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{{short description|Bi-monthly left-wing magazine based in Petrolia, California}}
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'''''CounterPunch''''' is a ]<ref name="nytleftwing">{{cite news |last=Blumenthal |first=Ralph |date=May 12, 2006 |title=Army Acts to Curb Abuses of Injured Recruits |newspaper=] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/12/us/12training.html?pagewanted=2 |url-status=live |access-date=January 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201121030525/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/12/us/12training.html?pagewanted=2 |archive-date=November 21, 2020}}</ref><ref name="The Devil You Know">{{Cite magazine |last=Foer |first=Franklin |date=2002-04-15 |title=The Devil You Know |magazine=The New Republic |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/60975/the-devil-you-know |access-date=2022-01-08 |issn=0028-6583}}</ref> online magazine. Content includes a free section published five days a week as well as a subscriber-only area called CounterPunch+, where original articles are published weekly.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.counterpunch.org/faqs/|title=FAQs|work=CounterPunch.org|access-date=July 31, 2017|archive-date=July 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170722084010/https://www.counterpunch.org/faqs/|url-status=dead}}</ref> ''CounterPunch'' is based in the ] and covers politics in a manner its editors describe as "] with a radical attitude".<ref>{{cite web

'''''CounterPunch''''' is a bi-monthly magazine published in the United States that covers politics in a manner its editors describe as "] with a radical attitude".<ref>{{cite web
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| title = We've got all the right enemies | title = We've got all the right enemies
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}}</ref> It has been described as ] by both supporters and detractors.<ref name="nytleftwing">{{cite news |title=Army Acts to Curb Abuses of Injured Recruits |author=Ralph Blumenthal |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/12/us/12training.html?pagewanted=2 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 12, 2006 |accessdate=June 14, 2011}}</ref><ref name="The Devil You Know">{{cite news|title=The Devil You Know|url=http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/the-devil-you-know|newspaper=new Republic}}</ref><ref name="reason.com">{{cite news|title=Olbermann, Assange, and the Holocaust Denier When you want to believe, you'll believe anything.|url=http://reason.com/archives/2010/12/07/olbermann-assange-and-the-holo|newspaper=Reason}}</ref>


From 1993 to 2020, CounterPunch published a ], and a ].<ref name="counterpunch/about">{{cite web |title=About |url=https://www.counterpunch.org/about/ |website=CounterPunch.org |access-date=11 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231010030138/https://www.counterpunch.org/about/ |archive-date=10 October 2023}}</ref>
''CounterPunch'' magazine has published frequent commentaries by ], current editor-in-chief ], editor ], and includes regular contributions by a wide range of others. Topics include critical coverage of both ] and ] politicians<ref>Richard Keeble, ''Ethics for Journalists'' (2nd edn; New York: Routledge, 2009), p. 170; James Walch and Jim Walch, ''In the Net: An Internet Guide for Activists'' (London and New York: Zed Books, 1999), p. 127.</ref><ref>"largely progressive political commentary—commentary that transcends the "good Democrat, bad Republican" dichotomy by taking aim at any policy, policy-maker, or too-comfortable consciousness that conserves the status quo." - Gorski, Paul (2007), "Beyond the Network News: Progressive Sources for the News You and Your Students Won’t See on Fox or CNN", ''Multicultural Perspectives'', 9(1), 29–31. p30</ref> and extensive reporting of ] and ] issues, ], and the ].<ref>Richard Paul and Linda Elder, ''The Thinker's Guide for Conscientious Citizens on How to Detect Media Bias and Propaganda'' (3rd edn; Dillon Beach, California: Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2006), p. 29.</ref>


==History== ==History==
''CounterPunch'' began as a newsletter, established in 1994 by the ]–based investigative reporter ].<ref>"Counterpunch is the brainchild of Ken Silverstein, a former AP reporter in Rio de Janeiro." '']'', vols 4–5 (1993), p. 26.</ref>
The newsletter was established in 1994 by the ]-based investigative reporter ].<ref>"Counterpunch is the brainchild of Ken Silverstein, a former AP reporter in Rio de Janeiro." '']'', vols 4-5 (1993), p. 26.</ref> He was soon joined by the journalists Cockburn and St. Clair.<ref>Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair, ''Five Days that Shook the World: Seattle and Beyond'' (London and New York: Verso, 2000), p. 151; Alexander Cockburn, Ken Silverstein, ''Washington Babylon'' (London and New York: Verso, 1996), p. 302.</ref> In 1996, Silverstein left the publication and Cockburn and St. Clair became co-editors.<ref>Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair, ''End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate'' (Petrolia, California, and Oakland, California: CounterPunch and AK Press, 2007), pp. 2, 44.</ref> 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 ], ], and ], as well as the socialist/populist newspaper '']'' (1895–1922).<ref>Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair (2007), ''End times: the death of the fourth estate'', CounterPunch and AK Press, p383</ref>


Silverstein was soon joined by ] (b. 1941 – d. 2012) and then ], who became the publication's editors in 1996 when Silverstein left.<ref>Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair, ''Five Days that Shook the World: Seattle and Beyond'' (London and New York: Verso, 2000), p. 151; Alexander Cockburn, Ken Silverstein, ''Washington Babylon'' (London and New York: Verso, 1996), p. 302.</ref><ref>Cockburn, Alexander, and Jeffrey St. Clair, ''End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate'' (Petrolia, California, and Oakland, California: CounterPunch and AK Press, 2007), pp. 2, 44.</ref>
''CounterPunch''-sourced news stories have frequently featured in the ] annual list of top 25 "underreported, mis-reported, or censored" news stories, including three in 1997 ("Dark Alliance: Tuna Free Trade, and Cocaine";<ref>], , story by Ken Silverstein and Alexander Cockburn</ref> "Corporate America Spends Big $$ on Pro-China PR";<ref>], , story by Ken Silverstein and Alexander Cockburn</ref> and "U.S. Alone in Blocking Export Ban of Toxic Waste to Third World"<ref>], , story by Ken Silverstein and Alexander Cockburn</ref>). Other entries include 1998 ("The Scheme to Privatize the Hanford Nuke Plant"<ref>], , story by Jeffrey St Clair and Alexander Cockburn</ref> and "American Drug Industry Uses the Poor as Human Guinea Pigs"<ref>], , story by Scott Handelman</ref>), several in 2000<ref>], , story by Jeffrey St Clair and Alexander Cockburn</ref><ref>], , story by Jeffrey St Clair and Alexander Cockburn</ref> and others in 2001<ref>], , story by Alexander Cockburn</ref> 2003<ref>], , story by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair</ref> and 2004.<ref>], , story by Chris Floyd</ref>


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 ], ], and ], as well as the socialist/populist newspaper '']'' (1895–1922).<ref>Cockburn and St. Clair (2007), ''End Times'', p. 383.</ref> When Alexander Cockburn died in 2012 at the age of 71, environmental journalist ] became managing editor and Jeffrey St. Clair became editor-in-chief of ''CounterPunch''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Nichols|first= John|url=http://www.thenation.com/blog/168996/alexander-cockburn-and-radical-power-word |title=Alexander Cockburn and the Radical Power of the Word |website=thenation.com|date= July 21, 2012| access-date= July 22, 2012}}</ref><ref>. Retrieved July 24, 2016 {{Webarchive|url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20161130183717/http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/blog/1645/an_award%2Dwinning_year/ |date=November 30, 2016 }}</ref>
Regular ''CounterPunch'' contributor ] was part of the ] organisation and an associate of its director, ],<ref>] "" 5 February 2011]</ref> and in late 2010 and early 2011 wrote a series of exclusive articles for ''CounterPunch'' drawing on materials from the ].<ref>e.g. http://www.counterpunch.org/shamir05042011.html</ref> He has also written and co-written articles for ''CounterPunch'' on what he alleges to be a campaign of harassment against Assange.<ref>e.g. http://www.counterpunch.org/shamir02012011.html</ref> One of these articles, "Assange Betrayed",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.counterpunch.org/shamir09142010.html |title=14 September 2010 |publisher=Counterpunch.org |date=2010-09-14 |accessdate=2014-08-12}}</ref> made allegations against a plaintiff in a Swedish rape case against Assange that were widely circulated in the media.<ref>e.g. David Edwards ] 6 December 2010</ref><ref>"On his ] feed, ] host ] (162,000 followers) links to a rambling blog post arguing that ... a Swedish feminist who accused Assange of rape, is an anti-Castro activist with connections to ] front groups. Elsewhere on the Internet, NYU professor ], the popular liberal website ], ], and ] (a British news website "brought to you by ]") all circulated the charges without an ounce of skepticism... one comes to an article posted on Alexander Cockburn’s far-left website Counterpunch by the writers Israel Shamir and Paul Bennett". ] "" ] December 7, 2010</ref> The allegations in ''CounterPunch'' were the topic of controversy in the mainstream media.<ref>Kate Harding "" ] 9 December 2010; ] and ] "" '']'' 31 January 2011</ref>

==Topics and contributors==
''CounterPunch'' publishes articles from contributors critical of ] on certain topics, under its slogan "muckraking with a radical attitude." This stance has been controversial in some areas, including in relation to the ], where ''CounterPunch'' has published ] figures including ], ], and ],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.counterpunch.org/finkelstein02192009.html |title=The Cleanser |date=2009-02-19 |accessdate=2010-10-02 |publisher=CounterPunch}}</ref> as well as ], founder of the ] protest movement in Israel. Others include ]<ref>] ''CounterPunch'', 28 June 2008, </ref> and 2016 Green Vice-presidential candidate ].<ref name="Baraka1">{{cite web|url=http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/11/19/violence-and-resistance-in-palestine/|last=Baraka|first=Ajamu|title=Violence and Resistance in Palestine|date=November 19, 2014|website=CounterPunch|access-date=August 13, 2016}}</ref>

Within the broader area of ], contributors include Ajamu Baraka,<ref name="Baraka2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/16/the-yemen-tragedy-and-the-ongoing-crisis-of-the-left-in-the-united-states/|title=The Yemen Tragedy and the Ongoing Crisis of the Left in the United States|date=September 16, 2015|website=CounterPunch|access-date=August 2, 2016}}</ref> ] and ]. ''CounterPunch'' also has a strong tradition of criticizing US financial and economic policy, including the ] deficits which led to the ]. In this area contributors include former '']'' and '']'' editor ],<ref>Harry Browne, ''CounterPunch'', 19 February 2009, </ref> ] (Assistant ] in the ]), ] and ].<ref>], 19 September 2008, </ref> On ], contributors include Joshua Frank<ref>, July 26, 2008, Joshua Frank, ''CounterPunch'', retrieved 5 September 2008</ref> and ].<ref>], 25 July 2008, </ref> Some more frequent contributors, such as ] and ], cover a wide range of subjects.


==Reception== ==Reception==
⚫ In 2003, '']'' described the ''CounterPunch'' website as "one of the most popular political sources in America, with a keen following in Washington".<ref>Reed, Christopher (March 2, 2003). . '']''.</ref> Other sources have variously described ''CounterPunch'' as "left-wing",<ref name="nytleftwing"/><ref name="The Devil You Know" /> "far-left",<ref name="reason.com">{{cite news|first=Michael|last=Moynihan|date=December 7, 2010|title=Olbermann, Assange, and the Holocaust Denier When you want to believe, you'll believe anything.|url=http://reason.com/archives/2010/12/07/olbermann-assange-and-the-holo|newspaper=Reason}}</ref> "extreme",<ref name="The Fringe Fires at Bush on Iraq">{{cite news|title=The Fringe Fires at Bush on Iraq|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-mar-11-oe-boot11-story.html|newspaper=LA Times | first=Max|last=Boot|date=March 11, 2004}}</ref> a "political newsletter",<ref name="nytpolitical">{{cite news |title=Royalty checks aren't in the mail - Business - International Herald Tribune |first=Dan|last= Mitchell |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/business/worldbusiness/29iht-music.3317335.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 29, 2006 |access-date=June 14, 2011}}</ref> and a "muckraking newsletter".<ref name="nytmuckraking">{{cite news |title=Who Pays For Mistakes In Making Electricity? |first=Melinda |last=Tuhus |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/22/nyregion/who-pays-for-mistakes-in-making-electricity.html?pagewanted=5 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 22, 1998 |access-date=June 14, 2011}}</ref>
{{Disputed section|Bad sources, repeat content|date=March 2017}}
⚫ In 2003, '']'' described the ''CounterPunch'' website as a "popular political sources in America, with a keen following in Washington".<ref>Christopher Reed (March 2, 2003). . '']''.</ref> Other sources have variously described ''CounterPunch'' as a "left-wing",<ref name="nytleftwing"/><ref name="The Devil You Know"/><ref name="reason.com"/> "extreme" or "radical"<ref name="The Fringe Fires at Bush on Iraq"/><ref>. December 21, 2010. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101225025122/http://leninology.blogspot.com/2010/12/assange-allegations.html |date=December 25, 2010 }}.</ref> a "political newsletter",<ref name="nytpolitical">{{cite news |title=Royalty checks aren't in the mail - Business - International Herald Tribune |author=Dan Mitchell |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/business/worldbusiness/29iht-music.3317335.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 29, 2006 |accessdate=June 14, 2011}}</ref> and a "muckraking newsletter".<ref name="nytmuckraking">{{cite news |title=Who Pays For Mistakes In Making Electricity? |author=MELINDA TUHUS |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/22/nyregion/who-pays-for-mistakes-in-making-electricity.html?pagewanted=5 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 22, 1998 |accessdate=June 14, 2011}}</ref>

The lobby group ] that counters criticism of the Israeli government in U.S. media in 2007 described CounterPunch.org as an "extremist anti-Israel web site."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_print=1&x_context=2&x_outlet=118&x_article=1280 |title=Norman Finkelstein, Benny Morris and Peace not Apartheid |author= |date=February 7, 2007 |work= |publisher=CAMERA |accessdate=June 14, 2011}}</ref> CounterPunch was also criticized for an interview with Pink Floyd's ] in which he made extreme comments on Israel and a "Jewish lobby."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Boteach|first1=Shmuley|title=The Anti-Semitic Stench of Pink Floyd|url=http://observer.com/2013/12/the-anti-semitic-stench-of-pink-floyd/|website=Observer.com|accessdate=5 January 2017}}</ref> (Waters in a separate interview with '']'' stated that he hates apartheid and not Israelis.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/1.668705 |title=Roger Waters Sets the Record Straight: I Hate Apartheid, Not Israel|author=Gideon Levy |date=August 2, 2015 |work= |publisher=Anti-Defamation League |accessdate=March 23, 2017}}</ref>)


==Controversies==
In 2004, ] described CounterPunch as an "extreme" "conspiracy-mongering website", citing a 2003 article by ] comparing ] to ].<ref name="The Fringe Fires at Bush on Iraq">{{cite news|title=The Fringe Fires at Bush on Iraq|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2004/mar/11/opinion/oe-boot11|newspaper=LATIMes | first=Max|last=Boot|date=March 11, 2004}}</ref><ref>] (February 1, 2003). . ''CounterPunch''.</ref> The same article was also referred to by ] of the '']'' as similarly permitting the dismissal of CounterPunch. Lindorff has defended his article against this characterization.<ref>] (July 17, 2003). . ''CounterPunch''.</ref>
===The “Alice Donovan affair”===
{{redirect|Alice Donovan|the American actress|Alice Dougan Donovan}}
During the 2016 presidential election, ''CounterPunch'' published a piece attributed to Alice Donovan,<ref name="GoAskAlice"/> who purported to be a freelance writer but US intelligence officials alleged to be a pseudonymous employee of the Russian government.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/kremlin-trolls-burned-across-the-internet-as-washington-debated-options/2017/12/23/e7b9dc92-e403-11e7-ab50-621fe0588340_story.html|title=Kremlin trolls burned across the Internet as Washington debated options|last1=Entous|first1=Adam|date=December 25, 2017|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=December 25, 2017|last2=Nakashima|first2=Ellen|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286|last3=Jaffe|first3=Greg}}</ref> Donovan was tracked by the ] for nine months, as a suspected fictitious persona created by the ].<ref name=":0" /><ref name="DiResta 2020">{{cite web | last=DiResta | first=Renée | title=The Supply of Disinformation Will Soon Be Infinite | website=The Atlantic | date=September 20, 2020 | url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/future-propaganda-will-be-computer-generated/616400/ | access-date=September 21, 2021}}</ref> In late November 2017, after ''CounterPunch'' had published several more pieces by Donovan, '']'' contacted Jeffrey St. Clair about her. The co-editor said that Donovan's pitches did not stand out among the pitches that ''CounterPunch'' received daily<ref name=":0" /> and began making inquiries. St. Clair asked Donovan to substantiate her identity by sending a photo of her driver’s license but she did not.<ref name=":0" />


On the same day ''The Washington Post'' article about Donovan was published, St. Clair and Frank published a piece stating that ''CounterPunch'' only ran one article by Alice Donovan during the 2016 election, which was on cyber-breaches of medical databases. Donovan was also exposed by the newsletter as a serial plagiarizer.<ref name="GoAskAlice">{{cite web|url=https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/25/go-ask-alice-the-curious-case-of-alice-donovan-2/|title=Go Ask Alice: the Curious Case of 'Alice Donovan'|first=Jeffrey |last=St. Clair |author2= Joshua Frank|date=December 25, 2017|publisher=CounterPunch|access-date=January 6, 2018|quote=In sum, we published five stories by Donovan. One was apolitical. Four could be considered critiques of US foreign policy during the Trump administration. None mentioned Hillary Clinton, Vladimir Putin, the 2016 elections, Wikileaks or Julian Assange.}}</ref> ''CounterPunch'' removed all of the articles from their site.<ref name="OSullivan 2018">{{cite web | last=O'Sullivan | first=Donie | title=Facebook removes Syrian war page it believes is linked to Russian intel, Twitter keeps it online | website=CNNMoney | date=August 23, 2018 | url=https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/23/technology/facebook-twitter-syria-media-center/index.html | access-date=September 21, 2021}}</ref>
⚫ In 2016, ] of '']'' called CounterPunch a "respected left-leaning" publication following accusations that CounterPunch promoted a pro-Russian agenda.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-propaganda-about-russian-propaganda |title=The Propaganda About Russian Propaganda |author=Adrian Chen |date=December 1, 2016 |work= |publisher=The New Yorker |accessdate=March 23, 2017}}</ref>


In a January 2018 follow-up article, St. Clair and Frank exposed a network of alleged trolls that operated a site called Inside Syria Media Center, promoting a pro-] and pro-Russian view of the ]. St. Clair and Frank speculated that the website was connected to the same network of trolls as Alice Donovan, which was later confirmed by the ] and other researchers.<ref name="DiResta 2020"/><ref name="OSullivan 2018"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/05/ghosts-in-the-propaganda-machine/|title=Ghosts in the Propaganda Machine|first=Jeffrey |last=St. Clair |author2= Joshua Frank|date=January 5, 2018|publisher=CounterPunch|access-date=January 6, 2018}}</ref>
==Books==
''CounterPunch Books'', an imprint of ],<ref>CounterPunch.org, </ref> has published a number of books, typically works by individual ''CounterPunch'' contributors, or collections of essays by ''CounterPunch'' contributors. The most controversial books, reflecting ''CounterPunch''{{'}} stance on ], are '']'' (2003), edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, and '']'' (2005) by ], a philosophy professor at ] Ontario in response to ]'s '']''. Of the former book, ''CounterPunch'' said "Is this the most controversial book of 2003? It was denounced by liberals and neocons alike, numerous reviews in mainstream papers were quashed by editors."<ref>''CounterPunch'', , accessed 22 May 2011</ref>


], "Alice Donovan",<ref name="A-D-kremlin-troll">
A number of ''CounterPunch'' books focus on environmental issues, including St Clair's ''Born Under a Bad Sky: Notes from the Dark Side of the Earth'' (2008)<ref>AK Press, </ref> and Andrea Peacock's ''Wasting Libby: The True Story of How the WR Grace Corporation Left a Montana Town to Die'' (2010), on ]'s role in ].<ref>AK Press, </ref> ''A Dime's Worth of Difference: Beyond the Lesser of Two Evils'' (2004), a collection of essays, illustrates ''CounterPunch''{{'}}s criticism of both the Republican and Democratic parties.<ref>''CounterPunch'', </ref>
*{{cite magazine |last1=Entous |first1=Adam |title=The Rise and Fall of a Kremlin Troll |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-rise-and-fall-of-a-kremlin-troll |access-date=11 October 2023 |magazine=The New Yorker |date=19 July 2018}}
*{{cite web |last1=Toler |first1=Aric |title=Details on Newly Uncovered GRU Online Personas |url=https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2017/12/26/details-newly-uncovered-gru-online-personas/ |website=bellingcat |access-date=11 October 2023 |date=26 December 2017}}
*{{cite web |title=Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 presidential election |url=https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco/file/1373816/download |website=Department of Justice |access-date=11 October 2023 |date=March 7, 2019}}
*{{cite web |title=GRU and the Minions |url=https://public-assets.graphika.com/reports/graphika_report_gru_minions.pdf |website=Graphika |access-date=11 October 2023 |date=September 23, 2020 |quote=The GRU ultimately used the Alice Donovan account to create its DCLeaks Facebook page, according to a U.S. indictment of GRU operators.}}
*{{cite web |last1=Frank |first1=Joshua |title=Alice Donovan, Russiagate and the Rabbit Hole of Sanctimony |url=https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/27/alice-donovan-russiagate-and-the-rabbit-hole-of-sanctimony/ |website=CounterPunch.org |access-date=11 October 2023 |date=27 July 2018}}
*{{cite news |title=How an American who lost his job due to COVID-19 got roped into an apparent Russian plot to meddle in American life |url=https://whdh.com/news/how-an-american-who-lost-his-job-due-to-covid-19-got-roped-into-an-apparent-russian-plot-to-meddle-in-american-life/ |access-date=11 October 2023 |work=WHDH 7 News |agency=CNN |date=4 September 2020 |location=Boston}}
*{{cite news |last1=Poulsen |first1=Kevin |title=Alleged Russian Operatives Spreading Fake News Sneak Back Onto Facebook |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/alleged-russian-operatives-spreading-fake-news-sneak-back-onto-facebook |access-date=11 October 2023 |work=The Daily Beast |date=5 September 2018 |language=en}}
*{{cite news |last1=Entous |first1=Adam |last2=Nakashima |first2=Ellen |last3=Jaffe |first3=Greg |title=Kremlin trolls burned across the Internet as Washington debated options |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/kremlin-trolls-burned-across-the-internet-as-washington-debated-options/2017/12/23/e7b9dc92-e403-11e7-ab50-621fe0588340_story.html |access-date=11 October 2023 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=9 April 2023}}
*{{cite web |last1=St Clair |first1=Jeffrey |last2=Frank |first2=Joshua |title=Go Ask Alice: the Curious Case of "Alice Donovan" |url=https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/25/go-ask-alice-the-curious-case-of-alice-donovan-2/ |website=CounterPunch.org |access-date=11 October 2023 |date=25 December 2017}}
*{{cite news |last1=Thielman |first1=Sam |title=TL;DR: From Russia, with love |url=https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/tldr-from-russia-with-love.php |date=July 19, 2018 |access-date=11 October 2023 |work=Columbia Journalism Review |language=en}}
</ref> and other Russian-controlled fake American personas began promoting the ] website on ].<ref name=FakeAmericaneNYT-20170907>
*{{Cite web |title=The Fake Americans Russia Created to Influence the Election |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/us/politics/russia-facebook-twitter-election.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170907170230/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/us/politics/russia-facebook-twitter-election.html |archive-date=2017-09-07 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |website=] |date=September 7, 2017 |access-date=September 20, 2020 |last=Shane |first=Scott |author-link=Scott Shane}}
*{{cite news |last1=Shane |first1=Scott |title=The Fake Americans Russia Created to Influence the Election |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/us/politics/russia-facebook-twitter-election.html |access-date=11 October 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=7 September 2017}}
</ref><ref name=TimlineHowRussianAgentsNYT20180713>{{cite news|title=Timeline: How Russian agents allegedly hacked the DNC and Clinton's campaign|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/07/13/timeline-how-russian-agents-allegedly-hacked-the-dnc-and-clintons-campaign |newspaper=]|date=July 13, 2018|access-date=July 15, 2018|last=Bump|first=Philip}}</ref>


===''PropOrNot'' accusations===
Other books include ''Serpents in the Garden: Liaisons With Culture & Sex'' (2004), ''Imperial Crusades: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia'' (2004), and ''End times: the death of the fourth estate'' (2007), all edited by Cockburn and St Clair, and ''How the Economy Was Lost: The War of the Worlds'' (2009) by ].
⚫ In 2016, ''CounterPunch'' appeared in a ] list of websites in which it was described as a Russian propaganda outlet. Writing in the '']'', ] described the list as a mess and ''CounterPunch'' as a "respected left-leaning" publication.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-propaganda-about-russian-propaganda |title=The Propaganda About Russian Propaganda |first=Adrian |last=Chen |date=December 1, 2016 |magazine=The New Yorker |access-date=March 23, 2017}}</ref>


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Bi-monthly left-wing magazine based in Petrolia, California This article is about the newsletter. For the radio program, 'CounterSpin', see Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting. For other uses, see Counterpunch.

CounterPunch
Editors
Former editorsKen Silverstein
Alexander Cockburn
Staff writers
CategoriesPolitics
First issue1994; 31 years ago (1994)
CountryUnited States
Based inPetrolia, California, United States
LanguageEnglish
Websitewww.counterpunch.org
ISSN1086-2323

CounterPunch is a left-wing online magazine. Content includes a free section published five days a week as well as a subscriber-only area called CounterPunch+, where original articles are published weekly. CounterPunch is based in the United States and covers politics in a manner its editors describe as "muckraking with a radical attitude".

From 1993 to 2020, CounterPunch published a newsletter, and a magazine.

History

CounterPunch began as a newsletter, established in 1994 by the Washington, D.C.–based investigative reporter Ken Silverstein.

Silverstein was soon joined by Alexander Cockburn (b. 1941 – d. 2012) and then Jeffrey St. Clair, who became the publication's editors in 1996 when Silverstein left.

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). When Alexander Cockburn died in 2012 at the age of 71, environmental journalist Joshua Frank became managing editor and Jeffrey St. Clair became editor-in-chief of CounterPunch.

Reception

In 2003, The Observer described the CounterPunch website as "one of the most popular political sources in America, with a keen following in Washington". Other sources have variously described CounterPunch as "left-wing", "far-left", "extreme", a "political newsletter", and a "muckraking newsletter".

Controversies

The “Alice Donovan affair”

"Alice Donovan" redirects here. For the American actress, see Alice Dougan Donovan.

During the 2016 presidential election, CounterPunch published a piece attributed to Alice Donovan, who purported to be a freelance writer but US intelligence officials alleged to be a pseudonymous employee of the Russian government. Donovan was tracked by the FBI for nine months, as a suspected fictitious persona created by the GRU. In late November 2017, after CounterPunch had published several more pieces by Donovan, The Washington Post contacted Jeffrey St. Clair about her. The co-editor said that Donovan's pitches did not stand out among the pitches that CounterPunch received daily and began making inquiries. St. Clair asked Donovan to substantiate her identity by sending a photo of her driver’s license but she did not.

On the same day The Washington Post article about Donovan was published, St. Clair and Frank published a piece stating that CounterPunch only ran one article by Alice Donovan during the 2016 election, which was on cyber-breaches of medical databases. Donovan was also exposed by the newsletter as a serial plagiarizer. CounterPunch removed all of the articles from their site.

In a January 2018 follow-up article, St. Clair and Frank exposed a network of alleged trolls that operated a site called Inside Syria Media Center, promoting a pro-Bashar al-Assad and pro-Russian view of the Syrian Civil War. St. Clair and Frank speculated that the website was connected to the same network of trolls as Alice Donovan, which was later confirmed by the Atlantic Council and other researchers.

On 8 June 2016, "Alice Donovan", and other Russian-controlled fake American personas began promoting the DCLeaks website on Facebook.

PropOrNot accusations

In 2016, CounterPunch appeared in a PropOrNot list of websites in which it was described as a Russian propaganda outlet. Writing in the New Yorker, Adrian Chen described the list as a mess and CounterPunch as a "respected left-leaning" publication.

References

  1. ^ Blumenthal, Ralph (May 12, 2006). "Army Acts to Curb Abuses of Injured Recruits". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 21, 2020. Retrieved January 8, 2022.
  2. ^ Foer, Franklin (April 15, 2002). "The Devil You Know". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved January 8, 2022.
  3. "FAQs". CounterPunch.org. Archived from the original on July 22, 2017. Retrieved July 31, 2017.
  4. Cockburn, Alexander; Jeffrey St. Clair. "We've got all the right enemies". CounterPunch. Archived from the original on April 25, 2011. Retrieved October 1, 2010.
  5. "About". CounterPunch.org. Archived from the original on October 10, 2023. Retrieved October 11, 2023.
  6. "Counterpunch is the brainchild of Ken Silverstein, a former AP reporter in Rio de Janeiro." Lies of Our Times, vols 4–5 (1993), p. 26.
  7. Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair, Five Days that Shook the World: Seattle and Beyond (London and New York: Verso, 2000), p. 151; Alexander Cockburn, Ken Silverstein, Washington Babylon (London and New York: Verso, 1996), p. 302.
  8. Cockburn, Alexander, and Jeffrey St. Clair, End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate (Petrolia, California, and Oakland, California: CounterPunch and AK Press, 2007), pp. 2, 44.
  9. Cockburn and St. Clair (2007), End Times, p. 383.
  10. Nichols, John (July 21, 2012). "Alexander Cockburn and the Radical Power of the Word". thenation.com. Retrieved July 22, 2012.
  11. An Award-Winning Year, The Investigative Fund. Retrieved July 24, 2016 Archived November 30, 2016, at the Library of Congress Web Archives
  12. Reed, Christopher (March 2, 2003). "Battle of the bottle divides columnists". The Observer.
  13. Moynihan, Michael (December 7, 2010). "Olbermann, Assange, and the Holocaust Denier When you want to believe, you'll believe anything". Reason.
  14. Boot, Max (March 11, 2004). "The Fringe Fires at Bush on Iraq". LA Times.
  15. Mitchell, Dan (October 29, 2006). "Royalty checks aren't in the mail - Business - International Herald Tribune". The New York Times. Retrieved June 14, 2011.
  16. Tuhus, Melinda (March 22, 1998). "Who Pays For Mistakes In Making Electricity?". The New York Times. Retrieved June 14, 2011.
  17. ^ St. Clair, Jeffrey; Joshua Frank (December 25, 2017). "Go Ask Alice: the Curious Case of 'Alice Donovan'". CounterPunch. Retrieved January 6, 2018. In sum, we published five stories by Donovan. One was apolitical. Four could be considered critiques of US foreign policy during the Trump administration. None mentioned Hillary Clinton, Vladimir Putin, the 2016 elections, Wikileaks or Julian Assange.
  18. ^ Entous, Adam; Nakashima, Ellen; Jaffe, Greg (December 25, 2017). "Kremlin trolls burned across the Internet as Washington debated options". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  19. ^ DiResta, Renée (September 20, 2020). "The Supply of Disinformation Will Soon Be Infinite". The Atlantic. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  20. ^ O'Sullivan, Donie (August 23, 2018). "Facebook removes Syrian war page it believes is linked to Russian intel, Twitter keeps it online". CNNMoney. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  21. St. Clair, Jeffrey; Joshua Frank (January 5, 2018). "Ghosts in the Propaganda Machine". CounterPunch. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
  24. Bump, Philip (July 13, 2018). "Timeline: How Russian agents allegedly hacked the DNC and Clinton's campaign". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 15, 2018.
  25. Chen, Adrian (December 1, 2016). "The Propaganda About Russian Propaganda". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 23, 2017.

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