By Douglas Rushkoff Medium Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far the largest fee I had ever been offered for a talk — about […]
As the COVID-19 crisis continues, Peter Robinson sat down (virtually over Zoom) with Kevin Warsh, the Shepard Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a former member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. They discuss the nuts and bolts of the Federal […]
Zach Carter, Senior Reporter from the HuffPost, explains how the government is failing the test coronavirus poses to the country, citing structural issues of our economy and a shortage of medical supplies, healthcare workers.
No. Debt moratorium/jubilee and class-based reparations are the only way. Like that’s going to happen.
Will Coronavirus and Great Depression Two be the end of “wokeness”? I doubt it. “Wokeness” actually increased by an order of magnitude after the Great Recession. I see no evidence that the “culture wars” have subsided in the context of the present crisis. If anything, extremist movements, left […]
The international ruling class is having a brawl over masks. In the US media I’ve been both left-wingers (Krystal Ball) and right-wingers (Tucker Carlson) attacking 3M for diverting masks from the US, with Trump threatening to use the Defense Production Act against 3M. Now, Germany is attacking the […]
Historically, totalitarian revolutions have been driven by the left-wing of the middle class during times when the middle-class (or at least segments of the middle class) is rising on a socioeconomic level but has its political ambitions frustrated by deeply entrench elites. I believe this theory explains the […]
Do we already live in the world he predicted?
By Sean Gabb Whether the Coronavirus is the Spanish Flu come again I cannot say, and will not try. We shall have some grounds for knowing by Easter, and may have confirmation next year, when the annual mortality figures are published. Something I can say, however, is that […]
A reader highly recommends this episode of Useful Idiots: “Although the title implies a discussion of depression and anxiety in relation to being in coronavirus quarantine, what followed was in my opinion a more substantial discussion of longstanding issues of psychological ill-health living under neoliberalism (and neoliberalism’s interest […]
By Jp Cortez Two weeks ago, during a March 17 address to the nation in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, President Donald Trump asked that Americans work from home, postpone unnecessary travel, and limit social gatherings to no more than 10 people. And last week, on March 27, […]
Silver lining.
There are folks on the US right-wing who actually think Nancy is a commie. In reality, as I have said before, the neoliberals like Nancy have moved to the right of the Republicans on economics, with Charles Grassley, of all people, blasting her for it.
Not bad.
Using the pandemic as a cover to ramp up imperialist aggression against Latin American countries. The Big Oil interests in Trump’s administration apparently wants Venezuela’s petroleum very badly.
“The capitalists have no country!”
Oops. It’s interesting how the USA made a sudden reversion to 1918 overnight in terms of both class relations and public health.
Bernie-idolator Michael Brooks takes on the IDW. For the record, I frequently agree with much of Brooks’ criticisms of capitalism and imperialism (though not his solution of socialist-statism) and I frequently agree with the IDW’s critique of the cultural left (though not their solution of turn-back-the-clock reaction).
States, ruling classes, and power elites already practice anarchy. The state is only for us peasants.
An immediate problem that I see with this article is that the “symptoms” of COVID-19 appear to be becoming more and more numerous, and more and more identical to those of routine illnesses. This is precisely what happened with HIV/AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s. It got to […]
By Selam Gebrekidan New York Times LONDON — In Hungary, the prime minister can now rule by decree. In Britain, ministers have what a critic called “eye-watering” power to detain people and close borders. Israel’s prime minister has shut down courts and begun an intrusive surveillance of citizens. […]
An interesting discussion of how genocides happen. I disagree with some of this, such as the interviewee’s claim that the Trail of Tears was not genocide and his endorsement of Maudlin Albright’s/Samantha Power’s “human rights imperialism,” but it’s a generally a good interview.
For those who ever thought Alexandria was a serious radical or revolutionary, remember that she was an intern for Ted Kennedy, memorialized (as opposed to celebrating) the death of John McCain, and has never taken positions any more “radical” than do-gooder reformist and SJWish ones. She has never […]
The news ain’t all bad. By Nathan Frandino, Shannon Stapleton, Katie Paul and Stephen Nellis Reuters SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The coronavirus crisis is beginning to do something the city of San Francisco has been unable to accomplish for years – move homeless people off the streets and […]
By Becket Adams Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei holds conservative and right-wing media responsible for how certain red states have responded to the COVID-19 outbreak. Congratulations, Rush Limbaugh. You are the first person in history to rule as the unofficial governor of multiple U.S. states. Stacey Abrams must be […]
By Peter Nicholas CNN It shouldn’t be all that remarkable when two leaders talk in a crisis. On Sunday morning, President Donald Trump got on the phone with Mayor Bill de Blasio to discuss what New York City needs to survive a white-hot outbreak that is only getting […]
By Julia A. Minson CNN If you are like me, you have had several encounters with friends, neighbors and relatives who, in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, behaved in some way that almost made your blood boil. These could range from general assertions that we are “overreacting,” […]
By Philip Bump Washington Post One of the interesting and alarming aspects of the steady spread of the coronavirus across the country is the extent to which views of the pandemic differ by political party. Republicans consistently report less concern about the virus and that they’re taking fewer […]
By Ronald Brownstein CNN The struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic has opened a new front in the long-running conflict between blue cities and red states. Across a wide array of states with Republican governors, many of the largest cities and counties — most of them led by […]
By Dante Chinni NBC News WASHINGTON — The spread of the COVID-19 virus has not occurred evenly around the country. Urban areas, such as New York City, have been harder than rural locales and that difference in impacts follows some of the deep partisan political splits in the […]
By David Roberts Vox The US is a land divided. Americans have sorted themselves into opposing factions, with different values, sources of authority, and shared understandings. In some ways, there is no longer any meaningful US “public,” but rather two publics that want and believe different things. The […]
By Jess Bidgood Boston Globe It was Saturday night on a main street in the South, but locals described something odd: One side of the street was almost normal, if quiet, with restaurants serving dinner and groups of young people milling around. The other side of the street […]
Contra Kyle, Rush is not wrong to say that we should question medical and scientific authorities. Historically, there are plenty of examples of the medical and scientific establishment being not only wrong but complicit in systems of tyrannical political authority (e.g., eugenics, Lysenkoism, the “racial hygiene” policies of […]
Tucker Carlson’s program tonight has a lot of interesting information. Melissa Francis inadvertently describes the correct solution to the present economic crisis, i.e. a complete holiday on payments for everyone. Bring on the gift economy!
It’s interesting how these parody sites like the Hard Times, the Onion, and the Babylon Bee are now the most honest and accurate forms of journalism. By Zach Russell The Hard Times WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Commerce issued a concerning report this morning, finding that 78% […]
With all due respect to organized crime.
Actually, George was a lot more authoritarian than his historic reputation.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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