As Joel Kotkin points out, the USA really is becoming more like a feudal-royal system where the court media fawns over celebrity-aristocrat politicians and royal family dynasties, with the new clerisy enforcing moral orthodoxy, and the peasants being left to starve. Krystal Ball breaks down how mainstream media […]
Team Rising discusses the sexual harassment allegations against Gov. Andrew Cuomo and reacts to statements made by his brother, CNN anchor, Chris Cuomo.
Trumpism: An egomaniac who couldn’t care less about politics does a less articulate Spiro Agnew impersonation in order to build a celebrity personality cult. Saagar Enjeti reacts to Donald Trump’s official definition of “Trumpism” and explains why its not very accurate.
“Hey, Saudis, that’s a might nice embassy you’ve got there. It would be a shame if…” By Daniel Larison, The American Conservative Bruce Riedel calls for the U.S. to pressure the Saudi coalition to end their blockade of Yemen: For the war to end, the Biden administration will […]
I will always be grateful to Donald Trump for taking control of the Republican Party, completely running it into the ground, making it into a Titanic-level disaster, and a bigger laughing stock than it was before. Now if only someone could do the same for the Democrats. Jane […]
How is a dude who can barely talk or think going to hold press conferences? Team Rising reacts to calls for the Biden administration to be more transparent with the public.
“Left foreign policy”: Brown nose neoliberals to the point of eventually drifting into neoconservatism. The Stalinist Left and paleoconservative, Rothbardian libertarian, and (select) Alt-Right sectors are usually pretty good on foreign policy. Virtually everyone else sucks. Three cheers for the mythical Red-Brown alliance! May all of Alexander Reid-Ross’s […]
It’s rather amusing to watch all of these do-gooders begging the ruling class for more crumbs. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the progressive push, particularly from Sen. Sanders, to keep the fight to raise the minimum wage alive.
The last thing either party wants to focus on is bread and butter issues. That’s why they’re doubling down on culture war issues because they hope they can use those as a permanent distraction from issues that actually threaten the class interests of those running both parties.
By Joel Kotkin, Quillette Politicians across the Western world like to speak fondly of the “middle class” as if it is one large constituency with common interests and aspirations. But, as Karl Marx observed, the middle class has always been divided by sources of wealth and worldview. Today, […]
Author and professor at Georgetown University, Trita Parsi, discusses Biden-ordered airstrikes in Syria.
More fragmentation. Journalist Zaid Jilani discusses allegations of racial profiling at Smith College and the investigation that followed.
The Republicans seem to have accepted they are destined to be a permanent minority party, and their strategy is to merely play the role of obstructionists. Saagar Enjeti explains how out of touch Republican lawmakers are with the general public, particularly when it comes to the COVID relief […]
The more conflict between the neoliberals and the Left, the better. And the more in-fighting within both the Left and neoliberals, the better. Krystal Ball outlines how President Joe Biden is slowly losing the support of the left.
Excellent. A fragmented world is our only hope for resisting global technocratic totalitarianism and creating the breathing room needed for the proliferation of the startup societies that will replace the statocratic systems that are currently dominant. Peter Zeihan is president and founder of the firm Zeihan on Geopolitics, […]
Fragment, fragment, fragment… Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to the biggest moments at CPAC this past weekend, including Donald Trump’s first public speech since leaving office.
Based on my own extensive observations of and interactions with people who have been in both camps, I’d say it was usually the same thing on “both sides.” Mostly assholes who just like to fight about shit. I’m also suspicious of anyone who refers to themself as a […]
CPAC is hardly my cup of tea, but I would not be surprised if within a few years CPAC will be getting the same treatment as Alt-Right gatherings. All it would take would be for hotels like the Hyatt to be threatened with riots, arson, terrorism, etc. for […]
By James Bovard, Ron Paul Institute Acrimony and recriminations continue to swirl around the 2020 presidential election. Three out of four Republicans believe that there was “widespread fraud” in the election, while Democrats have sought to turn criticisms of the election into a “Big Lie” heresy against democracy. Senior congressional […]
A good cause. By Victor Koman If you’ve ever heard the words Agorism or Counter-Economics, then you might know that these revolutionary anarcho-libertarian concepts were the brainchild of Samuel Edward Konkin III. I’m Victor Koman, Sam’s friend and ally from 1974 until his unexpected death in 2004. I’m […]
Films Media Group Joe Berlinger explores the effectiveness and justness of mandatory sentencing in a current climate that preaches reform. In Florida, the unintended consequences of mandatory minimum gun laws seem to outweigh its merits as a father is sent to prison for 20 years for “defending his […]
By Edward Skidelsky, The Critic In March 2019, tax expert Maya Forstater was dismissed from her job — legally, according to a later judicial ruling — for voicing the view that “sex is a biological fact, and is immutable.” When author J.K. Rowling came to Forstater’s defence, she […]
While I obviously don’t agree with Caleb’s Stalinism, most of his analysis in this is entirely correct.
By Ian Schwartz, Real Clear Politics Political commentator and YouTube host Jimmy Dore appeared on Tucker Carlson on Wednesday and said the nation’s leaders want to keep people divided and the country in chaos with incompetent COVID handling to prevent Americans from noticing that the United States is […]
The new Father Charles Coughlin?
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It initial assault on the Branch Davidians at Waco occurred 28 years ago today. By MURIEL PEARSON, SPENCER WILKING and LAUREN EFFRON, ABC News When the sun rose on April 19, 1993, it marked the 51st day of a standoff between dozens of federal agents and members of […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley If this isn’t the winter of our discontent then John Steinbeck can die twice writing shitty novels in an igloo of frozen dicks. This winter has been a toxic cloud of ice fog belched from the bowels of […]
I’m pretty sure this is called “scientific racism,” ethnocentrism, xenophobia, etc. in other contexts. “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of the Kremlim” by James Clapper. Keep in mind Clapper was one of the folks who helped the neocons perpetrate the “Iraq WMD” fraud (see here). By Danielle […]
By Damon Root, Reason In 2019, the California Court of Appeal, 1st Appellate District, ruled that a police officer may always enter a suspect’s home without a warrant if the officer is in pursuit of the suspect and has probable cause to believe that the suspect has committed […]
By James Keltner, Mises Institute These days, it sure looks like they have them right where they want them. Using the storming of the Capitol Building as a pretext, the media-government alliance has targeted Trump, his supporters, and their fellow travelers harder than ever before. Many on the […]
The purge is moving along a lot more rapidly than even I would have thought.
By No-Wing Anarchy, Medium The Bolshevik “betrayal” of anarchists during the Russian Revolution is a commonly known, and almost overly debated instance where anarchism has come into open and bloody conflict with leftism. There is no end to the accusations of murder at Kronstadt, or in Ukraine, and […]
@Peter Zeihan analyses the recent developments of Covid and geopolitics. @Zeihan on Geopolitics also explores a global geopolitical view of the post-covid world.
David French is a total fraud whose only function is to serve as Bill Kristol’s butt buddy. The neocons’ strategy in response to Trumpism was to attempt to both co-opt Trumpism and embed themselves in his administration, while at the same time working to undermine him by forming […]
It appears that, increasingly, some of the most hysterically fanatical anti-racist people are white, while individuals and groups that are labeled racist or even white supremacist are becoming more ethnically diverse. This is an interesting cultural phenomenon. While controversies involving race conflict or which overlap with race issues […]
In the developing world where armed struggle is viable and, often, actually taking place, yes. In the USA, an “anarchist army” would merely be a bunch of dumbasses who ended up shooting themselves or getting taken down by the feds after falling into some kind of entrapment scheme. […]
By Barbara Boland, The American Conservative Why would the ambassador of a country with just 1.5 million citizens feel able to shout at a member of the U.S. Congress? “Because for decades, we have pursued a foreign policy that put their interests ahead of our own,” wrote Trita […]
The European Union’s top foreign policy official has called for a concerted effort to use what he has referred to as a “diplomatic window of opportunity” in order to revive a 2015 nuclear agreement signed between Iran and major world powers. “This is an occasion that we cannot […]
Actually, there are a lot more than these, particularly when single-issue or identity-driven conflicts are included. I would generally be fine with any of those as long as they are voluntary or at least localized enough where exit costs are low enough to make them quasi-voluntary. Although some […]
They’re not so much “wrong” as “unnecessary” at least when applied in a statist context. I suppose any kind of society would always have conflicts between those who want to remain static or turn back the clock, and those who want to experiment with new ways of doing […]
By David Hines, The American Conservative Conservatives, elected and unelected, need to think proactively about mutual aid. I had a different column or six in the hopper for this week, but then Ted Cruz ran into a buzzsaw of criticism for trying to sneak in a Cancun vacation […]
By George Petras, Karina Zaiets and Veronica Bravo | USA TODAY Nearly 20 months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President George W. Bush stood on an aircraft carrier under a giant “Mission Accomplished” banner and declared “major combat operations in Iraq have ended.” Nearly 18 years later, the U.S. […]
The only real function of elections is to decide which pro-wrestling promotion will get to staff the political wing of the military-industrial-complex for the next four years. Will it be WWE or WCW this time?
Rarely I have seen an image that summarizes what the Democraps are really about better than this.
Spencer Sunshine once said that there were four categories he favored excluding from the Left: 1) tankies; 2) TERFS; 3) Anti-Semites; 4) Cops. Given Alexander Reid Ross’s latest shenanigans, it looks like Spencer is going to have to rescind #4.
The Proud Boys fracture? About what? The jerkers vs. anti-jerkers? The System is fracturing. The Red and Blue tribes are fracturing. And the fringes of the Red and Blue tribes are fracturing. Awesome. By Marissa J. Lang, Washington Post As members of the Proud Boys arrived at the […]
Alexander Reid-Ross and his friends are folks who have lambasted me for years for daring to talk to anti-system tendencies with less than woke views about a lot of things. But this is apparently who they find acceptable. Anarcho-cops/anarcho-spooks. It had to happen, I suppose. Check out The […]
By David E. Sanger, New York The decision will disappoint the human rights community and members of his own party who complained during the Trump administration that the U.S. was failing to hold Mohammed bin Salman accountable. WASHINGTON — President Biden has decided that the diplomatic cost of […]
By B. Venkat Mani, TELOS On November 26, 2020, when international borders were still partially closed due to the global coronavirus pandemic, a new democratic and peaceful movement was taking shape in India, led by farmers. They wanted to register their protest against three contentious agricultural reform laws […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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