Looking under the hood at 30 years of Counterpunch

The online magazine is pushing hard subscriptions for its anniversary.

But? I may just pass.

Yes, I think I'll pass, Joshua Frank, on donating for your 30th anniversary. And, you're passing out made in China (or wherever) environmentally wasteful T-shirts as bonus merch? Speaking of? How much of all that merch, if any, is made in the US of A? For that matter, how often has CP talked about unions?

As I noted at the end of my hot take on Patrick Cockburn's mendacious bio of his dad? I deblogrolled the individual over Patrick's brother, Alexander, as Counterpunch editor, pushing the anti-Zionism envelope into at least the shallow part of the waters of antisemitism, and I stand by that today.

There's other issues.

One is the continuing bromance Frank and editor Jeff St. Clair have for St. Ralph of Nader. Hard-on might be even more accurate.

Per the end of a recent Substack on my minor-party presidential vote?

The infatuation Counterpunch editor Jeff St. Clair and managing editor Joshua Frank still seem to have for Ralph Nader is a biggie. Nader officially endorsed Biden, albeit shortly before he became Genocide Joe. That said, he never backed off that endorsement, nor the acceptance of lesser evilism behind it. And, recently commenting about that, I said that Nader reminds me of Cornel West’s brief Green bromance. The 2004 Green Party’s national organization details weren’t all good, but they weren’t all bad, either, and they weren’t all anti-Nader. More here on how Nader didn’t want to play ball with Greens. Also per the first link in the paragraph, Nader is arguably anti-labor and unarguably personally a bad boss, on the record from both Kurt Eichenwald and Kevin Shorrock. He also jumped in bed with Randall Terry over Terri Schiavo. And, St. Clair and Frank will tell you none of that, should they know it, or want to know it.

On the electoral politics issue, I covered some of what I see as problems at Counterpunch, and elsewhere, in another Substack a week earlier.

There's other reasons that, in the last six months, CP just has stopped floating my boat today as well. It's not one single thing, unlike Alec's antisemitism combined with a sometimes seemingly reflexive anti-Americanism that reminds me of the likes of Max Blumenthal and Aaron Maté today. It's something kind of like microaggressions.

So, Nathanial St. Clair? Talk to your dad or to the hand.