Contributors to CounterPunch have included Robert Fisk, Edward Said, Tim Wise, Ralph Nader, M. Shahid Alam, Tariq Ali, Ward Churchill, Lila Rajiva, Peter Linebaugh, Tanya Reinhart, Noam Chomsky, Frank " Chuck " Spinney, Diana Johnstone, Boris Kagarlitsky, Franklin Lamb, and Alexander Cockburn's two brothers: Andrew and Patrick, both of whom write on the Middle East and Iraq in particular.

In December 2006, the French version published an article by Alexander Cockburn, co-editor of CounterPunch, which strongly criticized the endorsement of conspiracy theories by the US left-wing, alleging that it was a sign of " theoretical emptiness.

* CounterPunch newsletter describing its mission as " muckraking with a radical attitude ", published in the United States, edited by, among others, Alexander Cockburn.

Running six to eight pages in length, the CounterPunch newsletter primarily publishes commentaries by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair with regular contributions by a wide range of others.

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 ).

In the September 7, 2002 issue of CounterPunch, columnist Alexander Cockburn authored an opinion column titled " The Tenth Crusade " in which he numbered the War on Terrorism to follow nine medieval Crusades between 1095 and 1272, omitting from his count the Alexandrian Crusade of 1365 and the Crusade of Nicopolis of 1396.

He is the co-editor, with Alexander Cockburn, of the political newsletter CounterPunch, and a contributing editor to the monthly magazine In These Times.

In 1994, he joined journalists Alexander Cockburn and Ken Silverstein on CounterPunch.

* CounterPunch: The Journalism That Rediscovers America ( 2002 ) ( co-edited with Alexander Cockburn )

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Regular Counterpunch contributor Israel Shamir was part of the WikiLeaks organisation and an associate of its director, Julian Assange, and in late 2010 and early 2011 wrote a series of exclusive articles for CounterPunch drawing on materials from the United States diplomatic cables leak.

He has also written and co-written articles for CounterPunch on what he alleges to be a campaign of harassment against Assange.

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 ) and Andrea Peacock's Wasting Libby: The True Story of How the WR Grace Corporation Left a Montana Town to Die ( 2010 ), on W. R. Grace and Company's role in Libby, Montana.

An August 2006 article in CounterPunch accused RWB of ignoring similar attacks on journalists under the Latortue government in 2005 and 2006, including that of Pacifica Radio reporter Kevin Pina.

Journalist Yvonne Ridley wrote in CounterPunch that " D-G Mark Thompson might not care much for the BBC ’ s reputation but he should have a duty of care to his staff because it looks as if his pro-Israel stance is now endangering the safety of his own news teams, many of whom find his views repugnant in any case " and with respect to his 2005 meeting with Ariel Sharon, wrote " Never before had any BBC Director-General embarked on such a meeting and references to it are removed continually from Thompson ’ s biography on Wikipedia, an indication of just how sensitive the whole event remains.

" Journalist Muhammad Idrees Ahmad wrote in CounterPunch that " the BBC's director general Mark Thompson can hardly be described as a disinterested party: in 2005 he made a trip to Jerusalem where he met with Ariel Sharon in what was seen in Israel as an attempt to ' build bridges ' and ' a " softening " to the corporation's unofficial editorial line on the Middle East '"

Col. Dan Smith is a retired U. S. Army colonel and author, who writes articles for Friends Committee on National Legislation ( FCNL ), CounterPunch and other anti-war minded publications.

* Notes on the Cairo Conference Against US Aggression on Iraq, Gary Leupp, CounterPunch

* A Report from Cairo on the International Campaign Against US Aggression on Iraq, Peter Phillips, CounterPunch, December 23, 2002

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Her writing has also appeared in Monthly Review and The Nation, and on the CounterPunch website.

" In CounterPunch, Charles R. Larson declared: " Half the Sky is the most important book that I have read since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, published in 1962.

According to Frank Menetrez, who recalled the book's reception in CounterPunch ( April 30, 2007 ), “ when a number of scholars examined the book carefully, they concluded that it was of no scholarly value whatsoever.

Avnery is a contributor to the news and opinion sites CounterPunch, Information Clearing House, Scoop. co. nz LewRockwell. com and The Exception Magazine.

He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and regularly contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books.

In an article published in CounterPunch, he responded to the Pope Benedict XVI Islam controversy and said: " The Bavarian is a razor-sharp reactionary cleric.

He is also a regular contributing author for National Geographic and CounterPunch.

CounterPunch is a bi-weekly newsletter published in the United States that covers politics in a manner its editors describe as " muckraking with a radical attitude ".

The same article was also referred to by James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal as similarly permitting the dismissal of CounterPunch (" an outfit whose staple is stuff comparing Bush to Hitler "), which Lindorff responded to.

In October 2000, a month before the 2000 U. S. Presidential election, St. Clair wrote in CounterPunch magazine, " Is there a more palpable sign of the neo-liberals ' mounting desperation than that they are now warning progressives and Leftists that a vote for Ralph Nader is the surest way to elect George W. Bush?

He is also a regular contributor to CounterPunch magazine.

Levine is a regular contributor to AlterNet, CounterPunch, Z Magazine, Truthout, and The Huffington Post, and his articles have appeared in Adbusters, The Ecologist and many other publications.

He is also a regular contributor to Planet Green, ZNet, CounterPunch, and other websites.

" An American Tribute to Christopher Hill " at the CounterPunch, May 17, 2003.

( for CounterPunch ) Norman Madarasz.

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Together with Jeffrey St. Clair, he edited the political newsletter CounterPunch.

* CounterPunch: The Journalism That Rediscovers America ( 2002 ) ( co-edited with Jeffrey St. Clair ) ISBN 1-85984-455-3

He also writes for CounterPunch and the London Review of Books.

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The allegations in CounterPunch were the topic of controversy in the mainstream media.

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