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Published on http://www.counterpunch.org Assessing the damage President Donald J. Trump’s street corner smart...

Reading the Lunacy Level
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look l...

The Game is On
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “We’re flooded in shit, and we’re still searching for a way to...

Calling on Don Corleone
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org How did President Trump get Big Pharma to “equalize” their prices wit...

How Democrats Win Elections
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze back...

Good Guys/Bad Guys
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org There is one common reason for the collapse of democracy: capitalist...






Published on http://www.counterpunch.org Words come to meaning within the context of expression, which is time and place. Call it the stage upon which actors –words – are confined. Maybe the... Read more
The Marketing of Algorithmic Transmissions “The algorithm, he said, was YouTube’s speech and distinct from what users had posted.” – New York Times, Feb. 21, 2023 If the algorithm is speech... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org War rages, horrid war Even in our bones; our double nature sounds With armèd discord. – Prudentius, Psychomachia “The cultural critic Raymond... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society ─ its worldview, its basic value... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in” – First Edition, Just Dropped In (to See What Condition My Condition Was In), sound tra... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “We shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all the people are upon us so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have underta... Read more
NY Times – Politics

Senator Chuck Schumer urged the health secretary to declare an emergency to keep other regions from experiencing the “nightmare” seen in Texas. [...]
After serving in the government, he became a prominent political commentator. “Centrism doesn’t mean splitting the difference,” he said in 2020. [...]

Nearly 3,000 people have been arrested since the beginning of June, more than three times the number in previous months this year. [...]

The plea came at a vulnerable moment for the Sinaloa drug cartel, the organization Ovidio Guzmán López’s father helped found. [...]

Secretary of State Marco Rubio insists he is streamlining a bloated department, but critics warn the cost to America’s standing and influence could be high. [...]

An irate attorney general is said to have confronted the deputy director of the F.B.I. at a tense White House meeting earlier in the week. [...]