Counterpoint Appeal
We interrupt your regular reading habits to bring you the following important announcement: CounterPunch needs your financial support!
Either we meet our fundraising goal of $75,000 over the next month or we’ll be forced to drastically curtail the operation of our website. CounterPunch runs on a skeleton crew, likely to be even more skeletal than normal, unless we meet our goal.
CounterPunch’s website is supported almost entirely by subscribers to the print edition of our newsletter. We aren’t on the receiving end of six-figure grants from big foundations. George Soros doesn’t have us on retainer. We don’t sell tickets on cruiseliners.
The continued existence of CounterPunch depends solely on the support and dedication of our readers. We know there are a lot of you. We get thousands of emails from you every day. Our website receives millions of hits and nearly 100,000 readers each day. Of course, all these readers chew up a lot of bandwidth and that costs money.
These are tough political times. Many who optimistically hoped for real change have spent nearly three years under the cold downpour of political reality. Here at CounterPunch we’ve always aimed to tell it like it is, without illusions or despair. That’s why so many of you have found a refuge at CounterPunch and made us your homepage. You tell us that you love CounterPunch because the quality of the writing you find here in the original articles we offer every day and because we never flinch under fire. We appreciate the support and are prepared for the fierce battles to come.
