The rise in crime is not surprising whatsoever. With rising prices and wages that have been stagnant for over 40 years, what did we all expect? Those who are desperate steal just to make a living. They eventually get arrested and sent to jail over that. Politicians like […]
Ryan Grim details John Durham’s response to the media firestorm over his filing.
Krystal and Saagar cover the most recent developments in the Ukraine-Russia border situation as America claims Russia has a kill list and will invade any day now as Ukraine is left uncertain
Alberta and Saskatchewan were gonna further ease restrictions regardless. As for Ontario, these protests might have influenced Doug Ford’s decision to expedite further loosening. He denies it, but I’d say this had to impact it.
Robby Soave gives his thoughts on Queen Elizabeth’s covid diagnosis and makes the case for unmasking children.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by policy expert Oren Cass of American Compass and Jacobin writer Paul Prescod for a debate on the GOP’s new legislation geared towards getting workers on corporate boards
Out of a 20 year war and right into a new major war mere months later, anyone trying to say the military-industrial complex isn’t pulling at least a handful of the strings on the global stage would be ridiculous.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to the death of Jean-Luc Brunel. The modeling agent was in prison on charges of rape and was suspected of scouting young girls for Jeffrey Epstein.
Krystal and Saagar give the full story on Canada’s final crackdown of the freedom convoy protestors and how the US deep state has mobilized against any potential trucker revolt in Washington DC
By Peter Zeihan on February 21, 2022 In a public broadcast late February 21 (local time), Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a lengthy, moody speech about the status of relations between Russia and its neighbor, Ukraine. Putin in essence declared a formal cold war with the West, while also […]
By Layla Guest, Russia Today © Sputnik / Alexey Nikolsky Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that Moscow has recognized the two self-declared breakaway Donbass republics in Ukraine’s east as sovereign nations, as a military standoff across the contact line continues to escalate. Speaking as part of a televised address […]
Todd Lewis will be joined by Existentialist Non-Grata to discuss the nature and implications of the Industrial Revolution.
Krystal and Saagar cover the Ukraine-Russia developments, Canadian Trucker crackdown, CDC hiding data, Epstein pimp’s mysterious death, even more details of CNN’s corruption, the case for bitcoin, culture war killing material politics, a populist left vs right debate on workers, and more! Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Oren Cass: https://americancompass.org/essays/no… https://www.ft.com/content/050e37b9-f… […]
This week, Briahna Joy Gray spoke to Thomas Chatterton Williams & Batya Ungar-Sargon in one of the few substantive conversations on the internet about why Whoopi’s claim that Jews are white, and the Holocaust wasn’t about race. What work is the word “race” doing here? Is it possible […]
None of these folks are quite where I am but they’re on their way.
Doesn’t Jackson know that it’s only a worker’s movement if Netflix employees are involved?
A diversionary foreign policy, or a diversionary war, is an international relations term that identifies a war instigated by a country’s leader in order to distract its population from their own domestic strife. The concept stems from the Diversionary War Theory, which states that leaders who are threatened […]
The Intercept’s Liliana Segura and Jordan Smith preview season two of the Murderville podcast, and discuss the long legacy of wrongful convictions in the U.S.
Krystal and Saagar track the major ratings drop for MSNBC’s primetime slot now that Rachel Maddow has taken a hiatus from her show
Krystal and Saagar break down the settlement between Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew victim Virginia Giuffre and what questions remain unanswered as the case comes to a close
Krystal and Kyle Kulinski of Krystal Kyle & Friends talk to author Michael Levitin about his new book on Occupy Wall Street and how the left has since abandoned mass class centric politics
Krystal and Saagar cover the uncertainty surrounding CNN’s new streaming venture that has yet to launch as personnel turnover puts the network on edge
It is amazing. A single vote destroyed so many lives and families.
“I guess Russia has a lotta great assets” Had me crack up.
By Caitlin Johnstone To rule the world, make it rely on a single dominant financial system you control so anyone who disobeys you can be cut off from the economy you’ve made them dependent on for survival—whether they’re a nation, a protest movement, or an individual—without having to […]
Home prices set to soar 12% in 2022 says a top forecaster: ‘No end in sight’ The Nasdaq is on the plunge. Private market investors say it could ultimately be a good thing Why a top crypto quant fund manager thinks it’s not time to buy Bitcoin or […]
Lisa Sachs on the environmental challenges of clean technology. On the shore of the Congo River in Kinshasa sits the Fleuve Congo Hotel, a five-star hotel with a weekly pool party in a country where most people subsist on less than $2 a day. The hotel hosts an ongoing […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week In remarks on the ongoing crisis between Russia and Ukraine, President Biden told reporters on Friday that he is “convinced” Russian President Vladimir Putin has made up his mind to invade. “As of this moment, I’m convinced he’s made the decision. We have […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Vice President Kamala Harris met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, The Hill reports. President Biden told reporters on Friday he is “convinced” Russian President Vladimir Putin has made up his mind to invade Ukraine, but a […]
By David Faris The Week Discussion around the Ukraine crisis has mainly focused on what caused the massive, ominous Russian military buildup at the Ukrainian border, what would transpire in an invasion, and what policy options are available for the U.S. and its allies. Relatively less attention has […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the order Saturday for his country’s military to begin a series of drills involving its nuclear arsenal, Reuters reports. According to The New York Times, the exercises will include ballistic and cruise missile launches as well as nuclear-capable […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Former French modeling agent and Jeffrey Epstein associate Jean-Luc Brunel was found dead in his Paris jail cell during the night, a spokesman for the city’s prosecutor said Saturday. According to The New York Times, Brunel, 75, had been charged with raping minors […]
Why are Covid restrictions suddenly lifting across the U.S.? Patrick Murray on the changing politics of the pandemic in Democratic states. Mask mandates are easing, even ending, in a number of the places that implemented the toughest Covid restrictions in the United States over the past two years. […]
By Andrew Sullivan, Weekly Dish It’s now happening in schools, and could take gay people down with it. For the first 15 years of my life, I never heard the word “homosexuality” in my home or school. I only knew about sex at all because in my Catholic […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Queen Elizabeth II, 95, has tested positive for COVID-19, Buckingham Palace announced Sunday. According to The Guardian, she is reportedly experiencing “mild cold-like symptoms” but expects to be able to continue performing “light duties” during the coming week. The queen may have contracted […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Canadian police took aggressive action over the weekend to break up the Freedom Convoy protests that have occupied downtown Ottawa for three weeks, USA Today reported. Police arrested 191 people and towed 57 vehicles on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, according to Ottawa Police. […]
By Lee Fang The Intercept The company formerly known as X-Mode is now part of a federal government contractor that sells location data quietly harvested from apps. In January, The Markup revealed a list of apps that have sold location data to X-Mode, a controversial data broker that […]
By Sharon Lerner The Intercept The NIH continues to withhold critical documents that could shed light on the origin of the coronavirus pandemic. With the global death toll from Covid-19 approaching 6 million, the need to understand the origins of the pandemic is both pressing and grave. But […]
By Austin Ahlman, Ryan Grim The Intercept The administration blamed ongoing 9/11 litigation for delays in sending desperately needed assets back to starving Afghans. Since the Biden administration promised to release half of the $7 billion in Afghan central bank assets back to the country late last week, […]
By Sara Sirota The Intercept Top foreign policymaker Sen. Bob Menendez couldn’t say whether his bill would monitor where U.S.-funded arms end up. While Senate Democrats consider a way forward to send Ukraine hundreds of millions of dollars so it can buy new weapons, some of the most […]
By Sam Biddle The Intercept Activists are pressuring Amazon to divest from Omni Air International, a company at the center of ICE’s deportation machine. As Amazon’s dominance of global e-commerce has grown, so has its vast fleet of vehicles shuttling packages from warehouse to doorstep around the world. […]
By Jackie Salo New York Post The sister of late fraudster Bernie Madoff and her husband were found dead in Florida in an apparent murder-suicide, authorities said Sunday. Sondra Wiener, 87, and her spouse Marvin, 90 — whose lives were among those destroyed by Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme — were discovered dead from […]
By RJ Rico, Press Democrat Krystal Guerra’s Miami apartment has a tiny kitchen, cracked tiles, warped cabinets, no dishwasher and hardly any storage space. But Guerra was fine with the apartment’s shortcomings. It was all part of being a 32-year-old graduate student in South Florida, she reasoned, and […]
By Gabrielle Fonrouge New Post Three days after US officials first used the term “China Virus” on a national news broadcast, a barrage of anti-Asian attacks began in New York City. Within hours, two Asian Americans were separately assaulted — the first of such hate crimes in the […]
New York Times “What are you waiting for?” President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine asked Western leaders in Munich, as Russian-backed rebels urged people to evacuate and shelling escalated in eastern Ukraine. [Read our latest news coverage of the Ukraine and Russia crisis.] Here’s what you need to know: […]
By Natalie Kitroeff and Sarah Maslin Nir New York Times Officers in riot gear pushed to regain the area around the Parliament building in Ottawa, where demonstrations have roiled the nation’s capital for weeks and parked trucks have blocked the city’s downtown core. READ MORE
Webinar 7 pm CT USA, Wed, Mar 2, 2022 The billion-dollar marijuana market should have room for every ethnic group. But going from decriminalization to medical and recreational use has resulted in a patchwork of dangerous inconsistencies. The weaponization of marijuana laws against communities of color leaves victims […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I don’t believe in taxes. I know that’s not exactly the trendiest take on the left these days, but I just can’t justify giving any institution that kind of power. I would love nothing better than to play […]
In my 35 years as a radical, opposition to US imperialism has always been my primary area of interest. By Darragh Roche Newsweek Fewer than one in six Americans want U.S. soldiers deployed to defend Ukraine if Russia invades the country, according to a new poll published on […]
Krystal and Saagar answer your questions about Marianne Williamson, fighting back against media smear campaigns, Trump’s base and economic populism, who chooses the AMA questions, and Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine!
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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