Is Support for Secession Movements Growing?
I’ve never seen a poll with numbers this high before.
A Post-American 4th of July in the Bay Area
By Robert Start, Medium I spent the 4th of July Weekend in the San Francisco Bay Area with Matt Pegas (check out his Substack). The trip was short, but I was able to take in enough observations of the region to compare it to past trips. My observations […]
America Vs. Everyone
Is China really the enemy, or are we just creating self-fulfilling prophecies? Jeff Sachs talks with Rob Johnson about the tragedy of modern geopolitics, and how our current race to the bottom could be reversed.
Denver looks to expand city-sanctioned campsites to address homelessness
NBC News Estimates show a 30 percent surge in homelessness in Denver, Colorado during the pandemic. The city launched a program of city-sanctioned campsites in December 2020, which include security and daily meals, with the ultimate goal to get people out of tents and into homes. WATCH HERE […]
The RAPID Decline Of Male Friendship, Who’s To Blame?
Emily Jashisnky explains the friendship recession and why it has affected young men the most.
Critical Race Theory Debacle Signals the Collapse of the American Empire
By Danny Haiphong, Black Agenda Report Whatever the strengths and limitations of Critical Race Theory, the debate over its usefulness to establishment circles is indicative of the American Empire’s rapid decline “The months-long protests and rebellions against racist policing forced the establishment to take a position on the […]
The Bay Area Has Become An Absolute Paradise For Violent Criminals
Over the past 40 years, the US has gradually developed a Latin American-like class system, and it was done intentionally, by design. We now have wealth disparities that match the “Third World” or the West during the Industrial Revolution. What’s being described in that article are exactly the […]
Are HUNDREDS More Florida Buildings Vulnerable To Collapse After Surfside?
This kind of thing happens all the time in “Third World” countries, which is what the USA is becoming. Krystal and Saagar examine the latest reporting about the building collapse in Surfside, Florida.
Jim Rogers: “The US Is Declining Fast”
Jim Rogers is an American investor and financial commentator based in Singapore. Rogers is the Chairman of Beeland Interests, Inc. He was the co-founder of the Quantum Fund and was also the creator of the Rogers International Commodities Index. Jim Rogers is mostly known for speaking about investing […]
Carl Sagan’s DIRE Warning Comes True As Americans Have Less Friends
Saagar Enjeti informs viewers on how Carl Sagan predicted the friendship crisis in America
Eric Weinstein on How to Fix Broken and Corrupt Institutions
Brilliant as he is, if Weinstein doesn’t understand why billionaires aren’t righting the ship, then he fundamentally has gaps in his understanding of power and the human condition. Arendt might be a good place to start.
US Has LOWEST Trust In Media Of Entire Free World. A New Order Must Replace It
Saagar breaks down new media data detailing Americans’ lack of faith in the mainstream media.
VCU Study: Life expectancy in the U.S. sees largest drop since 1943; ‘jolting’ decline for people of color
About 20 years ago, I was on a live call-in TV show where I mentioned that in about 20 years the USA would start to become a Third World country. Of course, all the usual “USA! USA!” shitheads immediately called in to register their objections. But, unfortunately, I […]
NEW POLL: Voters’ Faith In Media, Gov’t PLUMMET Since The Start Of The Pandemic
I can’t imagine why. On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds voters cite the media and the federal government as top institutions where their faith worsened since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Karlyn Bowman, public opinion analyst and senior fellow at AEI, joins Hill […]
Chris Hedges The American Empire will Collapse within a Decade or Two at Most
“A motley collection of imbeciles, con artists, thieves, opportunists, and war-mongering generals.” Aesop: “The lower criminals we execute. The higher criminals we elect to high office.”
Barometers of Legitimacy
By William S. Lind, Traditional Right Readers may wonder why I keep returning to the theme of legitimacy. The reason is simple: legitimacy is the ground on which Fourth Generation war is fought. It is, above all, a contest for legitimacy, and winning (or losing) is measured by […]
How America Fractured Into Four Parts
By George Packer, The Atlantic People in the United States no longer agree on the nation’s purpose, values, history, or meaning. Is reconciliation possible? Nations, like individuals, tell stories in order to understand what they are, where they come from, and what they want to be. National narratives, […]
Palestine: How You Can Actually Help w/ Abby Martin
As Israel’s heinous war crimes intensify, enormous crowds are mobilizing across the globe in support of Palestine. Are the Bitches naive to believe the tide may finally be turning toward justice? Abby Martin, creator of the Empire Files and director of Gaza Fights for Freedom, talks media lies, […]
Michael Flynn Says Trump Coup Should Happen in America
–Former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn says that a coup should take place to remove Joe Biden from the White House
3 Myths About American Decline
The most immediately obvious problem with this analysis is that it ignores the rise in the expected threshold of subsistence during the time period that is being discussed. Politicians and the media are telling bogus stories about falling fertility rates, rising inequality, and supposed lack of economic mobility. […]
The Age of Fear: A Graduation Message for Terrifying Times
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead, Rutherford Institute “Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism […]
The Chauvin Show Trial and the State’s Crisis of Legitimacy
Whether one agrees with the political views expressed in this article or not, this is an excellent representation of how “the system” is losing legitimacy due to cultural fragmentation. People are increasingly unwilling to accept the outcome of not only elections but also court cases if “their side” […]
The Telos Press Podcast: Roundtable on the U.S. Capitol Riot
TELOS In today’s episode of the Telos Press Podcast, David Pan talks with Jay Gupta, Mark G.E. Kelly, and Timothy W. Luke about the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. Their discussion covers a range of topics, including the main causes of the riot, the cultic character […]
We Are In A “FOURTH TURNING,” What Does That Mean?
A visual representation of our 80-year history cycles, as laid out in the 1997 book, THE FOURTH TURNING. This book is MIND BLOWING! Explains why and how the Boomers, Gen-X, Millennial, and Gen-Z generations experience & shape the world according to the eras in which they grew up. […]
We Need to Talk About Destroying America
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Dearest motherfuckers, we need to have a serious talk about America. I’ve been tapdancing around this subject for years like a genderfuck Shirley Temple but I think we’ve come to the point where we can’t afford to mince […]
Caitlyn Jenner Is WRONG Outsider For Our Times. Here Are The REAL Ones We Need
Saagar Enjeti warns about a new wave of celebrity involvement in politics.
The YPU Debates Noam Chomsky — “Resolved: End the American Empire”
Noam vs. a bunch of dweebs from Yale. Chomsky’s opening statement in this is quite good.
Why Political Sectarianism Is a Growing Threat to American Democracy
I’ve been using the Shia/Sunni analogy for around 15 years. It’s interesting that it is now making its way into mainstream discourse. What I find most regrettable is that most anarchists and libertarians, who should be standing apart from this stuff, seem to not only buy into but […]
The Future of the United States?
These are my basic thoughts on what the future of the USA is likely to look like: Direct American military interventionism is likely to become less common, with the use of international institutions, client states, mercenaries, proxy armies, “dollar diplomacy,” soft power, cultural imperialism, economic sanctions, etc. as […]
Pax Americana receding?
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson, and Terminal Philosophy to discuss the question of the Decline of US Imperial power abroad.
Political stability – Country rankings
The USA is now ranked #79 among 195 nations around the world. Sinking fast. Political stability index (-2.5 weak; 2.5 strong), 2019 – Country rankings: The average for 2019 based on 195 countries was -0.05 points.The highest value was in Iceland: 1.66 points and the lowest value was […]
The Coming American Breakup, and Why It May Be the Right Thing
I suspect the breakup of the US will not be nearly as neat and tidy as that author hopes. This is not 1860. The divisions are not regional or even urban/rural. Instead, it’s going to be a matter of block by block, street by street, neighbor by neighbor, […]
Who will Dominate the Geopolitical System in this Decade? | Peter Zeihan
The empire is crumbling. Peter Zeihan (Geopolitical Strategist & Founder of Zeihan on Geopolitics) discusses which who will Dominate the Geopolitical System in this Decade, with M K Anand (MD & CEO, Times Network) after his initial address with a comprehensive macro look at the geopolitical landscape of […]
Life After Globalization (Peter Zeihan)
Peter Zeihan is a geopolitical strategist, which is a fancy way of saying he helps people understand how the world works. Peter combines an expert understanding of demography, economics, energy, politics, technology, and security to help clients best prepare for an uncertain future.
Hanging Separately Doesn’t Sound so Bad
Bill Kristol’s buddy David French worries the system is collapsing. By Micah Meadowcroft, The American Conservative Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation, by David French (St. Martin’s Press: 2021), 288 pages. David French should write TV shows. He’d be good at it. […]
The Elites Have Failed
By Sean Illing, Vox One of the greatest challenges facing democratic societies in the 21st century is the loss of faith in public institutions. The internet has been a marvelous invention in lots of ways, but it has also unleashed a tsunami of misinformation and destabilized political systems […]
Tucker: The country you grew up in teeters on its foundation
Yes, it is. And the America of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan can’t die soon enough.
The End of America?
What has been the most interesting is the way that so many “progressives,” many of the same people who often talk endlessly about “fascism,” have often been the same ones who are the most eager to embrace all of this without question or hesitation. By Naomi Wolf, American […]
COVID and the Tyranny of Comfort
By Matt Purple, The American Conservative One year ago this week, my old boss here at TAC told us to start working from home. I remember riding the Metro train back to my apartment that evening—the last time I took public transportation, as it turns out—and naively looking […]
David Cross: Why America Sucks at Everything
America: the greatest, richest, freest country in the world – or is it? David Cross, of Mr. Show, Arrested Development, and The Dark Divide, joins us to discuss why Americans, despite living in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, have a much worse standard of […]
Ross Douthat: What US COVID Response REVEALS About American Decadence
Author, Ross Douthat, discusses his book, The Decadent Society: America Before and After the Pandemic.
The Role of Scepticism and the Shift to the Right in Mainstream American Politics
This is a fantastic piece written from a conservative Christian perspective that describes the present-day US political spectrum perfectly. Proto-Protestantism Most Conservatives will insist that the American political spectrum has shifted rapidly to the Left over the past fifty years and will make the case by appealing to […]
Bumbling Biden: White House cringes as Biden makes another gaffe
The White House has been forced into damage control after President Joe Biden seemingly forgot the name of his own Defense Secretary during an event to mark International Women’s Day. Speaking after unveiling two more nominees to fill his cabinet, the president failed to remember the name of […]
U.S. Suicide Rates Are the Highest They’ve Been Since World War II
By Jamie Ducharme, Time Magazine U.S. suicide rates are at their highest since World War II, according to federal data—and the opioid crisis, widespread social media use and high rates of stress may be among the myriad contributing factors. In 2017, 14 out of every 100,000 Americans died […]
From QAnon to BlueAnon: How Many Americans Want a Military Coup?
A reader writes: Re: the Taibbi article you shared today on the Myanmar coup and censorship going on there — one thing I’ve noticed over the past few years are more and more Americans entertaining the idea of a military coup here in the US, to “save the […]
THE FALL OF THE AMERICAN SUPERPOWER
All of us have been born and raised in an era in which the United States of America was the most powerful country in the world and it was in a position to determine many things on the global stage. The USA has been the one and only […]
Texas’s power disaster is a warning sign for the US
Just wait until the SHTF. America’s power grid is not ready.
What’s Driving California’s Mass Exodus?
California’s model of combining Western European social norms with Latin American class structures is what the future of the USA will look like, and we’ve already moved a good ways in that direction, particularly since the pandemic began. As Oracle, Palantir and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise move their headquarters out […]
Post-Trump America: Prospect for American Democracy
By Jon Kofas After four years of the Trump presidency, there are questions about the US, not necessarily as a ‘model’ or ‘the greatest’ democracy, but about the deeper structural problems at the root of the political turmoil behind “Trumpism” whose legacy will remain, just as Goldwater’slegacy sparked […]
The Inherently Inefficient Union
By Ally Marie McLean When it comes to efficiently allocating resources, the United States federal government usually gets in the way. In his article “The Use of Knowledge in Society,” F.A. Hayek argued that the smaller and less centralized organizations are, the more efficient their economic activity will […]
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