Chinese Government uses Triad gangs to attack protesters in Hong Kong
https://nyti.ms/2yoozyk Full story at the New York Times.
I’m a Little Bit Ilhan, and I’m a Little Bit Tucker Too
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley As something of a radical contrarian, I often feel like my life is comprised largely of coming out of an endless procession of closets, often without even realizing I’m stepping through the doorway. What? You didn’t know I […]
The Condition of the World Economy
A very good discussion of the world economy by two Marxist-Leninists. I agree with virtually everything they say except for, of course, their interpretation of the role of Communism in the industrial development of the Eastern world. The Communist revolutions that took place in the East and the […]
Geopolitical Analysis #1: Russia
Today Lewis is joined by Keith Preston to discuss the geopolitics of Russia.
Russia warns of extensive military confrontation with Iran
Financial Media Elite Defensively Bash “Useless” Gold
By Chris Powell, Money Metals Exchange At least the Financial Times now has come clean about its hostility to gold – as well as to free markets and elementary journalism. Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) friend Chris Kniel of Orinda, California, sent to the newspaper’s chief economic columnist, […]
Who & What is Behind Secret Black Hawk Operation in Washington DC Area
Sputnik News The US Army has been quietly conducting a secret flight operation in and around Washington DC for months, judging from recently released fiscal documents. US military experts have outlined the possible goals of the clandestine mission and the agencies behind it. On 22 July, Bloomberg revealed […]
US political hostility has reached the greatest level
Press TV. Listen here. Hostility between major political parties in the US has now reached is greatest level, according to an American analyst. Large majorities of Americans believe the tone of political debate in the United States has become more negative in recent years and the inflammatory political rhetoric could […]
Smash All the Camps (Or Sympathy For Willem Van Spronsen)
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I sympathize with Willem Van Spronsen. Maybe that’s a bad way to start this post but it feels like the most honest way to start this post. A mentally ill anarchist, not unlike myself, Willem wanted to end […]
Epstein a flight risk, should be held without bail, analyst says
Press TV. Listen here. Accused child sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein, is a “flight risk” particularly as he is in possession of a Saudi passport and, therefore should be held without bail, says a political commentator. Virginia-based Keith Preston made the comments in an interview with Press TV Wednesday […]
Monetary Metals Don’t Need a “Gold Standard” Proxy System
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange President Trump moved recently to nominate an avowed sound money advocate, Judy Shelton, to the Federal Reserve Board. That triggered a flurry of superficial and derisive references in the controlled media to Shelton’s past support of a gold standard. For example, CBS […]
Who Am I?
Occasionally, new readers will come to this site and ask who I am and what I’m about? Briefly, this is me: Over the past 20 years or so, I have written half a dozen books, hundreds of essays, given dozens of lectures, done hundreds of podcasts and radio […]
Tucker: Antifa has the support of the ‘respectable’ left
Tucker Carlson has a predictable response to the Willem Van Spronsen incident. I disagree with Carlson that the Antifa is inherently connected to the mainstream Democratic Party-oriented left just as I disagree with the often-made claim that the Trumpians are inherently connected to the neo-fascists. As a general […]
The Truth About The Migrant Detention Centers
This is quite good. Totally smashes the conventional narrative that the abuse of migrants is somehow unique to Trump. The same thing is happening with the migrant detention center issue nowadays that happened with the Iraq War during the George W. Bush era. In both cases, liberal and […]
Full ‘Squad’ Press Conference In Response To President Donald Trump’s Attacks
I’m of two minds on these people. On one hand, I prefer these supposed “far left” (really just center-left) figures like Alexandria, Omar, Tlaib, etc. to both the mainstream Democrats and the Republicans because they’re usually much better on foreign policy (more anti-Israel, anti-Saudi, less antagonistic to Russia, […]
ICE Is Dangerously Inaccurate: Even American citizens are not immune from immigration raids
My main criticism of the mainstream right is their jingoistic flag-waving, dupiness for imperialism and their corporate-love (“those poor oppressed billionaires paying capital gains taxes”). My main criticism of the “far-right” is that many of them are so anti-immigrant and anti-private crime (particularly black crime) they end up […]
Trump’s immigration policies very divisive, escalating tensions in US
Islam Times. US President Donald Trump’s immigration policies have been extremely divisive and has led to rising social tensions across the country, says an American political analyst in Virginia. “Within the United States right now, immigration is one of these very divisive issues,” said Keith Preston, chief editor […]
Are these viable predictions for the future?
-North, Central, and South America will become increasingly integrated into a Schengen-like borderless trade zone. -US international hegemony will begin to recede due to imperial overstretch with international power increasingly being ceded to transnational institutions. -Class relations in the US will increasingly resemble the “Third World” (traditional) model, […]
Nukes For Peace?
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Surrounded by trigger happy Tonkinesque gunboats and drowning in debt, the Islamic Republic of Iran has made the risky decision to play the last card left in their deck; to defy the P5+1 Deal in order to save […]
Iran denies supertanker destined for Syria
The Hidden Reason Why Fed Chairman Powell and “Systemically Important” Banks Oppose a Gold Standard
By Mike Gleason, First Published on Sound Money Defense League Chairman Powell’s testimony this week was closely scrutinized not just for its economic implications but also for its political overtones. Powell cited “trade tensions” as cause for concern about the strength of the global economy. He clearly seemed […]
Trump comes out against Bitcoin, other Cryptocurrencies, and “Unregulated Crypto Assets”
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1149472282584072192
Anti-Centrism: Know Your Extremists (From Anprim to Nazbol)
Iran nuclear scale-down
Press TV. Watch here. In this edition of The Debate, Press TV interviews Keith Preston, chief editor at AttacktheSystem.com from Richmond, VA and Robert Fantina, author, activist, and journalist from Kitchener, on Iran’s scaling down of the JCPOA commitments, at a time the country’s uranium enrichment level exceeds […]
Incompetence not unique to trump but all previous US administrations
Press TV. Listen here. The incompetence and division in American politics is not unique to the administration of President Donald Trump and has rather spanned all US administrations, says a political analyst in Virginia. Keith Preston, chief editor of AttacktheSystem.com, made the comment in an interview with Press […]
Some Dem Candidates Are More Dangerous Than Trump
The Spectrum and History of Anarchy w/ Keith Preston
A recent interview with the Free Man Beyond the Wall podcast. Listen here. Pete invited Keith Preston to come on the show to talk about the history of anarchists, the different schools and a look back in history to see if anarchism “has ever been tried.” Keith has […]
What about the Workers? A Libertarian Answer
By Sean Gabb I was called this morning by the BBC. It wanted me to comment on the claims that Sports direct, a chain of sports clothing shops, mistreats its workers – keeping them on zero-hours contracts, sometimes not paying them even the minimum wage, scaring them out […]
The Revolt Against Adulthood
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Why don’t you grow up, Nicky? That’s the tried old refrain that never seems to get older than I do. It seems like I hear it from pretty much all the token adult figures in my life; my […]
A History of Decentralization
aragon.black Jun 11, 2019 14 minute read (full) First let’s decentralize history… This month’s thematic has been a real challenge for us and raised many questions in our minds. Why? The history of decentralization is complex and non-linear. But most of all, it is difficult to be considered from […]
81% of ‘suspects’ flagged by Met’s police facial recognition technology innocent
The force maintains its technology only makes a mistake in one in 1,000 cases, but it uses a different metric for gauging success. By Rowland Manthorpe and Alexander J Martin news.sky.com Four out of five people identified by the Metropolitan Police’s facial recognition technology as possible suspects are […]
The Dr. Strange of the American Revolution
nautil.us Brian Gallagher “I ascribe the Success of our Revolution to a Galaxy,” Benjamin Rush wrote to John Adams, in 1812. He wasn’t invoking the astrological. It was commonplace then to associate a bright assembly of people with the starry band in the night sky that Chaucer called […]
Big Tech, Big Banks Push for “Cashless Society”
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange The War on Cash isn’t a conspiracy theory. It’s an open agenda. It’s being driven by an alignment of interests among bankers, central bankers, politicians, and Silicon Valley moguls who stand to benefit from an all-digital economy. Last week, Facebook – in […]
Trump splits nation by politicizing 4th of July
What Would Civil War Two Look Like?
This is one of the best analyses I’ve seen to date on what an actual Civil War 2 would look like. It’s political, geographical, and cultural analysis is spot on, although its main weakness is that it largely leaves out social class (which is fragmenting both the Red […]
Tourist buses ‘no longer welcome’ in Paris city centre
france24.com AFP / Lionel Bonaventure (file photo) | A tourist double decker bus in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Paris aims to ban tourist buses from the city centre to spur visitors to walk, cycle or take public transport, tackling complaints about nuisances caused by mass […]
Neanderthals glued their tools together
arstechnica.com KIONA N. SMITH Neanderthals glued their stone tools into place on wooden handles, a new study suggests. Archaeologists found chemical traces of pine resin on 10 stone tools from Grotta del Fossellone and Grotta di Sant’Agostino, on the western coast of central Italy. That’s pretty solid evidence […]
Oregon’s Tsunami Risk
New article from the lady who wrote “The Really Big One,” that Pulitzer Prize winning article about the inevitable super earthquake that is supposedly going to destroy a nice chunk of the coastal Northwest. If this kind of stuff interests you I’d recommend reading this article before reading the […]
Why we disagree about human nature
Elizabeth Hannon & Tim Lewens (Eds) Why we disagree about human nature.Oxford University Press, 2018. 206 pp. £30 hbk. JULY 1, 2019 By Simon Jarrett If one day a disturbingly precocious child were to ask what part you had played in the nature/ nurture war, what would you reply? Were […]
Video Games That Made People Question Their Beliefs
Gita Jackson Kotaku When Scott Udall first played Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance shortly after it came out in 2005, he was in a vulnerable spot. Udall, who grew up Mormon in Salt Lake City, Utah, was very religious, and his family were all politically active Republicans. His parents had […]
It took a decade for the Declaration of Independence to matter in American life
Stanford News Two Stanford historians discuss how the United States’ Declaration of Independence became one of the pillars of American civic life and other lesser-known historical facts about what happened on July 4, 1776. BY ALEX SHASHKEVICH On the historic day of July 4, 1776, when the Declaration […]
Open Letter From Steve Forbes To Mark Zuckerberg
by Steve Forbes Dear Mr. Zuckerberg: Your company made big headlines when it announced it would be launching a cryptocurrency called the Libra in 2020. Not surprisingly, given the nature of the times, the project has been greeted with intense criticism and skepticism. Don’t lose heart. In one […]
The Gap Between Rich and Poor Americans’ Health Is Widening
NPR by Susie Neilson Researchers compared Americans’ health status today with that of 25 years ago and found that health is worsening among lower-income Americans. Orbon Alija/Getty Images Income inequality in the U.S. has grown over the past several decades. And as the gap between rich and poor yawns, […]
Rising US Inequality: How We Got Here, Where We’re Going
Stanford Business Shana Lynch An economist and a business advisor discuss what might happen if the gap between rich and poor continues to grow. Inequality is on the rise in the United States. Stanford experts discuss possible solutions. | Reuters/Lucy Nicholson The U.S. economy hit a historic high […]
The Long, Slow Death of Venice
The local population is at its lowest since the 1950s, with no turnaround in sight, as tourists continue to chase locals out. by Chiara Albanese, Giovonni Salzano, and Federico Vespignani If you’ve been to Venice, you get it. Even the most jaded globetrotter can’t help but do a […]
11 Micronations in Europe You Never Knew Existed
This needs to become a global trend, like McDonald’s. By Harry Stewart The culture trip. We’ve all heard of places like Liechtenstein and the Vatican, tiny European nations with minuscule populations. Yet these are internationally recognized states—actual countries, if you will. Even more bizarre are Europe’s micronations: quirky […]
How to build your own country
By Joe Quirk CNN If you’d like to live in a country that caters to your values and lifestyle, why not build your own? Nearly half the earth’s surface is a blue frontier over which no country holds sovereignty, and startup cities that float permanently in international waters […]
There Is No Such Thing As A Moderate Mainstream Centrist
Caitlin Johnstone on why it is the “centrists” who are the real extremists. By Caitlin Johnstone Medium I just watched two mainstream political videos back-to-back from what is conventionally referred to as America’s political “center”, and just by coincidence they happened to completely contradict each other. The first […]
Democratic criticism of Trump-Kim meeting show deep division in US
Press TV. Listen here. US Democrats’ widespread criticism of President Donald Trump’s recent meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is indicative of a deep division in Washington, where political interests shape the foreign policy, says an American political analyst. Democratic presidential hopefuls and lawmakers launched a direct […]
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