Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “[L]anguage is traded and valued as performance. Effectiveness, not truth-value is the rule for language in the sphere of communication. Pragmatics,... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “I can’t tell you how many people are saying Trump’s saying what I’ve been thinking all my life.” “Most of them [Biden voters] are morons.” “That V.P... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org Mussolini’s Italy in its undisciplined, messy totalitarianism couldn’t effectuate the kind of state and personal transformations that Hitler’s nation... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org While the sphere of finance is ruled by algorithms that connect fractals of precarious labor, the sphere of life is invaded by flows of chaos that pa... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “In any given culture and at any given moment, there is always only one ‘episteme’ that defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge, wheth... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “The big backlash going on in Portland cannot be unexpected.” – President Trump, Tweet President Trump is extending his narrative from Make Me Great... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “If anyone but me takes over… there will be a Market Crash the likes of which has not been seen before!” – Trump tweet You could say that this tweet... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org Our two party system which has operated as a duopoly on economic issues, especially in regard to letting Wall Street and business leaders shape what... Read more
The longest-serving Senate leader is relinquishing his post in the next Congress and planning to use his influence in ways that could put him at odds with President-elect Donald J. Trump. [...]
Natalie Harp, a 33-year-old former anchor on a right-wing cable show, is poised to become the gatekeeper for information to and from the president. [...]
Steve Witkoff’s involvement with two sovereign wealth funds as he bought and then sold Manhattan’s Park Lane Hotel demonstrates the potential conflicts his new role will present. [...]
The president-elect has named wealthy financiers for key economic positions, raising questions about how much they will follow through on promises to help the working class. [...]
Donald J. Trump is set to regain office without clarity on the scope of presidential immunity and with a lingering cloud over whether outside special counsels can investigate high-level wrongdoing. [...]
The administration is pressing the World Anti-Doping Agency to allow an outside audit after it failed to suspend Chinese swimmers for positive tests. [...]
Nothing Sacred
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org What’s globally known is that we are in check by the Coronavirus pandemic. Also globally known is that President Donald J. Trump holds nothing sacred... Read more