Month: May 2023

Our Biggest Threat

MONDAY, MAY 22, 2023 Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can. – C.C. Colton, Lacon [1820] HORNBERGER’S BLOG […]

5/22/23: Debt Talks COLLAPSE, Biden Caves On F16 Jets For Ukraine, DeSantis Secret Donor Call, Tim Scott and Chris Christie Set To Announce, Epstein Blackmailed Bill Gates, Pelosi Hides Feinstein Sickness, Used Car Prices, Migrant Hoax

Krystal and Saagar discuss the details of the Debt Talks collapsing as default looks likely, Biden caves on sending F16 Fighter Jets to aid Ukraine, the Media lies about Ukraine’s defeat in Bakhmut, DeSantis trashes Trump in Secret Donor Call, is 2016 repeating itself as Tim Scott and […]

Behind Purge Of FBI Whistleblowers, The Hyping And Hunting Of “Domestic Terrorists”

No mainstream media journalist interviewed the FBI whistleblowers before demonizing them Michael Shellenberger and Madeleine Rowley May 22, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden delivers a primetime speech at Independence National Historical Park September 1, 2022 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. President Biden spoke on “the continued battle for the Soul […]

Mysterious Lego Bandit case

May 22, 2023 Hello, Insiders. This is Hallam Bullock, an editor on Insider’s audience team. Today, we’re exploring the mysterious case of the Lego Bandit.   When a popular Lego YouTuber found his front door smashed in, he soon discovered that his most cherished creations were gone — […]

Blame the system itself

Self-defence is no offence, insists Daniel Lazare. The death of Jordan Neely was an avoidable tragedy Weekly Worker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls herself a socialist, but her reaction to the death of a violent, homeless man, after an ex-marine placed him in a chokehold on a crowded subway last […]

The Creation of Nigeria

Sponsored by Reaktion Books Vivian Gornick Surviving by Accident With neither cynicism nor sentimentality, Marina Jarre makes us feel the hard, dull ache of the spiritual aloneness that countless lives endure, especially in the shadow of a dramatic world war. Howard W. French The Creation of Nigeria Britain’s consolidation […]

The Forever Labor Shortage

May 21, 2023 Hi, I’m Matt Turner, the editor in chief of business at Insider. Welcome back to Insider Today’s Sunday edition, a roundup of some of our top stories.   On the agenda: We’re entering the Forever Labor Shortage — and millions of workers are set to […]

The Left-Right Spectrum Is Mostly Meaningless

The political landscape doesn’t fit on a simple map. Jesse Walker | From the June 2023 issue (Illustration: enjoynz/iStock) Here is one version of the left-right spectrum, as described in 1975 by a former Barry Goldwater speechwriter who had left the conservative movement to break bread with Black […]

Tory Autocracy

Over the past century, and even before, conservative political movements thrived by challenging the Left’s appeal to the working and middle class. Virtually all the successful movements on the democratic Right—Disraeli’s Tory Democracy to Thatcherism, Reaganism, and even Trumpism—won by establishing a link between conservative policies and upward […]

Dr. Steven Greer -Illegal Shadow Govt Suppression Of UAPs and Alternative Energy

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US Secretary of State Blinken Announces State Developed AI To Combat “Russian Disinformation”

Kim talks about AI tech being used to “track Russian disinformation” by the State Department with Kyle Anzalone who is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute https://libertarianinstitute.org , and co-host of Conflicts of Interest. You can find Kyle’s work here: https://conflictsofinterest.libsyn.com/ Get 20% […]

Economics as a Subdiscipline of War

The Banking Crisis is Just the Beginning Imperium Press Mar 21, 2023 Yarvin is really unfashionable these days as a “reactionary” who couldn’t quite shed his lolbertarianism. And there’s a great truth to this. His takes since returning to activity in the Trump era have been ice cold, […]

The Dutch Roots of Capitalism

SATURDAY, MAY 20, 2023 Most Americans think that “inflation” means generally rising prices, but Balfour correctly states that what is actually being inflated is the supply of money. – George Leef, “A Book to Help Young Americans Understand Economics: Economics in Action” [2023] HORNBERGER’S BLOG May 19, 2023 […]

Air travel chaos

May 20, 2023 Hello, Insiders. With Memorial Day in a little over a week, many of us are thinking about travel — planning it, booking it, avoiding it. So, today’s edition is all about travel. Our big story digs into why flying sucks so much. We’re also looking at where […]

Joe Biden, Habitual Racialist Demagogue

May 20 2023 Happy Armed Forces Day from  Washington, where President Biden is losing support among black Americans amid his racially charged rhetoric. Victor Davis Hanson isn’t surprised. Other young men shouldn’t hesitate to do what’s right, despite the persecution of a Marine veteran for his subway heroism, […]

Hippo Capsizes Boat: 1 Dead, 23 Missing

Hippo Capsizes Boat: 1 Dead, 23 Missing One child died, and 23 other people were missing after a hippopotamus collided with a boat carrying villagers, causing it to capsize. Read More… 12-Year-Old Charged with Murder of Sonic Employee A tragic event unfolded in Texas, when a 12-year-old and a 20-year-old […]

“We Are All Real Housewives!”

Sponsored by NYU Press Last weekend the NYR Online published “Wages for Housewives,” an essay by the scholar and critic Anna Shechtman on the reality TV series The Real Housewives. The title alludes to the work of the Marxist feminist theorist Silvia Federici, who in 1974 argued that women’s housework under […]

John Oberg On Veganism

The young activist is more practical and tolerant than most. John is an animal advocate and social media professional (@JohnOberg). He has served as the director of new media for The Humane League and the director of communications for Vegan Outreach, but now he’s an independent advocate funded […]

Our Weaponized Legal System Misfires

How partisan lawfare threatens democracy by Michael Lind, Tablet The greatest threat to democracy today is not populism, as elite liberals claim. Nor is it the old-fashioned dictatorial coup d’etat. The greatest danger that multiparty democracy faces is “lawfare”—the weaponization of national judicial systems by political parties to […]