For the defense. Two of the books Co-Authors come out Denouncing lead Author of the Black Book of Communism: https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/artic… Wheatcroft: Soviet famine of 1931-1933: http://www.melgrosh.unimelb.edu.au/do… Kotkin: Stalinism Triumphant: Famine, Terror, And Hitler’s Shadow, 1929-1941 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev1LF… Settlers wiped out 90% of the present native population when they first […]
For the prosecution. Tom Woods Show Paul Kengor, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism, joins me to discuss the crimes of communism, why people don’t know about them, the “that wasn’t real communism” argument, and a lot more. Read the original article at TomWoods.com. http://tomwoods.com/ep-1909-the-politically-incorrect-guide-to-communism/
By Federico Ferretti This paper addresses an early case in critical and anarchist geopolitics by analysing a body of work from Spanish geographer Gonzalo de Reparaz Rodríguez-Báez (1860-1939). After reconstructing the complex and contradictory figure of Reparaz, a scholar and activist who oscillated between very different political positions […]
By Andrew Korybko, One World Global Think Tank The division of the world into “democracies” and “autocracies” is an inaccurate reflection of reality. There are just governments, and each has elements of these two categories within them, albeit to differing extents depending on the particularities of the national […]
J. P. Cortez, Sound Defense Money Gov. Bill Lee signed legislation last week requiring the Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (TACIR) to examine the feasibility of creating a state depository to secure gold owned by the state and/or citizens. House Bill 353, introduced by Rep. Bud Hulsey, […]
Emily Jashinsky breaks down what the infrastructure negotiations say about our political environment at large.
Lindsey Boylan, Democratic candidate for Manhattan Borough President, explains what convinced her to go public with her allegations against Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react to China’s first case of bird flu.
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react to Barack Obama’s comments on the Biden administration continuing his work.
By Robert Reich, Common Dreams The GOP is increasingly defined not by its shared beliefs but by its shared delusions. This right-wing political party puts us all in peril. The greatest danger to American democracy right now is not coming from Russia, China, or North Korea. It is […]
By David Badash, The National Memo Reprinted with permission from Alternet Fired former Trump National Security Advisor and retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn is now denying he ever called for a violent Myanmar military-style coup in the U.S., despite numerous reports and video that prove he did. Flynn […]
Berlusconi, Sarkozy…Trump? By Matthew Rosza, Salon What will happen if a certain former president faces a criminal trial? History’s answer is clear: Nothing good. The United States has never had a president go to prison. Neither a sitting president, nor a former one. Arguably there are a few who […]
When those wars were beginning, I knew that Afghanistan would be a failure because no external power has ever been able to successfully occupy that region, not since Alexander the Great tried it in antiquity (ever heard of the Soviet Union, anyone?). And I figured that the removal […]
By Julián Casanova This article focuses on the various examples of anarchist violence, from terrorist action in the 1890s to anonymous bombs of the first decade of the twentieth century; from the tyranny of the Star pistol in the 1920s to the uprisings and revolutionary terror of the […]
As Israel’s heinous war crimes intensify, enormous crowds are mobilizing across the globe in support of Palestine. Are the Bitches naive to believe the tide may finally be turning toward justice? Abby Martin, creator of the Empire Files and director of Gaza Fights for Freedom, talks media lies, […]
Best comments from the threads: “I just want to let you know that you’re completely forgiven, it wasn’t your fault that Reagan survived the shot. “He tried his best and at the end of the day, that’s all that matters.” “Thank you for trying to kill the antichrist. […]
He calls Ana Kasparian a “weather girl” and talks about TYT is beholden to Katzenberg money. This is me BODYING Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur for being sell-out clowns with embarrassing takes! Here’s Madeline Albright being EVIL: https://youtu.be/4J62mr65PVc AND here’s corporate shill Ana Kasparian cozying up to her […]
This video examines the assumptions behind today’s reformist socialism and considers what today’s young socialists can do now that our Trump-era social-democratic/realist turn has failed. Along the way, read excerpts from the Aufhebunga Bunga book “The End of the End of History,” and “The Writing on the Wall” […]
–Former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn says that a coup should take place to remove Joe Biden from the White House
On Jacobin’s original series Weekends, Nando Vila discusses some peculiar antiracism training sessions at Lockheed Martin.
By Matt Taibbi “The Division of Light and Power,” the new book by Dennis Kucinich, is an epic chronicle of American corruption. Dennis Kucinich has always been ahead of his time. It’s both his distinction and his curse. As a presidential candidate in the 2000s he was ridiculed […]
Noam is obviously not long for this world. He looks worse in this than I’ve ever seen him. Noam Chomsky is one of the most renowned and quoted intellectuals of our time and is the author of over 25 books, including “Chomsky for Activists (Universalizing Resistance),” and joins […]
A pretty good takedown.
This is an interesting discussion. A Boogaloo guy posted some comments in the threads for this video that I reposted below. “I’m gonna weigh in. I’m a proud boogaloo boi, have been since the start of the movement. The boogaloo is not a racist movement, racists are ostracized […]
By Oliver Bateman, The American Conservative Vince McMahon’s wrestlers are trademarked IP subject to extraordinary levels of control. John Cena recently made waves after apologizing to the People’s Republic of China for calling Taiwan a “country” during an interview with a Taiwanese broadcaster. Cena’s apology, delivered in Mandarin […]
I advise the paleo-populists to jettison the capitalist class and conservative “big media.” By Keith Preston, Chronicles Broad swaths of conservative opinion today would have it that the enemy of the right is some variant of Marxism. But this does not accurately describe people like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, […]
Journalist, Zaid Jilani, reacts to Paul Ryan’s comments about the culture war.
Emily Jashinsky shares her thoughts on today’s cultural climate.
GOP Rep. Nancy Mace had her house vandalized with ‘Antifa symbols.’
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky weigh in on reporting that the guards who were asleep when Jeffrey Epstein hung himself planned to “slam” federal prison system at trial.
The Real News’ senior reporter, Jaisal Noor, shares his reporting on worker cooperatives.
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky explain the importance of the lab leak theory.
It’s funny they left The Hill because their bosses thought they were too radical when they’re actually very middle of the road.
By Victor Tangermann, Futurism Amazon is being roasted for sharing a video of its “AmaZen,” a phonebooth-sized box where employees can go to “focus on their mental wellbeing.” In other words, one of the largest companies in the world is offering its overworked employees a, well, box to […]
By Sharon Zhang, Truthout Last month, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) chose Elon Musk’s space exploration company SpaceX for a $2.9 billion contract to help develop the agency’s moon landing project, Artemis. Now, Congress is debating an amendment to a science and research funding bill that […]
Berlusconi, Sarkozy…Trump? Roger Stone, a longtime friend and former advisor to Donald Trump, said in an Infowars interview on Friday that he believed the former president would face an indictment imminently, Salon reported. “I would be shocked if they did not come forward with a fabricated indictment for […]
By Paul Gottfried, American Consequences Antifascists and others on the Left like to believe they have been struggling against the same Right for almost 100 years. But there is little evidence for this assumption. Breitbart last week published a commentary about homosexuals who were demonstrating against the Israelis […]
Briahna Joy Gray and Virgil Texas discuss how the establishment has pushed back against movements for justice in U.S. policing and Palestine.
Virgil Texas and Briahna Joy Gray speak to the one-and-only Dr. Cornel West about the professional consequences of his advocacy for Palestine, his tenure battle with Harvard, and what he makes of the gap between the media response to his case versus Nikole Hannah-Jones’s tenure battle. How does […]
By Matt Purple, The American Conservative As bombs rain down on Yemen, Lockheed Martin has finally realized it has a problem: a lack of woke consultants. Don’t ever say there isn’t healing in America today. From Christopher Rufo at City Journal: Last year, Lockheed Martin Corporation, the nation’s largest […]
By Douglas MacGregor, The American Conservative The revived geopolitical rivalry between Russia and Turkey spells trouble for Putin and his allies. On the first of October 1939, just three days after the fall of Warsaw and Poland’s destruction at the hands of Soviet and German forces, Stalin summoned […]
By Evin Ashley Erdogdu, The American Conservative American culture and freedom of expression are the battleground of a new cold war. China and Saudi Arabia have outsized influence in Hollywood today. Money from their repressive governments is influencing American culture, including our films, and thus our representation around […]
By Micah Meadowcroft, The American Conservative The U.S. squandered the unipolar moment, but we aren’t into simple multipolarity quite yet. The collapse of the Soviet Union began nearly two decades of American unipolarity. During that time, U.S. leadership pursued a strategy of what international relations scholars call liberal […]
By Jack Phillips, Epoch Times The mothers of several people whose names have been invoked by Black Lives Matter activists panned the group’s co-founder, Patrisse Cullors, for benefitting “off the blood” of their family members. Cullors last week announced last week that she would be departing the organization, […]
By Federico Ferretti, Richard J White, and Anthony Ince This paper aims to make a timely and original contribution to the long-standing debates regarding the interrelationships(s) between democracy, anarchism and the state in two key ways. The first is by exploring more fully the work of Errico Malatesta, […]
By J.D. Tuccille, Reason Americans are choosing jobs, brands, and friends for partisan reasons, say researchers. Is there anything that politics can’t ruin? The answer, it appears, is a resounding “no” as partisan conflict creeps into all areas of American life. Our political affiliations, researchers say, obstruct friendships, […]
Tom Woods Show Michael Malice’s latest book, The Anarchist Handbook, made it all the way to #1 among nonfiction books on Amazon. He accomplished this feat with no publisher, no marketing department, and not even a book launch. This is worth talking about. Read the original article at […]
By Annika Neklason, Smithsonianmag.com For six years, starting in 1921, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti watched from death row as writers argued for their freedom, politicians debated their case, and radicals held protests and set off bombs in their names. They managed to rally support even from people […]
Founder of The Daily Poster, David Sirota, breaks down The Koch Foundation’s recent financing of legal groups fighting to end prohibitions against evictions.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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