Month: November 2023

11/14/23: Israel Claims Total Gaza Control, Biden And Xi Meet, Newsom Cleans Up SF For China Visit, LA Highway Up In Flames, Tucker Joins Spanish Protests, And SCOTUS Creates Fake Ethics Code

Saagar and Ryan discuss Israel cracking down on internal dissent and claiming total control of Gaza, Biden and Xi hold key meeting, Newsom admits to cleaning up SF for China visit, traffic nightmare after LA highway fire, backlash in Oregon over drug decriminalization, SCOTUS unveils fake ethics code, […]

Slipping Moral Standards

Sponsored by The Writers’ Institute at CUNY Graduate Center Today on NYR Online, Fintan O’Toole writes about how President Biden’s attempts to portray the wars in Ukraine and Israel as comparable moral struggles have, “as Israel’s retaliation becomes ever bloodier,” redounded upon him, “damaging both his own moral authority and international […]

A Bitter Vindication for Ukraine Doves

By Branko Marcetic, Compact After alternately ignoring and vilifying advocates for restraint in Ukraine, the foreign-policy establishment is coming around to … restraint. Over the past few months, American and European diplomats have been urging the Ukrainian government to sue for peace. “The conversations have included very broad […]

RIP Goldman

November 14, 2023 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco New name, who’s this? When you visit our homepage today, you’ll notice we’ve changed our name to Business Insider. Read more here about the exciting switch. And don’t worry, it’s still business as usual with the newsletter. (I […]

Collusion? This Group, in Partnership With Government, Targeted Conservative Speech in 2020

November 14 2023   Collusion? This Group, in Partnership With Government, Targeted Conservative Speech in 2020 COMMENTARY By Katrina Trinko “True information posted by … conservatives was labeled as ‘misinformation’ while false information posted by … liberals was largely unreported and untouched by the censors,” states a new […]

Cryptocracy

Dispersed power is hidden power, hidden power is unaccountable power, unaccountable power is illegitimate power, and illegitimate power does not deserve your compliance John Carter Nov 13, 2023 Who, if anyone, or what, if anything, is in charge? In many ways this is the question of the age, […]

Spain’s Worst Post-Franco Era Political Crisis, Xi-Biden Summit and Expectations, US Armed Forces in Disarray, Lebanon Nearing Failed State Status, Twitter Legend Dril

Niccolo Soldo Nov 12, 2023 Every weekend (almost) I share five articles/essays/reports with you. I select these over the course of the week because they are either insightful, informative, interesting, important, or a combination of the above. Share I chose to wait an extra day before publishing this […]

Misunderstandings About Censorship

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2023 Legalizing drugs and regulating them similar to beer, wine, and alcohol won’t end abuse or accidental deaths, but it will make those outcomes less likely. – Robert Louis Stevenson HORNBERGER’S BLOG November 13, 2023 Misunderstandings About Censorship Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times published an […]

Rise of remote-job cheats

INSIDE SCOOP Tyler Le/Insider Inside the strange, secretive rise of the ‘overemployed’ A growing number of professionals are secretly working two or more full-time jobs — and their bosses don’t know. READ NOW Insider Today Newsletter Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall […]

Trump’s rhetoric

Today’s best articles Is a Georgist land tax the fix to Detroit’s housing crisis? Trump’s latest speech gives new urgency to an old dilemma ‘An unpopular president and a popular party’ Advertisement by Hims ED treatment options that are 95% cheaper than the name brands with Hims Should […]

11/13/23: US Warns Israel Seeks Regional War, Krystal and Saagar Debate Israel Hospital Tactics, Israeli Minister Plans Nakba 2023, Elon Warns Of Terror Blowback, Ukraine Admits Blowing Up Nordstream, NYC Mayor FBI Raid, Real Estate Industry Free Fall, Elites Caught In High End Brothel

Krystal and Saagar discuss US warning that Israel is pushing toward a regional war in the Middle East, we discuss the tactics of the Israeli military attacks on Al Shifa Hospital, Elon warns of terror blowback, Ukraine admits to blowing up the Nordstream pipeline, NYC Mayor Eric Adams […]

Balance-sheet bombs

November 13, 2023 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Welcome back! With the holidays right around the corner, a friendly reminder to catch up with your elderly family members. It can literally help save their lives, according to scientists. In today’s big story, we’re looking at what […]

Thomas Meyer-Falk is Free!

From The Final Straw Radio We’re sharing here a recent conversation that I had with Thomas Meyer-Falk, an anarchist who just finished a 27 year prison stint in Germany to speak about his life, his incarceration and his hopes now that he’s out. Thomas was involved in a […]

Against the Grain: Anarchist Firebrand

From Against the Grain, Anarchist Firebrand Perhaps best known for his advocacy of “propaganda by the deed,” Johann Most (1846-1906) was a committed socialist before turning toward anarchism. What spurred that shift? Why did Most advocate violence – and later abandon that position? Tom Goyens is writing a biography […]