LA Progressive People are being murdered in Ukraine to fulfill the pathological needs of a dictator. We watch as children lie dead beside the road, as apartment buildings are bombed, as old women stumble over rubble trying to escape the shelling with their little dogs. “How terrible!” we […]
By Russell Contreras and Astrid Galván, Axios Nick Fuentes, identified as a “white supremacist” in Justice Department filings, made headlines last week for hosting a white nationalist conference in Florida. His father is also half Mexican American. The big picture: Fuentes is part of a small but increasingly […]
This week, we’re joined by Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. With Dr. Parsi, we discuss why this moment demands that the U.S. disentangle itself from hawkish, war-bent alliances, how the situation relates to Middle Eastern politics, Dr. Parsi’s strong case against […]
By Nicolas Niarchos and Nikolai von Bismarck The Nation Przemyśl, Poland—It is 10 hours by train from here to Gdánsk, six hours to Warsaw, four hours to Kraków. “Some of these people don’t even know where Gdánsk is,” Yulia volunteered, smoking outside the station here as streams of […]
Some are, some aren’t. “Latino” is a pretty broad category. By Steve Phillips, The Nation In Texas, unapologetically progressive Latinx candidates saw victories across the state, contradicting the claims of an exodus from the Democratic Party. After Democrats lost seats in the House of Representatives in the 2020 […]
By Alexis Grenell The Nation In conversation with the adult film doyenne on porn, feminism, and identity. Like much of the world, I’ve been captivated by adult film actress turned director Stormy Daniels—but not for the usual reasons. Her encounter with former President Donald Trump is the least […]
By Elie Mystal The Nation In a nod to the bad old days, an amendment to a Missouri anti-abortion bill would make it a crime to help a pregnant Missourian get an abortion outside the state. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 mandated the seizure and return of […]
This issue isn’t going to go away. As the USA increasingly adopts a Third World model class system, the ranks of the homeless will continue to grow. By SARA CLINE, Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Makeshift shelters abut busy roadways, tent cities line sidewalks, tarps […]
By Andrew Sullivan An invasion in Europe has exposed the flimsiness of post-liberalism. It would perhaps be too glorious an irony if it were Vladimir Putin who finally buzz-killed the American and European right’s infatuation with post-liberalism. But, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine staggers shambolically and criminally forward, […]
By Andrew Sullivan Weekly Dish She makes the case for more compassion and less coercion when it comes to drug addiction. But when does compassion become enabling? Maia is the author of Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction, and her latest book, Undoing Drugs, which […]
By Peter Weber The Week Russian forces continue to make inroads in southern Ukraine, but few military experts seem to think the war is going very well for Russia. The invading army has suffered “very, very significant casualties,” a U.S. official told CBS News on Wednesday, putting the U.S. […]
By PAUL J. WEBER and JAMIE STENGLE, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas abortion providers on Friday conceded a final blow to their best hope of stopping the nation’s most restrictive abortion law after a new ruling ended what little path forward the U.S. Supreme Court had […]
First It Was “Transitory,” Then a Sign of Recovery, Then Corporate Greed, Now It’s Vladimir Putin’s Fault! By Mike Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Money Metals First, they said inflation was transitory. Then when that line became untenable, they said inflation was a sign of a recovering economy. Then […]
Fox News host slams Biden over inflation on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.
“Only making the situation worse” perfectly describes Hillary’s entire career
It is good to remember that while USA now needs Venezuela on its side because it needs to replace Russian oil, Venezuela is also going to need new allies (or at least less enemies), because Russia has always been a close friend to many South American countries, and […]
I think it might also depend on your relationship to your country, its history etc. It’s not straightforward; let’s keep it real. A more interesting question worth asking is “What would you die for?” I think you might find that for some people their nation would be lower […]
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave debate whether Ghislaine Maxwell will receive a new trial.
Pollster Nancy Zdunkewicz breaks down the American public’s views towards sanctions imposed on Russia.
Deputy opinion editor at Newsweek, Batya Ungar-Sargon, details the outcome of the People’s Convoy in Washington, D.C.
Host of the Bad Faith Podcast, Briahna Joy Gray, weighs in reports that the Pentagon Defense Budget for FY 2023 could surpass $770 Billion.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave debate whether Jussie Smollett’s 150-day jail sentence is too harsh.
Public defender, Olayemi Olurin, details the calls for officials to shutdown Rikers Island.
Host of the Katie Halper Show, Katie Halper, reacts to reports that former CNN president Jeff Zucker was paid a $5 million bonus in his exit deal.
Pennsylvania congressional candidate, Alexandra M. Hunt, discusses her campaign for Congress.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss what qualifies as legitimate violence in light of Facebook’s approval of content calling for the assassination of Vladimir Putin.
The American Prospect’s Lee Harris details how oil companies and frackers are responsible for rising gas prices.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to the TSA’s extension of the air travel mask mandate.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the $1.5T spending package passed by the House last night.
Krystal and Saagar cover the decision by Marjorie Taylor Greene to buy the surging defense company stocks while she publicly decries the profits being made off war in Ukraine
Krystal and Saagar are joined by Daily Poster founder David Sirota to better understand how corporate special interests use their money to influence decisions made by the Supreme Court
Idris Robinson presents 10 theses on the strategic potentialities of riot, insurrection, and revolution unleashed through the George Floyd Rebellion.
By Razib Khan, City-Journal For many of us Cold War kids, the Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc, and the battle between capitalism and global Communism were just background conditions of our youth. But in the United States, what we really talked about wasn’t the Soviets or the Communists […]
While history does not repeat itself it does rhyme. Todd Lewis will be joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson and Terminal Philosophy to discuss the similarities on the international stage between decade of the 2020s and the 1970s.
By Caitlin Johnstone Reuters reports that Facebook and Instagram are now allowing calls for the death of Russians and Russian leaders in exemption from the platforms’ hate speech terms of service due to the war in Ukraine: “Meta Platforms will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries […]
Please join us today, March 11, for our webinar and Q&A session on the impacts of the Ukraine War and Russian sanctions on global agricultural markets. Fertilizers, fuels, feed grain and cheap wheat–we’ve seen prices across the board jump in recent weeks following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. We […]
The Signal How is propaganda from Russia shaping the global context of the war in Ukraine? Mike Smeltzer on the Kremlin’s program for manipulating the media at home and abroad. Western leaders are fighting an information war, as Russia continues to press its invasion of Ukraine. The European […]
By Rachel Wilson It is always a challenge to get accurate information during wartime. You can also be sure that an avalanche of propaganda and disinformation are coming in the wake of such events in the world. It is said that propaganda is the most important front in […]
No, the clear and present danger is a potential return of the neocons under the guise of “national conservatism” or something comparable. Trump’s neo-Nixonianism and Biden’s neo-Jimmy Carterism are secondary problems. A future US regime led by Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Tom Cotton, or some similar […]
By Mikhaila Peterson In this episode, I spoke with two members of the government, one in Ukraine and one in Russia. I don’t believe these guys necessarily have the view of an average Russian or Ukrainian. However, they do represent people in their countries. First I spoke with […]
By Steven Nelson and Bruce Golding A progressive Democrat backed by US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a tight congressional primary race engaged in a long-running affair with her former high school teacher, bombshell emails obtained by The Post reveal. Immigration lawyer Jessica Cisneros, 28, apparently began sleeping with […]
By Linh Dinh Laying siege to a city, you’re not just cutting it off from reinforcement and supplies, but information. In Ukraine, the Russians aren’t quite doing that. Even more incredibly, they still allow trains to run. Two weeks into Russia’s invasion, you can still take a train […]
By Harold James, Quillette February 24th, 2022, constituted a shock to the European psyche. The invasion of Ukraine, without any plausible casus belli, the massive use of military force against civilians, the attempted hunting down of a legitimately elected government, all came as a complete surprise. But so […]
Free Thought Project KIEV, UKRAINE (THE GRAYZONE) — Back in October 2019, as the war in eastern Ukraine dragged on, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to Zolote, a town situated firmly in the “gray zone” of Donbas, where over 14,000 had been killed, mostly on the pro-Russian side. There, the president encountered the […]
By Tom O’Connor Newsweek An official of the U.S.-led NATO alliance has told Newsweek that the coalition did not notice what appeared to be a symbol associated with Nazism on the uniform of a Ukrainian soldier featured in a since-deleted photo on NATO’s official Twitter account. The image, […]
By Sam Soko, Haaretz Just before Israeli President Herzog arrives for Turkey visit, Erdogan’s adviser says in an antisemitic tweet that Ukraine and its people ‘are being used up and thrown away’ A senior adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy of leading his […]
By Bonnie Kristian, The Week The COVID-19 pandemic began, for me, on Tuesday, March 10, 2020. I’d first written about “the novel coronavirus,” as we were calling it, in late February, when Carnevale ended early in Venice. The disease felt distant then; my husband and I had bought […]
By Damon Linker, The Week After several rounds of peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, Russia has begun to state explicitly (via foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova) that its war aims do not include overthrowing the elected government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky or occupying the country. Welcome […]
By Peter R. Quiñones I know, it’s anathema to ask. Even people I respect, when they say they’re not taking sides, always qualify with a “well, we know Putin’s a bad guy!” Do you? How? “Well, we just do. You know he’s a trillionaire, right?” No, I don’t […]
Policy Director at the Conservative Partnership Institute, Rachel Bovard, reacts the US Surgeon General’s request for big tech companies to provide data on covid misinformation.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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