By Brad Dress The Hill Former President Trump on Tuesday called Russia’s recognition of two breakaway territories in eastern Ukraine a “genius” move ahead of its military invasion. In an interview on “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show,” Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s recognition of the Donetsk and […]
By Kenneth Garger A Wisconsin restaurant worker who was shot in the face during a dispute over an incomplete order last month has spoken out about the harrowing ordeal that he thought was going to end his life. Anthony Rodriguez, 26, was working as the sole server at […]
By Ed West Putin’s ‘historian, here’ talk refers to the Soviet Union’s policy of affirmative action. You know that nations are all just artificial creations, mostly Victorian inventions designed for political purposes? That your loyalty and patriotism is entirely false? The now-popular argument of post-war academics, that countries […]
By Caitlin Johnstone I believe that the situation in Ukraine is a crisis created solely by Moscow and that the US power alliance is just an innocent little flower who is being unfairly blamed. I also believe Santa is real, because I am a tiny little child who […]
By Jane Stannus The Spectator It was the hot tub that did it. Photos of Canadian convoy supporters relaxing in a hot tub on a downtown Ottawa street last weekend were splashed all over the news. Now Justin Trudeau is mad and he’s gone and invoked war measures, […]
By Steve Scherer and Carlos Osorio Reuters OTTAWA, Feb 19 (Reuters) – Canadian police on Saturday used pepper spray and stun grenades, and made dozens of arrests as they cleared demonstrators from the street in front of parliament, where they have been camping for more than three weeks […]
Putin makes a statement following the Security Council meeting on Donbass recognition
The far-left responds to the center-left.
LA Progressive WWII Redux: The Threatened Peoples of East Asia and Europe Can Stop the U.S. Drive to Restore Its Global Domination. “This is not going to be a war of Ukraine and Russia. This is going to be a European war, a full-fledged war.” So spoke Ukraine’s […]
by Benjamin Studebaker Most of the people writing about the Ukraine crisis are too busy trying to prove that they are on the right side to give decent analysis of it. They are worried about appearing too friendly to either Russia or the United States, and their career […]
By Conor Dougherty New York Times In Spokane, Wash., home prices jumped 60 percent in the past two years. The increase is fueled by buyers fleeing the boom in cities like Austin. Who will have to flee next? READ MORE
By Andrea Cavallier For Dailymail.Com and Wires Canadian MP Mark Strahl tweeted Sunday that the bank account of a single mom called Briane was frozen after she gave $50 to the Freedom Convoy Authorities say 206 bank accounts had been frozen under the power granted by federal emergencies […]
By Jose Nino, Mises Institute “What starts here changes the world.” The University of Texas at Austin’s motto not only applies to the research university’s overall impact on world affairs, but also to the outsized role cultural and political developments within the United States have on the rest […]
By Dalibor Rohac New York Post As Vladimir Putin’s gangster regime moves to recognize the two “people’s republics” of Luhansk and Donetsk, it raises the stakes in a conflict that many fear might lead to a cataclysmic land war in Eastern Europe. At this moment, it is important […]
By Peter Weber The Week Blasting “Baby Shark” and turning on the sprinklers didn’t dislodge a group of protesters against COVID-19 vaccine requirements who have been camped outside New Zealand’s Parliament building for two weeks, copying the tactics from Canadian “Freedom Convoy” blockades. So, as in Canada, police […]
By Jason Fields The Week Vladimir Putin and Russia have ended the Pax Americana by calling what turned out to be America’s bluff. The proof? Russian tanks are moving deeper into Ukraine. With the end of the Cold War, the United States promised everyone everything, extending its protection as […]
By Brendan Morrow The Week The Supreme Court is set to take up a case concerning whether a Colorado web designer may decline to provide her services for same-sex weddings. The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear the case, in which a Christian web designer, Lorie Smith, […]
By Joel Kotkin The current crises in eastern Europe reflect more than just Kremlin mischief-making—they reflect the first fruits of an emerging world order that spans the vastness from Beijing to Berlin. Unlike the longstanding liberal status quo, with its roots in classical civilization and the Enlightenment, this […]
Jeremy W. Peters, author of Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted, joins The Realignment to discuss how the transformation of the Republican Party during the Trump era shattered American politics.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to Bill Maher’s criticism of liberals’ handling of the pandemic.
Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” started three weeks ago, with truckers converging on Ottawa to protest a law requiring that they be vaccinated to come back into their own country.
Show timestamps (courtesy Jennifer M): 0:00 Intro 2:15 Welcome 7:35 Kim Potter sentenced 8:24 Waukesha killer pleads not guilty 10:01 Epstein’s friend got Epsteined 12:15 Applebee’s meat cleaver attack 15:05 Canberra woman attack 18:15 Ottawa arrest numbers 20:05 Incidents of violence in Ottawa 29:49 High profile arrests and […]
In other words, there is the temporal self (personality) aspect of us that is always going to be changing and impermanent as it flows through the ever changing circumstances of life (negative and positive; duality)… AND there is the eternal observer within us that is ALWAYS present and […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave consider whether individuals should have legal recourse for misleading or outright incorrect media coverage.
Attention goes where energy flows. This energy is great and positive.
Kim Iversen details Bill Gates’ latest comments on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Krystal and Saagar go into the controversy involving Saudi Arabia and the golf world after legendary golfer Phil Mickelson expressed an interest in switching from the PGA to Saudi Arabia’s new league
Russia isn’t the only defense issue concerning President Biden — lately he’s had his eye on the heavens and decided it’s high time the US took to the skies and started raining hell down on its enemies… from space! In this call with Jimmy the President explains his […]
Krystal and Saagar comment on the 60 minutes segment about the debunked Havana Syndrome conspiracy theory that had been pushed by the CIA and other intelligence operatives
Ted’s just mad that he had to buy his.
Executive vice president at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, Dr. Trita Parsi, details the latest developments in the indirect nuclear deal negotiations between Iran and the U.S.
Krystal and Saagar bring the most recent developments with regards to the Russia-Ukraine situation as Vladimir Putin delivered a long, bizarre speech with major implications
“When we want to incentivize the rich, we give them money. When we want to incentive the poor, we take away their money.”
The American Prospect’s Lee Harris breaks down the hedge fund past of the new chief executive of the Development Finance Corporation.
Saagar examines the IRS’ plan to collect facial recognition data and why America must reject it in order to avoid a crackdown like we saw in Canada
Oh yes, it’s important to “be heard”, “have empathy,” and “be diverse” for people of the same class and outlook. That’s DNC, uh, I mean, CNN.
Team Rising discusses New York City’s approach to solving mental illness and homelessness as violence continues to increase in the city’s subway system.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by journalist and author Ross Barkan to break down the weaponization of identity politics by NYC Mayor Eric Adams as a prime example of how focusing on identity has backfired for the left
Would love to see the court apply the same logic to the DEA
Ryan Grim considers progressives’ role in the Democratic party’s sinking popularity.
Krystal delivers the news about how CNN is struggling on the business side because a new merger is taking place that will force the network to make layoffs bringing people major pain
Good. The more fragmentation the better.
The one thing that Tulsi has been consistent about in her career is her support for Hindu nationalism, which she is obviously trying to establish a place for in domestic US politics. Although she is a terror war hawk, and always has been, she is not a neocon […]
If ever there was any doubt before, the Democrats have totally returned to their Wilson-FDR-Truman-JFK-LBJ roots as the pro-war party. And with the exception of neo-Taft Republicans like Tucker Carlson, the Republicans are still led by Reaganites and neocons on foreign policy as well. Krystal and Saagar respond […]
Candace Owens watched the 1980’s movie “Canadian Bacon” and thought to herself, “What a great idea!”
Director of the Institute for Global Transformations in Kiev, Dr. Oleksiy Semeniy, Ryan Grim, and Robby Soave react to the movement of Russian troops into Ukraine.
Krystal and Saagar cover the launch of former President Trump’s twitter competitor Truth Social and how the platform failed in its effort to have a big opening day
Krystal and Saagar break down Putin’s speech on Ukraine, warmongering insanity in media, Havana syndrome madness, Trump’s new social network launching, golf’s Saudi Arabia controversy, CNN’s financial demise, authoritarianism at home, Dems identity politics, and more! Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Ross Barkan: https://rossbarkan.substack.com/ Timestamps: Putin: 0:00 – 27:23 MSM: 27:24 […]
By Jason McQuinn Note A very powerful essay on the poverty of leftism thinking, with its dogmas and prejudices, and an exhortation to develop critical analyses of reality in order to “reformulate our anarchist theories and reinvent our anarchist practices in light of our most fundamental desires and […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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