Thomas Szasz pointed out decades ago that the medical and psychiatric professions had essentially become a “new priesthood.” They’ve since been joined by most of the professional class generally, particularly the “ideas industries” like journalism, media, and education. By Nick Gillespie, Reason Few journalists are more relentlessly iconoclastic […]
I strongly disagree that the Trump administration was “fascist,” as opposed to “neo-Nixonian.” But that’s just me. By Darian Worden, Center for a Stateless Society A victory over fascism deserves celebration. The fascists lost their hold on the most powerful political office. Their leader is disgraced and isolated. […]
As a Nietzschean, I don’t really believe in the concept of abstract “justice,” which I consider to be more of a Sorelian myth or a Platonic noble fable. By Cayce Jamil, Center for a Stateless Society If you listen to a protest, you will more than likely hear […]
By Marc Lamont Hill, ROAR Magazine As I reflect on the current moment, I see a widening sky of possibility. The public sphere is filled with radical voices, radical ideas and radical action. We are dreaming together, envisioning a free and safe world where we finally turn to […]
By Sean Gabb Though America is not my country, I have the right to some standing where American politics are concerned. Britain is a satellite state of America, and whoever rules in Washington has much power in London. A further consideration is that what may loosely be called […]
By Don Fitz During the late 60s, when the US war on Viet Nam was going strong and people were questioning capitalism, I drove from Eugene to Berkeley where my sister was living. I ran into folks who invited me to a discussion about starting a commune. There, […]
Caller wonders if there will be another Patriot Act passed after the Trump riot.
Not bad.
The media, universities, and tech companies are the new church, in the sense of being the institutions that determine, disseminate, and enforce the ideological superstructure of the ruling class and the dominant value paradigm of the wider society. The present “totalitarian humanist” paradigm regards as heresy, apostasy, blasphemy, […]
Arguably, the best discussion of the “cancel culture” element of totalitarian humanism I’ve seen to date. Hats off to these commies. Today we’re joined by Ben Burgis, Jacobin columnist and author of “Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique of the Contemporary Left, to talk about how […]
By Eugene Volokh, From his appearance on MSNBC yesterday (I quote from the transcript): We are now looking forward that the members of the Biden team who have been nominated or have been appointed, are now moving in laser like fashion to try to uncover as much as they can […]
By Jp Cortez, Sound Money Defense League The recent explosion of money printing and debt-funded spending by the U.S. in response to the Covid-19 pandemic has sparked a renewed interest in the key role gold and silver play in hedging against systemic risks. That’s why a group of […]
Protesters again took to the streets of Portland, Oregon, on Thursday — the first full day of Joe Biden’s presidency — to let the Democratic establishment know they are still fighting for racial justice, some told CNN.
I tend to agree with Kyle’s analysis in this.
“No bread for the peasants,” says Creepy Joe. Saagar Enjeti breaks down Biden’s early days in office and explains what he’s doing wrong and how he can change it.
Of course. Team Rising discusses key players who are for and against the Biden stimulus package.
It’s interesting how the two sides are now consistently accusing each other of being foreign puppets.
That didn’t take long either. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to the destruction of unions and discuss how it will negatively impact American workers.
Media outlets are the new churches just like universities are the new seminaries. Journalist and author, Matt Taibbi, discusses Americans’ diminishing trust in traditional media.
Well, that didn’t take long. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss Biden’s foreign policy plans based on the early actions of the administration.
By Eric Fleischmann, Center for a Stateless Society This year, in response to nationwide protests against police brutality, President Donald Trump has repeatedly attempted to associate Black Lives Matter with anarchists and anarchism. He has tweeted such threatening posts as just the phrase “Anarchists, we see you!” with […]
I can think of few things that more perfectly symbolize what the Democrats are about than Biden’s placing a bust of Cesar Chavez in the Oval Office (supposedly in the place of Winston Churchill) while recognizing Juan Gaido as the legitimate president of Venezuela. Of course, the Ben […]
The Trump Party would probably end up being like France’s National Assembly, a right-wing populist party where Uday, Qusay, or Ivanka would eventually succeed Trump as the party’s perennial candidate.
The Republicans are in the precarious position of having to choose between their corporate donors and still-loyal Trumpists, which is about 40% of their base.
Glad to see they are being non-partisan. (Reuters) – Anti-government and anti-fascist protesters in Portland and Seattle vandalized a Democratic Party office and other buildings and scuffled with police on Wednesday, protesting against President Joe Biden’s inauguration. People dressed in black and with their faces covered broke windows […]
by Alfred Charles, KOMONews.com Executive Producer SEATTLE — Hours after President Joe Biden was sworn into office and implored the nation to come together, dozens of protesters gathered Wednesday afternoon in Seattle’s Occidental Park for a tense demonstration that included a march through downtown in which a flag […]
I’m sure these “100 civil rights groups” will be taken very seriously by Sleepy Joe and Police State Kamala. By Scott Shackford, Reason Civil rights groups across the country are urging President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as Congressional Democrats, not to pass new […]
So if they have all of this infrastructure together why aren’t they doing something a little more radical like, I dunno, overthrowing the empire? By Stephen Zunes. Yes Magazine Since President-elect Joe Biden’s decisive win in November, there has been understandable consternation at the efforts by President Trump […]
The most serious domestic issue at present. The modern police state really began with Nixon’s war on drugs in the 1970s, which was expanded by Reagan and Poppy Bush in the 80s. It then became a general war on crime, guns, gangs, etc, in the 1990s, following by […]
Now the Red Tribe can form a “Resistance” of their own, I guess. Team Rising discusses a heated focus group conducted by Republican pollster, Frank Luntz.
Do it. Hopefully, Bret Weinstein’s Unity movement will eventually get off the ground as well. The more parties the better, and at every level. What we need is a Holy Roman Empire type of situation where there are so many factions they all end up constraining each other. […]
Bring it on. And let’s get the proposed “Peoples’ Party” from the left going as well. Fracture, fracture, fracture… By Matt Welch, Reason “Goodbye. We love you. We will be back in some form,” Donald Trump said at the end of his final speech as president of the […]
There is an interesting new piece from the leftist “antifascist” writer Matthew Lyons. He could be considered a “Blue Tribe fundamentalist” (similar to Chomsky and Carson, but not as sleazy as Reid-Ross or crazy as Gillis) so his work is often ideologically tunnel-visioned but he has an encyclopedic […]
I’m glad to see I am not the only one who recognizes this. A Lebanese professor of evolutionary psychology who lived through the civil war points out the parallels. Russia Today It’s the Democrats’ ideology-driven policy labeling the opposing camp ‘domestic terrorists’ and not Donald Trump’s legacy that’s […]
The term “totalitarian humanism” is the one I use for the self-legitimating ideological superstructure of the ruling classes, states, and power elites of developed (“First World”) countries. Totalitarian humanism’s core features would be the following: -masking imperialism under the guise of “human rights,” “collective security,” “duty to protect,” […]
We now have an interesting situation where the Democrats control the federal government and most large cities while the Republicans control a supermajority of the state governments. Qurom Last week the Republican Party established a federal trifecta and with wins in the Minnesota Senate, Kentucky House, and Iowa […]
They surrendered the capital in order to provoke a patriot act 2.0.
Richie Merino does NOT want people to call what happened on January 6 “a coup” or even attempted coup. Neither does Katie. And they have a slight disagreement with a viewer and friend of the show.
https://media.urmedium.com/video//2021/01/21/637468370782669362video.mp4
Bill Lind, a staunch paleoconservative and leading theoretician of fourth-generation warfare, calls for massive civil disobedience from the Right. I suspect that as the right-wing continues to shrink in size and lose power politically, it will increasingly adopt tactics like the 1960s radicals, including civil disobedience, mass demonstrations, […]
Mencius Moldbug argues the US is a “clerical oligarchy.” I agree half-way. My position is more like Joel Kotkin’s view of the US as a plutocratic-clerical oligarchy. By Mencius Moldbug Americans are used to a constitution which is a Constitution: half a holy document in a holy glass […]
Now if we could just have a President who wrecks the Democratic Party as bad as Trump wrecked the Republican Party. The best thing about Trump was that he made the state look like what it actually is, i.e. the mafia writ large, and having a chaos agent […]
By Stansfield Smith, One World With the exit of Trump, we can expect renewed threats against North Korea and increased military action in the Middle East. We will experience not just an end to presidential condemnations of the national security state, but its further unleashing on the US […]
By KYLE CHENEY and JOSH GERSTEIN, Politico Federal investigators have begun piecing together evidence that some of the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 were executing well-laid plans, deploying communications systems and issuing marching orders to rioters as they battled police. A new affidavit filed Tuesday […]
By Matt Taibbi It is symptomatic of the underlying tenor of American life that vulgar terms for sexual intercourse also convey the sense of getting the better of someone, working him over, taking him in, imposing your will through guile, deception, or superior force. — Christopher Lasch, The […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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