By Troy Southgate Tens of millions are labouring under the false impression that the current state of emergency is about to come to an end and that things will soon return to ‘normal’. If these people had paid more attention to history, rather than eagerly consuming anything which […]
By Troy Southgate When governments impose a state of emergency it is simply a method of regaining or increasing control. Following on from that, I would even argue that we entered this precarious stage in our history during the insurrections of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when […]
Ivanka Trump’s personal assistant is among the latest at the White House to test positive for the coronavirus. Vice President Pence’s press secretary, Katie Miller, tested positive this week, as well as a White House valet. The White House insists it is taking precautions, but President Trump was […]
Economist Andrew I. Friedson says they flattened the curve. Economist Lyman Stone disagrees.
An an anarchist, I approach modern secular theocracy, or state-worship, in the same way that an atheist might have approached traditional theocracy in the period before church and state were separated. For instance, let’s say that the sectarian warfare between Catholics and Lutherans that occurred in the early […]
Here, Gills once again illustrates why the mainstream anarchist movement is as great a failure as it is. He emphatically states that his primary commitment is not to fight the state, the ruling class, or the global capitalist/American empire. Instead, his primary commitment is to fight with other […]
The battle for the title of Pussy Grabber-in-Chief rolls on.
Hat tip to Robert Smith for finding this. I can’t say I really disagree with any of it. The only thing I might add is that anarchists should not only carve out an independent political identity for themselves but also nurture anti-authoritarian tendencies wherever they appear, left, right, […]
Put that mask on, Mikey.
Krystal and Saagar discuss recent arrests of the father and son that shot Ahmaud Arbery, after newly released video from Feb. went viral this week that showed them hunt Arbery down and kill him.
Marcus Arbery Sr. recalls the memory of his son on the day of his 26th birthday. Arbery Sr. called his son’s death a “modern-day lynching” following the arrest of two men charged with Ahmaud Arbery’s murder.
His Goofiness throws in his two cents worth. This is actually a pretty good article, and I agree with most of its contents, the usual Goofy Gillis hysteria that someone, somehow, somewhere might do something “reactionary” or un-progressive aside. Given that I am an anarcho-pluralist/pan-anarchist, I am sometimes […]
The re-feudalization of the US economy and the re-proletarianization of the working class is now complete, which is what the power elite had in mind all along. The finally succeeded. I imagine many of them are behind closed doors saying, “This coronavirus thing is fucking awesome, man!” By […]
One interesting aspect of this segment is where Michael Brooks describes himself as having been a “Chomsky kid” (#metoo, Michael) and how the far-left in the US is largely just “progressive liberalism with an anarchist tinge.” Amen, brother. Michael seems to have since moved to something along the […]
It’s interesting how the Left and Right are spinning their own narratives on the coronavirus fallout. The Left is depicting a situation where greedy business owners and right-wing conspiracy nuts want to endanger everyone’s health by reopening the economy so they can make money. The Right is depicting […]
The Intra-Left civil wars really are becoming as divisive as the Left/Right Red/Blue civil war. Funny.
You should’ve worn that mask, Donnie. CBS News
Democraps: “We might actually get our asses kicked by Orange Man again if we don’t pretend to give a shit. Maybe we better actually do something.” I see Kamala’s playing her cards here. By Burgess Everett Politico On Friday, Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ed […]
The head of the UN wants a war on “hate speech.” What could possibly go wrong? By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday the coronavirus pandemic keeps unleashing “a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering” and appealed […]
By Alain de Benoist TELOS Press History is always open, as everyone knows, and this makes it unpredictable. Yet in certain circumstances, it is easier to see the middle and long term than the near term, as the coronavirus pandemic shows well. For the short term, one surely […]
Former National Co-chair for the Sanders campaign, Nina Turner, reacts to the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed black jogger in Georgia.
Krystal Ball discusses why Dow futures jumped 300 points while working people continue to go to food banks, lose jobs, and 1 in 5 children are going hungry in the U.S.
Social democrats are such a dead end.
It’s interesting how both the Blue Tribe and the Red Tribe think winning an election is an entitlement rather than something that is supposed to be earned.
A five-way race between Trump, Biden, Mark Cuban as an independent, Justin Amash as a Libertarian, and Jesse Ventura as a Green would be hilarious. My non-voting self would be rooting for Jesse from the sidelines, just like the Greens’ Jill Stein was my favorite candidate in 2016.
As the saying goes, “You can’t make this shit up.” Saagar Enjeti slams Nancy Pelosi for the bailout of corporate lobbyists as well as additional small-business relief that Democrats plan to include in the next coronavirus bill.
Of course, because it doesn’t cost the system anything. Neoliberals use “woke” tokenism and right-wingophobia to wrap the Left around their little fingers. Krystal and Saagar discuss Joe Biden’s commitment to passing an equality act in the first 100 days if elected.
It must be awfully frustrating to be someone like this author who actually takes this shit seriously. Here’s the money quote: “Mr. Biden, and the Democrats he may carry with him into government, are likely to do more good for women and the nation than his competition, the […]
I disagree politically with Virginia’s governor on many things, though not everything, but I think his performance during all of this has been reasonable, probably because he’s an MD who actually understands the medical science behind COVID-19. What he’s saying here is appropriate. One of the main mistakes […]
Kids are certainly not immune but the disease does seem to be much rarer among kids. By Audrey McNamara Officials said on Wednesday that the number of children who have been hospitalized in New York City with symptoms consistent with a rare disease possibly linked to the coronavirus has […]
This is what real poverty looks like, folks. No electricity, no plumbing, no Internet, no television, no healthcare. The same kinds of conditions you find in rural South Asian, sub-Saharan African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and South Pacific regions. By Kurtis Lee Los Angeles Times Road closures, mask […]
Unlike the Marxists, I generally regard the lumpenproletariat (for example, folks conventionally categorized as “criminals”), declasse’ sectors (for example, the youth of middle-class origins inclined toward violence), and the neo-peasantry (for example, rural gun nuts or the present-day anti-lockdown protestors), along with associated petite bourgeois and conventional proletarian […]
The therapeutic state vs. bourgeois economism? An interesting matchup. Tom Woods interviews Sheriff Richard Mack. Listen here. Sheriff Richard Mack of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, who has a Supreme Court victory under his belt, joins me to discuss recent events involving American sheriffs and what […]
People Two months in to near-nationwide stay-at-home orders, Americans are ready to get back to their pre-pandemic lives. Those who are non-essential workers (and followed the rules) have been at home all day, every day, save for trips to the grocery store or for socially distant walks. And […]
They want you to shut up, obey and do what you’re told.
Warren Norred, attorney for Shelley Luther, joins Tucker Carlson to discuss the decision by a Texas judge to jail his client for reopening her salon during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thrills. Although I’ve actually been seeing mixed reports on this.
By Holly Otterbein Politico Jess Scarane is campaigning for Joe Biden’s old Senate seat with a striking message for a Delaware Democrat: She believes his accuser, Tara Reade. Scarane, who said she is a victim of sexual assault, tweeted in March that when she listened to Reade talk […]
By Anthony Faiola, Karen DeYoung, Ana Vanessa Herrero Washington Post Inside a glittering Miami high-rise, representatives of the Venezuelan opposition sat in a room adorned with samurai swords and listened to a pitch. They had been appointed by opposition leader Juan Guaidó to explore all options in their […]
Under Trump, US foreign policy in the Middle East has basically amounted to allowing Saudi Arabia, Israel and Turkey (the “triumvirate of evil”) to expand their respective spheres of influence while working to undermine Iran’s axis of resistance. By Connor O’Brien Politico President Donald Trump on Wednesday vetoed […]
A virtual end to the petite bourgeoise and “small capitalist” classes will result in an even wider disparity in wealth distribution than before thereby hastening the re-proletarianization of labor and the widening of class divisions. This is comparable to what happened to the artisan classes during the industrial […]
Consumer confidence is going to be shot to hell for a couple years.
Not bad, Krystal. Krystal Ball reviews Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ documentary trailer and breaks down why the Obama administration failed to make structural change within the establishment.
The Republicans could best be described as a hybrid of the right-wing plutocratic parties of Latin American (like El Salvador’s ARENA) and Israel’s Likud Party (militarists and Zionist expansionists). Under Trump, they’ve at times tried to recast themselves as LePenism-lite. The question is whether their exoteric doctrine will […]
This is an interesting discussion of how the neocons and their allies have recolonized the Democratic Party from whence they came. Krystal and Saagar discuss the Lincoln Project’s smear ad against Donald Trump after expense reports showed $1.08M of $1.14M went to Lincoln Project executives. The hosts also […]
At present, the United States (the mother country of a world empire that is the most expansive and powerful in history) is in a position that might be considered a very minor league version of what the Europeans faced in the early modern period. From the fourth century […]
It seems that most people even on the far left and far right have a limited perception and definition of what concepts like the “state,” “ruling class,” or “power elite” actually mean. It would also seem that we need a much more modernized and expansive definition of these […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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