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Scott Bessent, Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary, let the cat out of the bag when he said that their new “Trump Accounts” are ...
Since President Donald Trump’s April Liberation Day announcement on tariffs, countries have been scrambling to negotiate with the self-proclaimed Dealmaker-in-Chief. Not a simple affair. For while DJT ...
ICE casualties are not found only among the thousands arrested, detained or deported. Simply knowing that people are being abducted based on how they look, their accent, where they live or travel, and ...
Donald Trump's frequent attempts to dress himself in the drag of a peace candidate have always been a cabaret made possible by the Democrats' open-mouthed ...
I’m about to start law school at Georgetown. I’m proud of myself for getting this far, but it hasn’t been easy — I’ve faced significant financial and ...
There’s an air of inevitability surrounding Zohran Mamdani’s bid to become New York City’s next mayor.  From an obscure long-shot just three months ago, ...
The totalitarian playbook that Donald Trump seems to follow lacks a chapter. Power-crazed the president may be, but he fails to grasp soft power. Wise ...
Michael A. McCarthy’s The Master’s Tools is about the power that finance exerts over people. He inquires into the problem and how it could realistically ...
The history of humanity is not...a vehicle which we board or get out of at random.  Our past will be for us a burden beneath which we can only collapse as ...
Exclusive to CounterPunch The fragment below was taken from the transcript of an intercepted phone call, no doubt intended for the “ears only” of Russian ...
In one night, Israel murdered Al Jazeera’s entire media crew in Gaza City. The Israeli military admitted to assassinating the journalists in an August 10 ...
The new tax law President Trump and congressional Republicans passed this summer drastically reduces taxes on the wealthiest, slashes essential spending, ...