A reader writes: Re: the Taibbi article you shared today on the Myanmar coup and censorship going on there — one thing I’ve noticed over the past few years are more and more Americans entertaining the idea of a military coup here in the US, to “save the […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Sometimes I have this dream. A terrible dream. A dream about a war. It begins like any other war, with a big country attacking a weaker one. An empire chases an army of starving ghosts into a deep […]
All of us have been born and raised in an era in which the United States of America was the most powerful country in the world and it was in a position to determine many things on the global stage. The USA has been the one and only […]
I attempted to map every US Military base, and it was not easy.
Would the species even survive?
China is way overrated.
Just wait until the SHTF. America’s power grid is not ready.
She was my second favorite candidate after Tulsi, with Yang being third. Author and activist, Marianne Williamson, discusses raising the minimum wage and explains how it reveals what is wrong with the core of the U.S. economy.
Shopping malls in the U.S. were already in decline before the Covid-19 pandemic as consumers shifted away from traditional brick-and-mortar stores to e-commerce. The outbreak has only exacerbated the challenges at malls as social distancing has placed restrictions on stores, movie theaters and restaurants. So what will become […]
Point Roberts, Wash., on a peninsula jutting out from Canada beneath the 49th parallel, is a tiny piece of America separate from the U.S. mainland. Its isolation helped protect the community from the spread of COVID-19, but restrictions at the border have effectively trapped residents there – and […]
California’s model of combining Western European social norms with Latin American class structures is what the future of the USA will look like, and we’ve already moved a good ways in that direction, particularly since the pandemic began. As Oracle, Palantir and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise move their headquarters out […]
This nails it. Tuition at America’s public universities has nearly tripled since 1990. With President Biden looking to ease the burden for some students, experts explain how federal financial aid programs can actually contribute to rising costs.
I’ve often pissed off social conservatives by defending the rights of cultural groups who favor these kinds of “alternative” family arrangments to do their own thing, just as I have pissed off leftists and progressives by defending the rights of cultural groups who favor polygamy, arranged marriages, and […]
The two articles from Center for a Stateless Society linked to below illustrate very well the primary basis of the conflict between myself and the mainstream left-anarchist milieu. The first article calls for the creation of more nations, but only if they all have a liberal government, and […]
An interesting article on Ernst Junger. By Nigel Jones, The Critic In 1983 I was writing my first book The War Walk, a travelogue about World War One, when I read an article by Bruce Chatwin in the New York Review of Books detailing his encounter with the […]
By Alan McLeod DENVER — Elijah McClain would have turned 25 last week. However, in 2019, the introverted Black massage therapist was killed on the street by police in his native Aurora (a part of the Denver metropolitan area). None of the officers involved have faced charges for […]
Okay, this does merit “criticism.” It’s interesting how the left and FOX News are now converging in their definition of “socialism.” Carlson is not a socialist. He’s an economic nationalist. Glenn’s not a socialist either. He’s a progressive liberal. Given that it’s now once again fashionable for a […]
And here are the Sedarites attacking Greenwald. I also find Glenn’s politics to be a bit milquetoast, like Jimmy Dore’s, but he at least makes the effort. This is the guy who broke the Snowden case after all. Glenn Greenwald just seems to be going off the rails […]
The Sedarites attack Jimmy. I’m not a fan of Jimmy’s progressivism, which I think is far too milquetoast, statist, and reformist. But it’s interesting how folks like Dore or Glenn Greenwald or others on the left who make any effort at all to build working class solidarity, anti-imperialism, […]
If even Sam Sedar is at least partially aware of this problem, it must be bad. Sam host Denver University Professor of Law Nancy Leong to discuss her new book, Identity Capitalists: The Powerful Insiders Who Exploit Diversity to Maintain Inequality, on how the powerful wield diversity to ensconce their […]
SANAA (Reuters) – The Saudi-led military coalition battling Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement said on Sunday it conducted air strikes on Houthi military targets in Sanaa and other regions after the group launched armed drones towards Saudi Arabia. The coalition, which said it had destroyed 10 armed drones, said […]
It’s Going Down Interview between Perilous Chronicle and Lauren Regan of the Civil Liberties Defense Center. To listen to the latest It’s Going Down interview with Lauren Regan, go here. By Ryan Fatica On February 3, Standing Rock protester Steve Martinez appeared before a grand jury in North […]
It’s Going Down The following essay examines the explosion of mass struggles in India under the far-Right Modi government while comparing them to the George Floyd uprising in the United States, highlighting the role that mutual aid and self-organization played in each. To listen to an interview offering […]
This is an overview of the plans for the conquest of the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia developed by the neocons in the 1990s, and put into practice during the Bush, Obama, Trump, and now Biden regimes. Of course, what I find amazing is that so […]
Back in the 1990s, the neocons and Reaganites associated with groups like the Project for a New American Century, created a plan that called for the destruction of every nation in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia that was capable of presenting a challenge to US […]
Armstrong Economics One crisp winter morning in Sweden, a cute little girl named Greta woke up to a perfect world, one where there were no petroleum products ruining the earth. She tossed aside her cotton sheet and wool blanket and stepped out onto a dirt floor covered with […]
By John Wilnes In 1971, Dr. Seuss published a book you have almost definitely heard of: The Lorax. Generally regarded as a visionary masterpiece of world-making in children’s literature, some predictably called the work out as a didactic, anti-capitalist work of socialist propaganda for its take on the […]
By Glenn H. Reynolds, New York Post In America, class warfare is often disguised as culture war, and culture war is often cloaked by talk of race. But underneath it all, the class warfare is still there. Whether accidentally or intentionally, America’s upper classes seem to wind up […]
By Kevin Baldeosingh, Spiked What does it mean to be woke? Those who consider themselves woke, even if they don’t use the label, might see wokeness as an embrace of positive virtues, such as tolerance, fairness and awareness. The Oxford English Dictionary defines woke as meaning ‘alert to […]
By Max Blumenthal, Grayzone It is hard to think of an American film that provoked a greater backlash in 2020 than “Planet of the Humans.” Focused on the theme of planetary extinction and fanciful proposals to ward it off, the documentary was released for free on YouTube on […]
This is an important article. Matt Taibbi Not long ago, TK was contacted by a young writer from the beleaguered country of Myanmar, named Zaw Moe Shinn. Zaw, who is well known in his country for translating English books into Burmese, had just called a mutual acquaintance from […]
By Peter R. Quinones I’m finishing this week’s coverage of the Waco Massacre with what seems to be an unimportant accusation but is absolutely vital to the tale the State spun to justify their assault on a church/home. You will never hear me use the word “compound” as […]
By B. Venkat Mani, TELOS On February 2, the second day of Black History Month, a tweet from a Black woman in the United States unleashed a war of words in India, with global resonance. Rihanna, the Barbados-born U.S. singer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and cultural activist posted a one-liner: […]
It was a label I originally gave him, and he’s now apparently made it his own.
Alexander Reid-Ross is now affiliated with the Network Contagion Research Institute, an “anti-extremist” think tank that includes cops, prosecutors, and intelligence operatives, and which attacks ARR’s own left-anarchist milieu. Its financial backers are, among others, Charles Koch and George Soros. Apparently, a new anarchist tendency has emerged: “anarcho-feds” […]
Krystal Ball and Kyle Kulinski interview Dr. Carl Hart. Listen here. This week’s conversation with Dr. Carl Hart gave us the chance to dig into the topics of the U.S.’s racist and dysfunctional criminal justice system, the importance of personal freedoms, and the struggle to legalize drug usage. […]
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson, and Terminal Philosophy to discuss the recent debate Keith and I have on MDD on the topic of Socialism and Innovation.
I’m open to counterarguments from others, but these would be the three I would be inclined to pick: On the Right, Tom Cotton (Sunbelt/MIC/AIPAC/Saudi-backed). In the Center, Kamala Harris (Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Hollywood-backed). On the Left, Ibram X. Kendi (backed by Twitter and the left-wing of the […]
By C.J. Ciaramella, Reason Mark Schlefer, who died in November at age 98 in Vermont, lived a full life that included 36 combat missions on a bomber crew in World War II and starting a fund to provide tuition assistance for minority children at D.C.-area private schools. But […]
It’s interesting that one of the most reasonable of the Left’s prominent commentators today is an actual tankie, albeit a revisionist/Dengist rather than a hardline Stalinist.
I’d argue that McCarthyism was bad, and likely worse than the present “woke” moral panic (so far, at least) but not nearly as bad as either repression in Stalinist countries or other waves of repression in US history (racial persecution in the 19th and early 20th century or […]
Ben Burgis and Brent Lengel critique their debate with Todd Lewis and myself.
By Jon Kofas After four years of the Trump presidency, there are questions about the US, not necessarily as a ‘model’ or ‘the greatest’ democracy, but about the deeper structural problems at the root of the political turmoil behind “Trumpism” whose legacy will remain, just as Goldwater’slegacy sparked […]
Fracture, fracture, fracture… Team Rising discusses the possibility of a Trump 2024 presidential run.
Of course. Founder of The Daily Poster, David Sirota, explains the legal protections Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave nursing homes in New York
“The people need water!” Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to reports of a water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi.
Team Rising reacts to reports of a former big tobacco executive funding a third political party, The Serve America Movement.
“The people want bread!” Executive director of American Compass, Oren Cass, discusses what kind of support American’s want from the government.
Saagar Enjeti reacts to comments Michael Moore made following the Texas governor ending the statewide mask mandate.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to reports that the GOP is focusing on winning back a majority in the House by focusing on more diverse candidates.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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