By Pierre Lemieux On the Versailles Palace, transformed into a museum in the 1830s by the “King-Citizen” Louis Philippe, stands the inscription À toutes les gloires de la France (“To All the Glories of France”). Many rulers in history have illustrated, some more savagely than others, a truth that […]
By David Cole, Taki’s Throughout my life, I’ve often been accused of lacking empathy. It’s a critique that goes back to high school, when I was a compassionless bully. And I’ll admit, I do have an empathy problem, but only when it comes to imbeciles. I just can’t […]
By Ruth Milkman Dissent The 1960s effort to end discriminatory quotas sowed the seeds of the political conflicts over immigration that are still with us today. The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America by Sarah R. Coleman Princeton University Press, 2021, 272 pp. I vividly […]
By Brian Wang, Next Big Future Peter Zeihan is a geopolitical strategist who specializes in global energy, demographics and security. He has been quoted in national and international media on a variety of geopolitical topics. He makes a prediction in the video below about the breakup China and […]
A Blue Tribe version of the Texas anti-abortion law. KCRA Staff SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday called for the legislature and attorney general to create a bill that would allow private citizens to sue gun manufacturers and distributors. The statement came in response to the […]
The system appears to be going out of its way to reignite the cold wars with Russia and China. By Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic Russia and Ukraine remain on the edge of conflict; opposing forces are reportedly facing each other from just 50 yards apart. The standoff […]
By Joel Mathis The Week It wasn’t hard to see this coming: California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday threatened to use Texas’ unusual abortion law as a model for new gun restrictions in his own state. “SCOTUS is letting private citizens in Texas sue to stop abortion?! If […]
By Joel Mathis The Week There is no such thing as a “humane” war, much as we might want there to be. The New York Times on Sunday published an exposé of a U.S. military unit called “Talon Anvil,” which was reportedly quite effective at fighting ISIS in Syria […]
By Peter R. Quiñones The single greatest thing about Twitter is that it is dominated by the most degenerate Leftists in the West, and they feel comfortable showing who they really are. By now you have heard of the devastating tornadoes that ripped through several states on Friday. […]
Throughout history, the Russians have always held a bad hand. Their geography and climate make the basics of life – food and security – devilishly difficult. Their lack of navigable rivers demands huge rafts of artificial infrastructure, but that costs money that Russia’s brutal winters and vast distances […]
Scott interviews author and geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan. Zeihan does not believe China will be a nation state ten years from now. One reason, he argues, is that China’s economy is completely dependent on the disappearing American presence keeping the peace on the world’s oceans. This, of course, […]
This survey was conducted online within the United States from Dec 6 – Dec 7 among 926 registered voters by HarrisX. The sampling margin of error of this poll is plus or minus 3.2 percentage points.
Krystal and Saagar go in detail to discuss how Starbucks workers in Buffalo, NY were able to overcome management to form the first unions within the coffee giants
Executive Vice President of The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, Trita Parsi, reacts to the limited media coverage of talks surrounding Iran’s nuclear program.
Krystal and Saagar give an update on the Omicron variant and how pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer have responded to the spread of the new covid strain
Kim Iversen explains why the Biden administration’s Democracy Summit is hypocritical.
Krystal and Saagar update viewers on the deadly tornadoes that went across five states and left at least 100 people dead including Amazon workers trapped in a warehouse
Investigative reporter, Ken Klippenstein, details attempts by Kellogg’s to replace striking workers.
Krystal and Saagar provide the updated statistics on inflation happening throughout the economy and the toll it is having on the wage gains made by workers
Deputy opinion editor, Batya Ungar-Sargon, reacts to Chris Wallace’s departure from Fox News to CNN.
Saagar outlines how Apple CEO Tim Cook sold out the principles he and his company apparently stood for to China in a secret deal in exchange for massive profits in the Chinese market
Team Rising weighs in on the response to the devastating tornadoes that ripped through the Midwest.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by filmmaker Gabriel Shipton, the brother of journalist and publisher Julian Assange who is set to be extradited to the US to face charges brought by the DOJ
Robby Radar argues against covid vaccine mandates for chidlren.
Krystal and Saagar respond to the decision made by longtime Fox News anchor Chris Wallace to leave the network for CNN’s new streaming service that is doomed to fail
Ryan Grim details the next steps in the fight against big tech and the potential obstacles in the government’s way.
Krystal and Saagar cover the news that Steven Donziger has been released from prison and sent back home to serve out the rest of his sentence after unrelenting pressure from independent media
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to a British court’s decision to overturn a lower court ruling that had blocked Julian Assange’s extradition. They also discuss Steven Donziger being released to home confinement for the rest of his sentence.
Krystal picks apart the lies told by MSNBC about Julian Assange and the charges being leveled against him by the US DOJ
Krystal and Saagar cover the worsening inflation numbers, devastating tornadoes in Appalachia, Pfizer’s campaign for another booster, Starbucks workers unionizing, Chris Wallace’s puzzling decision, Apple selling out to China, MSNBC vs Julian Assange, the next steps for Julian Assange with his brother, and more! Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Help Assange: […]
Krystal Ball and Kyle Kulinski talk with substack journalist Freddie DeBoer about class politics
Krystal and Saagar cover the hilarious messaging failure from Democratic party communications staff who celebrated a two cent decline in gas prices on social media
Krystal and Saagar examine whether the DC rally by a white nationalist group was a real event or if it was staged by feds to boost fears of domestic terrorism
Krystal and Saagar look at how the disgraced Cuomo brothers planned to avoid a sexual misconduct scandal for Andrew by using the playbook Joe Biden deployed against Tara Reade.
Nils Melzer responds to the Julian Assange verdict on a special Useful Idiots Livestream. Nils Melzer is the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture; Human Rights Chair, Geneva Academy; Professor of International Law, University of Glasgow; Vice-President IIHL, and the author of The Trial of Julian Assange (https://twitter.com/nilsmelzer)
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It happens over and over again. Another day, another shooting. Another day, another nightmare. Another sleepy small-town community put on the map for all the most horrifying of reasons. Another school shattered by unspeakable violence. Another lonely pissed […]
By Keith Preston Anyone who follows the mainstream media, Congress, or elite intellectual circles knows that the Blue Tribe is increasingly fearful of a right-wing coup by the Trumpists with the common refrain being that January 6 was only a warm-up event for the real thing. I’m going […]
By James Patterson, Law and Liberty Coverage of the recent National Conservatism conference has highlighted the growing divisions in the conservative movement, especially when it comes to the exertion of political power in economic life. The intellectual roots of this conflict were on display earlier this year when […]
Examining a classic.
Matt Taibbi explains how media coverage of the Biden administration’s woes reveal the rot in elite journalistic circles.
By Grayson Quay The Week Voters in the French territory of New Caledonia vote Sunday on whether to remain a part of France, The Associated Press reports. New Caledonia, an archipelago in the South Pacific with a population of around 250,000, became a French colony in 1853, gained […]
By Brigid Kennedy It can be difficult to understand what exactly is happening along the Russia-Ukraine border without knowledge of the countries’ deeply intertwined histories. That said, here’s everything you need to know: What’s going on with Russia and Ukraine? A build-up of Russian military troops along Ukraine […]
By George Packer, The Atlantic To head off the next insurrection, we’ll need to practice envisioning the worst. A year after the insurrection, I’m trying to imagine the death of American democracy. It’s somehow easier to picture the Earth blasted and bleached by global warming, or the human […]
From, May 2021. BY ALEX GRANIER, Baton Rouge Advocate Democrats are waging political war on all fronts to transform America into a one-party state. Recently Democrats launched a legislative effort to “pack the court,” which if realized would add four seats to the U.S. Supreme Court. Since President […]
By Jeffrey Goldberg The Atlantic The GOP’s leaders are attempting to destroy the foundations of American democracy. In October of 1860, The Atlantic’s first editor, James Russell Lowell, wrote of Abraham Lincoln that he “had experience enough in public affairs to make him a statesman, and not enough […]
From February, 2020. By Brynn Tannehill, Dame Magazine The GOP has rigged the system on every level of government. Is there a path forward? ell me why you kept kicking him. You had already won.” “Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the […]
From October, 2020. The different ruling class factions and their constituent groups increasingly favor one-party rule. by Jeffrey M. Jones Gallup 41% of Americans favor unified control of federal government 23% want divided control 52% of Republicans, 43% of Democrats favor one-party control WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new […]
This editorial from the local newspaper in Colorado Springs (April 2021) nails it. The various ruling class factions understand their system is crumbling and the different factions are looking for ways to create a one-party state for themselves. By Barry Fagin, Colorado Springs Gazette It doesn’t take much […]
From August 2020. New York Post Editorial Board Democratic lawmakers in Albany are never satisfied: Their party already has a firm lock on the key levers of power, yet last week they moved to solidify that power even more — via an amendment to the state Constitution. And […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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