Dear CounterPunchers,
Some of our charter members are still with us, but many of our current readers might not remember CounterPunch’s humble beginning as an ambitious six-page xeroxed bi-weekly newsletter. That was nearly a 25 years ago. Obviously, media has changed tremendously in the last quarter century. Printing has gone digital, postage prices have skyrocketed, and now we’re the biggest website of the radical left with around 2 million unique visitors reading our site every month.
With our readership as large as it is, we could be funding our efforts with interest-based advertising, and every time you visit the CounterPunch site, you’d be stalked by creepy advertisements selling products you’ve only thought about ordering. Hopefully it won’t come to that. We prefer to use our “white space” to let you know about the books we’ve published and those by the writers that are featured on our site every week.