Fox FIRES Lou Dobbs But NOTHING Can Save Them
Die, FOX, die! Krystal Ball reacts to the cancellation of Lou Dobbs show on Fox News.
Newsmax SLOBBERS Over Marjorie Taylor Greene
The more freakish the people who get elected to Congress, the better. I’m looking forward to battle royales in Congress between the Squad and QAnon. It’s also great to see these conspiracy nuts undermining the Reaganites and neocons. Sick ’em! Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to a […]
How Remote Work Revolution Will TRANSFORM Cities And Could Screw GOP
Once again, the tech revolution fuels the growing hegemony of the Blue Tribe. Atlantic reporter, Derek Thompson, discusses the future of metropolitan areas in the United States following the pandemic.
After OUTRAGE On $2,000 Checks, Biden Backs Down On Lowering Means Testing
Americans: “Motherfuckers, you better have my money!” Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the likelihood of Dems passing a $1400 stimulus bill and raising the national minimum wage to $15.
The Rise of Illiberalism
South Dakota GOP introduces legislation that would allow state to nullify Biden executive orders
By Michael Lee, Washington Examiner South Dakota’s Republican-controlled House is introducing legislation that would allow the state to nullify President Biden’s executive orders if it determines they are unconstitutional. “The Executive Board of the Legislative Research Council may review any executive order issued by the President of the […]
John McWhorter: The Neoracists
By John McWhorter One can divide antiracism into three waves. First Wave Antiracism battled slavery and segregation. Second Wave Antiracism, in the 1970s and 1980s, battled racist attitudes and taught America that being racist was a flaw. Third Wave Antiracism, becoming mainstream in the 2010s, teaches that racism […]
The Case for Blue-State Secession
By Nathan Newman, The Nation On January 6, an armed mob sought to overturn an election and install a president who had lost the popular vote. But this was just a violent version of the pervasive constitutional embedment of minority rule in our country. The Confederate flags waved […]
What Are The Chances Candace Owens Becomes President?
Confessions of a Right-Wing Liberal
Murray Rothbard’s classic article from 1968 outlines perfectly what is wrong with American-style “conservatism” of the Buckleyite/neocon variety. After 53 years, nothing much has changed. By Murray Rothbard Twenty years ago I was an extreme right-wing Republican, a young and lone “Neanderthal” (as the liberals used to call […]
A Message to Trump supporters from a Communist
I agree with his analysis but not his solutions. NEW BOOK “Kamala Harris & The Future of America” https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HGZK7P4 Caleb Maupin is a widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst. He has traveled extensively in the Middle East and in Latin America. He was involved with the […]
Self-Sufficiency: the Ultimate Stoic Virtue
The Daily Stoic Above all else, the Stoics were masters at assigning things their proper value. The great Stoic philosophers knew the importance of identifying what was within their control, what was beyond, and what fell in-between. And they maintained an unwavering sense of focus on the things […]
The Past and Future of Incitement
By Peter Van Buren, The American Conservative You can only make up your own definition of “incitement” on Twitter and at presidential impeachment trials. Otherwise, the actual law is going to have to do. The context is clear: As they geared up for an impeachment, Democrats and mainstream […]
Mutual aid: Kropotkin’s theory of human capacity
By Ruth Kinna, ROAR Magazine In March 1889 Peter Kropotkin agreed to give six lectures to William Morris’s Socialist Society in Hammersmith, London. Labeling the series “Social Evolution,” he planned to explore “the grounds” of socialism. As it turned out, he never delivered the talks, but the title […]
64% of Republicans Would QUIT Party, Join Trump Party
Perhaps Trump’s next product line will be “Trump Kool-Aid.”
THE CHURCH OF WOKE
Know Your Parasites
The War on Privacy
By Matt Taibbi My colleague Glenn Greenwald hit the nail on the head this weekend when he wrote about “tattletale journalism,” in which media reporters for the largest companies spend their time attacking speech, instead of defending it. The miserable trend just reached its apex when Taylor Lorenz […]
Learning from Venezuela’s Missteps in Building Urban Popular Power: Decentralization, Participatory Budgeting, Communal Councils and Comunes
By María Pilar García Guadilla and Carlos G. Torrealba COMMUNES in Venezuela, once hopeful experiments in local direct democracy and popular power under the socialism of the XXI century have largely succumbed to the crushing crisis gripping the country. . What can we learn from their demise? READ […]
Why Inciting an Insurrection Isn’t Considered Treason, Even if Found Guilty
By Jenni Fink, Newsweek Former President Donald Trump‘s impeachment trial will focus on whether he incited an insurrection, a charge that in a criminal court falls short of treason, the highest crime in the United States, and is easier to prove. Treason is an impeachable offense but not […]
Man killed after cannon explodes at baby shower
ABC News A man was killed Saturday evening after shrapnel from an exploding cannon used at a baby shower in Michigan struck him, police said. A homeowner in Genesee County fired a small cannon-type device in the backyard around 7:30 p.m. to celebrate the baby’s pending arrival, according […]
Virginia woman dies after taking Pfizer vaccine, investigation underway
NBC News RICHMOND, Va. (NBC News) – Federal and state officials are investigating after a woman from Gloucester died shortly after receiving Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. Last Saturday, 58-year-old Drene Keyes received the shot. Keye’s daughter says her mother started vomiting, had trouble breathing and then died hours later. […]
Feds charge over 200 in Capitol riot. We’ve learned a lot about why it happened.
Maybe this will be the Chicago Conspiracy Trial of the Right. By Pete Williams, NBC WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors have now filed charges against more than 200 people accused of taking part in the assault on the U.S. Capitol last month, alleging a wide range of motives and […]
Media FAWNS As Liz Cheney Says She Stands For Truth
The neocon-neoliberal alliance tightens. Team Rising discusses Congresswoman Liz Cheney’s recent statements supporting President Trump’s impeachment despite Wyoming censure.
Unity
My advice to the full range of liberal, left, and libertarian opinion would be to take the arguments Lind raises in this seriously unless you want a right-wing guerrilla insurgency developing in the US. By William S. Lind, Traditional Right As expected, the main theme of President Joe […]
Candace Owens Says She MAY Seek GOP Nomination For President
Team Rising reacts to Candace Owens’ announcement that she’s considering running for president.
Time Magazine ACCIDENTALLY Stokes GOP Fears Election Was Rigged
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the reaction to a Time’s article on the various organizations behind the 2020 election.
Biden CAVES On $15 Minimum Wage, BREAKING Key Promise
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the latest updates on the fight to raise the national minimum wage to $15.
Biden Presidency
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston, Media Mediator and Terminal Philosophy to discuss our thoughts, predictions and implications of a Biden presidency.
Kick the Puppy S2: E5
Keith & RJ Study claims vaccines saved 37 million lives mostly children over the past two decades, anti-vaxxers are growing, backlash to over-medicalization, the complexity of the immune system, a long history of human poisonings, paranoia and the American tradition, criticisms of scientism, SpaceX Starship SN9 explodes during […]
A Kinky Cure for a Cruel World
Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Valentine’s Day is a bitch for the weirdos and trust me dearest motherfuckers, they don’t come much weirder than me. I’ve long fancied myself a hopeless romantic with a heavy emphasis on the hopeless angle, but lets face it, […]
Matt Christman on the evolution of the GOP
A reader offers a great summary of Matt Christman’s work: It’s probably one of the best discussions I’ve seen regarding the rift between the GOP elite and the base, and how culture takes the place of economics in politics when economic paradigms become unquestionable. Also, how in general, […]
Oregon Officially Decriminalizes All Drugs
An Anarchist “National Defense” Plan?
The Alarming Human Toll of Cheap Stuff ‘Made in China’
By Lauren Hilgers, New York Times MADE IN CHINA A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America’s Cheap Goods By Amelia Pang Five chapters into “Made in China,” Amelia Pang’s investigation of forced labor practices in China, her main subject — a Falun Gong practitioner […]
How America Ends
By Yoni Appelbaum, The Atlantic A tectonic demographic shift is underway. Can the country hold together? Democracy depends on the consent of the losers. For most of the 20th century, parties and candidates in the United States have competed in elections with the understanding that electoral defeats are […]
Manhattan D.A. Candidate Explains Why She’ll Stop Prosecuting Drug Offenses And Sex Work
By Daniel Nichanian, The Appeal Tahanie Aboushi discusses her newly expanded proposal to not prosecute offenses that criminalize poverty, mental health issues, and substance use, and to reduce incarceration for all cases. As more district attorneys win elections on promises to reform the criminal legal system, demands are […]
Marxism, Anarchism, & the Genealogy of “Socialism From Below”
by Tom Keefer It is Marxism itself, in what was the best and most revolutionary in it, namely its pitiless denunciations of hollow phrases and ideologies and its insistence on permanent self-criticism, which compels us to take stock of what Marxism has become in real life.-Cornelius Castoriadis, The […]
Krystal Ball and Kyle Kulinski Interview Noam Chomsky
Listen here. How can a new generation of leftists learn from Chomsky’s practice as well as his theory? Our own conversation with Professor Chomsky on this week’s episode of Krystal Kyle & Friends reveals how important this question is to him. Chomsky hopes that his lifetime of work […]
Haiti Begins General Strike
By Ezra Bain, Left Voice Industries across Haiti are shut down today as workers in multiple sectors participate in a 48-hour general strike. The strike was called by the labor unions following years of struggle in Haiti against brutal austerity and government corruption. Part of the reason behind […]
Another Point of Unity
A Point of Unity
I’m a Former Teacher. Here’s How Your Children Are Getting Indoctrinated by Leftist Ideology.
What was once mandatory is now forbidden, and what was once forbidden is now mandatory. It works the same way every time. For me, the issue is not the specific content of academic indoctrination as much as that academic indoctrination is happening in the first place. The kind […]
India cuts internet around New Delhi as protesting farmers clash with police
By Esha Mitra and Julia Hollingsworth, CNN New Delhi, India (CNN)Internet access remained blocked Monday in several districts of a state bordering India’s capital following violent weekend clashes between police and farmers protesting controversial agricultural reforms. Online access would be suspended in at least 14 of 22 districts […]
Biden and Iran
by Behrooz Ghamari Tabrizi, Counterpunch There is an expression in Persian that says when an idiot throws a stone into a well, hundreds of wise people can’t recover it. Now this is the story of Donald Trump’s idiotic decision in May 2018 to withdraw from the 2015 nuclear […]
Lower Sioux Indian Community To Get Ancestral Land Back From Minnesota, MN Historical Society
WCCO MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Lower Sioux Indian Community tribal leaders say that land with historical significance will be returned to the Community from the State of Minnesota and the Minnesota Historical Society. According to Community Council President Robert Larsen, plans are being finalized for the land acquisition, with […]
Perspectives On Anarchist Theory
AK Press Perspectives on Anarchist Theory is an essential journal published by the Institute for Anarchist Studies (an organization established to support the development of anarchism, and copublishers with us of the “Anarchist Interventions” series). The journal includes recent essays by IAS-supported writers and translators, features with anarchist […]
How MASSIVE Military Budgets Leave Us Vulnerable To Crises
Medea Benjamin, cofounder of CODEPINK, discusses the United States’ history of destructive foreign policy and never-ending wars.
JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH – Official Trailer
Apparently, there is a new biopic of Fred Hampton. This looks interesting.
A Firing Line Debate: Resolved: That Political Correctness Is a Menace and a Bore
A Firing Line debate from 28 years ago. I wonder if these academics, lawyers, and journalists would have predicted that a quarter-century later there would be violent street fights over this stuff. Episode FLS117, Recorded on December 3, 1993 Guests: Ira Glasser, Robert H. Bork, Catharine R. Stimpson, […]
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