CounterPunch
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| Editors |
Jeffrey St. Clair Joshua Frank |
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| Staff writers |
Frank Bardacke, Daniel Burton-Rose, Andrew Cockburn, Laura Flanders, Annys Shinn, Ken Silverstein, JoAnn Wypijewski |
| Categories | Politics |
| Frequency | Bi-Monthly |
| First issue | 1994 |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Petrolia, California |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 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". It has been described as left-wing by both supporters and detractors.
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 both Democratic and Republican politicians and extensive reporting of environmental and trade union issues, American foreign policy, and the Israeli-Arab conflict.
The newsletter was established in 1994 by the Washington, D.C.-based investigative reporter Ken Silverstein. He was soon joined by the journalists Cockburn and St. Clair. In 1996, Silverstein left the publication and Cockburn and St. Clair became co-editors. 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 newspaper Appeal to Reason (1895–1922).
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"; "Corporate America Spends Big $$ on Pro-China PR"; and "U.S. Alone in Blocking Export Ban of Toxic Waste to Third World"). Other entries include 1998 ("The Scheme to Privatize the Hanford Nuke Plant" and "American Drug Industry Uses the Poor as Human Guinea Pigs"), several in 2000 and others in 2001 2003 and 2004.
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