The DHS is actually an umbrella organization for dozens of federal police state alphabet soup agencies, many of which existed in various forms prior to the creation of the DHS in 2002. The DHS was originally created to better coordinate the relationship between these agencies, and between the […]
This is a pretty good discussion of what real “police reform” would look like: end drug prohibition, end random traffic stops, end patrolling, end qualified immunity, allow communities to opt-out of relying on state security forces, etc. Unlike most right-libertarians, they also point out what is wrong with […]
By Chase Strangio Out Kamala Harris has spent her career building the carceral state. She is a skilled prosecutor, a believer in punishment and prisons, and has specifically targeted trans people and sex workers in the past five years. I believe that people can evolve but I don’t […]
It’s ironic that in the same year as massive anti-police riots and protests the Democrats, supposedly the “left” party, have a ticket that is arguably to the right of Trump/Pence on “criminal justice” issues. Laura Ingraham is about as sophisticated a political analyst as Alex Jones who generally […]
I suppose Pelosi and Biden might seem to be “far-left” to a Likudnik with Randian economic views like Shapiro, but the reality is that the “far-left” has virtually no influence in US politics. The Democrats are far-right (imperialist) on foreign policy, although they prefer a thicker gloss of […]
I clearly disagree with Carlson on quite a few things, to say the least, but when you’re right, you’re right. What is probably most interesting about her selection is that the Silicon Valley techno-oligarchs and diversity-obsessed new clerisy apparently have greater influence in the Democratic Party than the […]
Looting and rioting are merely a means of advancing equal opportunity for the poor and marginalized. Rich and poor, black and white, male and female, gay and straight, young and old, should all have the means of committing crimes with equal impunity. Crime Party 2020!
Sorry, Laura, but your team had 50 years of the Nixon-Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama police/carceral state. Now, you’re faced with a fourth-generation warfare insurgency. It’s time for some good old-fashioned civil unrest and high crime rates.
The gay mayor vs the SJWs. Break out the beer and popcorn. It’s interesting to see a mainstream progressive like Krystal or FDR populists like Thomas Frank pointing out what I have been saying for 20 years. Krystal Ball gives her thoughts on the allegations against Democratic Congressional […]
At this point, I am inclined to think Susan Rice will be Biden’s running mate. The plan of the dominant factions of the ruling class seems to be to get rid of Trump, whom they regard as a loose cannon with “dangerous” isolationist instincts, elect Biden and then […]
This is an interesting scholarly work, although I disagree with it in certain places. It certainly should ruffle a few feathers. Let a thousand flowers bloom. By Emre Baysoy Namık Kemal Üniversitesi Although it is mostly accepted that the ideologies of conservatism and anarchism are at the very […]
The main problem with the Left is that it always becomes the Right once in power. This article by Matt Taibbi illustrates very well why I am completely indifferent to domestic American politics. The Red Tribe and the Blue Tribe deserve each other every bit as much as […]
If this turns out to be legitimate, the neocons and neoliberals will be crying and the alt-right and commie Russophiles will be jerking off with excitement. By Jake Rudnitsky and Ilya Arkhipov Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — President Vladimir Putin said Russia cleared the world’s first Covid-19 vaccine for use […]
“If I give you $400 will you vote for me?”-Donald Trump By Aimee Picchi President Donald Trump on Saturday authorized an extra $400 in weekly unemployment insurance benefits, a potential financial lifeline for the nation’s 16.3 million jobless workers. Yet while his memorandum makes those payments retroactive to August […]
SJWs go after the morals of two gay guys.
It’s obvious the Democrats and the neocons are working together to rehabilitate Dubya’s image so the Democrats can use him to discredit Trump, and so the neocons can navigate their way back to the position they held under Dubya (and beyond). It’s interesting that both Krystal and Saager […]
“Chicago is my kind of town.” –Frank Sinatra By Alta Spells and Hollie Silverman CNN Someone fired shots at police in downtown Chicago on Monday morning, and the officers returned fire, police spokesman Tom Ahem said in a post on Twitter. A heavy police presence had been visible […]
He says that like it’s a bad thing. If only it were true. Actually, most “leftists” are far too soft on the system. By Justin Wise The Hill Attorney General William Barr on Sunday voiced scathing criticism of the Democratic Party, claiming the left was trying to tear […]
Burn, baby, burn.
I guess they weren’t social distancing.
Schools are essentially prisons for children and adolescents serving a 12-year sentence for the crime of having been born. Consequently, I would support the right of school kids to display any kind of flag they wish. An American flag, a Confederate flag, a Blue Lives Matter flag, a […]
Gotta give those Portlanders credit. Keep up the good work. By Katie Shepherd Washington Post PORTLAND, Ore. — Robert Dorris leaned against the door frame of his ground-floor apartment in Portland, Ore., on the same block as the police union’s headquarters, and watched silently as a crowd of […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Oh what a democracy we have in America! What a free and vibrant land of choices we’ve created for ourselves on the graves of more primitive civilizations. We just have so many goddamn choices to chose from, it’s […]
The neocons are regrouping and planning a comeback. These guys are Public Enemy Numero Uno. Listen to the interview here. Former Maine state senator Eric Brakey discusses his GOP primary race for U.S. Congress in Maine, where a John Bolton-linked PAC dumped a pile of money into an […]
One thing that is pointed out in the Weissmueller interview is that “antiwar” Democrats always disappear when a Democrat is in the White House, and that the only reliable antiwar constituencies are hardcore libertarians, Communists, and some conspiracy types. ———————————————————————- Has Trump lived up to expectations that he […]
The Fred Hampton of Burkina Faso. On August 4, 1983, socialist revolutionary Thomas Sankara became president of Burkina Faso at the age of 33. He only lasted 4 years, because he was killed in a military coup, suspected to have had support from the US and France.
I’m obviously much more “pro-protestor” than Styx (who is a “guns and taxes” type of right-libertarian) but he has a point when he says that as conventional protests have faded more hooligan-types have started to become more prevalent in protest zones. Not that I am particularly worried about […]
All of this has been taking place a few blocks from where I live although it hasn’t really been that big of a deal. A lot of people in the area are worried about a public shooter or Charlottesville-like incident happening, but so far nothing like that […]
This is a pretty good discussion of what’s wrong with tech censorship and why anti-statists should not be in favor of it.
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange The dramatic ascent of precious metals markets this summer reflects what could be just the start of a longer-term decline and fall in the Federal Reserve Note’s value and status. With gold prices surpassing $2,000/oz recently, the monetary metal has now made […]
By Stratton J. Davis Originally published at The Cotton Report The CoronaVirus has hurt Americans more than just medically. With the economy in a recession and countless businesses closing down leading to skyrocketing unemployment, the American people have looked to the government for answers to their financial problems. […]
What does Socialism even mean at this point? Socialism has gone through various reinventions of meaning and their is no canonical agreed upon meaning of the word today. Todd Lewish is joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson and Terminal Philosophy to discuss what does Socialism even mean?
By Anarchy Man
A small fringe leftist party provided the bowels in which the neocons were originally spawned. The story of how former socialists achieved ideological hegemony in the American political class with the assistance of right-wing plutocrats is a rather interesting one to say the least. Only sectors of the […]
The Wikipedia profile of our ultimate enemies, or at least a major faction of them. —————————————————————– Neoconservatism is a political movement born in the United States during the 1960s among liberal hawks who became disenchanted with the increasingly pacifist foreign policy of the Democratic Party, and the growing […]
This is an old document that was prepared by the California state government back in the 1950s during the height of the Cold War. It predictably contains the usual hysteria of the time but the description it provides of Marxist-Leninist organizational strategies and tactics is largely accurate. Take […]
A New Republic article from January 2020 following the Suleimani assassination. Probably the most important thing that is happening in US politics right now is something that almost no one is aware of which is the present effort by the neocons to put themselves back in charge of […]
Both Marxists and radical libertarians like Antony Sutton pointed out how Roosevelt was not a “traitor to his class” but a friend of the power elite who wished to preserve the position of the ruling class against insurgent populist, labor, farmer, socialist, communist, and fascist movements that were […]
Both the reformist left and the reactionary right have promoted the idea that FDR was a socialist or fascist that was either the working class’ savior or a villain who undermined America’s free enterprise system. Neither of these narratives of true. FDR originated from a patrician family, and […]
This is a pretty good discussion of populism in the US during the late 19th century. Author Thomas Frank joins the show to discuss his latest book ‘The People, NO: A Brief History of Anti-Populism.’ Katie Halper and Matt Taibbi dissect Biden’s most-stoned moment ever.
Bye. By Tal Axelrod The Hill Former Maricopa County, Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio narrowly lost his campaign to get his old job back Friday, ending a nearly successful comeback for one of the state’s most polarizing figures. Arpaio, who held the position from 1993-2017, lost the GOP primary […]
There is a lengthy and pretty good discussion of foreign policy in this.
By Eric July This is Ryan Whitaker. He was shot and killed by the police May 21st in Arizona, and you’ve probably heard nothing about it until you read this post. I just recently found out about it as I was notified by a follower that wanted my […]
Susan Rice is a “liberal internationalist” (basically, a left-neocon). Liberal internationalists prefer to exercise imperial power through the use of international institutions like the UN as opposed to US unilateralism, maintaining the empire through economic and trade dominance, the use of sanctions rather than military invasion (“starve ’em […]
It’s interesting that the neocons are now waging a multi-front battle to regain the control they had during the Bush years: colonizing the Democrats and Never Trumpers, while embedding themselves in Trumpism at the same time, and simultaneously creating a Rainbow Right while continuing to pander to the […]
Many people are regrettably confused about what gets passed off as “leftism” in the USA. Historically, the original “left” were the classical liberals of the 18th century who favored republicanism over absolute monarchies. In this sense, virtually all Americans are “leftists” even Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones. In […]
FOX News “conservatives” have a habit of referring to everything they don’t like as “socialism” (usually taken to mean any kind of government involvement in the economy, particularly if it is supposedly intended to help the disadvantaged). But the American public administration state has nothing to do with […]
Given that the Republican “base” of older white evangelicals and nativists is rapidly shrinking, I’ve often wondered where the GOP would get their replacement constituency from. It appears this #WalkAway movement may be part of their effort to “elect a new people” (Bertolt Brecht). #WalkAway seems to be […]
I always said that anti-gang laws were not only a violation of freedom of association but would eventually be used as a means of repressing political dissidents. By Li Cohen CBS News Black Lives Matter protesters in Salt Lake City have been accused of splashing paint on a […]
The reason Americans have an exaggerated fear of crime is that for decades the System has promoted anti-crime hysteria in order to justify the building of a police state. It is true that crime rates started to dramatically increase in the late 1960s when Nixon introduced the “war […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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