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SOME IMPORTANT NEWS Last summer we were forced to end the printing of our beloved magazine. Printing costs were going up and shipping out a 40-page magazine was getting expensive. We were losing money, despite having to charge print subscribers a bundle. Well, that's changed. Our magazine is now online in the form of CP+. Here, you can find, not only back issues of the newsletter and magazine, but fresh, new, hard-hitting exclusive content which drops every Sunday (or Monday if we are up too late on Saturday). See this week's offerings below. CP+ is a bit cheaper for us to maintain than the magazine, which means we don't need to charge you as much to help us keep it going. Right now, as you are surely aware, we are in the midst of our Spring fund drive. We are giving access to CP+ for a modest donation as a thank you. We know times are tough, but if you can spare a few bucks, we'd really appreciate it. [For $25 you can score a year's worth of CP+. We also have a monthly donation option of only $4.]( $4 is the price of a cup of yummy coffee, a pint of beer, a couple of bus tickets or some dry cleaning. So why not chip in and help us out while scoring some great content along the way? Oh, and did we mention you'll get discounts on merch, books and other stuff too if you subscribe to CP+? Extended podcasts, and more? Yep. All of that. And don't worry, all of the free content you find on CounterPunch will still be free, without ads and without compromise. Thanks for being such great fans of our work. And thanks for keeping us going all of these years. We appreciate you. [Subscribe here]( or [Donate here]( June 17, 2021 CounterPunch+ [The CIA and the Israeli Left]( by T.J. Coles America’s domestic activists have achieved a great deal. In particular, they have pressured Joe Biden into moving significantly to the left—though, not nearly left enough, given [the scale of the challenge]( issues relating to climate and infrastructure. It is perhaps against this backdrop of [mounting grassroots pressure]( the President [told Israel to end its latest effort]( in the words of Israeli commentators, [“mow the grass”]( occupied Gaza, which along with the [increasingly annexed]( Bank is Palestinian territory. Whatever the motivation, Israel did, [as usual]( what its U.S. master instructed. [READ THE REST ON COUNTERPUNCH+]( [We Canceled Keystone, It's Time to Stop the Line 3 Pipeline]( by Scott Parkin This week, TC Energy (formerly TransCanada) announced that they were finally terminating the Keystone XL Pipeline (KXL) project after over a decade of resistance from the Alberta tar sands to Wall Street to the White House to the Gulf Coast. It stirs a lot of feelings and memories for me. I’ve devoted myself to climate direct action for over two decades. Half of it, I spent fighting the Keystone XL pipeline. Through my KXL journey, I was arrested sitting-in the White House, recruited tens of thousands to pledge to take action, trained thousands in direct action to disrupt Obama’s approval of the pipeline (hell, I even trained the trainers), supported the environmentalists and landowners that disrupted the construction of the southern leg of the pipeline in Texas (which got built anyway) and generally made elite politicos and Wall Street bankers miserable over it. In 2013, I discovered that TransCanada had compiled a file on me and my friends and traveled to law enforcement along the pipeline route with a PowerPoint telling them that we were terrorists. We also [declared victory on KXL]( than once. [READ THE REST ON COUNTERPUNCH+]( [Identity from a Revolutionary Perspective]( by Paul Street One of the more nauseating things I’ve long heard from white guys of a certain stupid, faux-Marxist, fascism-appeasing, red-brown, and Trumpenleft bent[1] is that racism, nativism, and sexism are just “[scams]( used by the ruling class to divide the noble proletariat and divert its attention away from the working-class solidarity required to fight capitalism. To focus any serious energy on opposing these “scams,” this noxious Archie Bunker Marxism claims, is to fall into the trap of bourgeois identity politics. [READ THE REST ON COUNTERPUNCH+]( [In the Crosswind]( by Ed Rampell As Estonia prepares to mark the 30th anniversary of regaining its independence from Soviet rule Martti Helde’s In the Crosswind (Risttuules) is blowing onto U.S. screens to remind viewers of an especially egregious crime against humanity: The 80th anniversary of Joseph Stalin’s purported Baltic purge. Shortly after Crosswind’s rapturous opening depicting Erna and her husband Heldur enjoying an Estonian idyll at their countryside home, 40,000 people are deported from the Baltic Republics as part of Stalin’s alleged plot for ethnically cleansing Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, as titles in English inform us. [READ THE REST ON COUNTERPUNCH+]( CounterPunch | 707-629-3683 | [email us](mailto:counterpunchbiz@gmail.com) | [homepage]( Connect with us [[Facebook] ]( [[Twitter] ]( [[Pinterest] ](#) CounterPunch | P.O. Box 228, Petrolia, CA 95558 [Unsubscribe {EMAIL}]( [Update Profile]( | [Constant Contact Data Notice]( Sent by counterpunch@counterpunch.org powered by [Trusted Email from Constant Contact - Try it FREE today.]( [Try email marketing for free today!](