The availability of surveillance technology increases the urgency of the decentralist project. Death to the Empire. By Kim Zetter The Intercept Since May, as protesters around the country have marched against police brutality and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, activists have spotted a recurring presence in […]
The Chinese are just now entering their Gilded Age. By Dan Kopf Quartz Increasing inequality is now at the center of world policy debates, and there is perhaps no person more responsible for that than French economist Thomas Piketty. His book Capital in the Twenty-First Century examined trends in […]
Feudalism is on its way back. By Eshe Nelson Quartz Across Western Europe and North America, the middle class is shrinking, according to a 2019 report by the OECD. With each new generation, a smaller share of the population find themselves earning middle incomes. When the Baby Boomers, […]
The main problem with this article is that the US already passed through the republican phase during the colonial period and first two centuries after the revolution, and entered the imperial phase in the 20th century, with US presidents being elective monarchs that act in a managerial capacity […]
“This is how we win. Bottom Unity. Unity among all anti-government renegades. Hillbillies and inner city black folks have far more in common with each other than we do with either major party or their armed civil servants. We’re all poor and pissed, and we’re all getting ripped […]
The feds are trying to target Antifa by connecting them to the PKK/YPG/YPJ. Krystal Ball details new reporting by The Nation’s Ken Klippenstein that exposes efforts to “target left activists and quash their constitutional rights.”
So what is the other 3 in 10 thinking about? Ah, yes, those are the managerial class.
The main thing Trump has going for him is Biden. Of course, the opposite is also true. Krystal Ball and Rachel Bovard weigh in on reports that Joe Biden is increasing his staffing in Texas, polling that shows Biden leading President Trump in four battleground states, and calls […]
LOL. This should be Trump’s campaign slogan. By Justine Coleman The Hill The president told Axios’s Jonathan Swan that the COVID-19 pandemic is “under control as much as you can control it” in the U.S. “They are dying, that’s true. And you have – it is what it […]
What is most interesting about the “polarization” is that most of it is make-believe. The problem with US politics is not that “extremist” viewpoints have too much influence, but that access to the political system is very narrowly restricted to the parameter of opinions favorable to ruling class […]
Economic nationalism, which is favored by guys like Tucker Carlson and Pat Buchanan, is just another term for mercantilism. It’s the system that societies in an early phase of industrial development tend to use in order to protect domestic industries. It’s more or less the system the US […]
Walter Block is much superior to most right-libertarians in that he recognizes that a stateless society would not necessarily be “capitalist” at all. By Walter Block Chronicles Under laissez-faire capitalism, government is limited to armies, which keep foreign bad guys from attacking us; police, to quell local criminals; […]
The economic vision of distributism, which is more or less the economic doctrine of the modern Catholic Church, is very similar to that of left-anarchism and libertarian-socialism, but socially conservative and minus anticlericalism. By Allan C. Carlson Chronicles Christian distributism celebrates the small and the human. It rests […]
I am briefly mentioned in this article. By Paul Gottfried Chronicles Although I have spent much of my scholarly life warning against inappropriate comparisons between Nazis or fascists and the pet peeves of academics and journalists, I myself am now using the F-word (as in fascist) or really […]
An audio reading of Thomas Sowell’s biographical sketch of Karl Marx. He sounds like one of today’s Antifa or SJWs, a spoiled bourgie kid who becomes a petty loser as an adult.
The godfather of modern anarchism criticizes Marx as a doctrinaire authoritarian and secularized religious fundamentalist. Does this sound familiar? The historic anarchist critics of Marxism and other forms of authoritarian leftism is who our contemporary critics of PC, wokeness, cancel culture, etc. should be paying attention to, and […]
Florida Man is back! I hadn’t heard much about Florida Man for a while. Jessica Flores USA TODAY A Florida man was arrested and charged with first-degree murder on Sunday for fatally shooting a Burger King employee over a delay with a drive-thru food order, officials said. Kelvis […]
By Katie Mettler Washington Post It was a hot Thursday afternoon, so India Johnson, 26, and Yasmeen Winston, 25, decided to take their babies to splash in the fountains at the World War II Memorial. The women, best friends since seventh grade, parked on Constitution Avenue near the […]
And to think the RCP was once the US allies of the Shining Path. Contra the Washington Times, I would argue that the fact that so many on the supposed “hard left” such as Bob Avakian, Angela Davis, and Bill Ayers have endorsed Biden out of Trump Derangement […]
Some Black Panther groups used to do this in the 60s and 70s. It’s nothing new. By Sarah Ladd and David J. Kim Louisville Courier Journal LOUISVILLE, Ky. — More than 100 members of Louisville’s Cuban community gathered at La Bodeguita de Mima, 735 E. Market St., Sunday to rally […]
By Martin Gould Daily Mail The terror on George Floyd’s face as a rookie cop points a gun at his head while he sits in his car can be seen today for the first time
This is a good discussion.
The discussion of Susan Rice’s views on foreign policy in this is pretty good.
The Republicans have the Christian Zionists and the Democrats have the Communist Scientologists. Fair enough.
The next wave of riots? Hopefully.
Fuck some make-work “federal jobs program.” What we need is a debt jubilee. Economist, Pavlina Tcherneva, weighs in on the CARES Act and what lawmakers need to do to help strengthen the U.S. economy.
Journalist, Zaid Jilani, gives his take on ‘corporate wokeness’ and how to keep it from destroying America.
Who is going to be the Bidenists frontwoman? Krystal Ball weighs in on the finalists for Joe Biden’s Vice Presidential nominee and why it shouldn’t be Sen. Kamala Harris.
The solution is simple: “Dear government, ruling class, power elite, banksters, and others whom it may concern…We want a complete moratorium if not a jubilee on rents, mortgages, car payments, credit cards, student loans, utility bills, and medical bills. We want it now. Please deliver immediately. Or we’ll […]
By Dwight Stirling The Conversation Many U.S. military members publicly disavowed President Trump’s decision to pardon Edward Gallagher, the former SEAL commando convicted of killing a teenage detainee in Iraq in 2017. Gallagher’s alleged war crimes were nearly universally condemned up the chain of command, from enlisted men […]
Ten years ago, I identified what I considered to be the “ten core demographics” that proponents of the ideas we discuss here at ATS will have to reach in order to eventually find the Holy Grail. The original piece is available here. It is interesting to evaluate the […]
This interview contains my general take on the great lumpenproletarian cultural revolution of 2020 from a Howard Cosell perspective.
On this day, 2 August 1944, around 4000 Roma people in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp resisted being taken to the gas chambers. The SS swarmed into the Roma camp, but prisoners had armed themselves with sticks and crowbars, and barricaded themselves indoors, fighting the Nazis with hands and […]
Trump is a dickhead, but he’s too lazy and incompetent to be an actual strong man dictator. Trump is not a “man of action.” He is a man of talk who doesn’t know how to back it up. I don’t really see him being a Putin or Erdogan, […]
By Ilena Peng Narratively Two crosses burned in Robeson County, North Carolina, on January 13, 1958. One was outside the home of a Native American woman who was dating a white man, the other outside the home of a Native family who had moved into one of Lumberton’s […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Well folks, it’s official, Donald Trump has declared war on America. Probably should have saw that coming. After all, I’ve long argued that our dayglow duce isn’t an isolationist but merely the world’s shittiest imperialist. After trying and […]
The Neocon Review attacks Biden’s embrace of totalitarian humanism. Many of them are probably secretly hoping Biden will get elected, and worry that Biden will push centrist voters to the right with this stuff. Ever since the Trump era began, the neocons have been divided between those who […]
When Trump was running for prez in 2016, I thought that he was instinctively and certainly rhetorically to the “left” of both the normal Republicans (neocons and supply-siders) and the “centrist” Democrats (neoliberals) on a wide range of issues, particularly foreign policy, trade, and criminal justice reform, although […]
It’s interesting how the potlatch or the Jewish concept of jubilee are forms of what FOX News fans would probably denounce as “socialism” that are largely cultural rather than political in nature. By Troy Southgate Some of you may have heard of the potlatch system, an economic practice […]
One of the most interesting things about totalitarian humanism is the way that it bypasses traditional methods of censorship imposed by State and Church, and merely farms it out to corporations (the economic arms fo the state), the media (the televangelism of totalitarian humanism), and the universities (the […]
And Trump’s critics actually thought he wouldn’t “act presidential.” Wasting time on the golf course while everything falls apart is what presidents are for. The Guardian Donald Trump prompted a familiar barrage of criticism on Saturday by visiting one of his own golf clubs as the country remains […]
Now, if these sheriffs would start rebelling against a whole lot more laws, we might have something. By Jason Wilson The Guardian Sheriffs around the country are refusing to enforce or are even actively resisting Covid-19 mask laws and lockdowns, while others have permitted or encouraged armed vigilantism […]
Arch-militarist, arch-police statist, arch-imperialist, arch-Zionist, arch-corporatist Tom Cotton needs to go. If you live in Arkansas and believe in voting, vote this dude. By Zuri Davis Reason Sen. Tom Cotton’s Democratic challenger, Josh Mahony, dropped out of the U.S. Senate race just hours after the filing deadline closed. […]
Authentic anti-police statism means opposing police at every level and within every institutional sector, including federal, state, local, tribal, military, university, or private. By Melissa Gira Grant The New Republic Painful images are still coming out of Portland—law enforcement wielding exterminator-like sprayers of tear gas, firing “less-lethal” munitions […]
A little bit of heresy for the day.
This guy Vaush seems to epitomize what I call an “anarcho-social democrat” or “anarcho-Democrat,” an “anarchist” who enthusiastically promotes Bernie Sanders and endorses Biden on “lesser evilism” grounds while claiming everyone on the center-right is a “fascist.”
The economic future: Living in cubicles in Internet cafes while working remotely.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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