By Grayson Quay The Week Protesters in the oil-rich former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan burned the country’s presidential residence Wednesday as protests that began earlier in the week continue to escalate, The Associated Press reports. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who took office in 2019, declared a two-week curfew, threatened […]
By Jp Cortez After the Consumer Price Index surged last year to its highest level since 1982, politicians are feeling pressure from constituents to do something about it. On Monday, President Joe Biden announced $1 billion in grants, loans, and other assistance for small meat producers. Another costly […]
Kim Iversen details how the Theranos Elizabeth Holmes case exposed medical greed within the medical-industrial complex.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss why the Joe Rogan Experience performs so much better than legacy media shows.
Briahna Joy Gray makes the case that progressives in Congress are hiding behind Senator Joe Manchin in their failure to push President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda through.
Team Rising reacts to Vice President Kamala Harris’s poorly-timed Tweet, plus the cleanup of the I-95 traffic disaster.
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad car in 1892 to protest racial segregation sparked the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that cemented “separate but equal” into […]
By Hamilton Nolan, In These Times The crypto market’s inevitable crash will pull America’s politics in an even scarier direction. Making predictions about looming social and political catastrophes is a dicey business, because most of the exciting things in history did not happen predictably. You can try to […]
Chicago Teachers Union image courtesy of AP Photo/M. Spencer Green.
The Editorial Board The Republicans are reviving American apartheid. Thursday is the one-year anniversary of the day seditionary forces sacked and looted the United States Capitol in an attempt to overturn a lawful democratic election and install Donald Trump as fuhrer-king. The violence stopped long ago, but the […]
Ryan Grim speculates about a possible PPP scam that would allow employers to avoid repaying their loans.
By Jennifer Hassan Washington Post New year, new coronavirus term? Many people around the world kicked off 2022 by searching for more information about “flurona,” after Israel reported that two young pregnant women had tested positive for both the coronavirus and the flu. Doctors have long been concerned […]
By Maria Chia-Ming Liu, Washington Post This past spring, at the height of violence against Asians and Asian Americans during the pandemic, my husband and I chose to eat dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant near where we live in South Florida — in a show of solidarity with […]
Robby Soave details the latest academic freedom violation on a college campus.
By Emma Pettit Chronicle of Higher Education Classroom norms are changing. Where’s the line, and who decides? Erica Cope admits it wasn’t a great lesson. In the fall of 2020, Cope, like faculty members across the country, was teaching virtually, from her kitchen table. None of her students — […]
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss President Biden’s faltering approval numbers.
By David Gilbert Vice How one 18-year-old’s decision to turn his father in to the FBI tore his family apart. On January 5 last year, Guy Reffitt, a member of the Texas Three Percenters militia, packed his AR-15 rifle and a Smith & Wesson pistol into his wife’s […]
Krystal and Saagar weigh in on the Patton Oswalt saga that saw the comedian post a lengthy apology for posting a picture with longtime friend Dave Chappelle after online backlash
The Center for a Stateless Society political compass test is one of the best there is. These are my results. I’m fairly consistently anarchist, although as with all of these tests the answers I would give to some of the questions are a bit relative to context.
So says my political compass test. Take the quiz here.
–Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw accurately calls out Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene for attention-seeking around her Twitter ban, and Greene quickly turns on Crewnshaw
I would generally agree with this author’s argument, following Aristotle, that diamond-shaped societies are better than pyramid-shaped societies, though I disagree with his analysis of how to get there (“Viva Roosevelt!”). Social democracy is like treating cancer with aspirin. By David Brin One aspect of our re-ignited American […]
By Stephen Marche Foreign Policy A significant portion of Americans seek the destruction of political authority. What if they succeed? The unimaginable has become reality in the United States. Buffoonish mobs desecrating the U.S. Capitol building, tanks parading down the streets of Washington, running battles between protesters and […]
Katie Halper reviews the worst media screw-ups of 2021, and predicts whether we can expect the same kind of coverage in 2022.
The inflation is primarily businesses profiteering off supply chain breakdowns and the need to recover losses from the pandemic. To blame government excessive spending when most is on the military does show that austerity is coming and the collapse of Americans living standards will accelerate. So crime will […]
By John Whitehead and Nissa Whitehead, Rutherford Institute “Tyranny does not flourish because perpetuators are helpless and ignorant of their actions. It flourishes because they actively identify with those who promote vicious acts as virtuous.”—An academic study into pathocracy Disgruntled mobs. Martial law. A populace under house arrest. […]
By Saidiya Hartman, Anarchist Library Esther Brown did not write a political tract on the refusal to be governed, or draft a plan for mutual aid or outline a memoir of her sexual adventures. A manifesto of the wayward: Own Nothing. Refuse the Given. Live on What You […]
By Min, Anarchist Library A short historical summary of the forgotten Korean project known as Shinmin Prefecture and Korean People’s Association in Manchuria. This was a self-governing region of around two million people from 1929 to 1931. 1. Inception Many Koreans gathered in Manchuria to avoid oppression from […]
Babylon Bee WASHINGTON, D.C.—Special agents involved in last year’s ‘January 6th Insurrection Against Democracy™’ are set to reunite as guests of honor at an extravagant gala hosted by the FBI. The event will reportedly feature live music and entertainment, with comedian James Corden acting as master of ceremonies. […]
By John Zerzan, Anarchist Library In the following article are presented some unusual features of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s, the only period in which the KKK was a mass movement. In no way should this essay be interpreted as an endorsement of any aspect of […]
By AntiBoomerEquation ProphetBattlestone’s Amysterium Joseph de Maistre and Society Red in Tooth and Claw Joseph de Maistre is one of the greatest thinkers of the right in history. Not a reactionary, he is rather a realist on the bloody nature of sovereignty and nature in general. He (like […]
“Overwhelming popular demand…” That kind of throws a wrench in popular government or mass democracy of the kind that liberals and social democrats favor.
One question that I’m interested in is what the cultural framework of hegemonic anarchism would look like. I think it’s clear the political aspect would more or less be a world of free cities, micronations, federated bottom-up imperiums, millets, eco-villages, intentional communities, communes, diffused networks, etc. But I […]
By Michael Bluhm The Signal What really happened on January 6? Seth Masket on how Donald Trump’s claims about the 2020 election continue to endanger U.S. democracy. Americans believe vastly different versions of what happened in Washington a year ago, when a group of Trump supporters breached the […]
By Richard D Wolff Asia Times For the first time in more than a century, the United States has a real, serious, ascending global competitor. The US wars lost in Iraq and Afghanistan exposed imperial overreach beyond what even 20 years of war could manage. That the defeats […]
By Michael Paul Williams Richmond Times-Dispatch In hindsight, Virginia was a testing ground and a grim portent of the Jan. 6 insurrection. On the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in January 2020, theologian Corey D.B. Walker, then a visiting professor at the University of Richmond, was among a […]
By Jonathan Chait New York Magazine January 6, 2021, may be the most contentious date in American history. To Democrats and the surviving remnant of anti-Trump Republicans, the event was a spasm of right-wing political violence aimed at terminating the republican experiment. To most Republicans, it was something […]
“When faced with extinction any other option is preferable” “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolutions inevitable” You can not take everything from people and leave them with no hope, desperation breeds violence, and those with nothing to lose have no problem putting it all on […]
Journalist Judith Levine makes the case against digital vaccine passports.
Krystal looks at how opportunistic elites have weaponized inflation to bring austerity politics back after coronavirus stimulus created an opportunity to move to a different style of politics
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss Israel’s push for a second booster, as well as whether natural immunity will end the pandemic.
Krystal and Saagar respond on an op-ed by the Washington Post Editorial Board calling for unemployment insurance to be denied to the unvaccinated while owner Jeff Bezos parties on a Yacht
Kim Iversen details the new documents released as part of Virginia Giuffre’s lawsuit against Prince Andrew.
Krystal and Saagar deliver more good news on the Omicron covid variant based on early data obtained from places where the variant has quickly spread and case numbers are rising
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to the jury’s verdict in Elizabeth Holmes’ fraud trial.
Krystal and Saagar comment on the decision by tech giants to censor the interview between Joe Rogan and Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of mRNA vaccine technology
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave weigh in on the reported assassination attempt against Haiti’s prime minister, Ariel Henry
Krystal and Saagar cover the verdict in the Elizabeth Holmes trial that saw the disgraced Silicon Valley billionaire charged with multiple counts of wire fraud by the jury
Team Rising reacts to new findings from the House Committee investigating January 6.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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