Eric Draitser
@ericdraitser.bsky.social
Independent political analyst and longtime contributor to CounterPunch. All my exclusive content including video interviews and analyses, articles, podcasts, commentaries, poetry and more at patreon.com/ericdraitser and on Substack @ericdraitser.
New CounterPunch Radio w award-winning journalist and author Barrett Brown. Topics include: Early days of Anonymous & the transparency movement Anonymous , the Arab Spring The origin of 4chan and the alt-right; how Thiel & Epstein built the fascist mvmnt www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/20/t...
The Origins of the Private Intelligence Complex w/ Barrett Brown
Award-winning journalist and author Barrett Brown returns to CounterPunch Radio to discuss the critical period before 2016 when online activism emerged,
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My conversation with Nate Wilcox of The MMA Draw. We discuss the upcoming UFC White House spectacle and the Hollywood, DC, and Gulf power brokers at the nexus of US politics, sports and entertainment. open.substack.com/pub/ericdrai...
UFC White House and the Billionaire Alliance Monopolizing US Politics, Sports, and Entertainment
This weekend's UFC event at the White House is getting the headlines while the real power behind the spectacle is a Hollywood-DC-Gulf billionaire alliance
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Anyone reading the press about Israeli daily mass terror killings of civilians in Palestine is aware that when they’re caught red-handed without any pretext they announce an official investigation. This has happened hundreds of times.
"They Were Serving the Longest Federal Sentence of Any 2020 BLM Protester. Then They Vanished in Prison."
They Were Serving the Longest Federal Sentence of Any 2020 BLM Protester. Then They Vanished in Prison.
Malik Muhammad's attorneys believe they were transferred for helping other incarcerated people advocate for their legal rights.
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The AfD fascists laugh because they know they wouldn't exist without the Kremlin. Never forget that Putin and Russian media covertly built the AfD out of it PEGIDA movement using Dugin's organization among others to forge the links.
Meanwhile in Ukraine@meanwhileua.bsky.social · 2mo agoThey laughed at Ukraine’s freedom. Merz named what that means. ㅤ In the Bundestag, AfD members laughed as Merz said Ukraine has defended its freedom for more than four years. ㅤ He called it a telling sign. A moral X-ray.
Some good news.
The Internet Ethics program--Markkula Center for Applied Ethics@iethics.bsky.social · 2mo ago"Landmark German ruling declares Google's #AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers": the-decoder.com/landmark-ger... #ethics #law #internet #tech #business h/t @garymarcus.bsky.social
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Sam Harris (and Israel's Genocide) Revisited
Twelve years after his apologia for Israeli war crimes, Sam Harris returns to defend the indefensible — this time against the backdrop of genocide.
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My latest article on @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social last weekend www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/05/i...
Iran Strikes US Military in Kuwait, Major Media Fail to Provide Key Detail
Major news outlets have reported on the US and Iran exchanging attacks overnight and early morning on June 3, 2026. Headlines capture the fact that Iran simultaneously attacked both Kuwait and Bahrain...
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"The working-class community of Garden Grove is experiencing the consequences of our violent and unhinged war machine, a predicament they paid for but never wanted." - @joshuafrank.bsky.social
Vampire Planet: So Cal’s Chemical Disaster, a Gift from the War Machine
The news alerts were ominous. A chemical tank at an industrial site in Garden Grove, fifteen miles south of where I live, could blow at any moment. A nervous Orange County Fire Captain warned of two p...
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"We are in this land of scorching sun and heat, searching for a large Amazon solar installation in rural San Bernardino County, California. This is the home of the endangered desert tortoise and Joshua trees, but more recently, it’s become a plaything for greedy Silicon Valley entrepreneurs."
Vampire Planet: Data Centers, Far Bigger Disasters Than You Even Thought
The road is dusty and trash-strewn. My friend and collaborator Colby Groves is hanging out the car window as I drive, gazing at a patchwork of solar panels lined up behind a chain-link fence. “This ha...
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