By Konrad Yakabuski Toronto Globe and Mail It will be up to future historians to determine whether the Jan. 6 Capitol riot marked the beginning of the end of American democracy. But that has not stopped countless observers from marking the first anniversary of a day that will […]
By Carlos Lozada Washington Post Journalist Stephen Marche envisions multiple scenarios propelling the country into conflict. THE NEXT CIVIL WAR: Dispatches from the American Future By Stephen Marche. Avid Reader Press. 238 pp. $27. To glimpse the coming dismemberment of the United States of America, just stop by […]
By Paul Brandus, Market Watch America’s heavily armed far-right extremists fit the mold of those who’ve started insurrections in other countries. When I was writing my first book, a history of the White House and the presidency, I came across a quote from John Adams. “Remember,” he wrote […]
By Michelle Goldberg New York Times Barbara F. Walter, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, has interviewed many people who’ve lived through civil wars, and she told me they all say they didn’t see it coming. “They’re all surprised,” she said. “Even when, to […]
Team Rising debate the real-life threat of the growing number of Americans who say violence against the government can be justified,
National divorce does not have to result in a civil war.
By Caroline Mimbs Nyce The Atlantic One year ago, the siege began. Politicians and their staffers ran for cover as the Capitol effectively became a war zone. When the haze cleared, we vowed not to forget. But the attack on American democracy did not end that day. A […]
This just keeps on getting better. The neocons continue their multi-front strategy of forming an alliance with neoliberals and progressives while embedding themselves in Trumpism and forming their own parallel Trumpism without Trump (“national conservatism”). They are also seeking to weaponize J6 as a pretext for increasing state […]
By Brendan Morrow The Week On its one-year anniversary, Vice President Kamala Harris said the date of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol will be remembered in a similar fashion as Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Harris delivered remarks Thursday on the anniversary of […]
Well, that’s kind of the point. The partisan sides are essentially rival countries at this point. By Brigid Kennedy The Week President Biden spoke Thursday regarding the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack, delivering a potent and powerful address in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall. His speech, held […]
This piece of shit can go fuck himself. By Brendan Morrow The Week Former Vice President Dick Cheney joined his daughter, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), in Congress on Thursday as lawmakers marked the anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) led a moment […]
By David Faris The Week Democrats failed to coup-proof America after the Capitol riot Tomorrow marks a year since the outgoing president of the United States instigated a mob of his most fervent supporters to sack the Capitol building, where they set about taking selfies, occupying offices, and […]
By Peter Maass The Intercept We are no longer observers of the distressed futures that afflict other people. We are those people now. It was the winter of 1991, and the country I was working in, the Soviet Union, was months away from its demise. Yet the collapse, […]
Krystal and Saagar’s kick off the January 6th show by diving into the real underlying reasons why American democracy is in crisis and how the elites have only made it worse
Michael Lind, Tablet It’s within metro areas, not between the states. America’s states seem increasingly disunited. Divisions over controversies related to COVID— lockdowns, vaccine mandates, school closures—have accentuated existing splits among blue Democratic and red Republican states with respect to partisanship and attitudes toward crime and public policy. […]
By Amanda Barroso Pew Research Center Dating has always come with challenges. But the advent of dating apps and other new technologies – as well as the #MeToo movement – presents a new set of norms and expectations for American singles looking for casual or committed relationships, according […]
The Editorial Board The Republicans are reviving American apartheid. Thursday is the one-year anniversary of the day seditionary forces sacked and looted the United States Capitol in an attempt to overturn a lawful democratic election and install Donald Trump as fuhrer-king. The violence stopped long ago, but the […]
By Stephen Marche Foreign Policy A significant portion of Americans seek the destruction of political authority. What if they succeed? The unimaginable has become reality in the United States. Buffoonish mobs desecrating the U.S. Capitol building, tanks parading down the streets of Washington, running battles between protesters and […]
The inflation is primarily businesses profiteering off supply chain breakdowns and the need to recover losses from the pandemic. To blame government excessive spending when most is on the military does show that austerity is coming and the collapse of Americans living standards will accelerate. So crime will […]
By John Whitehead and Nissa Whitehead, Rutherford Institute “Tyranny does not flourish because perpetuators are helpless and ignorant of their actions. It flourishes because they actively identify with those who promote vicious acts as virtuous.”—An academic study into pathocracy Disgruntled mobs. Martial law. A populace under house arrest. […]
By Michael Bluhm The Signal What really happened on January 6? Seth Masket on how Donald Trump’s claims about the 2020 election continue to endanger U.S. democracy. Americans believe vastly different versions of what happened in Washington a year ago, when a group of Trump supporters breached the […]
By Richard D Wolff Asia Times For the first time in more than a century, the United States has a real, serious, ascending global competitor. The US wars lost in Iraq and Afghanistan exposed imperial overreach beyond what even 20 years of war could manage. That the defeats […]
By Michael Paul Williams Richmond Times-Dispatch In hindsight, Virginia was a testing ground and a grim portent of the Jan. 6 insurrection. On the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in January 2020, theologian Corey D.B. Walker, then a visiting professor at the University of Richmond, was among a […]
By Jonathan Chait New York Magazine January 6, 2021, may be the most contentious date in American history. To Democrats and the surviving remnant of anti-Trump Republicans, the event was a spasm of right-wing political violence aimed at terminating the republican experiment. To most Republicans, it was something […]
“When faced with extinction any other option is preferable” “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolutions inevitable” You can not take everything from people and leave them with no hope, desperation breeds violence, and those with nothing to lose have no problem putting it all on […]
By Damon Linker The Week It’s not inevitable. Maybe not even likely. But it’s still worth debate. With the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection looming later this week, analysts and pundits have put the worst-case scenario for the American future on the table for public debate […]
–Three retired military generals warn about a coup in 2024 that could involve the military itself
By JAKE JOHNSON Common Dreams “By 2030, if not sooner, the country could be governed by a right-wing dictatorship,” writes a longtime scholar of violent conflict. In a matter of years, the United States’ deeply flawed and increasingly fragile democratic system could collapse under the weight of a long-running […]
By Joel Kotkin National Review Some horrified conservatives dismiss California as the progressive dystopia, bound for bankruptcy and, let’s hope, growing irrelevance. Progressives, for their part, hail the Golden State as the avatar of a better future, the role model for a new, more environmentally friendly and socially […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week Nearly a year after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, there are two things most Americans agree on: That the insurrection was an attack on democracy, and that democracy itself remains incredibly fragile. Too bad we’re not acting like it. On […]
By Dan Balz Scott Clement and Emily Guskin Washington Post One year after the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, Republicans and Democrats are deeply divided over what happened that day and the degree to which former president Donald Trump bears responsibility for the assault, amid more universal signs […]
By Thomas Homer-Dixon, Special to The Globe and Mail The U.S. is becoming increasingly ungovernable, and some experts believe it could descend into civil war. What should Canada do then? Thomas Homer-Dixon is executive director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University. His latest book is Commanding […]
By Meryl Kornfield and Mariana Alfaro Washington Post Phil Spampinato had never contemplated the question of whether violence against the government might be justified — at least not in the United States. But as he watched Republicans across the country move to reshape election laws in response to former […]
Have we pan-secessionists found our leader? If the person who gets the pan-secessionist ball rolling turns out to be this illiterate fruitbat, so be it. “Marjorie Taylor Greene is a troll. But it’s not either or. She can be a troll, and she can be a serious threat to […]
By Mary Louise Kelly, Noah Caldwell, and Ashish Valentine, National Public Radio As the anniversary of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol approaches, three retired U.S. generals have warned that another insurrection could occur after the 2024 presidential election and the military could instigate it. The generals – […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave weigh in on data regarding Americans who have renounced their citizenship.
By Kaia Hubbard, US News and World Report Long-standing political divisions within states are being heightened in a hyper-partisan climate, fueling secession movements across the country as walking away is looking easier than coming together. When three rural Maryland counties recently threatened to secede from the state, citing […]
By William G. Gale and Darrell M. West Brookings Institute One troubling sign of our deteriorating civic mood is the shocking breadth of support for secession in the United States. At a time of widespread polarization—where people are arguing over a supposedly stolen election, vaccine mandates, mask-wearing, and […]
By Jon Schwarz Intercept At Christmas we traditionally reflect upon our blessings and forgive those who have trespassed against us. Let’s not this year. At this time of year we traditionally reflect upon our blessings and forgive those who have trespassed against us. But we’ve been trying that […]
From 2017. The rise of the neo-know-nothings is in part a pushback against the rise of the alliance between digital capitalism, the traditional financial elites, and the professional-managerial class, with totalitarian humanism its ideological superstructure, along with the parallel cultural and demographic decline of traditionally hegemonic WASP culture, […]
From 2018. Today, the USA is basically the European Union of North America, a currency union and trade zone presided over by transnational elites who identify with their class and other international elites more than with “America” either as an ideal or entity. Meanwhile, the USA is moving […]
Krystal and Saagar look at the polling data among young Americans of all political views showing how they feel about America and it is overwhelmingly negative
Proto-Protestant https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/us-news/2021/12/09/ocasio-cortez-slams-republicans-over-gun-toting-christmas-photos/ What a sad moment. Ocasio-Cortez the much vilified Democratic representative from New York and member of the hated ‘Squad’ has spoken truth – and a truth that puts Evangelicals to shame. The Right has made too much of Ocasio-Cortez. Some commentators suggest that ‘The Squad’ in […]
By Brandon Gillespie , Lindsay Kornick | Fox News Charles M. Blow joined Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor in invoking former Vice President John C. Calhoun in comparing the sentiment surrounding today’s debate over abortion to the slavery debate. Liberal New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow claimed […]
Many of our viewers and clients have been telling us that their country has become unrecognizable and that’s why they need a Plan B to protect their freedom and wealth. In this video, Andrew shares an article from RealClearPolitics.com about how a key media figure called the USA […]
By Kerry Hawley, New York Magazine “They can’t arrest us all,’’ a future defendant had posted days before, and this was the vibe in the moment, the ecstatic invulnerability that leads someone to smear feces on the floor of the building in which the most powerful country on […]
Daniel Cox, Director of the Survey Center on American Life, breaks down new survey results on community, friendship, and college education.
By Ken Stone, San Diego Times America is close to being at high risk of a civil war, a UC San Diego political scientist said Sunday night on CNN. “If a second civil war happens in the United States, it’s going to look very different from the first, […]
CNN CNN’s Michael Holmes talks with Professor Barbara Walter of the University of California San Diego about her work on a task force that tries to predict where outside the US a civil war is likely to break out. Walter says the two best predictors of whether violence […]
By Martin Pengelly in New York, The Guardian The US is “closer to civil war than any of us would like to believe”, a member of a key CIA advisory panel has said. The analysis by Barbara F Walter, a political science professor at the University of California […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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