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Trump’s Palantir-Powered Surveillance Is Turning America Into a Digital Prison

3 days ago | counterpunch.org | John Whitehead

Call it what it is: a panopticon presidency. President Trump’s plan to fuse government power with private surveillance tech to build a centralized, national citizen database is the final step in transforming America from a constitutional republic into a digital dictatorship armed with algorithms and powered by unaccountable, all-seeing artificial intelligence. This isn’t about national security. It’s about control.
How to Win the Nation’s Highest Minimum Wage

3 days ago | counterpunch.org | Sonali Kolhatkar

Southern California’s tourism industry has been salivating at the prospect of an influx of visitors during the upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup and the 2028 Olympics, both of which Los Angeles will host. Why shouldn’t low-wage workers exploit the opportunity as well?
“Antisemitism” The Making of Our Political Panic

3 days ago | counterpunch.org | David Goldberg

On May 15, 2025, Logan Rozos was the selected student speaker at NYU’s Gallatin School commencement. Briefly addressing the large crowd of faculty, students, their families and friends, Rozos offered brief remarks condemning “the current atrocities currently happening in Gaza” with U.S. financial, political, and military support. Nowhere in the short remarks were Israel or Jews mentioned. The remarks received prolonged applause from the students, followed by some jeers.
Lost and Found in the Streets of Rome

3 days ago | counterpunch.org | John O'Kane

This past March, I traveled to Rome to accept an award for my recently published novel, The Accidental Jesus. The event would cap this year’s international competition for literary fiction sponsored by the Pegasus Foundation. The book is set in San Pedro, California, and dramatizes how the protagonist—who resembles the historical Jesus and struggles with his Catholic faith—is taken for Jesus himself when he returns to his hometown for a high school reunion.
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Will Montana's Leaders Stand Up to TACO Don?

4 days ago | counterpunch.org | George Ochenski

It hasn’t been a good week for the guy who decided he was going to be a king and spent his first four months in office ignoring the law, declaring phony “national emergencies” and issuing “royal edicts” disguised as executive orders. But things didn’t go exactly as he hoped — to put it mildly. To start, Wall Street, which has been wracked by his on again-off again tariffs, came up with a new moniker for him: TACO.
Marco Rubio: The Secretary of Statelessness

5 days ago | counterpunch.org | Melvin A. Goodman

Question: What member of Trump’s cabinet has four major posts, but only one job? Answer: Marco RubioMarco Rubio is the uber-mensch of the Trump administration. He is the secretary of state, the acting national security adviser, the acting director of (what’s left) of the Agency for International Development, and the acting director of the National Archives.
Trump Dreams of Minerals

1 week ago | counterpunch.org | John Feffer

The clean energy transition that the Biden administration touted as the focus of its industrial policy required large amounts of mineral inputs. Batteries for electric vehicles depend on lithium, solar panels contain gallium and molybdenum, and powerful magnets in wind turbines can’t be built without rare earth elements.
Modi’s Women-Oriented Political Strategy!

1 week ago | counterpunch.org | Nilofar Suhrawardy

Interestingly in its war against Pakistan, India appears to have made deliberate attempt to put ladies in the forefront. Yes, this refers to two ladies from the military who, along with a male bureaucrat (Foreign Secretary Misri), were engaged in giving briefings regularly while the war lasted. One was from the Army (Col. Qureshi) and the other from Air-Force (Wing Commander Singh). Qureshi is a Muslim and Singh a Hindu.
Mrs. Dalloway at 100: Virginia Woolf’s Modernist Masterpiece of Imperial Decline

1 week ago | counterpunch.org | Jonah Raskin

Virginia Woolf didn’t realize when she began to publish her own work more than 100-years ago that she would birth a cottage industry that would put all her writing – letters and diaries as well as essays, novels and short stories—into print, and that would be read and studied around the world. No one was more scribacious than Woolf and no one was more devoted to the cause of women writers than she.