Category: Culture Wars/Current Controversies

The old binary bounce routine

Posted on June 13, 2025 by winter oak by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) I have often been struck, while carrying out my contemporary and historical research, by the way in which the same manipulative tricks are used again and again by ZIM – the dominant […]

Trouble in MAGA Paradise

View this email in your browser Trouble in MAGA Paradise by Peter Zeihan on June 13, 2025 To get early access to all the videos and newsletters, as well as other perks like the news digest, join the Patreon… You can join the Patreon page at the link below! JOIN […]

Unrest in L.A.

NATIONAL REVIEW JUNE 13, 2025 ◼ “Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ICE.”   ◼ What have the self-driving vehicles done to anyone? Rioters across Los Angeles set Waymo cabs ablaze in a spasm of violence over federal immigration enforcement in the West […]

Trump’s Fascist Speed Run

Episode 230 with Pisco Krystal Kyle & Friends Jun 13, 2025 The Marines and the National Guard are in L.A. as Angelenos turn out in the streets against ICE abductions. We talk with lawyer and YouTuber Pisco about the L.A. protests and the spreading violence of the policies […]

Meat without murder

Week XXIV, MMXXV Recently, in The Signal: Why is China building so many ships? Brian Hart on its plan to turn overwhelming commercial advantage into military power. Today: Why are American states banning lab-grown meat? Hanna Tuomisto on the technology, economics, and politics of a new industry. + […]

Will 1,000,000 Deportations Be Enough?

View this email in your browser READ ON SITE NOW This article is featured in the July/August 2025 Issue of TAC.  In the waning days of President Donald Trump’s first administration, migrant caravans surged northward. The migrants themselves admitted they were coming in anticipation of President Joe Biden’s inauguration and […]

Musk Apologizes to Trump, Blames Ketamine

Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Musk Apologizes to Trump, Blames Ketamine Kevin Barrett Jun 11 READ IN APP Dissociated Press Billionaire drug addict Elon Musk apologized yesterday to malignant narcissist Donald Trump, saying he “went too far” attacking Trump, and blaming ketamine addiction for his untoward […]

Stephen Miller’s Dream

Stephen Miller’s Dream Plus: Trump’s big parade, Elon Musk makes amends, Zohran Mamdani gains, and more… LIZ WOLFE Stephen Miller mad: The Trump administration had been, at the beginning of its term, carrying out fewer deportations than the Biden administration had during the former president’s last year in office. […]

The Game of Life

Sponsored by Reaktion Books This week on the NYR Online, Zoe Hu writes about The Sims, a computer game released in the year 2000 that gave its users God-like power over the lives—and deaths—of the denizens of its virtual suburbia. Returning to the game, Hu finds that it […]

JD Vance Takes On JD Vance

June 7, 2025 JD Vance Takes On JD Vance Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair Phillip W. Magness asks: What happened to the author who once urged Americans to take responsibility for their lives instead of turning to the government for solutions? Police Use of Military Tools […]

In Praise of Sheep

The Corbett Report Jun 08, 2025 by James Corbett corbettreport.com June 8, 2025 If I were to write “If there is hope, it lies in the proles,” the book readers among you would no doubt nod your heads, recognizing the Orwell reference. Yes, you would say to yourself, […]

Republican House members are craven tools

Buyer’s remorse? Please…   Republicans in the House who forced Donald Trump’s spending-and-death-panels bill on us now claim to regret their votes. The New York Times reports: “Republicans who rallied behind the bill are claiming buyer’s remorse about measures they swear they did not know were included.”   […]

Epstein, Israel, ISIS, Palantir

Caitlin Johnstone Jun 06, 2025 Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Amid the inevitable giant ego clash between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, Musk tweeted that the president “is in the Epstein files,” saying “That […]

Scratching the Surface

“Fears of a ‘world government’ or ‘new world order’ have been bubbling under the American cultural surface for a very long time,” writes Hari Kunzru in an essay on conspiratorial thinking in US politics for the May 26, 2025, issue of The New York Review. Suspicions that everything […]

The Tariff Downturn

The Tariff Downturn Plus: Drilling in the Alaskan wilderness, Harvard tries “wastefulness” argument, Stephen Miller tells on himself, and more… LIZ WOLFE Global downturn? “Weakened economic prospects will be felt around the world, with almost no exception,” said Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Chief Economist Alvaro Pereira, announcing […]

Naomi Klein EXPOSES End Times Fascism

Krystal Kyle & Friends May 30, 2025 Basically, the tech billionaires are ruining everything for everyone except themselves. Trump’s second presidency has become a lightning rod for the most depraved, anti-human impulses of the world’s most powerful and nefarious people. Naomi Klein, celebrated author of The Shock Doctrine, […]

Tariffs in the Dock

NATIONAL REVIEW MAY 30, 2025 ◼ They say the best TACOs are made in Trump Tower.   ◼ President Trump’s tariff policy—declaring bogus national emergencies as a pretense to unilaterally author tax policy on all imports under the authority of a law that has never before been used […]

The Return of Asylums?

Sponsored by Fraenkel Gallery Jay Neugeboren Beyond the Asylum Over the past decade a range of politicians and public figures have called to rebuild asylums in order to address the country’s mental health crisis. But there is another, better way forward. Philip Clark The Atonal Genie Arnold Schoenberg’s […]

Trump’s War on Law Firms Fails

Trump’s War on Law Firms Fails Plus: Punk rock comptroller, dunking on Pete Hegseth, France embraces Canadian health care, and more.. LIZ WOLFE Judge puts the kibosh on Trump’s attempt to silence a law firm: Yesterday, Judge Richard J. Leon of the Federal District Court for the District of […]

The Acorn – 103

Number 103 In this issue: Zio-totalitarianism on the march Romania: multi-layered manipulation Local languages of resistance Our stolen lives Thomas Müntzer: 500 years since his execution Acorninfo 1. Zio-totalitarianism on the march   The quick succession of the Covid abomination and the genocide in Gaza has opened the […]