By Caitlin Johnstone Antiwar libertarian hero Scott Horton has a viral tweet going around which reads simply, “Biden’s refusal to attempt to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine is the greatest scandal in American political history.” Kind of smacks you in the face, doesn’t it? I’ve […]
In times like these, I try to remember the quote from Frederick Douglass who said a true patriot praises his country for its accomplishments and admonishes it for its sins. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is taking a page out of the Catholic Church’s book (or perhaps Machiavelli’s The […]
Someone on another thread described exactly what Tomi does: simping for the Oligarchs.
This bill makes no exception for miscarriage, of any kind. So having a miscarriage is now deemed a prenatal homicide
Host of the Katie Halper Show, Katie Halper, reacts to the left blaming Susan Sarandon for the potential overturning of Roe V Wade.
A look back at This Week’s Rising.
Krystal and Saagar have Marshall Kosloff interview National Review columnist Nate Hochman about the shifts in the culture wars on the right and how the cultural fights have come to dominate politics
Krystal and Saagar review the uproar towards Nancy Pelosi and Democratic leadership backing pro-life Democrat Henry Cuellar who is under FBI investigation in a contested primary campaign
Krystal and Saagar look at the comments Barstool founder Dave Portnoy made about Roe vs Wade as part of a broader shift in the culture wars over the last few years and how that has changed party coalitions
Todd Lewis will be joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson and Terminal Philosophy to discuss China’s gambit in the South Pacific broadly and the Solomon Islands more narrowly.
Krystal and Saagar cover Bernie’s fight against corporate tax breaks, billionaire owned media, FBI surveillance, Barstool conservatism, Rep. Henry Cuellar, CNN, class war, & more!
Ukraine is increasingly becoming a proxy for the full military might of the US and NATO. The US is providing the weapons, providing the training and aiming the guns. It is fighting a war that holds on to being a proxy war only in that it is not […]
By Tyler Durden, Zero Edge Defense attorneys seek to identify and investigate 80 suspicious actors and material witnesses, some of whom allegedly ran an entrapment operation against the Oath Keepers on January 6, 2021, and committed crimes including the removal of security fencing, breaching police lines, attacking officers, […]
The Mindcrime liberty show is joined by Todd Lewis to discuss whether wealth inequality is a problem and why? What are the causes of wealth inequality? Is wealth inequality just an extension of talent inequality? Who or what ideology is to blame? What can be done? Would wealth […]
By SOFREP The holder of the highest seat in the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, said that the West is partly to blame for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, the Pope said “that barking of NATO at the door […]
By SOFREP The Russians are at war on two fronts apparently, one in Ukraine and another in their own country against their own citizens. In multiple acts of defiance against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, six Russian military recruitment offices in different locations were attacked with Molotov cocktails, […]
By Tim Renaud ISLE OF PALMS, S.C. (WCBD) – Some Isle of Palms residents are expected to “declare independence” from South Carolina as they look to form “The Palm Republic.” It stems from when a small group opposed Gov. Henry McMaster’s decision to close the beaches at the […]
By Laurie Wastel Quillette Ever since Marx, the concept of class has been foundational to sociology—as well as to almost everything else. This would not have surprised the German economist, for class, as he saw it, determines all: one’s motivations, one’s social position, even one’s consciousness. Britain, where […]
LA Progressive The Supreme Court’s upcoming decision to reverse Roe v. Wade (an early draft of which was leaked Monday) doesn’t ban abortions; it leaves the issue to the states. As a result, it will put another large brick in the growing wall separating Blue and Red America. […]
The Herland Report Herland Report: Massive Redistribution of Wealth: The Covid-19 virus makes billionaires’ fortune soar with massive profits. Elon Musk is now the richest man in the world, second only to Jeff Bezos – whose fortune also has rocketed during the pandemic. Bill Gates is left behind, […]
The Herland Report Herland Report: Ukraine-Russia War: The strategy of imposing economic sanctions in order to hurt Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, may produce an economic fallout that is different from what the leadership in Europe currently expects. The question is who will the sanctions hurt the […]
By Malcom Kyeyune Compact Rioting swept Sweden this Easter. Rasmus Paludan, a Danish far-right politician, had announced his intention to publicly burn the Quran in several Swedish cities. He successfully burned a copy of the Muslim holy book in the city of Jönköping, and intended to move on […]
By Darel E. Paul, Compact Across the West, right populism is in retreat. Both right and left liberals were shocked in 2016 by the victory of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. In 2017, things then went from bad to worse. Even as Emmanuel Macron emerged as […]
By Sohrab Ahmari, Compact Tuesday’s Manhattan Institute gala in New York City was a show of force from the establishment right. The assembled executives, foreign-policy hawks, and pro-business editorialists celebrated two of their own, Citadel Capital chief Ken Griffin and Wall Street Journal opinion editor Paul Gigot. The […]
This is complete divorce. But Russia was a donor for the Western economy. How will they explain later losses because of impossibility to sell their cars in Russia, absence of Russian tourists with their money in their hotels and restaurants, losses because of significant reduction of export of […]
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react to the FDA limiting the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine due to blood clotting concerns
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react to a report that alleges Tucker Carlson is a nationalist and discuss his reaction to the piece.
Former Ohio State Senator, Nina Turner, looks back at her rematch with Rep. Shontel Brown. She also details allegations that members of ‘the squad’ were threatened not to support her.
Vermont congressional candidate, Becca Balint, discusses her run for US Congress.
Emily Jashinsky explains that the “foundation for nationwide legalized abortion has always been fragile, but the media just wasn’t saying it.”
Ryan Grim details the reference to Matthew Hale in Justice Alito’s leaked abortion draft.
Co-founder of UltraViolet, Shaunna Thomas, discusses the organizing efforts taking place ahead of the Supreme Court potentially overturning Roe V Wade.
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss the opposing views on the potential decision to overturn Roe V Wade with VP of Communications for Susan B. Anthony List, Mallory Carroll.
Krystal and Saagar point out the irony in the Jeff Bezos owned Washington Post article criticizing the billionaire boys club that media ownership has become
Krystal is joined by journalist Julia Rock of THE LEVER to better understand the corporate tax breaks in Senate legislation that Bernie Sanders was critical of
By Peter Weber, The Week Russia is concentrating most of its military efforts in Ukraine on trying to capture territory in the east and south of the country, but it continues to strike cities and towns across Ukraine. And on Tuesday and Wednesday those strikes targeted electrical substations, […]
By Joel Mathis The Week The Federal Reserve is going on offense against inflation. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday announced the biggest interest rate hike in two decades, and experts expect the Fed to raise the rate even more in the coming months. “The Fed’s suite of […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week Sofia Sapega, the Russian girlfriend of detained Belarusian dissident Roman Protasevich, was sentenced to six years in prison for inciting social hatred, Reuters reports Friday. Sapega was traveling with Protasevich last May when their flight was diverted to Minsk by Belarusian authorities. At […]
By Andrew Day, The Week Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has sparked a heated debate about NATO that boiled over into the Senate last week. Some argue that NATO’s eastward expansion precipitated the conflict by threatening Russian security. Others retort that because the alliance is purely defensive, the […]
By Peter Weber, The Week In the summer of 2020, unhappy about the flow of drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border, then-President Donald Trump asked his defense secretary, Mark Esper, if the U.S. military could “shoot missiles into Mexico to destroy the drug labs,” Esper writes in his forthcoming […]
By Damon Linker, The Week In the days since the leaked draft of a majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade (1973) was published by Politico, Democrats have convinced themselves that this is a huge political gift for the party and an equally massive liability for Republicans — because the country […]
This appears to be an excellent podcast. Check out their archives here. MAY 6, 2022 E43 – En Marche? w/ Silyane Larcher E43 – En Marche? w/ Silyane Larcher Danny and Derek give updates on Ukraine (0:56), Finland and Sweden’s attempts to join NATO (17:40), Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s […]
By Andrew Sullivan Weekly Dish Douglas Murray is a British writer and commentator, primarily for The Spectator, and his latest book is The War on the West. It’s a powerful narrative of the past couple of decades, in which a small minority waged ideological war on the underpinnings […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ I’ve been watching The John Wayne Gacy Tapes on Netflix, which features previously unheard recordings of the serial killer known as “The Killer Clown” who murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men in the 1970s. I […]
Krystal Kyle & Friends From Roe v. Wade and its current peril to an inside retrospective on the Bernie 2020 campaign, we’ve got a lot to discuss this week, and we’re grateful to you for joining us. Our special guest is Ari Rabin-Havt, deputy campaign manager of Bernie […]
Socialist societies could exist regardless of their stance on abortion. It’s a cultural issue and therefore not core to a socialist project.
By Andrew Sullivan, Weekly Dish To say that a leaked draft of a Supreme Court ruling prompted an elite meltdown would be a gross understatement. This was a culture war 9/11. “I have typed and deleted a great many comments,” Roxane Gay tweeted. “What do you say when […]
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss the opposing views on the potential decision to overturn Roe V Wade with VP of Communications for Susan B. Anthony List, Mallory Carroll. Ryan Grim details the reference to Matthew Hale in Justice Alito’s leaked abortion draft. Emily Jashinsky explains that the […]
By Louis Gerald Plottel Punk and anarchism, as lived practices that espouse antiauthoritarianism and prefigurative politics as their guiding principles, share a close affinity. Yet, the political value of punk has tended to be overlooked in favour of the punk “identity.” This paper considers the overlapping politics of […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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