By Michelle Gavin, Council on Foreign Relations Competition for influence on the African continent is an undeniable geopolitical reality. The Donald Trump administration’s emphasis on countering China and Russia on the continent raised concerns about unwelcome echoes of the Cold War era, when the United States often treated […]
By Peter Zeihan I’m going to attempt the impossible with this one: making economics not necessarily fun, but painfully relevant to someone who cannot work an Excel document. Here goes: The United States is experiencing the fastest increase in prices since at least the peak of the subprime […]
By Liz George, American Military News The Supreme Court ruled Monday that warrantless gun confiscation from Americans’ homes is unconstitutional, voting unanimously on the side of a Rhode Island man whose firearms were taken by law enforcement without a warrant after his wife expressed concerns that he might […]
By Jason Garner As anarchism was never a mass movement in either the United Kingdom or the United States it has often been the victim of equivocal, prejudicial and patronising (often sympathetic) interpretations. Studies of the anarchist ‘phenomenon’ are often more anthropological than strictly historical. The result has […]
The Mindcrime libertyshow is joined by Duncan Whitmore of Mises UK who wrote an essay entitled Crypto Skepticism to discuss both his essay and crypto currency in general. Does crypto currency ranging from the very well established Bitcoin and Ethereum to the plethora of startup alt coins and […]
By Avi Loeb, Scientific American When my Harvard colleague Stephen Greenblatt saw my book Extraterrestrial featured on the cover of the Orthodox Jewish magazine Ami, he commented “It is interesting that the Orthodox evidently do not consider their faith threatened by the possibility of other inhabited worlds.” To […]
By Helen Pluckrose, Areo Magazine Postmodernism presents a threat not only to liberal democracy but to modernity itself. That may sound like a bold or even hyperbolic claim, but the reality is that the cluster of ideas and values at the root of postmodernism have broken the bounds […]
By Ellen Brown, ScheerPost The crisis of 2020 has created the greatest wealth gap in history. The middle class, capitalism and democracy are all under threat. What went wrong and what can be done? In a matter of decades, the United States has gone from a somewhat benign […]
By Sam Becker, Showbiz We all yearn to be free — to be independent, to call our own shots. But most of us have to abide by rules. You might be living in your parents’ house, for example, and have to follow the whole “my house, my rules” […]
By Jean-Paul Faguet, Ashley M. Fox, Caroline Pösch We examine how decentralization affects four key aspects of state strength: (i) Authority over territory and conflict prevention, (ii) Policy autonomy and the ability to uphold the law, (iii) Responsive, accountable service provision, and (iv) Social learning. We provide specific […]
By Elizabeth Yuko, Architectural Digest It’s easy to look back at the many failed American utopian communities that sprung up during the Transcendentalist movement of the 1840s—from the Oneida Community to Brook Farm to Fruitlands—and point out what went wrong. (Typically, some combination of leadership issues, problematic sex […]
By Alan Marshall, The Conversation Utopia, a book by English statesman, lawyer and clergyman Thomas More (1487-1535), turns 500 years old this month. A fictional rendering of social philosophy, the book describes an exemplary society on an imaginary island in an unknown place faraway across the seas. Coined […]
By Adam Gopnick, New Yorker Michael Robertson’s “The Last Utopians: Four Late Nineteenth-Century Visionaries and Their Legacy” (Princeton) is instructive and touching, if sometimes inadvertently funny. The instructive parts rise from Robertson’s evocation and analysis of a series of authors who aren’t likely to be well known to […]
By Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Institute Throughout history, people have been in search of the perfect town. A utopia, built with harmony in mind, where everyone gets along and works together without conflict. Thomas More coined the term in 1516 with his book, Utopia, where he describes a perfect […]
By Mike Mariani, New York Times THE EAST WIND COMMUNITY is hidden deep in the Ozarks of southern Missouri, less than 10 miles from the Arkansas border, surrounded by jagged hills and tawny fields. Getting there requires traversing country roads that rise, dip and twist through chicken-wire-fenced farmsteads […]
I wish them luck. Fragment, fragment, fragment…
Gabriel Shipton, Kevin Gosztola & Glory Jones join The Vanguard for a live panel concerning Julian Assange and the status of the #FreeAssange movement.
If only he had been successful. It is revealed that Donald Trump, in a tantrum after losing the 2020 election, tried to pull all American military troops from around the world.
I wish him well. I’m for electing the most ridiculous people possible to electoral positions. By Henry J. Gomez and Dartunorro Clark, NBC News Mark McCloskey, the St. Louis lawyer known for brandishing a rifle at Black Lives Matter protesters outside his home last year, announced his run […]
By Tho Bishop, Mises Institute This past March, Dr. Anthony Fauci sparred with Dr. Rand Paul over any public health benefit that came from wearing a mask if one had developed immunity to the virus. In dealing with both a democratically elected senator and a medical doctor, Dr. […]
By George Liebman, The American Conservative Recent events might lead the uninitiated to believe that, on the crime front, America’s large cities are getting better and better. Several of the new breed of city prosecutors have announced with pride that the “war on drugs is over” in cities […]
By Aaron Chalfin, Benjamin Hansen, Emily Weisburst, Morgan C. Williams Jr., Niskanen Center As police shootings remain in the public eye and the Black Lives Matter movement demands change, vocal debate about “defunding” the police can obscure a critical point: Most Americans, Black and white, are clear that […]
By Michael Paul Williams, Richmond Times-Dispatch The message on the protest signs and face masks, “WE CAN’T BREATHE SINCE 1948,” succinctly expresses the shared history of oppression between African Americans and Palestinians. “I can’t breathe” were the dying words of Eric Garner and George Floyd — one man […]
This is a pretty interesting academic presentation on the “white nationalist” subculture. Ironically, the anarchist and “white power” subcultures mirror each other in many ways, however much they may hate each other. This video is dedicated to all post-alt-righters, and for those who still think anti-liberalism, and the […]
Another heel vs. heel match. Those are always the best. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene took to the House floor on Sunday to call for a commission to study BLM and Antifa protests from 2020.
Tom Cotton and Netanyahu vs the Associated Press and Hamas in a heel vs. heel tag team match. Following yesterday’s Senate floor broadside against the AP, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) doubled down, questioning whether the Associated Press knew it was sharing a building with Hamas.
Interesting economic analysis.
Professor of economics, Richard Wolff, discusses the latest jobs numbers. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the U.S. economy added 266,000 jobs last month.
Media columnist for The New York Times, Ben Smith, discusses China’s use of propaganda in other countries.
Team Rising reacts to reports that lifting the mask mandate in Texas had almost zero impact on COVID cases or the economy.
From the perspective of serious Judaism or Christianity, Zionism can’t be considered anything other than heresy. According to Judaism, Israel cannot be restored until the Messiah comes, and the “kingdom of Israel” is a spiritual kingdom, not a political one. According to Christianity, Jesus Christ was the Messiah, […]
I would agree with this only in the sense that the occupied territories are less like the former South African apartheid and more like the Warsaw Ghetto. By Giles Fraser, The Unherd Arnold Schwarzenegger meant well, but there was nonetheless something ill-judged about his borrowing the term Kristallnacht to […]
Krystal Ball reacts to the Israeli airstrike that destroyed a building in Gaza containing major media outlets.
“Go back to sleep, Joe” said Bibi. Israel will only change its ways if it experiences intense pressure from the USA (“No change, zero aid”), and that will only happen if there is intense domestic and global pressure on the USA. We need a BDS on steroids, crystal […]
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By Peter T. Quinones “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it” – Upton Sinclair How many people do you think actually serve humanity on their jobs? Do you think the grocery store worker realizes the service […]
By Jesse Walker, Reason When Eldridge Cleaver ascended the Marriott Center stage on June 28, 1981, the Black Panther Party wasn’t quite dead. The organization’s last remnants were running an alternative school in Oakland, California, and that final Panther project didn’t peter out until 1982. But Cleaver, who […]
By Philip Giraldi But Biden gives Israel more weapons even while Gaza is bleeding May 18, 2021 An interesting recent article by international lawyer John Whitbeck suggests that the billions of dollars that the United States gives to Israel annually is not technically “foreign aid” as the Jewish […]
I’m not a fan of this guy but this is an interesting and, I think, accurate analysis of what is going on with the Republicans. It seems as though the neocons and their allies (neo-Reaganites, superhawks, Never Trumpers, etc.) are pursuing a three-front strategy: colonizing the Democratic Party […]
Israel is bombing Gaza, while extremists ethnically cleanse Palestinians. Ali Abunimah and Rania Khalek join Max Blumenthal, Aaron Maté, and Anya Parampil to discuss the colonial violence – and indigenous resistance.
By Kim Iversen “Israel has been targeting the press in Gaza in an attempt to cover up their obvious war crimes. They just blew up the building housing the Associated Press and Al Jazeera. They gave the press an hour to evacuate. Yesterday they blew up a building […]
They say that like it’s a bad thing. Baltimore Jewish Life, Staff Report IDF Spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Hidai Zilberman deflects criticism of the bombing of media office building in the Gaza Strip. IDF Spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Hidai Zilberman deflected criticism of the military’s actions in the Gaza Strip on Sunday […]
By Lubna Masarwa, Frank Andrews, Middle East Eye Far-right Israeli groups are planning to mount further attacks against Palestinians in Israel on Thursday night, according to group chat messages seen by MEE, after a night of mob attacks, crackdowns by Israeli security forces and deaths across Israel, the […]
By Joseph Pearce, Imaginative Conservative In one of the great ironies of history, we find socialists and anarchists on the side of the new generation of slave-holders. The workers and wage-slaves of the world are being delivered into the hands of the overlords of the globalist future. These […]
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up a major abortion case next term concerning a controversial Mississippi law that banned most abortions after 15 weeks, rekindling a potentially major challenge to Roe v. Wade at the majority conservative court.
Whether one agrees with the political views expressed in this article or not, this is an excellent representation of how “the system” is losing legitimacy due to cultural fragmentation. People are increasingly unwilling to accept the outcome of not only elections but also court cases if “their side” […]
By Dan Hitchens, The American Conservative In October 1994, a husband-and-wife startup in Washington state hired its first employee, a computer programmer called Shel Kaphan. Kaphan wasn’t sure about the startup’s business model—selling books on the “worldwide web”—or its name, Cadabra, which sounded a bit too much like […]
The social science evidence is overwhelming that ideologies, political and economic interest groups, subcultures, personality types, and psychological frameworks are replacing traditional categories (race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, religion, etc) as the basis of conflict in the US. The traditional categories still exist, and they are still an […]
By MARIA CARRASCO, Politico The House on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to restrict arms sales to Saudi Arabia over its killing of the U.S.-based dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The bill, H.R. 1392, would bar sales, authorizations and transfer of arms and other defense services from the president to […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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