The Lockdown and the Power Elite
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson and Terminal Philosophy to discuss what the lockdowns tell us about the nature and power of the Western Elites.
Keith Preston
Did the Goofy One Actually Say Something Intelligent?
Of course, he quickly adds a list of qualifiers. “Don’t worry. I’m still an idiot.”
Index of Cults and Religions
The people who run this site are just as much of a “cult” as all of the groups they hate. However, any one of the groups on this list could likewise be the basis for intentional communities for folks who share common beliefs and values. Watchman Fellowship This […]
Third Parties Don’t Work: Why and How Egalitarians Should Transform the Democratic Party
I agree with Domhoff’s analysis of the party system, and why third parties can’t win, though I disagree with his solutions. None of the minor parties are qualified to run the state because no one is qualified the state. The purpose of minor parties should be merely propagandistic, […]
Understanding the Multifaceted Far-Right Movement
A pretty good overview fo the state of the far-right from a far-left perspective. WORT Community Radio The far-right movement isn’t monolithic—it’s a complex spectrum of organizations and ideologies. To help us break it down, today Allen is joined by Matthew N. Lyons, co-author of the landmark book […]
Ungovernable: An Interview with Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin
Black Rose Anarchist Federation Author and independent writer William C. Anderson interviews veteran organizer and former Black Panther and political prisoner Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin on the current political crisis, fascism and rising relevance of Black anarchism. We also urge you to generously contribute towards a fundraising campaign organized […]
The Dystopian Age of the Mask
How Ernst Jünger predicted the ubiquity of masks. By Thomas Crew The Critic Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) has Alphas, Betas, and Epsilon Semi-Morons – genetically engineered classes with uniform clothing and uniform opinions. Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1948) has the Thought Police and Newspeak. While Zamyatin’s We (1921) […]
Maneuver Warfare and What Comes Next
Fourth-generation warfare is growing in America. By William S. Lind Traditional Right The September 2020 issue of the Marine Corps Gazette announced a series of articles titled The Maneuverist Papers and offers the first, “Marine Corps Maneuver Warfare: The Historical Context,” by “Marinus”, whose initials I suspect are […]
What Would a Contested Election Look Like?
It’s Going Down There is a growing consensus across mainstream political and media circles that Trump will contest the upcoming 2020 election and throw the United States into a Constitutional – and potentially violent crisis – in order to hold on to power. But what does this potential […]
What Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death Means for America
The tribal civil war is about to intensify. Btw, if anyone thinks Old Hag Ruthie was a friend of freedom, liberty, rights, etc, then check out the Bennis v. Michigan case. By Russell Berman The Atlantic A furious battle over a Supreme Court vacancy is arguably the last […]
Scenes of mass grief as mourners line streets at funeral for Kim Jong Il- 2011
Ruth Bader Ginsburg mourners flock to Supreme Court
Report Fearmongers About ‘Far Left’ Extremists On Social Media
Leftists who favor censorship are ultimately digging their own grave. Look for the Western elites to increasingly try to impose the Chinese model of Internet censorship in the future.
Jerry Falwell Jr.’s Wife Reportedly Called 911 About ‘A Lot of Blood’ on Husband amid Sex Scandal
That Jerry. Still the same party animal he was 40 years ago. You haven’t seen wild living until you’ve been an evangelical. People Becki Falwell reportedly told police that her husband Jerry Falwell Jr. said he fell down the stairs and was bleeding “a lot.” READ MORE
Indigenous group patrols to expel invading loggers in Amazon
Associated Press ALTO RIO GUAMA INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil — A bit after sunrise, dozens of Indigenous Tembé men began preparing for the important day ahead. They danced, chanted and donned matching black T-shirts before setting off on motorbikes into Brazil’s Amazon forest. Self-declared “forest guardians,” their aim was […]
The Crushing Reality of Zoom School
Oh, please. What about all the kids who are homeschooled for their entire K-12 education and then go straight to college? By Dan Sinker Esquire “Are you muted?” The first thing my five-year-old learned in kindergarten, set up at a tiny desk in the corner of our dining […]
Why Biden May Win
By Paul Gottfried Intellectual Takeout Last week the Cotto-Gottfried podcast interviewed New York financier and widely read blogger Adam Townsend. He strongly believes Biden will win the presidential race. Townsend did not seem to relish his analysis and kept returning to this desperate defense of the president: “For […]
The Ruling Class Strikes Back
I disagree with aspects of the ideological flavor reflected in this article. But its core thesis seems to be cogent enough. A multi-dimensional insurrection (consisting of distinct but overlapping sectors such as the lumpenproletariat, middle-class radicals, ordinary hooligans, the far left, and sectors of the far right) is […]
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dead at 87
Another battle royale is coming. CBS News Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at the age of 87 from complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer. According to a statement from the court, Ginsburg died surrounded by her family at her home in Washington, D.C. Norah O’Donnell anchors […]
Three Ways Trump Is To The Left Of Joe Biden
Kim is always refreshingly independent.
Study provides first estimate of total US population with felony convictions
Eight percent of the US population are convicted felons. Science Daily New research led by a University of Georgia sociologist on the growth in the scope and scale of felony convictions finds that, as of 2010, 3 percent of the total U.S. population and 15 percent of the […]
As Many Americans Have Criminal Records as College Diplomas
There are more Americans who have a criminal record than Americans who have a dog. Awesome. By Matthew Friedman Brennan Center The number of Americans with a criminal history has risen sharply over the past three decades. Today, nearly one-third of the adult working age population has a […]
Why Are More Americans Than Ever Getting Busted?
The ever-expanding police state. By J.D. Tuccille Reason With the crime rate continuing its decades-long slide, why are arrests way up? The answer matters, because arrest records—and subsequent convictions—tend to cast a shadow, limiting people’s options and reducing their income for the rest of their lives. That is, […]
How Many Americans Have a Police Record? Probably More Than You Think
Criminals are the largest and most oppressed of all minorities. Crime Power Forever! Jo Craven McGinty Wall Street Journal Pop quiz: How many American adults have a criminal history? a) 5% b) 15% c) 30% It’s often reported that nearly 1 in 3 American adults, or about 30%, […]
An ICE Nurse Revealed That A Georgia Detention Center Is Performing Mass Hysterectomies
By Izzie Ramirez Refinery 29 On Monday, a nurse at a private immigration detention center in Georgia came forward about a range of dangerous medical practices at a U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility. According to her, the center has not only ignored COVID-19 protocols, but is […]
Breaking Hate: Confronting the New Culture of Extremism
An ex-skinhead discusses how to combat “hate.” While most if not all “far-right” groups would fail to create a better society than the one we have now, a problem with the “anti-hate” outlook is that it is only focused on illiberal forms of “hate.” Left-wing extremism, no matter […]
ICE Accused Of Running Human Experiments On Migrants
This would hardly be unprecedented.
Trump’s golden opportunity: Make Republicans the Antiwar Party
Ain’t gonna happen. The Republicans are completely in thrall to the armaments industries, petroleum industry, the Israel Lobby, and the Saudi Lobby. The Christian Zionists are their most loyal voting block. For the Republicans, Washington, DC is basically just West Tel Aviv or West Riyadh.
Reject the Duopoly
School Is Child Slavery
The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That’s Made the U.S. Less Secure
Maverick capitalist Nick Hanauer explains how the economy really works. By Nick Hanauer and David M. Rolf ike many of the virus’s hardest hit victims, the United States went into the COVID-19 pandemic wracked by preexisting conditions. A fraying public health infrastructure, inadequate medical supplies, an employer-based health […]
What comes after the left / right paradigm, if anything?
This is what our “antifascists” need to be focused on, not the shenanigans of some carnival barker like Trump. Wrench in the Gears I asked this question on social media today and got quite a few very thoughtful replies. One person asked me what led me to ask […]
On foreign policy, Biden is worse than Trump
The money quote: Because most Americans are self-centered and unconcerned about brown people in other nations, it’s ridiculous yet necessary to remind you that the Afghans we bomb are real people like you and me, that Iraqis are scarred for life when their children are hobbled by American […]
The Persistent Myth That Trump Opposes War
By Caitlin Johnstone Medium Whenever I criticize the foreign policy of the current US administration, I always get some pushback from Trump supporters who insist that this president is doing more good than harm by “fighting the Deep State” and, even more commonly, by “keeping us out of […]
Expect More Military “Liberal Interventionism” Under a Joe Biden Presidency
By Derek Davison and Alex Thurston The Jacobin The liberal establishment is desperate to return a centrist to the White House in November and reestablish the country’s more stable military dominance of the world order, disrupted only briefly by Donald Trump. Joe Biden’s terrible track record on foreign […]
Let’s Be Real: President Biden Would Probably Be More Hawkish Than Trump
By Caitlin Johnstone People who dislike Trump are often reluctant to talk about this, but it looks likely that a Biden administration would be more warlike than its predecessor. In a recent interview with US Department of Defense newspaper Stars and Stripes, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said […]
University of Wisconsin graduate student resigns from teaching role, admits she falsely claimed Black identity
Transracialism is apparently becoming a thing. So be it. By Kaelan Deese The Hill A University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) graduate student resigned from a teaching position after they admitted on social media to falsely claiming to be a person of color. CV Vitolo-Haddad apologized for the claims in […]
Militias Defending the System?
These folks who travel from city to city for the purpose of escalating left/right conflict need to stay at home and mind their own business. If all of the different political factions worked toward the purpose of turning their local communities into their ideal model of a startup […]
Two Lawyers Sentenced To Long Terms For FIREBOMBING Police Car, Media RUSHES To Defense
I can’t really see any principled objection to firebombing police cars (enemy military vehicles). The problem that I have with both conservative anti-protestors like Saager Enjeti and Tim Pool or liberal pro-protestors like Krystal Ball and Kyle Kulinski is that they all believe in the fundamental legitimacy of […]
60% Of Businesses Close Permanently As Unemployment Numbers Remain Steadily High
The pandemic has done wonders for expanding class divisions and further centralization of wealth control. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti break down the latest unemployment numbers, and how they have been steadily decreasing since April. Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and […]
Krystal and Saagar DEBATE: Should Violent Protesters Be Charged With Sedition By Bill Barr?
There is a little too much “law talk” in this segment for my tastes. The ideal situation would be for the center-right, center-left, far-right, and far-left to fight, both in the electoral system/political institutions and in the streets, to the point that none of these can achieve anything […]
The Cuties Controversy in Focus
Breaking Down Controversy On Whether Netflix ‘Cuties’ Hypersexualizes Young Children
Trump Says He Will ‘Negotiate’ Third Term Because He’s ‘Entitled’ To It
The true power elite is likely to say otherwise. Trump’s ego notwithstanding, US presidents are merely managers, not dictators. By Andrew Solender Forbes President Trump said Saturday that he plans to “negotiate” to run again in 2024 if he wins reelection in November, his latest in a series […]
Billionaires and the Far Left Are Trying to Create a New Soviet Union
The Soviet analogy really isn’t appropriate. Neoliberals are proponents of globalized technocratic state-capitalism, which uses feminism and multiculturalism to meet its human resources needs and construct a self-legitimating ideology. That has nothing to do with Communism.
The Coming Crisis of Legitimacy
By Yascha Mounk The Atlantic In normal times, it would seem outlandish to worry that an American president might refuse to concede defeat upon losing his bid for reelection. This year it is not. Even though he won in 2016, Donald Trump falsely claimed that he was the […]
Police or Prosecutor Misconduct Is at Root of Half of Exoneration Cases, Study Finds
By Aimee Ortiz New York Times Official misconduct played a role in the criminal convictions of more than half of innocent people who were later exonerated, according to a new report by a registry that tracks wrongful convictions. According to the report, by the National Registry of Exonerations, […]
Barr told prosecutors to consider charging violent protesters with sedition
By Catherine Garcia The Week During a phone call last week with federal prosecutors, Attorney General William Barr said they should consider charging anyone who committed a violent crime during recent protests with sedition, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal and The New York […]
Suicide of the Liberals
By Gary Saul Morson First Things Between 1900 and 1917, waves of unprecedented terror struck Russia. Several parties professing incompatible ideologies competed (and cooperated) in causing havoc. Between 1905 and 1907, nearly 4,500 government officials and about as many private individuals were killed or injured. Between 1908 and […]
The Time to Stop Coddling Saudi Arabia is Now
By Ivan Eland The American Conservative n Bob Woodward’s book Rage, the author quotes President Trump as claiming that he “saved” de facto Saudi ruler Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) after the assassination and dismemberment of Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi. Trump reportedly said, “I was able to get […]
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