Lol. I can only imagine what New York liberal Trump really thinks of the deep red zone rubes who idolize him. The red-state rubes are the useful idiots of the right-wing of the ruling class, just as the blue tribe SJWs are the useful idiots of the left-wing […]
The Chinahate that is going on now, like the parallel Russiahate, is just a rhetorical trick the system is using to deflect attention from its own incompetence and malevolence. Not only is China a province in global capitalism that provides cheap labor and cheap loans for Western governments […]
Kulinski talks about a video from 2013 where Obama admitted he and the Republicans agreed 70% of the time, and that the differences between the two parties were more about procedure than substance. Obama also pointed out something I have also pointed out many times, which is that […]
This is quite interesting. Disaffected Sandernistas are seeking to build a populist-left mass people’s party that crosses over to the populist-right and disaffected Trump voters, and seeks to become a major party by 2024. Kim correctly points out that substantial sectors of the Left will be adamantly opposed […]
Her comments about 30 minutes into this are on the money. She points out that US politics has become divided into competing coalitions of “tribes” who think they are oppressed and under attack, but who regard “the other side’s” claims of being oppressed as ridiculous. She also points […]
Having dealt with nutbag “extremists” (left, right, religious, countercultural) my entire life, I generally agree with the arguments of this article. But a major qualification involves the need to reject the view that holding “centrist” views reflect psychological “normality,” while holding “extremist” views reflects abnormality. As Caitlin Johnstone […]
The social science research that Brooks (another neocon dumbass former Bush apologist) cites in this article confirms what I have long suspected, which is that issues like race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, culture, religion, immigration status, etc. as not nearly as divisive as beliefs that people hold ABOUT these […]
The author of this piece, Jonah Goldberg, is a neocon dumbass who was a Bush cheerleader in the 2000s. His wife, Jessica Savora, is a former aid to uber-police statist John Ashcroft (Asscrack). But the political science research he’s citing is correct. White liberal and left opinions have […]
A 2017 study breaks down the US electorate into 4 basic categories (really 3, because libertarians are barely on the radar). The gist is that Americans lean leftward on economic issues by a 3 to 1 margin, but are divided 50/50 on social/cultural/identity issues. Liberal (44.6 percent): Lower […]
When different tribes create their own realities. By Luke Conway Heterodox Although both groups live in the same country, conservatives and liberals in the U.S. do not seem to be experiencing the same COVID-19 pandemic. Liberals are very concerned about the disease; conservatives are comparatively apathetic. This fact […]
Dr. Jay Bhattacharaya from Stanford Medicine makes his third appearance on Uncommon Knowledge in eight weeks, this time to discuss a new COVID-19 survey of Major League Baseball employees he co-authored. The survey tested more than 5,600 employees across all 26 Major League Baseball clubs across the country. […]
Kim is rapidly becoming one of the very best commentators on the Left.
Some pretty good economic analysis from Chris Hedges from 2018. Much of what he describes will be amped up on a mega-level following the present Great Depression Two. Hedges is a lot like Chomsky in the sense of offering a lot of succinct and astute analysis combined with […]
An interesting Amy Chua interview from Canadian television in 2018. Author and scholar Amy Chua talks to Steve Paikin about her latest book, “Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations.” She discusses how American foreign policy has ignored the internal ethnic divisions in countries and conflicts […]
Who shall be the Pussy-Grabber-In-Chief? Bill Maher goes to bat for Dementia Man. Krystal and Saagar discuss Bill Maher’s rant about Tara Reade’s accusations, as he asks, “Why wait until Biden is our only hope against Trump?”
Vote for Dementia Man over Orange Man, says Obomber. Krystal and Saagar listen to former President Obama’s leaked call saying that ‘rule of law is at risk’ in Michael Flynn case. In the same chat, Obama also lashed out at the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic […]
The Republicans’ Chinahate vs. the Democrats’ Russiahate. Krystal and Saagar discuss The New Yorker’s interview with Chris Hayes, where the MSNBC host describes the network’s coverage of Russiagate as “craziness and paranoia.”
I do agree the Chinahate gets a little over the top, but no more so than the Russiahate. Krystal and Saagar discuss Former Senator and Ambassador to Beijing, Max Baucus, on CNN, where he likens Trump’s China rhetoric to Nazi Germany.
The problem with “The Squad” is not that they are “too radical” but that they are not radical enough. But that’s still too much for the System. D.C. Bureau Chief of The Intercept Ryan Grim shares insight on the primary races ‘the squad’ faces this November, and where […]
How the propaganda arms of neoliberalism actually work. Author and Host of VICE TV’s ‘Seat At The Table’ Anand Giridharadas discusses his new show, his experience at MSNBC and the New York Times, and how the coronavirus crisis sets the stage to rebuild society.
The center-right, neoliberals, and neocons are circling the wagons to defeat Trump while deflecting the Left in the process. Interesting. Something similar happened in 1972 when “Democrats for Nixon” formed to ensure George McGovern lost the election. Krystal Ball comes down on Joe Biden for building a GOP-backed […]
Have the “Satanic panics” of neoliberalism have fizzled and discredited the propaganda arms of the new clerisy in the process? Saagar Enjeti discusses the media’s partisan coverage of Russiagate and the ‘Believe Women’ movement during the Trump era, highlighting their failure to cover Flynn’s recusal.
An interesting aspect of the last 40 years of US economic history is that the right-wing of the ruling class (remember Reaganomics, anyone?) implemented the policies that allowed for the present rise of the left-wing of the ruling class (the tech-oligarch/financier/new clerisy coalition), which is now overrunning the […]
A leader of an organized atheist group (the far left of organized religion) interviews a member of the liberal media class (the new clerisy) on the role of the religious right (clerical oligarchs manipulating naive peasants on behalf of the right-wing of the ruling class/dying WASP elite/Likudniks/war profiteers). […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Good morning dearest motherfuckers, it is spring time in this the plague besotted year of our lord Satan, twenty-hundred-and-twenty, and both major party candidates for the highest office of the greatest democracy imperialism can buy are confirmed geriatric […]
As good an example as any of why the liberal class is worthless. Keep in mind that the liberal class concentrated in the “ideas industries” are simply the new clergy whose purpose is to issue secular papal bulls on what is considered acceptable opinion and what is not […]
This is from 2016 before Trump was elected. Trump might be considered “WASP America’s Last Stand” and he was only elected by rhetorically moving leftward on foreign policy and economic issues. A problem with our anarcho-progressive friends, and the general left, is that they have not updated their […]
Carlson calls out the federal police state about 3 minutes into this. Ilhan Omar’s response is disappointing and regrettably rooted in partisan/cultural/tribal politics than actual opposition to the system. From Trump-loyaltist three percenters to Democrat-voting Marxists, it’s interesting how few supposed “radicals” actually oppose the system.
By Tom Woods How about that: Locking down a whole society has negative consequences. Benjamin Miller of the Well Being Trust in Oakland, California, is co-author of a study that seeks to determine how many “deaths of despair” (from drug or alcohol abuse or suicide) will occur as […]
Pakman is right that the coronavirus shutdowns are exacerbating the Red/Blue rural-suburban-urban divide, and that other countries have often been even stricter than the US.
By Troy Southgate When governments impose a state of emergency it is simply a method of regaining or increasing control. Following on from that, I would even argue that we entered this precarious stage in our history during the insurrections of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when […]
Economist Andrew I. Friedson says they flattened the curve. Economist Lyman Stone disagrees.
It’s interesting how the Left and Right are spinning their own narratives on the coronavirus fallout. The Left is depicting a situation where greedy business owners and right-wing conspiracy nuts want to endanger everyone’s health by reopening the economy so they can make money. The Right is depicting […]
The Intra-Left civil wars really are becoming as divisive as the Left/Right Red/Blue civil war. Funny.
The head of the UN wants a war on “hate speech.” What could possibly go wrong? By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday the coronavirus pandemic keeps unleashing “a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering” and appealed […]
Of course, because it doesn’t cost the system anything. Neoliberals use “woke” tokenism and right-wingophobia to wrap the Left around their little fingers. Krystal and Saagar discuss Joe Biden’s commitment to passing an equality act in the first 100 days if elected.
It must be awfully frustrating to be someone like this author who actually takes this shit seriously. Here’s the money quote: “Mr. Biden, and the Democrats he may carry with him into government, are likely to do more good for women and the nation than his competition, the […]
I disagree politically with Virginia’s governor on many things, though not everything, but I think his performance during all of this has been reasonable, probably because he’s an MD who actually understands the medical science behind COVID-19. What he’s saying here is appropriate. One of the main mistakes […]
The therapeutic state vs. bourgeois economism? An interesting matchup. Tom Woods interviews Sheriff Richard Mack. Listen here. Sheriff Richard Mack of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, who has a Supreme Court victory under his belt, joins me to discuss recent events involving American sheriffs and what […]
They want you to shut up, obey and do what you’re told.
By Holly Otterbein Politico Jess Scarane is campaigning for Joe Biden’s old Senate seat with a striking message for a Delaware Democrat: She believes his accuser, Tara Reade. Scarane, who said she is a victim of sexual assault, tweeted in March that when she listened to Reade talk […]
Consumer confidence is going to be shot to hell for a couple years.
Not bad, Krystal. Krystal Ball reviews Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ documentary trailer and breaks down why the Obama administration failed to make structural change within the establishment.
The Republicans could best be described as a hybrid of the right-wing plutocratic parties of Latin American (like El Salvador’s ARENA) and Israel’s Likud Party (militarists and Zionist expansionists). Under Trump, they’ve at times tried to recast themselves as LePenism-lite. The question is whether their exoteric doctrine will […]
At present, the United States (the mother country of a world empire that is the most expansive and powerful in history) is in a position that might be considered a very minor league version of what the Europeans faced in the early modern period. From the fourth century […]
It seems that most people even on the far left and far right have a limited perception and definition of what concepts like the “state,” “ruling class,” or “power elite” actually mean. It would also seem that we need a much more modernized and expansive definition of these […]
The ATS masthead contains the slogan “Pan-Anarchism Against, Pan-Secessionism Against the Empire” which is merely an expression of a very simple concept, and which is predictably misunderstood by many people (because many people are dumbasses).
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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