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Data Center Disasters

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  June 7, 2026 DATA CENTER DISASTERS JOSHUA FRANK Data centers, so much worse than you even thought. IRAN STRIKES US MILITARY IN KUWAIT ERIC DRAITSER Major media fail to provide key detail. ISRAEL’S UNPROVOKED ATTACK ON THE USS LIBERTY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Infamy at sea, cover-up in DC. IMMIGRANT DETAINEES ARE STRIKING SOPHIE SHEPHERD Immigrant detainees strike against environmental injustice. WALKING THE MIGRANT TRAIL KEN JONES A trip to the wall of shame. COUNTERPUNCH+ EXCLUSIVE FLINT TAYLOR ON THE FIGHT FOR FRED HAMPTON BY SUSIE DAY Almost six decades ago in Chicago, during the rise of the Black Panther Party, Flint Taylor, a white, twenty-something law student, helped start the People’s Law Office. Like Flint, the People’s Law Office has been around ever since, defending people excluded from the political power grid against systemic discrimination and racist abuse. One of the PLO’s first cases, in fact, involved exposing the 1969 shooting deaths of Black Panthers Fred Hampton and ...

Weekend Edition | 'Classic Deterrence Contest': Iran Fires Missiles at Israel Over Attack on Lebanon ​

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  Support independent journalism Without readers like you, we wouldn’t exist. DONATE Sunday, June 7, 2026 'Classic Deterrence Contest': Iran Fires Missiles at Israel Over Attack on Lebanon ​ "I am going to call Bibi right now and tell him not to retaliate. Each of them had their fun. Israel had its strike, and Iran had its strike. We don't need another one," President Donald Trump reportedly said. Know someone who would enjoy the Common Dreams newsletter? Help us spread the word by forwarding this email to your family and friends.   'Unsettling' Accounts of HHS Leadership Fuel Calls for RFK Jr. to Resign "Every day that goes by without Secretary Kennedy’s long overdue resignation is a day American lives are put further in harm's way," said the director of Protect Our Care's Public Health Project. While public health advocates have sounded the alarm about Robert F. Kennedy Jr . since senators confirmed President Donald Trump’s “ profound...