Month: August 2022

Rising: August 19, 2022 Full Show-FBI unit behind Trump raid UNDER INVESTIGATION by John Durham for RUSSIAGATE abuse of power

Federal magistrate judge Bruce Reinhart has ruled that some parts of the Mar-a-Lago search affidavit can be made public. Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss. Ryan Grim breaks down how ‘corporate greed’ became Democrats’ inflation boogeyman. Emily Jashinsky criticizes the growing role TikTok is playing in Americans’ lives. […]

Freedom News Digest: FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 2022 Rand Paul Mocked for Call to Repeal Espionage Act Cited in Trump FBI Warrant

The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a minority government ensues. Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other. — William E. Simon August […]

The Future Is Realism

By Anthony J. Constantini The American Conservative Recent Republican primary elections have made one thing clear: The future of Republican foreign policy is based on the world as it is, not as one wishes it to be. This may seem like an obvious concept to many normal Americans, […]

If Everyone Is King Then No One Is

Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article:   The concept of “wealth hoarding” has gained traction in the wake of the Occupy movement and the Bernie Sanders presidential campaigns, the idea being that billionaires are amassing treasure like mythical dragons in the same way someone with […]

Harvey Mansfield Counts His Blessings

There is some revealing information in this video from May of this year. Former Reaganite stooge and neocon adjacent Peter Robinson interviews Straussian godfather Harvey Mansfield, for whom many leading neocons and their associates were proteges. Robinson specifically floats Nikki Haley and Tom Cotton as potential presidential candidates. […]

Anarchism

By Benjamin Franks There is a considerable amount of confusion, even among Socialists, as to the real meaning of words that run off the end of our tongues every time we speak of the revolutionary movement. Take, for instance, the words Socialist, Communist, Collectivist, Social Democrat, Anarchist, and […]

Daily News Digest: August 18, 2022 The Week-Does Liz Cheney’s loss signal the end of the GOP’s ‘old guard’?

Brigid  Kennedy Does Liz Cheney’s loss signal the end of the GOP’s ‘old guard’? Peter  Weber What Ukraine can and can’t accomplish with Western artillery Brendan  Morrow Everything you need to know before watching She-Hulk Advertisement from Wisebread Pay 0% Interest For Up To 21 Months Catherine  Garcia […]

Breaking Points: 8/18/22 FULL UNCUT SHOW The CDC shake up, Trump documents taken by FBI, Liz Cheney defeat, more

Krystal and Saagar discuss the CDC shake up, Trump documents taken by FBI, Liz Cheney defeat, Kushner’s book criticism, MSNBC Maddow replacement, Biden siding with railway bosses, GOP as the Trump party, & a panel on the midterm elections! Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Tickets: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0E… Ryan Grim: https://theintercept.com/staff/ryangrim/ Emily Jashinsky: […]

Some Anarchists Want to be Losers

It is interesting how Thad Russell’s latest anarchist educational project is being attacked in this thread. Instead of being happy that a somewhat influential thinker with a large audience is trying to educate others about anarchist thought and history……these folks are about nothing but negativity. I have for […]

Technology vs. the nation-state

By BEN SCHRECKINGER  With help from Derek Robertson Balaji Srinivasan speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017 at Pier 48 on September 20, 2017 in San Francisco, California. | Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch, via Flickr In the world of crypto and Web3, manifestos are the […]

Left News: August 18, 2022 The Intercept-The Killing of a Portland Antifascist Activist Went Unsolved. Then Journalists Sued the City.

The Killing of a Portland Antifascist Activist Went Unsolved. Then Journalists Sued the City. Alice Speri Three years after Sean Kealiher was killed, police arrested a suspect, just as The Intercept’s public records lawsuit neared a ruling. READ MORE → Donald Trump Has His Own History With the […]

Rural Power in Spain

New York Review of Books Omar G. Encarnación The Revolt of Empty Spain A nonpartisan movement to bring attention to the depopulation of Spain’s countryside has begun to shape national politics. Jenny Uglow Out of His Element In a new selection of John James Audubon’s oceangoing writings, we […]

Thaddeus Russell and Anarchism?

CyberDandy Thaddeus Russell and Anarchism? For $95.00 historian Thaddeus Russell is now offering a 3-part course that “will ask whether anarchism provides a useful critique of the state, capitalism, and social relations and offers a way toward a freer society.” Here is the full description: “With the rise […]

Anarchists and Parliamentarianism

From Red & Black Notes, by Matt Crossin | Published August 13, 2022 Elections and Social Change This is the final article in a series of articles by Matt Crossin, ‘Critical Notes on Developments in the Anarchist Movement’. There are some who now consider themselves anarchists who tell […]

Not anarchist

Topic of the Week – Here at Anarchist News, we sometimes receive article submissions that are not anarchist, don’t mention the anarchist word, and come from more of a leftist space. Often, these texts mention related words like “radical,” “anti-authoritarian,” “anti-capitalist,” “anti-state,” and “antifa” or talk about subjects […]

Sudan: Birth of the Anarchist Student Union

August 15, 2022 الحركة الاناركية بالسودان- By “The anarchist movement in Sudan” https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057071783169 On Sunday, August 14, at Dongola University (Faculty of Sharia and Law), in Dongola, Sudan, a discussion and debate of class war, social revolution, and a libertarian socialist society took place. “For free organization, workplace […]