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CounterPunch is a biweekly newsletter published in the United States that covers politics from a left-wing, sometimes anti-Zionist, point of view. It has a website which contains much material not published in the newsletter.
The newsletter was established in 1994 by the Washington, D.C.-based investigative reporter Ken Silverstein. He was soon joined by the journalists Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair. In 1996 Silverstein left the publication and Cockburn and St. Clair have since been co-editors.
Running six to eight pages in length, the CounterPunch newsletter primarily publishes commentaries by Cockburn and St. Clair with regular contributions by others, often featuring one-sided critiques of Jews and Israel. It is noted for its critical coverage of both Democratic and Republican politicians and its extensive reporting of environmental and trade union issues, American foreign policy, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, again, with a focus on Israeli foibles at the expense of Arab or Palestinian shortcomings. CounterPunch says it carries on the tradition of muckraking journalism of earlier investigative journalists such as I.F. Stone and George Seldes, casting its approach as "muckraking with a radical attitude."
Since coming online in 1998, the CounterPunch website has become one of the most frequently-visited left-leaning sites on the Internet.* While offering much material not published in the newsletter, the latter continues to publish commentaries by St. Clair and Cockburn that are not published on the web. The website, which is updated on a daily basis, is supported by revenues generated by the newsletter, as well as fundraising activities and commissions received on click-through sales from Amazon.com.
Criticism
Steven Plaut and anti-American, anti-Israel and anti-Semitic views. In May 2006, James Taranto, editor of the Wall Street Journal's online Opinionjournal.com website, referred to Counterpunch disparagingly as a "moonbat site." [http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110008351" target="_blank" >*
Contributors
Notable contributors to CounterPunch have included Robert Fisk, the late Edward Said, Tim Wise, Ralph Nader, M. Shahid Alam, Ward Churchill, Lila Rajiva, Tanya Reinhart, and Alexander Cockburn's two brothers, Andrew and Patrick, both of whom write on the Middle East, Iraq in particular. Some paleoconservative writers like Paul Craig Roberts and William Lind can also be found in CounterPunch. The site regularly publishes veteran radicals, such as Lenni Brenner, Fidel Castro, and the late Stew Albert, as well as younger authours such as Diane Christian, Joshua Frank, Norman Finkelstein, Ron Jacobs, Gary Leupp and David Price whose writings appear to have been influenced by Cockburn.
External links
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