By Rick You wake up when it’s still dark outside. Your arm reaches out and after several fumbling attempts, your fingers finally find the familiar rectangular shape of your smart phone, bringing it to your face. You activate the cracked screen and it blinds your sleep deprived eyes. […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the viability of a second booster.
Krystal and Saagar review the polling data showing overwhelming support from the American people for legislation banning members of congress from trading stocks on inside information
Kim Iversen airs her grievances about the U.S. Covid-19 response.
Saagar issues a scathing critique of the Warriors co-owner and tech billionaire who downplayed China’s Uighur genocide in what represents the total loyalty to China held by the billionaire class
Dan Crenshaw: proof that not all people that join the military are heroes or even decent people.
U.S. Senate candidate for Louisiana, Gary Chambers, explains why he is against marijuana prohibition and how he plans to bring a progressive platform to Louisiana.
Krystal and Saagar analyze the rising tensions between Russia & Ukraine that has become a major issue for the national security state and foreign policy establishment in media & DC institutions
Anyone who has their visa revoked in Australia cannot re-enter for 3 years, that is standard. I think the US is 10 years…..
Briahna Joy Gray explains why she thinks the Biden administration’s big voting rights push is too little, too late.
Krystal takes a detailed look at how the Starbucks workers unionization efforts in Buffalo are causing ripple effects in stores across the country as the American labor movement comes back to life
“Vote for me, I’m definitely your guy”, he said bluntly.
Team Rising reacts to Don Lemon’s controversial comments about the unvaccinated.
Krystal and Saagar respond to Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s angry response to a constituent who pressed him on comments he made about Jesus on a podcast that contrast from previous stances
Dems: “Am I out of touch? No… Its the voters who are wrong” They did the meme IRL
Robby Soave breaks down the potential pitfalls of Democrats’ SHOP SAFE Act.
Krystal and Saagar cover the mainstream media’s response to new poll numbers indicating that large swaths of the country do not approve of how President Biden is handling the most important issues
So what if he did? I bet Crowder doesn’t mention all the awful things about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln on presidents day
A damn good question. Ryan Grim criticizes Congressional Democrats’ action, or lack thereof, on the U.S.-imposed famine in Afghanistan.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by medical professor & researcher Dr. Vinay Prasad to break down what Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Malone got right & wrong about covid vaccines on Joe Rogan’s show
As commentators like Thomas Piketty and Bill Bishop have pointed out, the roles of the parties are being reversed. The Left parties are becoming the parties of the elite and the Right parties are becoming the parties of the working class (with some outliers). My suspicion is that […]
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the White House’s new mail-order Covid test website, as well as the Biden administration’s planned “public reset” in the face of falling approval numbers.
Krystal and Saagar look through the list of doctors calling for Joe Rogan’s podcast to be taken down from Spotify due to the controversy surrounding his guests’ comments on the covid vaccine
A caller praised AOC as “having something special,” and that sky’s the limit for HER. That’s the key – individual success, HER rising in power. AOC was a staffer for Ted Kennedy, her original congressional staff, who were from her campaign, were let go so she could hire […]
This article is interesting because it foreshadows what mainstream political debate is going to look like in the future, at least in heavily populated areas. Today’s moderates are tomorrow’s conservatives. Today’s far-left are tomorrow’s liberals. Over time, today’s conservatives (e.g. FOX fans) are going to be increasingly small […]
We keep claiming FBI over and over, completely missing that Ray could be a CIA asset operating domestically in violation of their charter.
By Nicholas Turner, President & Director, Vera Institute of Justice, Forbes On any given day, the United States incarcerates nearly 2 million people in prisons and jails—more than any other country. Vera Institute of Justice But this astronomical figure doesn’t capture the full scope of mass incarceration in […]
2020 is the most recent year for which up-to-date information is available. By Nicole D. Porter The Sentencing Project In recent years most states have enacted reforms designed to reduce the scale of incarceration and the impact of the collateral consequences of a felony conviction. This briefing paper […]
Krystal and Saagar talk on this special Wednesday show about the cultish behavior of the Democratic Party, the popularity of banning Congressional stock trading, tensions between Russia and Ukraine, Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s meltdown, Joe Rogan censorship attempts, the billionaire problem, Starbucks workers’ revolution, and fact from fiction on […]
By Rich Whitney, Truthout For decades, the American people have been repeatedly told by their government and corporate-run media that acts of war ordered by their president have been largely motivated by the need to counter acts of aggression or oppression by “evil dictators.” We were told we […]
I’ve been looking further into the role of the CIA in postwar US politics. It seems that much of the New Right and New Left that emerged in the postwar period were controlled opposition movements created by the intelligence services, although in collusion with different internal factions. It […]
Firms like Black Rock and Vanguard are like the Rockefellers at their apex. As the top of the heap within capitalism, they’re hated by both the left and right. By Ben Zeisloft Daily Wire BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink said that being “woke” has no place in his […]
Is NATO (what Ross Douthat calls the second zone of the empire along with the Pacific Rim) also fracturing? If the first zone implodes and the second zone fractures, the third zone (those in the East and the Global South under the boot of the empire) is on […]
Timothy Snyder’s viewpoint is interesting. Of course, he is a Yale academic, and therefore a high priest among the new clerisy, and his main concerns are both preserving the empire and achieving the hegemony of the Blue Tribe within the empire. His main fear is the emergence of […]
By Timothy Snyder Thirty years ago today the Soviet Union came to an end. This is not an occasion for triumphalism. It is a warning. Stagnation, or the absence of a future, was the underlying Soviet problem. Stalinism had created temporary social mobility in the Soviet Union, if […]
By Timothy Snyder As we reach the first anniversary of Trump’s failed coup attempt, the former president and his supporters are indulging in a pleasant dream of his return to power in 2025. An electoral victory seems unlikely: he lost last time as an incumbent by seven million […]
By John Zube Note Anarchy and Panarchy are not two opposite forms of social organization. In fact Panarchy is mainly a method of solving problems of social organization and through that method anarchy (as well as statism, or communism, or any other conceivable social model) can be implemented […]
By Peter Cole, Yves Magazine If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, he’d probably tell people to join unions. King understood that racial equality was inextricably linked to economics. He asked, “What good does it do to be able to eat at a lunch counter if you […]
By Duane Fuller, Center for a Stateless Society As an anarchist prisoner, it has been said many times that one can learn a great deal about society by looking towards its prisons. Look towards its dungeons and there you will see in concentrated and microcosmic form the sickness […]
By George Allison UK Defense Journal British C-17 transport aircraft are currently moving “light anti-armour” weapons into Ukraine in light of “increasingly threatening” behaviour from Russia. The C-17 transport aircraft are in flight as we speak. CORRECTION 18-1-2022: I had originally claimed that Germany had appeared to have […]
This is the biggest sedition case in a third of a century, since the Fort Smith trial in 1988. Krystal and Saagar analyze the sedition charges brought by the Biden DOJ against the Oathkeepers who played a central role in the Jan 6th Capitol riot
Hopefully, 2024 will see not only the GOP fractured into Natcon, Trumpist, and anti-Trumpist conspiracist factions, but the Left offering a major primary challenge to Biden. Fragment, fragment, fragment… Krystal and Saagar are joined by former Sanders campaign co-chair Nina Turner to examine how the Left should approach […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to controversial comments made by Chamath Palihapitiya about the suspected persecution of the Uyghur Muslim minority in northwestern China.
Following first-round action at the Australian Open, tennis Star Naomi Osaka discussed how the WTA handled the Peng Shuai situation.
Krystal and Saagar cover the comments made in private by former President and GOP kingmaker Donald Trump about the possible 2024 contender Fl. Gov Ron DeSantis
Cases are going down! (because we stopped reporting) Unemployment is down! (because we jacked up the requirements to apply) Business is booming! (because corporations are hurling employees into the furnace to power it) Noticing a trend yet?
Kim Iversen takes a closer look at the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Biden administration’s workplace vaccine mandate.
Krystal takes a look at how Kamala Harris’s attempted rebrand has already crashed and burned in a revealing display of how hollow Democratic Party elites are
“Can you explain why you are doing this?” “Money.” “Any other reason?” “Money.”
Journalists Jordan Chariton and Charlie LeDuff lay out their new reporting on the Rico charges that were blocked in the Flint water crisis scandal.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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