The last Verizon…
CounterVortex unveils new website
…make a donation, either via check or Paypal: $5 $10 $20 You can become a Patreon subscriber here. Thank you, shukran & gracias, Bill Weinberg Editor and senior ranter, CounterVortex…