I strongly suspect that this 1918/1929 reboot will continue for quite some time. Particularly since a lot of folks haven’t exactly been social distancing lately. And while insurrections can certainly achieve positive things, immediate economic growth and restoration of consumer confidence aren’t really among. By Chris Arnold NPR […]
I have long believed that the US ruling class has a “Flight 93” plan where, if all else fails, they will simply foment a multi-faction civil war pitting as many ethnic, religious, political, and cultural groups against each other as possible. Think of Lebanon in the early 1980s, […]
I couldn’t care less if the Crispus Attucks of the present uprising was a crack/coke/meth head, a career criminal, or a total scumbag. In fact, I think it’s hilarious. I don’t care if Derek Chauvin had 100 good citizen awards. That’s not the point. I’ve always said that […]
The main disagreement I have with old guard anarcho-syndicalists is their class reductionism, workerism, and economism. The main disagreement I have with modern left-anarchists is their Plato’s forms version of totalitarian humanism. Clearly, race reductionism is just as invalid as class reductionism. Cop reductionism doesn’t seem to work […]
It’s not surprising this would happen in North Carolina. Footwashing is considered to be a sacrament (like Baptism or Eucharist) in some really, really low rent Protestant denominations (whose members are almost always poor whites or poor blacks). But it is interesting to see a practice that is […]
The only kind of “police reform” I’m interested in is the kind that involves fewer laws, fewer arrests, fewer prosecutions, and fewer incarcerations. And it’s not just about “bad apples,” either. A lot of the supposed “good apples” (the ones who are in technical compliance with the “law”) […]
By Dr. Hawzhin Azeez In the last week, we have seen another horrific case of police brutality emerge in the United States with the senseless murder of George Floyd. Following inadequate police response public outrage ensued as the four police officers responsible were only ‘fired’ without further consequence. […]
By the Libertarian Heathen We cannot stop at Confederate Monuments like the one Commissar Lenny Curry removed in Jacksonville! We need to demolish the Pyramids. They were built by slaves. Hebrew slaves too, so they also represent anti-semitism. They fed slaves to lions in the coliseum in Rome. […]
What I find most interesting about mainstream media coverage of the uprising is the constant focus on either race/ethnicity or left/right extremist groups. And I’ve seen just as much of this is the fringe media as well, which leads me to think I was probably correct to suspect […]
This image more or less tells the story of my life, although instead of saying, “Excuse me” I’ve just as often said, “Get the fuck out of my way.”
By Troy Southgate How interesting that British tea giants PG Tips and Tetleys have come out in support of Black Lives Matter. Although these capitalist parasites will be hoping to sell more teabags as a result of uttering a few politically correct platitudes, I suppose they’ve forgotten how […]
By Troy Southgate When are all these Americanised Europeans going to realise that removing a few statues, changing the signs on the bathroom door, jailing neo-nazi fantastists for making jokes about immigrants, dragging a few disabled people up the side of Mount Everest or giving the Mayor of […]
It wouldn’t personally bother me if we had schools named after serial killers like Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer, or famous gangsters like Al Capone or John Dillinger. In fact, I’d likely be in favor of it. But I understand the psychological and ideological reasons for this kind […]
The police aren’t going to be defunded so it’s something of a moot issue. But it would not necessarily be a step upward if the police were replaced merely with private mercenaries, armies of social workers, ordinary criminals, or left/right ideologically/racially-driven vigilantes. I view pan-anarchism/pan-secessionism as a means […]
By Helen Buyniski Russia Today As the massive anti-police-brutality protests sweeping the US are diverted into calls to “defund the police” and to replace them with community-based enforcers, Americans would be wise to keep an eye on “who benefits.” There’s no question US police departments have become too […]
I seriously doubt it is only anarchists or Antifa who are involved in this even in a deep blue zone like Seattle. The uprisings over the past couple of weeks are too massive to be driven by “extremist” groups of any kind. I’ve been observing movements like that […]
Apparently, a lot of these “white power” types failed drivers’ ed. By JUSTIN MATTINGLY and REED WILLIAMS Richmond Times-Dispatch The Hanover County man arrested Sunday for driving his truck into a crowd of protesters “is an admitted leader of the Ku Klux Klan and a propagandist for Confederate […]
This park is about a 10-minute drive from my residence. I know some of the people mentioned in this article, one of whom I’ve known for over 30 years. By ALI SULLIVAN AND ZACH JOACHIM Richmond Times-Dispatch About a thousand protesters gathered around the city’s monument to Christopher […]
The Chinese have their problems but they’re being used by the US regime to deflect Americans’ attention from the fact that they’re being ruled by incompetent morons. William Jones is the Washington Bureau Chief for the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR). He is also a Non-Resident Fellow of the […]
WHO announces asymptomatic people who have COVID-19 are at very low risk of spreading the disease.
This is an interesting discussion. They both have unusual perspectives given their unusual backgrounds. John Wood, Jr. is a former Republican nominee for Congress, contributor at Quillette and Areo Magazines, and a national spokesperson for Braver Angels. Read his compelling op-ed about his experience growing up Black in […]
Krystal’s commentary in this is pretty “radical” for a mainstream social democrat. She’s nowhere near where I am but this isn’t bad. Though she takes the standard “less money for police, more for social services” line, similar to the “less money for war, more for whatever” line many […]
This is pathetic. Even Krystal and Saager can hardly keep a straight face when they discuss this. It’s also apparent the neocons are now colonizing the Democraps now that the Repugnicans are fully Trumpized. As I have long predicted, neoconservatism and totalitarian humanism are bending towards each other. […]
This statue is located about a block from my residence. There is a row of Confederate monuments that line the avenue where the Lee statue is located, and which have predictably been vandalized and tagged with graffiti in recent days. Kyle generally strikes me as a reasonable leftist. […]
One of the very first college classes I ever had (around 37 years ago) was a “history of Western civilization” course where the professor showed a film with actors playing the parts of Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine, and reenacting this classic “debate.” The assignment was to choose […]
Current faux Sinophobic rhetoric aside, China is just a province in global capitalism, a loan and labor mine for Western governments and corporations, and a test market in state repression. Far too many Western radicals promote China, Russia, Syria, Iran, North Korea, etc. as model societies or as […]
The Antifa always run away or lose when they actually get into a confrontation with those who know how to fight. They got into it with some Nazis in Sacramento a few years ago, and even though the Antifa outnumbered their opponents 6 to1 they ended taking casualties […]
I am 100% in favor of many of the ideas being pushed by criminal justice “reformers” such as the abolition of cash bail, repealing mandatory minimum sentencing, civilian review boards, body cameras, police accountability, de-escalation training, etc. But let’s not pretend these are “radical” ideas or even particular […]
Because the police don’t care if someone is filming them if the wider apparatus of the state is backing them up. Why does anyone think Derek Chauvin choked George Floyd to death knowing full well he was being filmed the whole time? Because he thought the department, prosecutor’s […]
by Don Fitz Beginning in December 1951, Ernesto “Che” Guevara took a nine-month break from medical school to travel by motorcycle through Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela. One of his goals was gaining practical experience with leprosy. On the night of his twenty-fourth birthday, Che was at […]
These FOX News dumbasses are so predictable. They spring into action right on cue, lol. Don’t worry, Greg. Your police state is safe. Like I said, the Prussian-inspired “progressives” merely want to have an army of social worker police. The real purpose of the welfare state has always […]
LOL. This is so predictable. The progressives insincerely co-opt a genuinely radical idea, and then the right-wing actually takes them seriously, and points the finger saying, “Look at those extremists over there!” What’s interesting about Carlson is that on economics and foreign policy he often sounds like Bernie […]
Our own Vince describes what is really happening with the “defund the police” movement. This is entirely predictable. This is a huge issue nationwide: the movement being co-opted by liberal/democratic forces. Essentially what has happened is the movement is being forked. There are heavy government resources being thrown […]
Well, that didn’t take long. When America’s own Prince Andrew picks up on “defund the police” we know something’s up. This is like some regional feudal overlord or lower strata royalty from the Middle Ages saying, “Defund the King’s knights!” in the aftermath of a peasant revolt. Obviously, […]
David Pakman is obviously concerned that “abolish the police” rhetoric is going to scare the hell out of suburban swing voters and undermine Biden’s electoral chances. I would agree with that if I gave a shit about Biden’s electoral chances. Predictably, the policing system that David is advocating […]
Ironically, she’s not really that radical. She’s just a McGovernite liberal. When and where have all these supposed “radicals” like AOC, Sanders, “the Squad,” Keith Ellison, DSA, etc. called for, I dunno, abolishing the state, overthrowing the ruling class, or global anti-imperialist struggle against the empire? Nowhere, as […]
Tom Woods raises some important questions about “defunding the police” that left, right, and center libertarians (along with honest socialists and dissident rightists) should consider. The “progressives” aren’t going to give up on their beloved managerial state and social engineering this easily. And the now-hated suburbanite “Karens” are […]
Modern policing systems were developed in England in the early 19th century, during the early period of the Industrial Revolution, for the purpose of controlling what were called the “dangerous classes,” i.e. workers. In America, the racial caste system was enacted parallel to the system of class stratification, […]
Brian Bean Rampart Mag Today marks two weeks since George Floyd was murdered by the Minneapolis police and two weeks of revolt that spread into a nation-wide and ongoing American uprising against policing and anti-Black racism. As flames engulfed buildings and cruisers were destroyed alongside police precincts, some […]
Hint: It ain’t the Commies. Yours truly gets mentioned a few times in this. One thing I would add to this discussion is that the forces of totalitarian humanism will gladly purge this Antifa trash as soon as they have fully consolidated their position, just as Hitler purged […]
By Michael Safi The Guardian Restaurants are opening, parks are full and people are getting back to work: parts of Europe, Asia and much of the Middle East are enjoying the benefits of flattened coronavirus curves. Meanwhile, parts of the US, India and Latin America are still recording […]
Krystal and Saagar discuss Mitt Romney and Jamie Dimon’s public support for Black Lives Matter.
I would add that Zaid Jilani is only focusing on partisan or ideological donors like Soros or Steyer and the Kochs or Adelson. The super-elite (like Goldman-Sachs) have their hands in both parties. Journalist Zaid Jilani contrasts the political agenda between campaign donors versus voters.
This doesn’t really sound like “defunding police” at all. It sounds like merely shifting some of the resources used for municipal policing to social services, and perhaps easing on the enforcement end on some things. Basically, the European model. In other words, very mild reformism (at best). And […]
It’s regrettable that even reasonable social democrats like Krystal and Kyle Kulinski are now falling for the “vote blue, no matter who” line. Her idea of a DSA-neoliberal-Never Trumper coalition is absurd. Basically, all it would mean is the further co-option of the Left by not only neoliberals […]
It’s interesting how en vogue anti-capitalism is now, from these national-populists and Nazbols on the right to the Berniebots and neo-commies on the left. Saagar Enjeti blasts the GOP’s economic policy as unemployment numbers stabilize at a rate higher than the great recession.
Will the combined reboots of 1918, 1929, and 1968 have the effect of marking the final defeat of the traditional right-wing of the ruling class, and the full consolidation of totalitarian humanism? Thus far, it appears that the left-wing of capital is riding the wave of popular rebellion […]
This dust-up between the upper strata of the new clerisy and Sunbelt/MIC/Zionist mouthpiece piece Tom Cotton is hilarious. Intra-ruling class fragmentation is always wonderful.
Cuccinelli is both a Republican and an Italian Catholic, neither of which are known for their love of black folks. But the real issue with this kind of stuff seems to be a matter of status. All other variables being equal, I’d say that it is still more […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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