Moscow has begun limiting natural gas supply to Poland and Bulgaria as Russia seeks to increase energy pressure on Europe. Ostensibly these moves are to encourage European buyers of natural gas to pay their bills in rubles. But Russia has a longer-term goal in mind. Many private players […]
Krystal and Saagar talk about Amazon subsidies, Obama dropped from Spotify, Teen mental health, worker history, corporate price gouging, US vs China, hearing aid monopoly, media’s Musk freakout, & More! We apologize for the delay, and enjoy the show! THE LEVER: https://www.levernews.com/ Matt Stoller: https://mattstoller.substack.com/ James Li: https://www.youtube.com/c/5149withJam… […]
Todd Lewis will be joined by Thought Bat to discuss his thoughts on anarchism without adjectives and how he envisions an anarchist federation organizing all the desperate groups of anarchists; or how do you thread the needle organizing cats to resist the state?
Todd Lewis interviewed James Howard Kunstler with a special focus on his work with regards to the criticism of techno-grandiosity and the long emergency.
Marianne Williamson brings her trademark humanitarian insight and warmth as a second-time guest on this week’s episode of Krystal Kyle & Friends. We’re thrilled to have her back — this time to talk about why Nina Turner’s congressional race is a microcosm of a larger rift in the […]
By James Barber Military.com| A classic action movie about Colorado high school students leading a guerrilla resistance against a Soviet military invasion has become an inspiration for Ukrainian citizens fighting against the current Russian invasion of their country. In “Red Dawn,” the students adopt their high school mascot […]
By Andrew Sullivan Bari was an op-ed editor at the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times before leaving to create her own op-ed page on Substack, “Common Sense.” She’s also the author of How to Fight Anti-Semitism, and for some reason one of the most reviled […]
It’s like if a murderer wants his sentence lightened during trail by saying “But I used a sterilized knife and a condom during the act, I cared about the victim.” Unlike the former no one’s holding these mass murderers on trail.
China is the only big country that keeps on putting forward in each UN Convention on No. 2234 Resolution that urges Israel to stop annexation of Palestine land and China always promotes the UN Resolution of Israel Palestine Two States Resolution, every year. China Most recent motions put […]
Russia is a big country. You cannot compare sanctions in Russia and estimate that it will work the same in other small countries. Russia can survive sanctions because of how big it is. They can survive even if they are completely cut off from the rest of the […]
USA, UK and Australia colluded to incarcerate Julian Assange.
This is a great interview with Pepe.
The UN secretary general has no time for Yemen …. never said a thing about the worst humanitarian crisis in that country.
She’s been disinvited because of Palestine views before, this isn’t new just continued
With his leather jacket and gravity-defying, Heat Miser-inspired hairstyle, journalist and frequent MSNBC guest Anand Giridharadis comes across as a modern, ultra-hip progressive. But when it comes to issues of free speech and social media, he promotes censorship as much as the shittiest of shitlibs.
The establishment challenge to Joe Rogan during the past few months has been nothing short of a full-on frontal assault, a smear campaign worthy of the slimiest political operative. Yet Rogan has emerged with a smile on his face, crediting the hit job with driving another two million […]
Seems like whenever it hits, it’s gonna be worse than 2008. We never truly recovered from 2008. We put a band-aid on the issue and propped up the markets. We never addressed the core issues that caused it.
The ironic thing is she might actually be among the best candidates of anyone with a snowball’s chance.
The Lever’s David Sirota describes a disturbing trend of Big Oil’s influence in politics.
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky take a look at the week ahead in politics.
Contributing editor for Harper’s magazine, James Pogue, describes the rise of what he calls ‘the New Right.’
Author William Doyle breaks down the achievements of recently passed Senator Orrin Hatch.
Emily Jashinsky makes the case that the Biden administration’s proposed changes to how the Department of Education interprets Title IX will hurt students.
Reporter at U.S. Right to Know, Emily Kopp, describes how U.S. virologists have pushed back against regulation of viruses made more lethal through laboratory alterations.
Ryan Grim encourages Elon Musk to address weaknesses in how Twitter protects its users’ communications and data.
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky take a look back at the week’s biggest stories.
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky take a look back at the week’s biggest stories. Ryan Grim encourages Elon Musk to address weaknesses in how Twitter protects its users’ communications and data. Emily Jashinsky makes the case that the Biden administration’s proposed changes to how the Department of Education […]
Krystal and Saagar bring a highlight reel of the interviews conducted by Jordan Chariton with Amazon workers and activists attending the Donziger freedom party
Krystal and Saagar are joined by reporter Matthew Cunningham-Cook of THE LEVER to better understand how governments such as New York are responding to Amazon union busting’
Krystal and Saagar go back and forth on the legislation passed in Florida concerning Disney after the company came out against the recent legislation on parental rights in education and school curriculums
By Samuel Goldman The Week What are the sources of political instability? Conventional wisdom holds that unrest starts at the bottom. It makes sense, that those who derive the fewest benefits from a particular order would want the biggest changes. Freedom, as the song goes, is just another […]
By Andrew Sullivan Never, of course. On the revealing double standards of the woke left. Discrediting a thinker’s broad worldview or legacy by discovering some statement from the distant past revealing him or her to be a bigot by today’s standards is a depressing degeneration in our intellectual […]
Krystal and Saagar talk about Elon buying Twitter and the chaos that ensued, Ukraine war strategy, French elections, worker rallies, CNN+, student debt, economic statistics, Saudis, & More! Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ David Dayen: https://prospect.org/economy/supply-c… Ukraine: 0:00 – 11:26 France: 11:27 – 23:00 Musk: 23:01 – 36:56 Workers: 36:57 – […]
Freedom to order our own conduct in the sphere where material circumstances force a choice upon us, and responsibility for the arrangement of our own life according to our conscience, is the air in which alone moral sense grows and in which moral values are daily re-created in […]
By Peter Krause and guest contributor Nils Hägerdal Political Violence at a Glance The crescendo of missile and drone strikes into Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are just the latest in a growing trend turning civil wars into international ones: blowback, or violent retaliation at home in response to intervention abroad. Civil war is […]
Proto-Protestant Blog Many Evangelicals will undoubtedly celebrate the recent legislative moves in Texas and Florida and both governors (one Catholic and one Evangelical) are certainly viewed as allies or even champions in the Christian Right’s culture wars. Let’s be clear. Sodomy is an abomination and parents that encourage […]
By Gary Saul Morson, New York Review of Books Detecting the same incompetence and self-satisfaction among the liberals of the Provisional Government in 1917 and the reformers of the post-Soviet era in the 1990s, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn feared another descent into authoritarian rule. For Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, no literary form […]
By James Oakes, New York Review of Books In The Broken Constitution, Noah Feldman argues that the Confederate states had a constitutional right to secede and that Lincoln violated the Constitution in forcing them back into the Union and freeing the slaves. Noah Feldman, the Felix Frankfurter Professor […]
By Peter Zeihan on April 29, 2022 Russia and its military have lagged considerably behind the Ukrainians in several categories: logistics, communications, and especially in metabolizing and deploying new technology, such as drones. It is especially in this latter instance where Kyiv has shown a remarkable nimbleness over Moscow. […]
Bottled Water Giant BlueTriton Admits Claims of Recycling and Sustainability Are “Puffery” Sharon Lerner BlueTriton, owner of Poland Spring and other brands of water packaged in plastic, stated in a court filing that its claims of sustainability are “vague and hyperbolic.” READ MORE → The $287 Million […]
By Matt Taibbi On drinking the delicious tears of blue-check hypocrites, who’ve suddenly discovered the perils of a privatized speech landscape. The New York Times earlier this week ran a guest essay by Gawker founding editor Elizabeth Spiers, fulminating about Elon Musk’s effort to purchase Twitter. She wrote: […]
A major lesson of the pandemic is that science is “not a priesthood,” says Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer, a general surgeon and senior fellow at the Cato Institute.
The Signal Why aren’t non-Western countries joining the sanctions against Russia? Richard Gowan on food, guns, and global risk management. Andy Art Renewing ties that had frayed since the Cold War, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has united the West against Moscow. This bond is the foundation for the unprecedented […]
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss the CDC’s role in deciding pandemic policy.
Krystal and Saagar break down the indictment of a wall street hedge fund manager for fraud related charges after he was investigated for manipulating financial markets to the tune of billions of dollars
Twitter’s head attorney and the individual most responsible for promoting Twitter censorship of Donald Trump and others Vijaya Gedde reportedly cried when she revealed to staffers that Elon Musk was taking over the social media platform. And after she received vitriolic and racist comments from randos on Twitter, […]
Candidate for New York’s 11th Congressional district, Brittany Ramos Debarros, criticizes U.S. arms sales to Ukraine.
Saagar goes deeper into the Washington Post article that implicated him alongside Elon Musk for Twitter comments about high ranking employees involved in curtailing free speech
An organization called Newsguard Technology has taken to evaluating traditional and independent news organizations and rating the outlets for their trustworthiness and independence from outside influence. The only problem? Newsguard is itself controlled by national security apparatchiks, former administration officials and others with decided biases of their own. […]
Krystal critiques the Fox News simping for billionaires and going against wealth taxes or other economic measures to curb their power and redistribute resources
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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