Pynchon’s Farewell to America’s Vanishing Dream
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/pynchons-farewell-to-americas-vanishing-dream/
  
  https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/pynchons-farewell-to-americas-vanishing-dream/
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  Pynchon’s Farewell to America’s Vanishing Dream
  Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket whisks us way back to 1932 amid shantytowns and lindy-hopping in the end times of prohibition as fascist creeps creep into
  Hate and Fear Ruling Trump’s Sick America
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/hate-and-fear-ruling-trumps-sick-america/
  
  https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/hate-and-fear-ruling-trumps-sick-america/
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  Hate and Fear Ruling Trump’s Sick America
  “The Children of MAGA” Cambridge Dictionary online defines the meaning of the phrase “pearl clutching” as follows: “a shocked reaction in which you show
  On the Precipice of Authoritarian Rule
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/on-the-precipice-of-authoritarian-rule/
  
  https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/on-the-precipice-of-authoritarian-rule/
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  On the Precipice of Authoritarian Rule
  Earlier this month, President Donald Trump threatened to unleash the armed forces on more American cities during a rambling address to top military brass. He told the hundreds of generals and admirals gathered to hear him that some of them would be called…
  Pam Bondi Before the Senate: When Politics Becomes Theater
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/pam-bondi-before-the-senate-when-politics-becomes-theater/
  
  https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/pam-bondi-before-the-senate-when-politics-becomes-theater/
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  Pam Bondi Before the Senate: When Politics Becomes Theater
  On October 7, Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee. What should have been a routine hearing descended into a theatrical display of personal attacks, interruptions, and challenges to the senators’ authority. What was meant…
  Authoritarian America
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/authoritarian-america/
  
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  Authoritarian America
  The authoritarian leader first takes control of the nation’s power ministries – Justice, the Secret Police (FBI), the Military, and the Intelligence apparatus. Then he/she, in what is referred to as “authoritarian consolidation,” moves to control the lower…
  Stephen Miller and the Making of the Fascist Subject
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/stephen-miller-and-the-making-of-the-fascist-subject/
  
  https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/stephen-miller-and-the-making-of-the-fascist-subject/
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  Stephen Miller and the Making of the Fascist Subject
  Orchestrated brutality reflected not only Miller’s ideology but also his personality. Even his former colleagues described him as insufferable, “rude, arrogant, and consumed by a sense of his own superiority,” as Yahoo News reported. On Capitol Hill, he was…
  Roaming Charges: Aspirations to Omnipotence
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/roaming-charges-aspirations-to-omnipotence/
  
  https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/roaming-charges-aspirations-to-omnipotence/
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  Roaming Charges: Aspirations to Omnipotence
  Maria Greeley was on her way to work at the Beach Bar in Chicago, when she was accosted by three ICE agents. Fearing she might be targeted by ICE, Greeley, who is Latina, had her passport with her, proving she was an American citizen, born 44 years ago at…
  It is Israel that must be deradicalized, not Palestine
https://mronline.org/2025/10/17/it-is-israel-that-must-be-deradicalized-not-palestine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=it-is-israel-that-must-be-deradicalized-not-palestine
  
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  It is Israel that must be deradicalized, not Palestine | MR Online
  Calls to “deradicalize” Palestinians ignore Israel’s embrace of fascism.
  ‘It’s a privilege to encourage our generation like the musicians that came before us: Nina Simone, Max Roach, Charles Mingus’
https://mronline.org/2025/10/17/its-a-privilege-to-encourage-our-generation-like-the-musicians-that-came-before-us-nina-simone-max-roach-charles-mingus/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=its-a-privilege-to-encourage-our-generation-like-the-musicians-that-came-before-us-nina-simone-max-roach-charles-mingus
  
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  ‘It’s a privilege to encourage our generation like the musicians that came before us: Nina Simone, Max Roach, Charles Mingus’ |…
  CHRIS SEARLE speaks to U.S. pianist Paul Cornish.
  Venezuela conducts drills as Trump authorizes CIA operations, sends B-52 Bombers near Caracas
https://mronline.org/2025/10/17/venezuela-conducts-drills-as-trump-authorizes-cia-operations-sends-b-52-bombers-near-caracas/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=venezuela-conducts-drills-as-trump-authorizes-cia-operations-sends-b-52-bombers-near-caracas
  
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  Venezuela conducts drills as Trump authorizes CIA operations, sends B-52 Bombers near Caracas | MR Online
  President Nicolás Maduro has hailed the Operation Independence 200 military drill.
  Who Is Russell Vought? How a Little-Known D.C. Insider Became Trump’s Dismantler-in-Chief
https://www.propublica.org/article/video-who-is-russell-vought-trump-omb-shutdown
  
  https://www.propublica.org/article/video-who-is-russell-vought-trump-omb-shutdown
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  Who Is Russell Vought? How a Little-Known D.C. Insider Became Trump’s Dismantler-in-Chief
  Reporter Andy Kroll explains Vought’s rise from a congressional staffer to the man piloting everything from Trump's layoffs and agency closings to his shutdown strategy, controlling the fate of trillions of dollars and millions of federal workers.
  The Shadow President
https://www.propublica.org/article/russ-vought-trump-shadow-president-omb
  
  https://www.propublica.org/article/russ-vought-trump-shadow-president-omb
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  Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
  From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that insiders say they feel like “he is the commander in chief.”
  Trump’s Portland lies euphemized as ‘dueling versions of reality’
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  Trump’s Portland lies euphemized as ‘dueling versions of reality’ | MR Online
  When corporate media refuse to call a lie a lie, and to stand unequivocally on the side of reality, they enable the Trump administration’s growing authoritarianism.
  Imperial Double Standards: Warfare for Venezuela and Welfare for Argentina
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  Imperial Double Standards: Warfare for Venezuela and Welfare for Argentina | MR Online
  Venezuela embodies resistance and regional integration. Argentina, under Milei, epitomizes the collapse into “narco-capitalism,” social devastation, and foreign subjection.
  Jean Jaurès, an Iconic Leader of International Socialism
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/jaures-french-socialism-republicanism-internationalism/
  
  https://jacobin.com/2025/10/jaures-french-socialism-republicanism-internationalism/
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  Jean Jaurès, an Iconic Leader of International Socialism
  One of France’s leading socialists, Jean Jaurès was assassinated just days before the outbreak of World War I. An impassioned defender of working-class internationalism, his murder signaled Europe’s descent into war.
  What Is Lorin Stein Doing At “Tablet”?
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/lorin-stein-tablet/
  
  https://www.thenation.com/article/society/lorin-stein-tablet/
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  What Is Lorin Stein Doing at “Tablet”?
  The former Paris Review editor was ostracized over sexual harassment allegations. Now he’s editing a divisive, right-wing Jewish magazine. What’s going on?
  From Maine to the Marianas, Americans Will Cry: “No Kings!”
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/no-kings-day-october-preview-trump/
  
  https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/no-kings-day-october-preview-trump/
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  From Maine to the Marianas, Americans Will Cry: “No Kings!”
  Millions will take to the streets this Saturday to remind Donald Trump that we don’t have monarchs in this country.
  