This week on CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk to David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz about their new book, "Building the Worlds that Kill Us: Disease, Death and Inequality in ...

By Sui-Lee WeeDeclan Walsh and Farnaz Fassihi The action by Salwan Momika, an Iraqi immigrant, set off protests across the Muslim world in 2023 ... in its own recent history, has watched warily.

Columbus thought he had reached the Indies. But he was wrong! He'd found a part of the world new to Europeans. Columbus became famous as the man who discovered new lands called the Americas.

In 1954, the French were finally defeated by the Viet Minh at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. This defeat was formalised in the Geneva Agreement and temporarily separated Vietnam into two zones: a ...