Is CounterPunch biased?
The bias data this site ingests places CounterPunch on the far left. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. We have seen it on 2 published stories of ours.
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Is CounterPunch biased?
The bias data this site ingests places CounterPunch on the far left. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is CounterPunch left or right?
The bias data this site ingests places CounterPunch on the far left. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is CounterPunch reliable?
The factuality data this site ingests describes CounterPunch as high factuality. It reaches us without a named assessor, so it is an unattributed rating rather than our verdict. It does not guarantee that every report is correct.
What CounterPunch has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with CounterPunch’s own report linked underneath.
A US military intelligence assessment concludes Iran has moved its strategic priority from its nuclear programme to the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil and gas shipping route. Outlets diverge on whether the shift signals military escalation or economic pressure as the main US response.
CounterPunch reported it asIran Has Changed the Question (opens CounterPunch in a new tab)
The Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as US Attorney General by a 50-49 vote on 9 August 2026, with Republican Senator Bill Cassidy casting the deciding vote. Cassidy said he had concerns about Blanche’s commitment to the Constitution but cited positive aspects of his record.
CounterPunch reported it asBlanche’s Confirmation Vote Could Flip the Senate (opens CounterPunch in a new tab)
Who says so
The lean above is carried in the coverage data this site ingests, which names no rater for it. We publish it because it is what the rest of the site groups CounterPunch on, and we will not present it as an assessment by anyone in particular until we hold one.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
High factuality
The rating above reaches us without a named assessor, and is published as that rather than as anyone’s verdict.
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for CounterPunch.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Petrolia, Humboldt County, California, United States
- Seen publishing on
- counterpunch.org
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 2
- Reports listed
- 2
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 12 August 2026
2 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 1 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and CounterPunch ran the story anyway.
Across the 2 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of CounterPunch: its report arrived a median of 3 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 12 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 12 August 2026. Ratings pulled 12 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
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