Counterpunch appreciation thread

[spiritual_gunfighter]

I have to admit I had never read Counterpunch in my life until a few days ago. There was a thread recently that basically said in so many words that it was the devil and a few people agreed but most didnt. So I went to check it out for myself, and I am glad I did. Anyone else love this site?

www.counterpunch.org

[TheWraith]

1. No. Their stories are frequently based on false information.

Not to mention they go out of their way to create shit to fling at Democrats; they prefer bashing Democrats over saying word one about Republicans.

[mattvermont]

4. Please, can you

provide these falsehoods...I truly am seeking the truth

[mattvermont]

2. Those guys do some very compelling work.

Check out their various books
St Clair and Cockburn are doing what a number of others tried to do, but were muted under suspicious circumstances

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. K&R

[Teaser]

5. cockpunch? They're good for a laugh

that's about it.

And Alexander Cockburn, their driving force, is a global warming denier.

[grassfed]

9. Cockburn's not a denier, just a skeptic

It's a very marginal aspect of Counterpunch which also posts a lot of pro-Climate Change articles, in addition to other important work ... check out their archives.

[smalll]

6. It's "no accident, comrade" that the initials for Counterpunch are "CP."

:shrug:

[NYC_SKP]

7. I don't know about their content, but I LOVE this calendar they have for sale:

[spiritual_gunfighter]

8. Yeah that is the reason I posted the OP n/t

[laststeamtrain]

10. K & R . Lively. The right people hate it. I like it. n/t.

[Octafish]

11. Where else can you read Eamonn Fingleton on how Corporate McPravda sold out Detroit?

Counterpunch.

Detroit's Collapse: the Untold Story -- How the Press Helped Destroy the Auto Industry

FWIW: Now, I don't give a rat's pattootie for CounterPuncher Alexander Cockburn's opinions on the assassination of President Kennedy. That doesn't mean I don't want anyone else to know them.

[Karmadillo]

12. Devils, all of you. Repent!!!!

nt

[spiritual_gunfighter]

13. Negative recs and the CP hate makes me love it even more actually n/t

[Poll_Blind]

14. "Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press", excellent book by Cockburn.

Willing to take on and explore topics still taboo- still on the cutting edge. K&R

[dionysus]

15. no, they pretty much make shit up. but i can see why you'd like it.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

16. Reading it I can see why someone like you hates it

sometimes the tent seems a bit large.

[dionysus]

17. they lost me when they ran a hit-piece on Al Gore saying he was a fraud. repeated all the RW talking

points. they're dishonest at best. i liked them before that.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

18. Like I said in the OP

I just discovered it a few days ago, I liked what I saw so far, never read the Al Gore piece.

[dionysus]

19. fair enough then.

[SidDithers]

20. Unrec...

they're entertainment only, in a can't-look-away-from-the-car-wreck kind of way.

Sid

[jgraz]

21. Hate to admit that I haven't read Cockburn for years.

Used to be a big fan of his back in the 90's, tho.

[HughMoran]

22. There's a reason they used to be a forbidden site here

Too much unsupported conspiracy on that site.

[Ignis]

23. The sad thing is that there are some gems, too.

But the signal-to-noise ratio needs some tuning. :crazy:

[HughMoran]

25. I agree

I've read a few interesting articles there as well...

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[HughMoran]

26. So those who don't adore Counterpunch's articles are "make-believe liberals"

Got it.

[DerekG]

27. One of my two essential websites

If you want to know what's really going on, Counterpunch and Informationclearinghouse are the places to go.

[Odin2005]

28. CP is the WorldNutDaily of the Loony Left

[spiritual_gunfighter]

29. I will never understand Democrats who

use the same bullshit description for the left of our party as the Republicans, "loony left". Maybe you need to stop watching Bill O'Reilly.

[Sparkly]

30. They did a nasty hit job on General Clark

Replete with lies and distortions.

No thank you.