By Catherine Garcia, The Week In 2021, five people in the United States died of rabies — the highest number in a decade. Rabies is a viral disease that infects the central nervous system of mammals. It is most often transmitted via the bite of a rabid animal […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week Kazakhstan was suddenly awash in anti-government protests this week after a revolt over the price of fuel turned into something far more potent and powerful. Here’s everything you need to know: What’s going on? Thousands of Kazakhs across the oil-rich nation have been […]
Well, this is some real comedy. Unfortunately, this is what I predicted would happen under a Bidenist regime. By Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large (CNN)Dick Cheney is nobody’s RINO (Republican in name only). The former vice president — and member of Congress — has long been an unapologetic conservative. […]
By J.D. Tuccille Reason The bumbling TSA and performative mask requirements are ineffective air-travel hassles. “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard,” H.L. Mencken once wrote. It’s a wonderfully cynical sentiment that rings true when […]
By Brandon Smith, Activist Post Despite a growing resurgence of interest in the science and psychology of narcissistic sociopaths and psychopaths it seems as though society today has lost track of how these people can sabotage the core fabric of a civilization or nation. It is very easy […]
By Andrew Sullivan The Israeli journalist brings empathy to an intractable issue. Hey, why not start the new year with solving the Israel-Palestinian problem? Yossi is an American-born Israeli journalist and his latest book is Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor. Following our episode with Peter Beinart last summer, […]
–Anti-vaccine Deputy District Attorney Kelly Ernby, a Republican who ran for California State Assembly, has died of COVID-19 at age 46
It’s been a year since the Capitol riot. The Democrats are fangirling over Dick Cheney and listening to Hamilton, so it’s hard to say what we’ve learned or improved upon as a society. Around this time last year, Thomas Frank joined us for a thoughtful conversation about who […]
By Matt Taibbi The appearance of Dick Cheney in the House of Representatives on the anniversary of January 6th helped identify the true villain on the scene. Former Vice President Dick Cheney visited the House of Representatives yesterday. He and his daughter Liz were the only two Republicans […]
By Andrew Sullivan, The Weekly Dish The plague, the web, and our predicament. “The lesson for man is that personal happiness has very little to do with all this. It is possible to be unhappy and very adaptive,” – E.O. Wilson, RIP. The last weeks of 2021 were […]
By Brigid Kennedy, The Week Typically marked by a widespread return to professional form, the first work week of the new year has instead been marred by the effects of the latest Omicron-led COVID-19 spike, The Wall Street Journal reports, as employers contend with an ongoing onslaught of coronavirus-related […]
By Catherine Garcia, The Week Vice President Kamala Harris was at the Democratic National Committee headquarters on Jan. 6, 2021, when a pipe bomb was found outside the building, four people familiar with the matter told Politico. At the time, Harris was the vice president-elect, and this raises […]
Florida Man. By Catherine Garcia, The Week One year after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, Florida has had more residents arrested in connection with the riot than any other state. Since last January, 76 Floridians have been charged with participating in the assault on the Capitol, and at […]
By Helen Andrews, The American Conservative had Covid over Christmas break, after my triple-vaxxed husband brought it home from a conference, which means two things: I now have natural immunity, and you will never persuade me that vaccinated people don’t spread the virus to others. That was supposed […]
By Peter R Quinones In January of 2020 I was happy to keep trudging along in my podcasting and theorizing about a fantasyland that will never exist: Ancapistan. A magical place where all property is private and the currency is what you want it to be. Reality finally […]
The Intercept’s Sharon Lerner details her reporting on the dangerous and possibly unnecessary practice of tracking down and exterminating wildlife in order to prevent the spread of disease.
Team Rising discusses the wealth gap.
David Sirota details reporting on the conflict of interest for some consultants hired by President Biden
Team Rising debate the real-life threat of the growing number of Americans who say violence against the government can be justified,
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss 2021’s home buying boom and how the pandemic may further affect the housing market in 2022.
Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and Kim Iversen react to Tim Green, NASA’s retiring top scientist, claims that we can terraform Mars and maybe Venus.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by journalist and Don’t Look Up Producer David Sirota to hear his response to critical reviews and the popularity of the movie so far
Inverse.Com Ready to live on Mars? It could become an option soon, if Elon Musk succeeds in his goals. The SpaceX CEO has a long-standing vision of establishing a city on the Red Planet. It would be self-sustaining, would be home to 1 million people, and would transform […]
Virtually all of history is one big heel vs. heel match. By Darío Fernández-Morera The Postil In his well-written, and impressively documented book, Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest, Mexican historian Fernando Cervantes (University of Bristol) tells us who these men were that beat the […]
By Michael Schellenberger The backlash to progressive Wokeism, or victimology, has been brewing for years. Why did black moderates tip it over the edge? For a period of time last year it felt as though everything having to do with race, crime, and policing had changed. The killing […]
By Caitlin Johnstone China and Russia are right to try to undermine US unipolar hegemony. The planet is not America’s property and efforts to stop it being treated as such are good. It’s not okay to be a grown adult in 2022 and still believe the US is […]
By Sam Jacobs, Ammo.Com, an interview with the author by Joseph Cotto here The Constitution contains a powerful set of ideals and a wise system of governance, based on a deep reading of classical and medieval history as well as Renaissance philosophy. However, none of this matters if […]
National divorce does not have to result in a civil war.
By Christian Parenti, Nonsite.Org How Herbert Marcuse’s widow used a Scientology-linked cult’s methodology to gamify Identity Politics and thus helped steer the U.S. Left down the dead-end path of identitarian psychobabble. In the summer of 2021, a social justice training exercise called the Privilege Walk made headlines when […]
By Matt Lewis, The Daily Beast Not long ago, the conservative movement I’ve been a part of for decades was square, wonky, and straitlaced to a fault. Now, it’s weird and warped. The conservative movement is depraved and decadent. And no, I’m not saying this because of the […]
By Caroline Mimbs Nyce The Atlantic One year ago, the siege began. Politicians and their staffers ran for cover as the Capitol effectively became a war zone. When the haze cleared, we vowed not to forget. But the attack on American democracy did not end that day. A […]
This just keeps on getting better. The neocons continue their multi-front strategy of forming an alliance with neoliberals and progressives while embedding themselves in Trumpism and forming their own parallel Trumpism without Trump (“national conservatism”). They are also seeking to weaponize J6 as a pretext for increasing state […]
By Zachary Stieber, Epoch Times Seattle police officers falsified a report of armed Proud Boys members heading toward the autonomous zone in the city in 2020, a watchdog found. The Seattle Police Department abandoned a precinct on June 8, 2020, and activists soon after established an armed protest […]
By Petr Svab, Epoch Times Mortality among young-to-middle-age Americans went through the roof last year. The majority of the increase didn’t involve COVID-19, according to official death certificate data. Deaths among people aged 18 to 49 increased more than 40 percent in the 12 months ending October 2021 […]
By Brendan Morrow The Week On its one-year anniversary, Vice President Kamala Harris said the date of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol will be remembered in a similar fashion as Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Harris delivered remarks Thursday on the anniversary of […]
Well, that’s kind of the point. The partisan sides are essentially rival countries at this point. By Brigid Kennedy The Week President Biden spoke Thursday regarding the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack, delivering a potent and powerful address in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall. His speech, held […]
This piece of shit can go fuck himself. By Brendan Morrow The Week Former Vice President Dick Cheney joined his daughter, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), in Congress on Thursday as lawmakers marked the anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) led a moment […]
By David Faris The Week Democrats failed to coup-proof America after the Capitol riot Tomorrow marks a year since the outgoing president of the United States instigated a mob of his most fervent supporters to sack the Capitol building, where they set about taking selfies, occupying offices, and […]
By Ryan Cooper The Week One year ago today, a violent mob of right-wing extremists stormed the heart of American democracy trying to keep then-President Donald Trump in power after his election loss. Egged on by Trump and his top cronies, they seriously injured dozens of Capitol Police […]
By Samuel Goldman The Week How the left’s 1960s playbook gave us the Capitol riot. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that’s right, the assorted fanatics, thrill-seekers, and nutjobs who stormed the Capitol one year ago today have surprising precursors. The respectable backgrounds of […]
By Christopher Jones, P. Nick Curran, Akela Lacy The Intercept Four years after being elected to the Parkersburg City Council with help from progressives, Eric Barber was all in for Trump. Eric Barber was elected as a Democrat to the Parkersburg City Council in West Virginia in 2016. […]
By Peter Maass The Intercept We are no longer observers of the distressed futures that afflict other people. We are those people now. It was the winter of 1991, and the country I was working in, the Soviet Union, was months away from its demise. Yet the collapse, […]
By Peter Zeihan on January 6, 2022 Russian-led forces entered Kazakhstan today, under the guise of a Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) peacekeeping mission. The former Soviet state and significant oil producer has seen several days of sustained public protests turned violent after raising the price of liquefied petroleum […]
by Timothy W. Luke, Telos Also available in Kindle ebook format at Amazon.com. In this series of critical essays written over the course of Donald J. Trump’s presidency, from its chaotic early days to its calamitous end, Timothy W. Luke explores how the recent twists and turns in […]
By Ellie Silverman Washington Post The mother of Ashli Babbitt, the pro-Trump rioter who was killed when she stormed the Capitol last January, joined Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Thursday to talk about her daughter and criticize Capitol Police. Micki Witthoeft stood next to Greene outside the […]
By John Wagner Amy B Wang Mariana Alfaro Eugene Scott and Felicia Sonmez Washington Post President Biden on Thursday decried the violent mob of Trump supporters who breached the Capitol a year ago, saying that “democracy was attacked” and urging Americans to ensure such an attack “never, never […]
By Joseph M. Hanneman, Epoch Times The hardened-steel baton made the most disturbing sound as it bounced off Victoria White’s skull. It varied between a hollow click and a deeper snap, depending on where on her head the metal weapon made contact. “Please don’t beat her!” a man […]
“Putin is building an Empire of Tyrants” OR “Putin is builing A Coalition of former Soviet Republics; to reject Neo-Liberalism & The US-Centric World Order” OR Some of Both? The audacity of sovereign nations trading with each other when the US State Department told them they are now […]
By Sean Gabb Something known to everyone in England connected with independent education is the Oriental takeover of the scholarship system. In all the competitive examinations for bursaries and scholarships, the top marks go increasingly to boys from the Far East. I make part of my income from […]
By Jerry Lambe Law and Crime Two sheriff’s deputies in Florida who were in a long-term relationship took their own lives in a tragic series of events that left their baby son an orphan. Clayton Osteen and Victoria Pacheco both died by suicide within days of each other, the […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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