Why Kamala’s Yasss Queen Identity Politics FAILED To Deliver
This a good takedown of the Democrats. Krystal Ball explains why candidates shouldn’t be judged by the diversity box they check, but by their records, views, and commitments to voters.
Keith Preston
Charles Koch REGRETS Driving Partisanship With His Billions
Actually, “driving partisanship” was the best thing Koch ever did. Thanks, Charlie. Team Rising discusses Charles Koch’s new book and his statements about partisanship.
Oregon Decriminalizes ALL Drugs In Watershed Moment
The universal victory of anti-police state referendums was the most important thing to come out of the election, much more so than the presidential contest. But the big question is what will the state attack as it loses the drug war as a tool? Executive Director of the […]
Trump Allies Raise $200 Million For Trump TV, Will It Work?
Trump TV would be hilarious, particularly if it created a major split between FAUX and the Trumpists. Divide, divide, divide… Team Rising gives their take on reported plans by Trump allies to buyout Newsmax TV as a Fox News Alternative.
Fox News Anchors At War With Themselves Over Election Fraud Coverage
A split between the neocons and Trumpists at FAUX News. Hopefully, some serious bloodletting takes place.
Has The ACLU Forgotten About Free Speech Under Trump?
I belonged to the ACLU briefly in the 1990s. They’ve always had a big internal debate over “Should we be progressives or should we be actual civil libertarians?” Journalist, Zaid Jilani, discusses how the ACLU’s platforms could change in a post-Trump era.
Prepare for the Coming Multi-Order World
The end of American unilateral hegemony will not be merely a return to the multi-polar order of the liberal era prior to the two world wars. Nor will it be the kind of multi-partner system envisioned by the liberal internationalists or the multicultural “global community” envisioned by the […]
Fascism, newnormalism and the left
This article nails it down pretty down. The main thing I would add is the left’s embrace of scientism (“science” is not merely a process capable of generating error like anything else but the modern version of a papal bull) and therapeutism (“health” is the highest value and […]
Why Artsakh Still Matters to American Anarchism
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The news broke like a fever last Monday night. A deal had been signed by Armenia and Azerbaijan to end the bloody month long war in Nagorno-Karabakh which had claimed the lives of thousands on both sides. This […]
America is NOT a Developing Nation for Most People
I’ve generally noticed that the people with the best foreign policy analysis tend to be hardcore libertarians/an-caps or hardcore Marxist-Leninists/Maoists. The same is true of class analysis. Both will point out that a middle-class American is within the global 1% of income level. Jason also explains how most […]
What Happened to the Anti-War Movement?
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston and Logos to discuss the near-total collapse of the anti-war movement. This is the Jason Unruhe video I referenced in this. This more or less explains why there is no constituency for anti-imperialism in the US,
The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse
By Graeme Wood, The Atlantic Peter Turchin, one of the world’s experts on pine beetles and possibly also on human beings, met me reluctantly this summer on the campus of the University of Connecticut at Storrs, where he teaches. Like many people during the pandemic, he preferred to […]
The 2020 Election Had the Highest Voter Turnout in Modern History
Usually about half of eligible voters actually participate. This time it was two-thirds. By Annie Goldsmith, Town and Country record number of Americans turned out to vote in this year’s presidential race between President Donald Trump and now President-Elect Joe Biden. Biden just won the presidency with over […]
Elite transnational fascism
This is a pretty good analysis/overview although “fascism” really isn’t the correct term for what is being described, which is something far more sophisticated than the classical cult of the strongman. Fascism is something that tends to emerge in societies that are still in a relatively early stage […]
Twilight of American Imperialism?
By Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò Might we be witnessing but not heeding a historical moment that years hence, we wouldlookbackandretrospectivelychristenthetwilightofAmericanimperialism? DonaldTrumpstarted a trend the very first year of his presidency of withdrawing or threatening to withdraw from sundry international agreements that previous administrations had negotiated and signed on behalf of […]
How QAnon infiltrated the yoga world
I’ve also seen plenty of commentaries describing how yoga, hiking clubs, stamp collectors clubs, and even the Southern Baptist Convention are being infiltrated by SJWs. Apparently, everything is becoming politicized, even stuff that shouldn’t rationally be considered political. And “both sides” are increasingly coming to view an electoral […]
Trump asked aides if he could pursue a wild plan to replace the Electoral College with loyalists who would ignore the vote, report says
When Trump was elected, there were liberals and leftists call for a reversal of the election by the Electoral College as well. By Tom Porter, Business Insider President Donald Trump has asked aides about a plan to remain in office by subverting the Electoral College, The New York […]
DHS boss Chad Wolf defies Trump order to fire cyber chief Chris Krebs
So Chad Himmler defies the orders of the Orange Fuhrer? This has got to be the most limp-dicked “coup attempt” in history. By Steven Nelson, New York Post Department of Homeland Security acting Secretary Chad Wolf is defying President Trump’s order to terminate election cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs, […]
We have only four years to prevent a fascist USA: Here’s what we need to do now
The most immediately obvious problem with this article is that it merely makes the left-opposition into an appendage of the Democratic Party (to the degree they are not already) held captive by rightwingophobia. Although a valid point the article makes is that the neocons will indeed attempt to […]
Harris Should Lead the Way on Repealing SESTA/FOSTA
Good luck with getting Kamala to roll back any aspect of the police state. By Cathy Reisenwitz Kamala Harris’s election as U.S. vice president is truly historic. Harris is the first woman and first Black American to serve as vice president, the first Black woman ever even nominated […]
One-Dimensional Thinking Fails
The ironic thing about this meme is that the Republicans have actually become more diverse under Trump.
Trump’s low-energy coup attempt?
This is a somewhat interesting analysis from a left-communist/an-com/Bordigist perspective. Listen here.
Interview With Derrick Jensen
Why Politicizing Climate Action Causes Everyone To Lose
Hillary Clinton Being Discussed For UN Ambassador. Expect More War!
A ruling class unity regime is now in power without the distraction of Trump as a chaos agent. I’m sure Bill Kristol is overjoyed.
Why 2016 Was A Success For Trump And Bernie And 2020 Was A Bust
4 Years Under Silicon Valley? Biden/Harris, Brzezinski, Marilyn Ferguson & Imperialism
Caleb Maupin on the rising ruling class that is becoming dominant among the US power elite.
The Failer Strategy
A pretty good discussion of the demographics of US electoral politics from a paleoconnish perspective. I expect to the Republican Party to take more leftward drift in the future and develop elements that more closely resemble European Christian Democrats (very mild social democratic rhetoric couched in quasi-religious terms) […]
Traditional Conservatism Can Never Defeat The Enlightenment Left
A pretty interesting discussion of the Left/Right divide from a thone-and-altar perspective. My take on the Left/Right dichotomy is that while there are important philosophical differences between the two but, as Kirkpatrick Sale and Peter Marshall have pointed out, the wider anarchist critique of power is over and […]
One Third of Biden’s Pentagon Transition Team Hails From Organizations Financed by the Weapons Industry
By Sarah Lazare, In These Times In July 2019, while campaigning for the Democratic nomination for president, Joe Biden declared in a foreign policy speech, “It’s past time to end the Forever Wars, which have cost us untold blood and treasure.” But the president-elect — who as vice president oversaw wars […]
Burke on the Inhumanity of the French Revolution
By Bradley Birzer, The Imaginative Conservative The grand Anglo-Irish statesman, Edmund Burke (1729-1797) spent much of his last eight years dwelling upon the French Revolution as well as trying to define its most important elements. If the British failed to understand the “armed doctrine” of the Revolutionaries as […]
This 50 Year-Old Economics Book Helps Explain the Corporate Republic We Live In
By James K. Galbreath, The Nation The New Industrial State was my father’s great work of theory. First published in 1967, nearly a decade after the triumph of The Affluent Society, The New Industrial State went beyond criticism of orthodox economics, beyond Marx and beyond Keynes—toward a full […]
The Impending Crisis
By Peter Turchin Something happened in the United States during the 1970s. According to a number of indicators, well-being of the majority of Americans, which had been growing for many decades, entered a regime of stagnation and, eventually, decline. The trend towards greater equality in incomes and wealth […]
Another Horror Show Election Means It’s Time for a New Localism
By Matt Purple, The American Conservative It’s time for a new electoral map, one that colors the states according to what Donald Trump thinks should happen to the votes there. So make Pennsylvania and Michigan lavender since Trump wants their counting to stop. Arizona can go mauve since […]
Biden Will Have The Most Diverse, Intersectional Cabinet Of Mass Murderers Ever Assembled
By Caitlin Johnstone Well, you’ll be happy to know that the next US president and his crack team of ventriloquists are assembling a cabinet of mass murderers that’s as diverse, inclusive and intersectional as America herself. It’s been obvious for a long time that Joe Biden’s cabinet would […]
Negative Theology, Power, and the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict
By Aryeh Botwinick,TELOS From a Machiavellian perspective, peace is war by other means. You can have a much greater watchful vigilance of your former (or future) opponent in times of peace than in a time of war. Israel as a sponsor (or co-sponsor) of a kind of Middle […]
There Ain’t No Black in the Anarchist Flag! Race, Ethnicity and Anarchism
By Sureyyya Evren Although anarchists have a central interest in problems of domination and oppression, concepts of race and ethnicity have not been subject to sustained analysis in anarchist literature. This failure can be explained with reference to the priority that has been given to the great ideas […]
Black Flag, White Masks: Anti-Racism and Anarchist Historiography
By Sureyyya Evren Dominant histories of anarchism rely on a historical framework that ill fits anarchism. Mainstream anarchist historiography is not only blind to non-Western elements of historical anarchism, it also misses the very nature of fin de siècle world radicalism and the contexts in which activists and […]
How Many Votes Did Kanye West Get For President?
Why Donald Trump Deserved to Lose
With the exception of Obama and maybe Jimmy Carter, he was the most liberal president in US history.
Here’s EVERYTHING You Need To Know About How Election Will Finally End
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti share their thoughts on what will happen after all 50 states certify their election results.
Biden Considers HILLARY For His Administration
What could possibly go wrong?
How Some Lincoln Project Ads Pushed Voters To TRUMP
The voters said no to the neocons? Jacobin Editor-A-Large, David Sirota, discusses how the Lincoln Project’s goal to “reduce Republican Trump support” may have actually backfired
FED Chair WARNS Of Catastrophic Damage To Economy
The richest ruling class in history presiding over a Third World class system. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss The Labor Department’s report that jobless claims hit 709,000 for the week ending Nov. 7, down from 757,000 the week before.
Andrew Yang: A Warning For Democrats Obsessed With The Suburbs
A pretty good discussion of automation is included in this. Founder of Humanity Forward, Andrew Yang, reacts to the results of the 2020 election. He also discusses his hope for the future of UBI.
Trump May IMMEDIATELY Declare For 2024 When Election Called For Biden
Trump out of power but as a permanent thorn in the side to both the Democrats and Republicans might actually be a positive thing, particularly if he starts his own TV network to undermine FOX.
No Matter the Liberal Metric Chosen, the Bush/Cheney Administration Was Far Worse Than Trump.
By Glenn Greenwald, Subtack That the liberal belief in and fear of a Trump-led fascist dictatorship and violent coup is actually a fantasy — a longing, a desire, a craving — has long been obvious. The Democrats’ own actions proved that they never believed their own melodramatic and […]
The US was lucky to get Trump – Biden may pave the way for a more competent autocrat
I suspect the neocons are planning to find someone they can use to harness the energy of Trumpism toward their own ends, but without the loose cannon of Trump himself. In fact, I’m certain of it. They were successful at embedding themselves in the administration to a large […]
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger reveals his hopes for the next president: ‘I like Joe Biden’
There will be no “coup.” The ruling class and the global power elite of which it is a part have clearly spoken. Kissinger represents the very upper levels of the ruling class and is intricately connected to power elites in other nations and on an international level. His […]
Without Borders or Limits: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Anarchist Studies
By Jorell Melendez Badillo, Reynaldo Padilla-Teruel Driving to the Canadian border in January 2011, headed for Toronto and NAASN-II with my friends Daniel and Susan, I was asked the purpose of our visit. “To attend an academic conference,” I said, perhaps a little too briskly, because the guard […]
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