By Rhyd Wildermuth, Gods and Radicals Press Many leftists I know, of both anarchist and Marxist traditions, have been reeling with the recent revelations about a major figure in American antifascism and his current choice of work. That person is Alexander Reid Ross, whom journalists Max Blumenthal and […]
The Trotskyist takes on the social democrat.
This was recorded before the presidential election. I suspect a secessionist movement in the US wouldn’t be done “legally” as much as it would simply happen, legal or not. Can we secede our way to a more perfect union? Or are all 50 states simply stuck with each […]
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to a Pfizer executive’s plan to cash in on the COVID pandemic through potential yearly boosters.
President of Center for Health & Democracy, Wendell Potter, discusses the Koch network’s private-sector health care plans.
The neoliberals no longer “believe women” when it’s their guy being accused. DC bureau chief at The Intercept, Ryan Grim, discusses Tara Reade’s battle with major media outlets over her college education.
Krystal Ball blasts Fox News’ coverage on the Biden administration.
Saagar Enjeti discusses how the pentagon manipulated the classification of soldiers in Afghanistan.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to The Washington Post misquoting Donald Trump on his call with Georgia’s top elections investigator.
The Young Turks come to the defense of the Pentagon. As is often said, “You can’t make this shit up.” Although, contra Tucker Carlson, I prefer that the Pentagon “lower standards” as much as possible so that the “New New Model Army” is incapable of suppressing rebellions. What […]
This seems to be around right. Even most so-called “tankies” in the US are center-left social democrats. For example, every “tankie” I know personally or by reputation who is under the age of 70 is pro-gay rights, pro-trans rights, pro-immigration, and many are pro-drug legalization. These are hardly […]
By Tom O’Connor, Newsweek China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and other nations have united to issue a message in support of the United Nations‘ founding treaty, seeking to promote multilateralism and diplomacy over the use of force against perceived violations from other U.N. member states. The coalition, comprised […]
As I’ve said before, we’re moving back to the 19th century’s world of unprecedented technological advancement, massive socioeconomic disparities, and multi-order geopolitics. Three new trans-Mediterranean corridors are emerging that will glue #Europe and #Africa. However, the routes will traverse North Africa’s gatekeepers.
What the world’s leading independence movements? Across the planet, there numerous territories and groups seeking independence. Many are small and little known. However, some manage to attract considerable international attention. But while they may be familiar to many people, the specific issues at stake may not be so […]
This is a short video on a few lesser-known separatist movements around the world.
Much of this is an outgrowth of Reagan’s wars in Central America in the 80s and Clinton’s economic policies in the region in the 90s.
Watching Kim on YouTube is probably the closest some of Tim’s followers are ever going to get to a hot chick.
Here’s ARR being interviewed by one of Sam Sedar’s “Price is Right” girls. The comments threads are ripping him apart. Ironically, Nomiki Konst also has intelligence connections.
By Matt Purple, The American Conservative One year ago this week, my old boss here at TAC told us to start working from home. I remember riding the Metro train back to my apartment that evening—the last time I took public transportation, as it turns out—and naively looking […]
By James Bovard, The American Conservative Across the nation, FBI agents are swooping down upon conservative activists, Trump supporters, and anyone suspected of any tie to the January 6 clash at the Capitol. Conservative author Candace Owens tweeted on March 3: “About 10 of my friends who attended […]
By William S. Lind, The American Conservative President Joe Biden was working late in his private office in the White House. At the end of the day his chief of staff had handed him a somewhat unfortunate report from the Justice Department. It seemed Hunter recently sold the […]
By Vishwam Jamie Heckert, Gavin Brown, Lewis Call, Laurence Davis Anarchism & Sexuality aims to bring the rich and diverse traditions of anarchist thought and practice into contact with contemporary questions about the politics and lived experience of sexuality. Both in style and in content, it is conceived […]
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) on Monday responded to bipartisan criticism over comments he made last week regarding Black Lives Matter protesters, arguing there was “no racism” in his previous remarks. “It has nothing to do with race. It has everything to do with riots,” Johnson told Milwaukee-based WISN-AM, […]
America built mass incarceration: the wholesale imprisonment of entire populations. Why, exactly, are so many people in prison – more than the entire population of New Mexico? That’s our focus for this week’s video: how a crisis of capitalism created a surplus population of former workers concentrated in […]
By Peter R. Quinones With the upcoming documentary our production company, Stateless Productions, is making on America’s Police Crisis, I have been forced in interviews to talk more about law enforcement than I have in some time. Below is an article I wrote in October 2019 that I […]
By B. Venkat Mani, Telos On January 31, 1920, Dr. Bhimrao “Babasaheb” Ambedkar—lawyer, thought leader, social thinker, and one of Columbia University’s most famous alumni, who later became the prime architect of the constitution of the postcolonial Republic of India—published the first issue of the Dalit newspaper Mooknayak […]
A great new collection of anarchist poetry and writing by John Luke Wall. Enjoy! John Luke Wall-AP pdf-1
Historically, the function of social democracy has been to strengthen the position of the state and the capitalist class through using bribes and handouts as a means of pacifying the common people in order to prevent revolutionary movements from developing. As the US continues to experience a widening […]
Now that an increasingly greater number of corporations are moving toward the cultural left, look for Republicans to start selectively embracing unionization as a weapon they can use against their opponents within the ruling class while promoting themselves as economic populists. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss Sen. […]
Saagar Enjeti discusses the mainstream media’s downward spiral as a consequence of the Trump era.
Journalist, Zaid Jilani, discusses young academics willingness to cancel conservative dissenters in academia.
By Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal, The Gray Zone With his entire archive retracted by the Southern Poverty Law Center and a growing record of disgrace, Alexander Reid Ross now collaborates with ex-CIA agents, cops, DHS officials, and a GOP congressman turned “Bigfoot scholar,” with funding from a […]
By Claire Goforth, Daily Dot The Daily Beast is facing intense backlash over an op-ed that claims members from the “dirtbag left”—a collection of leftist podcasters and Twitter personalities—are cozying up with right-wing extremists. The roughly 4,500-word article posits that leftist media personalities are legitimizing and even adopting […]
It looks like a backlash against Alexander Reid-Ross is emerging on the Left. By Kenzo Shibata Geography professor Alexander Reid Ross published a piece in the Daily Beast called “These ‘Dirtbag Left’ Stars Are Flirting with the Far-Right.” I reluctantly read the piece and it read to me […]
Will America and England reunite? An added irony would be for Candace Owens, an African-American conservative who is also married to an English guy and who has been floated as a GOP candidate, to be Meghan’s opponent. By Lee Brown, Page Six Meghan Markle is reportedly already networking […]
By Chung Wong A day after her birthday, Santa Baby singer Eartha Kitt aka Catwoman would lose her career after being invited to the White House today in 1968, for her charity work with youth-at-risk. Lady Bird Johnson invited 50 mostly wealthy women to discuss the rise of […]
But she has the perfect porn star name. By David Sirota and Andrew Perez, Jacobin Arizona senator Kyrsten Sinema was once a Green Party member and a committed antiwar activist. Now she’s best known for a viral thumbs-down on a $15 minimum wage vote. It’s the timeless story […]
This is a fairly good article although the author’s claim that “fascists” and “militias” are part of the “system” is ridiculous (at least in the way the author apparently means). You don’t have to like fascists or militias to point out the flaws in such a claim. By […]
This is a fairly interesting interview with Carson, which includes his usual mixture of economic insights plus assorted bullshit. By Diego Avila, Center for a Stateless Society Here we bring the second part of the interview with Kevin Carson, made by Diego Avila and Luis R. Vera. To […]
By Dana Williams The anarchist movement utilizes non-statist and anti-statist strategies for radical social transformation, thus indicating the limits of political opportunity theory and its emphasis upon the state. Using historical narratives from present-day anarchist movement literature, we note various events and phenomena in the last two centuries […]
This is a classic Murray Rothbard article from 1979 that debunked Cold War mythology regarding the “international communist conspiracy” and so forth. Learning many of these same things in the 1980s (not from Rothbard but from other sources), and learning more about US conduct in the Cold War, […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Who is Nicky Reid? If some random suit on the street asked you that question, what would your answer be? Aside from a pussy crushing genderfuck fox and the baddest fucking blogger alive, of coarse. Your answer would […]
A recent Oxfam study found that since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the world’s richest 10 billionaires have seen a wealth increase of half a trillion dollars – enough to pay for every person on the planet to get a vaccine.
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By Brad Parks, Carma Hassan and Deanna Hackney, CNN (CNN) The city of Minneapolis will pay the estate of George Floyd $27 million after the city council on Friday unanimously voted to settle a lawsuit with his family. George Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd, said that he would return […]
By Kit Knightly, Off-Guardian President John Magufuli’s disappearance makes him potentially the 2nd “Covid denier” head of state to lose power. John Magufuli, President of Tanzania, has disappeared. He’s not been seen in public for several weeks, and speculation is building as to where he might be. The […]
Vaush debate vs Infrared who is a bootleg version of Jon Zherka. They cover a variety of topics, but it gets quite heated especially from Infrared’s side and he starts screaming/malding. Timestamps: 00:00 Debate Starts 01:27 Liberalism 04:07 Ukraine/Russia 05:16 Define the word 09:17 Vaush mutes him 13:00 […]
Kudos to these lefties for their takedown of Alexander Rodham-Ross. In a highly unusual Thursday livestream, Ben, Forrest, Kenzo Shibata and David Slavick break down the Daily Beast’s sleazy hit piece directed against “The Dirtbag Left”
The main problem I had with this debate is the same one I have with many debates over controversial topical issues in the sense of presenting the issue within the framework of false dichotomies and either/or propositions. It’s possible to agree with Heather that violent crime is a […]
I view “property rights” the same way that the Left views race, gender, sexuality, etc. i.e. as a social construct that is relative to time, place, and the particular cultural framework that is involved, like table manners, marital customs, sexual morals, religious rituals, styles of dress or music, […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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