CounterPunch is a biweekly newsletter published in the United States that covers politics in a manner its editors describe as "muckraking with a radical attitude". A newsletter is a regularly distributed Publication generally about one main topic that is of Interest to its Subscribers Newspapers and The United States of America —commonly referred to as the It includes a website, updated daily, which contains much more material not published in the newsletter.

Running six to eight pages in length, the CounterPunch newsletter primarily publishes commentaries by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair with regular contributions by others. Alexander Claud Cockburn (ˈkoʊbɚn koh-burn born 6 June 1941 is an Irish-American political Journalist. Jeffrey St Clair (born 1959 in Indianapolis Indiana) is an Investigative journalist, writer and editor It is noted for its critical coverage of both Democratic and Republican politicians and its extensive reporting of environmental and trade union issues, American foreign policy, and the Israeli-Arab conflict. The Democratic Party is one of two major Political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. The foreign policy of the United States is highly influential on the world stage as it is a Superpower. CounterPunch considers itself to carry on the tradition of muckraking journalism of earlier investigative journalists such as I.F. Stone and George Seldes. For other meanings see Muckraker (disambiguation The term muckraker most associated with a group of American investigative reporters Isidor Feinstein Stone ( December 24 1907 &ndash June 18 1989; born Isidor Feinstein, better known as I George Seldes ( November 16, 1890 &ndash July 2, 1995) was an influential American Investigative journalist and media critic

History

The newsletter was established in 1994 by the Washington, D.C.-based investigative reporter Ken Silverstein. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D Ken Silverstein is the Washington Editor for Harper's Magazine. He was soon joined by the journalists Cockburn and St. Clair. In 1996 Silverstein left the publication and Cockburn and St. Clair have since been co-editors.

The website, which is updated on a daily basis, is supported by revenues generated by the newsletter, as well as fundraising activities and commissions received on click-through sales from Amazon.com. Amazoncom Inc ( is an American electronic commerce ( E-commerce) company in Seattle Washington.

Contributors

Notable contributors to CounterPunch have included Robert Fisk, the late Edward Said, Tim Wise, Ralph Nader, M. Shahid Alam, Ward Churchill, Lila Rajiva, Peter Linebaugh, the late Tanya Reinhart, Noam Chomsky, Frank "Chuck" Spinney and Alexander Cockburn's two brothers, Andrew and Patrick, both of whom write on the Middle East, Iraq in particular. Robert Fisk (born July 12 1946 in Maidstone, Kent) is a British Journalist and is Middle East correspondent Edward Wadie Saïd MRSL ( إدوارد وديع سعيد,; 1 November 1935 &ndash 25 September Tim Wise (born October 4, 1968 in Nashville, Tennessee) is a white American Anti-racist Activist Ralph Nader (born February 27 1934 is an American Attorney, Author, Lecturer, political activist, and independent candidate for President M Shahid Alam is a professor of Economics at Northeastern University, Boston. Ward LeRoy Churchill (born October 2 1947 is an American writer and political activist. Lila Rajiva is a journalist and author residing in Baltimore Maryland. Peter Linebaugh is an American Historian who specializes in British history, Irish history, Labor history, and the history of the colonial Tanya Reinhart (טניה ריינהרט July 1943 – March 17, 2007) was an Israeli linguist who wrote frequently on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Avram Noam Chomsky (noʊm ˈtʃɑmski born December 7 1928 is an American linguist, Philosopher, cognitive scientist, Political Andrew Cockburn (ˈkoʊbɝn "co-burn" is an Irish Journalist who has lived in the United States for many years Patrick Cockburn (ˈkoʊbɝn "co-burn" (born March 5, 1950) is an Irish Journalist who has been a Middle East Correspondent The Middle East is a Subcontinent with no clear boundaries often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Iraq topics.

Some paleoconservative writers like Paul Craig Roberts and William Lind can also be found in CounterPunch. Paleoconservatism (sometimes shortened to paleo or paleocon when the context is clear is a term for an anti-communist and Anti-authoritarian Paul Craig Roberts (born April 3, 1939, in Atlanta Georgia) is an Economist and a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate William S Lind (b July 9 1947) is an American expert on military affairs and a pundit on Cultural conservatism. The site regularly publishes veteran radicals, such as Lenni Brenner, Fidel Castro, and the late Stew Albert, as well as younger authors such as Diane Christian, Joshua Frank, Norman Finkelstein, Ron Jacobs, Gary Leupp, Cynthia McKinney,^[1] Kelly Overton and David Price. Lenni Brenner (born 1937 is an American Marxist writer In the 1960s Brenner was a prominent civil rights activist and a prominent opponent of the Vietnam Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13 1926 is a Cuban revolutionary leader who was prime minister of Cuba from December 1959 to December 1976 and then president until Stewart Edward "Stew" Albert ( December 4, 1939 – January 30, 2006) was a co-founder of the Yippies, an anti-Vietnam War Joshua Frank is a green anarcho-libertarian writer living in the United States and often writes on current political and environmental topics Norman Gary Finkelstein (born December 8, 1953) is an American political scientist and author whose primary fields of research are the Cynthia Ann McKinney (born March 17 1955 is a former United States Representative and the 2008 Green Party nominee for President of the United States. Kelly Overton is the managing director of Save the Chimps as well as the founder and board chair of People Protecting Animals & Their Habitats (PATH David Price may refer to Politics Sir David Price (British politician (b

Praise

The Village Voice has said that CounterPunch "outshines all its competitors. This article is about a New York newspaper For the Ottawa Hills Ohio magazine see The Village Voice of Ottawa Hills. " Articles that appear in CounterPunch are often republished by or generate related articles in Harper's (of which Ken Silverstein is an editor), The Nation (where Cockburn is a columnist), the National Journal, the New York Daily News, The Washington Post, The Texas Observer, and several other publications. Harper's Magazine (also Harper's) is a monthly general-interest Magazine of literature politics culture finance and the arts Ken Silverstein is the Washington Editor for Harper's Magazine. This article is about the US Publication. For other newspapers magazines and alternate uses by the same name see The Nation (disambiguation. National Journal is a weekly magazine that reports on the current political environment and emerging political and policy trends The Daily News of New York City is the fifth most-widely circulated daily Newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 703137 The Washington Post is the largest and most circulated Newspaper in Washington D The Texas Observer (also known as the Observer) is an American political Newsmagazine published bi-weekly and based in ^[2]

Criticism

Franklin Foer of The New Republic and right-wing commentator Steven Plaut have written articles alleging that CounterPunch is biased against Israel and the USA, charging it with publishing anti-American, anti-Israel and anti-Semitic views. Franklin Foer (born 1975 is an American political Journalist and the editor of The New Republic. The New Republic ( TNR) is an American Magazine of politics and the arts Steven Plaut (born in 1951) is a Professor on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Haifa and a writer Anti-Americanism, often anti-American sentiment, is opposition or hostility to the people culture or policies of the United States. Anti-Zionism is opposition to Zionism, an international political movement and ideology that supports a Homeland for the Jewish People in the land known Antisemitism (alternatively spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism; also rarely known as judeophobia) is the Prejudice against or hostility ^[3][4]

CounterPunch has also been criticised by socialist activists Tony Greenstein and Roland Rance of Jews Against Zionism, who say it is too favorable to writers who blur the distinction between Zionism and Judaism. History of Zionism|Timeline of Zionism|World Zionist Organization|Zionist political violence Zionism is an international political movement that originally supported the Judaism (from the Greek Ioudaïsmos, derived from the Hebrew יהודה Yehudah, " Judah " in Hebrew יַהֲדוּת Yahedut ^{[5] [6]} CounterPunch has also been criticized for publishing articles by authors such as Alan Cabal and Daniel A. McGowan who elsewhere have defended the free speech of Holocaust deniers such as Ernest Zundel. Daniel A McGowan is head of the Deir Yassin Remembered, an organization that commemorates the Deir Yassin massacre. Holocaust denial is the claim that the Genocide of Jews during World War II —usually referred to as The Holocaust —did not occur in the Ernst Christof Friedrich Zündel (born April 24 1939 in Bad Wildbad) is a German Neo-Nazi, Holocaust denier and Pamphleteer who was jailed several According to the critics, these authors have also sought to legitimize the views of such Holocaust deniers. ^[7]

In May 2006, James Taranto, editor of the Wall Street Journal's online Opinionjournal. James Taranto (born 1966) is a Manhattan -based columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of its online editorial page OpinionJournal com website, referred to CounterPunch as a "moonbat site. Moonbat (also "barking moonbat" and "moonbat crazy" is a term often used currently in U "^[8]

Notes

External links

• CounterPunch web site