Glenn Greenwald RIPS Biden Spokesperson For Israel Equivocation
Journalist, Glenn Greenwald, discusses where the US State Department stands on Palestinian right to self-defense.
The Secret History Of PSYCHEDELICS In Treatment And Ritual
Krystal Ball details new research on how psychedelics could transform treatment for patients suffering from mental illness.
Russiagate CONSPIRACY THEORIST Tapped For Top Spying Position By Biden
Saagar Enjeti gives his thoughts on the selection of Susan Hennessey to head the NSA at the Department of Justice.
Man Who Let Tiger LOOSE In Houston Suburb Wanted FOR MURDER
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to news that a Bengal Tiger is on the loose in a Houston, TX neighborhood.
Nearly Half of Female Soldiers Still Failing New Army Fitness Test, While Males Pass Easily
From the patterns that I have observed, it seems to me that more is going on here than mere capitulation to political fads. It looks like they are deliberately trying to push people out of the armed forces that are not likely to be ideologically loyal (e.g. southern […]
The Psychedelic Revolution Is Coming. Psychiatry May Never Be the Same.
By Andrew Jacobs, New York Times It’s been a long, strange trip in the four decades since Rick Doblin, a pioneering psychedelics researcher, dropped his first hit of acid in college and decided to dedicate his life to the healing powers of mind-altering compounds. Even as anti-drug campaigns […]
Class, Culture and Conflict in Barcelona, 1898-1937
By Chris Ealham This is a study of social protest and repression in one of the twentieth century’s most important revolutionary hotspots. It explains why Barcelona became the undisputed capital of the European anarchist movement and explores the sources of anarchist power in the city. It also places […]
How the State Will Co-opt the Anti-Police Movement
One thing that we learned from the anti-police riots last year is that the state/ruling class/power elite generally prefers to co-opt and absorb protest movements rather than engaging in large-scale direct repression. Remember that corporations and banks were adopting BLM symbolism as their own, and conducting seminars on […]
The rise in murders in the US, explained
By German Lopez, Vox The homicide rate is significantly up in American cities. Here are some explanations for why. As if the Covid-19 pandemic wasn’t bad enough, America is also seeing a surge in homicides this year. A new report, by the Council on Criminal Justice, found homicides […]
We Are In a Revolution
From Sean Gabb. I think Sean may be understating it a bit. In the US, even the military, homeland security, and intelligence agencies are involved. We now have CIA propaganda talking about intersectionality. Meanwhile, anti-terrorism laws and state surveillance are being strengthened.
Big Dope
Well, if we must have state-capitalism.
Imposter Syndrome, Or Something Else? Historian Talks ‘Discriminatory Gaslighting’
“Oppressed Princeton graduates and tenured professors of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your neurosis! I’m more privileged than literally 99.999999999% of all the people who ever lived but I’m oppressed because someone was rude to me when I was a student at one of […]
The Business Class Has Been Fearmongering About Worker Shortages for Centuries
Maybe if employers paid more, they would have more applicants from people who didn’t view working for them as a waste of time. Who wants to bother working for $8 bucks an hour, 25 hours a week at Wal-Mart with no benefits? You could do better being an […]
US Coast Guard fires 30 warning shots at ‘unsafe & unprofessional’ Iranian military ships during flotilla encounter – Pentagon
Russia Today Late last month, the US Fifth Fleet said in a statement that Iranian vessels had come within 68 yards (204 feet) of the USS Firebolt patrol boat and another American ship in the Persian Gulf, north of the Strait of Hormuz. According to the statement, the […]
The Feminist Struggle Against Debt
By Ed “Once Upon A Time” Miles, Crixeo Recently, the transnational feminist movement has taken up the struggle against debt as a banner of struggle as part of the dynamics of the feminist strike. Around the world, we have said, “We want ourselves alive and debt-free!” (Argentina), “It […]
Chipotle Is a Criminal Enterprise Built on Exploitation
By Alex N. Press, Jacobin Chipotle’s contempt for the lives of its workers is appalling, even by fast-food standards. But there’s finally some good news: New York City is suing the fast-casual chain for nearly half a billion dollars, for 600,000 separate violations of workers’ rights. New York […]
Oliver Stone on history of U.S. intervention
In a one-on-one interview with The Heat, film director Oliver Stone talks about United States foreign policy and the history of U.S. intervention.
Freedom of Speech in England: A Proposal for Its Recovery
Freedom of Speech in England: A Proposal for Its Recovery Sean Gabb (9th May 2021) It is now an official fact that England is a country where freedom of speech is in danger. According to the Secretary of State for Education, Despite the development and publication of [non-binding […]
Second Amendment
Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson, Terminal Philosophy, and I will discuss the historical and philosophical roots of the right to bear arms and the practical results that follow.
Must We Cancel Foucault?
By Mark G.E. Kelly, TELOS Michel Foucault’s name has never been far from scandal. Indeed, he has proven to be a perennially controversial figure. He rose to prominence in controversy, his ponderously scholarly 1966 book The Order of Things becoming a bestseller because marginal denunciations of humanism and […]
We Are In A “FOURTH TURNING,” What Does That Mean?
A visual representation of our 80-year history cycles, as laid out in the 1997 book, THE FOURTH TURNING. This book is MIND BLOWING! Explains why and how the Boomers, Gen-X, Millennial, and Gen-Z generations experience & shape the world according to the eras in which they grew up. […]
Dem Lawmakers Says Liz Cheney, Bush Are TRUE PATRIOTS
The Democrats have moved to the right of the Republicans in their reverence for the police state and national security state. Team Rising weighs in on the partisan gaps in positives ratings of several federal agencies.
RACE AGAINST THE CLOCK To Get Back Into Iran Deal
Executive VP of The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, Trita Parsi, details the negotiations taking place in Vienna to save the 2015 nuclear deal.
Why UK Labour Party Is Losing Working Class Voters
Journalist, Zaid Jilani, discusses the UK’s Labor Party and how they lost the working class.
PIPELINE Closure Shut INDEFINITELY Over Ransomware, Could Send Gas SKYROCKETING
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to a ransomware attack that forced the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline.
Did Covid Launch A Work REVOLUTION
Krystal Ball explains how work has become “more and more the totality of our identity.”
Are Neo-libs Even Dumber than Neo-cons?
By William S. Lind, Traditional Right As expected, the Establishment Biden administration has rounded up the usual suspects to fill its defense and foreign policy slots. That means the neo-liberals are back, once again dictating to the rest of the world how it should live. Just as the […]
FACT FROM FICTION On Biggest Jobs Miss In DECADES
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti analyze the latest jobs report.
A Leading Antifascist Commentator Repudiates Alexander Reid-Ross
Kudos. “Complementing its recruitment of Riggleman, the NCRI has recruited former leftist Alexander Reid-Ross as a senior research fellow. He is the lead author on the NCRI’s COVID disinformation report and a contributing author on at least one other of the institute’s studies. Reid-Ross, who teaches geography at […]
Are There Culturally Conservative Socialists?
This video explores how cultural politics of both the neoliberal and neo-traditional sorts are symptoms of an impasse in the struggle for socialism. We examine Nathan Robinson’s critique of Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti from the program Rising and his critique of Angela Nagle’s essay on immigration, in […]
Why are there so many Tankies? (A critique of the New Left.)
This video explores how the history of the New Left led to a revival of the old left and presents excerpts from the books Facing Reality and the upcoming Zero Books title Zeitgeist Nostalgia written by Alessandro Gandini.
Nathan Robinson, Woke Scolds, and the Limits of Anarchism
This Communist Study Questions video features interviews from Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (aka Capitol Hill’s Occupied Protest) along with commentary on Matt Taibbi. Nathan Robinson and the Left’s insanity. It also features a lesson on dialectical materialism and Marx’s critique of Proudhon. Relevant Essays The American Press […]
Raising awareness about human trafficking one step at a time
By Bill Lohman, Richmond Times-Dispatch They hiked into Richmond with sore feet, and then it rained — minor inconveniences considering their reason for being here. Members of The FreeTHEM Walk team, 120 miles into a 900-mile trek to call attention to human trafficking, came through Richmond on Friday, […]
The Show That Captures America’s Changing Gun Culture
By Stephen Gutowski John Keys became one of the millions of Americans to buy their first gun in March 2020. As an African American, he was part of the fastest-growing demographic to do so. “Right at the height of all of the craziness is when I bought my […]
Biden Plans Expansion of Feds’ Army of Snitches in ‘Dollars for Collars’ Program
By James Bovard, The American Conservative The Biden administration may soon recruit an army of private snoops to conduct surveillance that would be illegal if done by federal agents. As part of its war on extremism, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may exploit a “legal work-around” to […]
How the US gov’t cultivated environmental and Indigenous groups to defeat Ecuador’s leftist Correísta movement
This is interesting. Totalitarian humanism vs. Latin American left-nationalist populist. By Ben Norton, The Grayzone When socialist Rafael Correa became Ecuador’s president, CIA cutouts poured money into environmental and Indigenous groups, while the US embassy cultivated opportunistic leaders to undermine his constituency. These forces helped secure victory for […]
Welcome to the New Age of Anarcho-Fascism
For the prosecution. From 2017. By Jared Keller, Pacific Standard On August 15th, President Donald Trump threw the door wide open for American fascism. Speaking confidently on his home turf of Trump Tower in New York City, Trump blamed “many sides” for the violent clashes between antifascists and alt-right groups […]
The Anarcho-Fascist Manifesto
For the defense. By Velkan Corvinus, The Revolutionary Conservative Today, April 20, 2021, we decreed the birth of the NTC, this being our first day of public struggle for the Tempestist Revolution: calling for the organization of our struggle and resistance. Our only objective is the destruction of […]
A map of the world that includes Utopia’: The Self-Management Group and the Brisbane libertarians
By Tim Briedis This thesis explores a slice of Brisbane’s radical history. I focus on the Self-Management Group (SMG), a revolutionary organisation that flourished from 1971-1977. The SMG formed as Brisbane activism shifted from a politics based around conscience to a revolutionary subjectivity. In 1977, the SMG dissolved. […]
Anarchism & Assassination: Dom Carlos to the Qing’s Zaifeng Regent
By Paul Spooner International Terrorist movements were launched under Mikhail Bakunin & the First International led by Karl Marx, but extend well into the 20th Century. This article provides an overview of anarchism’s geopolitical relationships, its theoretical bases, operating organizations, methods and funding, with a focus on French […]
Matt Taibbi on How Politics is like WWE Wrestling – “HATE INC”
In Episode 8 of The Vanguard book-club, Zac & Gavin continue discussing Matt Taibbi’s “Hate Inc”.
We Need to Talk About Destroying America
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Dearest motherfuckers, we need to have a serious talk about America. I’ve been tapdancing around this subject for years like a genderfuck Shirley Temple but I think we’ve come to the point where we can’t afford to mince […]
Envisioning a Greener New Deal
A webinar that took place a few days ago to which ATS was a contributor. We must halt environmental destruction while providing a better quality of life for everyone on Earth. Since our hope has been that alternative energy can replace fossil fuels, it can be overwhelming to […]
NEW Woke CIA Releases Pro-LGBTQ Ad
This is hilarious.
How Just Was The Ottoman Millet System?
Achieving semi-autonomy even within the context of a theocratic imperium. At times the borders of the Ottoman empire almost reached Vienna inthe north, Yemen in the south, Algeria in the west and today’s Iran in the east.The Ottoman state was a form of theocracy, based on strict notions […]
How Did Greek City-States Work?
Quasi-anarchy in antiquity. The ancient Greeks were divided into over 1,000 different city-states, from the bustling cities of Athens and Sparta to colonies in distant Afghanistan, but how exactly did these city-states work?
Why The Holy Roman Empire Was The WEIRDEST Country Ever
My prediction is that the combined proliferation of startup societies and the collapse of the global capitalist order and the nation-states that are its components will probably produce systems that look not unlike modern versions of the Holy Roman Empire, a hodgepodge of independent or semi-independent but often […]
The enduring relevance of the classical transnational labour movement and the ‘global justice’ movement
By Donnacha DeLong An examination of the enduring relevance of the syndicalist period of trade unionism and the ‘global justice’ movement, tracing the history of both and the influence on the first movement on the more recent and the aspects that have continued relevance. READ MORE
Katie Halper Interviews Rose McGowan
This is a pretty interesting discussion of “life on the inside” in Hollywood and the entertainment industry. The inimitable activist, writer, filmmaker, singer and producer Rose McGowan (https://www.rosemcgowan.com/) joins The Katie Halper Show LIVE for what will surely be an extremely engaging and brutally honest conversation. See my […]
Identity Politics Debate: John McWhorter & Michael Eric Dyson
The public and pundits alike are still processing the most recent election, but this much we know: 2020 marks the most diverse Congress in American history, and President Trump garnered more minority voters in 2020 than in 2016. As Georgia faces two runoff elections, which will determine which […]
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