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''CounterPunch'' has also been criticised by anti-Zionist activists Tony Greenstein and Roland Rance of [[Jews Against Zionism]], for its practice of publishing articles by openly anti-Jewish racists such as Gilad Atzmon and [[Israel Shamir]] which they describe as "blurring the distinction" between [[Zionism]] and [[Judaism]], and failing to publish responses to these articles by their anti-racist and anti-fascist critics.<ref>{{cite web
''CounterPunch'' has also been criticised by anti-Zionist activists Tony Greenstein and Roland Rance of [[Jews Against Zionism]], for its practice of publishing articles by writers such as Gilad Atzmon and [[Israel Shamir]] which they describe as "blurring the distinction" between [[Zionism]] and [[Judaism]], and failing to publish responses to these articles.<ref>{{cite web
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Revision as of 21:21, 13 January 2011

This article is about the newsletter. For other uses, see Counterpunch (disambiguation).
CounterPunch
EditorsAlexander Cockburn
Jeffrey St. Clair
Staff writersFrank Bardacke,
Daniel Burton-Rose,
Andrew Cockburn,
Laura Flanders,
Annys Shinn,
Ken Silverstein,
JoAnn Wypijewski
CategoriesPolitics
FrequencyBi-weekly
First issue1994 (1994)
CountryUnited States
Based inPetrolia, California
LanguageEnglish
WebsiteCounterPunch.org

CounterPunch is a bi-weekly newsletter published in the United States that covers politics in a manner its editors describe as "muckraking with a radical attitude".[1] 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 a wide range of others. It is noted for its critical coverage of both Democratic and Republican politicians[2] and its extensive reporting of environmental and trade union issues, American foreign policy, and the Israeli-Arab conflict.[3]

History

The newsletter was established in 1994 by the Washington, D.C.-based investigative reporter Ken Silverstein.[4] He was soon joined by the journalists Cockburn and St. Clair.[5] In 1996 Silverstein left the publication and Cockburn and St. Clair have since been co-editors.[6]

Reception

Criticism

Franklin Foer of The New Republic has accused Cockburn's article of anti-Israeli virulence commensurate to that of Arabic-language newspapers and lending credence to [Israel conspiracy theories about Israeli involvement in the September 11th attacks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_advance-knowledge_debate#Israel].[7].

Max Boot of Council of Foreign Relations has accused Counterpunch of being "a conspiracy-mongering website...which is so extreme that it has run an article suggesting that the only major difference between George W. Bush and Adolf Hitler is that "Bush simply is not the orator that Hitler was."[8]

Byron York of The National Review has accused Counterpunch of being a far-left website...edited by the leftist journalist Alexander Cockburn, features writing by Edward Said and Philip Agee" and criticized its publication of an article by Dave Lindorff comparing Bush to Hitler but also noting that Lindorff's reference was "no aberration." [9]

The Washington Times reported an exchange between a US Army soldier to a CounterPunch column by Tom Gorman entitled ""With liberators like these, who needs conquerors?" in which he argued that, "The 3,000 Afghan citizens killed by American bombs are the best known recipient of American liberation." The soldier responded to the column in which said that, "The thing that bugs me most about him is his audacity to complain about how we Americans are conquerors and enslavers...He never realizes in his California dream that the only reason he can say these things -- no lie, sir -- is that we have freedom [in the United States] that anywhere else in the world would get you murdered in public."[10]

An article in the Quadrant called Counterpunch "a magazine which publishes work by such good ol' boys as Robert Fisk, Noam Chomsky, Ward Churchill (who called the victims of 9/11 "little Eichmanns") and by no means least that dear old patriarch and embodiment of all the values true American conservatives cherish, Fidel Castro."[11]

Ben Cohen of the American Jewish Committee has described Counterpunch as "frequently anti-Semitic."[12]

A number of writers, such as political commentator Steven Plaut, have written articles charging CounterPunch of being populated by self-hating Jews. [13]

CounterPunch has also been criticised by anti-Zionist activists Tony Greenstein and Roland Rance of Jews Against Zionism, for its practice of publishing articles by writers such as Gilad Atzmon and Israel Shamir which they describe as "blurring the distinction" between Zionism and Judaism, and failing to publish responses to these articles.[14][15]

In 2009, CounterPunch's publication of articles by Alison Weir on organ transplant accusations were accused of disseminating the medieval antisemitic blood libel.[16]

Priase

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Contributors

Notable contributors to CounterPunch have included Robert Fisk,[17] Edward Said,[18] Tim Wise,[19] Ralph Nader,[20] M. Shahid Alam,[21] Tariq Ali,[22] Ward Churchill,[23] Lila Rajiva,[24] Peter Linebaugh,[25] Tanya Reinhart,[26] Noam Chomsky,[27] Frank "Chuck" Spinney,[28] and Alexander Cockburn's two brothers: Andrew[29] and Patrick,[30] both of whom write on the Middle East, Iraq in particular.[31][32]

Some paleoconservative writers, such as Paul Craig Roberts[33] and William Lind,[34] and libertarian writers such as Sheldon Richman[35] and Anthony Gregory[36] also contribute to CounterPunch. The site regularly publishes articles from those with left-wing views, such as Lenni Brenner,[37] Fidel Castro,[38] and the late Stew Albert,[39] as well as newer contributors, such as Diane Christian,[40] Joshua Frank,[41] Norman Finkelstein,[42] Ron Jacobs,[43] Pam Martens,[44] Gary Leupp,[45] Cynthia McKinney,[46] Kelly Overton,[47] David Price,[48] and Sherry Wolf.[49]

References

  1. ^ "We've got all the right enemies". CounterPunch. Retrieved 2010-10-01.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ The Devil You Know: Did a recent article by Alexander Cockburn reject anti-Semitism -- or spread it? Franklin Foer in The New Republic, April 15, 2002
  8. ^ The Fringe Fires at Bush on Iraq Max Boot in The Los Angeles Times, March 11, 2004
  9. ^ [http://old.nationalreview.com/flashback/york200401080917.asp Annals of Bush-Hating Have you seen what’s out there? And do the media care? Byron York in The National Review, January 8, 2004]
  10. ^ Inside Politics in The Washington Times on Monday, December 1, 2003
  11. ^ Conservatives off the beam in The Quadrant on October 1, 2008
  12. ^ "Race encyclopedia's flawed premise". Jerusalem Post. 2009-12-02. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  13. ^ Plaut, Steven (Tuesday, June 21), "Counterpunch's Self-hating Jews", FrontPage Magazine, retrieved December 15, 2010 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)
  14. ^ "Reply to Gilad Atzmon's 'What is to be Done?'". What Next?. [c. 2006]. Retrieved 2010-10-02. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  15. ^ "Open Letter to Conterpunch". What Next?. [c. 2005]. Retrieved 2010-10-02. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  16. ^ "Why left wing anti-Zionism is antisemitism". Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism. [c. 2009]. Retrieved 2010-10-02. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  17. ^ "Who Killed Bhutto?". CounterPunch. 2007-12-31. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  18. ^ "A Tiny, Unelected Group, Backed by Powerful Unrepresentative Interests". CounterPunch. 2003-03-08. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  19. ^ "What Kind of Card Is Race?". CounterPunch. 2006-04-24. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  20. ^ "Obama's Afghan Formula". CounterPunch. 2010-08-02. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  21. ^ "Bernard Lewis and the New Orientalism". CounterPunch. 2003-06-28. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  22. ^ "From Reconquista to Recolonization". CounterPunch. 2010-01-06. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  23. ^ "What Did I Really Say? And Why Did I Say It?". CounterPunch. 2005-02-21. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  24. ^ "Unnatural Disaster?". CounterPunch. 2004-12-30. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  25. ^ "Some Principles of the Commons". CounterPunch. 2010-01-10. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  26. ^ "Jenin: The Propaganda Battle". CounterPunch. 2002-04-24. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  27. ^ "The New War against Terror". CounterPunch. 2001-10-24. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  28. ^ "Obama's Toxic 'Green' Policy". CounterPunch. 2010-03-14. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  29. ^ "The Wall Street White House". CounterPunch. 2009-07-02. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  30. ^ "Erdogan Rising?". CounterPunch. 2010-06-10. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  31. ^ "How Many Iraqis Have Died Since the US Invasion in 2003?". CounterPunch. 2008-05-02. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  32. ^ "Uproar Before Iraqi Elections". CounterPunch. 2010-03-02. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  33. ^ "Truth Has Fallen and Taken Liberty with It". CounterPunch. 2010-03-24. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  34. ^ "Why Obama Is Wrong". CounterPunch. 2008-09-18. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  35. ^ "Obama the Neoconservative". CounterPunch. 2010-09-14. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  36. ^ "When Killer Cops Walk". CounterPunch. 2007-07-02. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  37. ^ "Dave Van Ronk". CounterPunch. 2002-02-17. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  38. ^ "The Secret Summit". CounterPunch. 2009-04-21. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  39. ^ "Cops of the World". CounterPunch. 2003-05-29. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  40. ^ "War Corrupts". CounterPunch. 2008-02-17. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  41. ^ "Blackwash". CounterPunch. 2010-02-03. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  42. ^ "The Cleanser". CounterPunch. 2009-02-19. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  43. ^ "A Life Worth Saving". CounterPunch. 2010-01-10. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  44. ^ "How Wall Street Blew Itself Up". CounterPunch. 2008-01-21. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  45. ^ "Is Iran Being Set Up?". CounterPunch. 2005-07-27. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  46. ^ "Goodbye to All That". CounterPunch. 2002-09-18. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  47. ^ "Animal Rights and Obama". CounterPunch. 2008-07-06. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  48. ^ "Silent Coup". CounterPunch. 2010-04-11. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  49. ^ "Why are Liberals Building the Right?". CounterPunch. 2010-10-11. Retrieved 2010-11-01.
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