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+import re
+from lxml.html import parse
+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
+
+class Counterpunch(BasicNewsRecipe):
+    '''
+    Parses counterpunch.com for articles
+    '''
+    title = 'Counterpunch'
+    description = 'Daily political opinion from www.Counterpunch.com'
+    language = 'en'
+    __author__ = 'O. Emmerson'
+    keep_only_tags = [dict(name='td', attrs={'width': '522'})]
+    max_articles_per_feed = 10
+
+    def parse_index(self):
+        feeds = []
+        title, url = 'Counterpunch', 'http://www.counterpunch.com'
+        articles = self.parse_page(url)
+        if articles:
+            feeds.append((title, articles))
+        return feeds
+
+    def parse_page(self, url):
+        parsed_page = parse(url).getroot()
+        articles = []
+        unwanted_text = re.compile('Website\ of\ the|I\ urge\ you|Subscribe\ now|DONATE|\@asis\.com|donation\ button|click\ over\ to\ our')
+        parsed_articles = [a for a in parsed_page.cssselect("html>body>table tr>td>p[class='style2']") if not unwanted_text.search(a.text_content())]
+        for art in parsed_articles:
+            try:
+                author = art.text
+                title = art.cssselect("a")[0].text + ' by {0}'.format(author)
+                art_url = 'http://www.counterpunch.com/' + art.cssselect("a")[0].attrib['href']
+                articles.append({'title': title, 'url': art_url})
+            except Exception as e:
+                e
+                #print('Handler Error: ', e, 'title :', a.text_content())
+                pass
+        return articles
+