Being an anarchist, I have a natural morbid curiosity about the functioning of statecraft. I follow politics in the same way someone might drive very slowly past the scene of some horrific accident so as not to miss the sight of even one mangled limb. But perhaps even […]
By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams In late-night votes just hours after nearly 5,600 pages of legislative text were released, the U.S. Congress on Monday approved trillions of dollars worth of government funding and coronavirus relief that will temporarily avert a catastrophic expiration of key benefits, send $600 direct […]
“Is Your State Destroying Your Money?” Asks 2020 Sound Money Index, Released Today Precious Metals Dealer, Sound Money Group Rank all 50 States’ Gold and Silver Policies Charlotte, NC (December 22, 2020) — Wyoming, Texas, and Utah are the three most pro-sound money states in the United States, […]
Tulsi on a what a joke the “stimulus” is.
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson, and Terminal Philosophy to discuss the originals of the Neoliberal world order’s origins in the post-war era.
CWM’s interviews from 1971.
1970s interview.
As Ezra Pound said, the whole USA is an insane asylum.
The problem I have with this video is that it seems to be a variation of the standard Tucker Carlson/Sean Hannity “liberals are ruining our cities” line. As class relations and general economic conditions in the US increasingly resemble the “Third World” model, conditions in US cities are […]
Catholicism has come a long way since the days when they opposed usury. The Church seems to be repeating the period in its history when it was aligned with the Medici during the Renaissance. “Have you heard the one about the Pope, the Rothschild family, the United Nations, […]
Why we need more rather than less rioting. By Jim Hoft, YourNews.Com While Americans suffered Nancy was getting her hair done. Then Nancy delayed any assistance to working Americans following the government initiated coronavirus lockdowns until after the elections. And now nine months later our betters in the […]
By Matthew Cunningham Cook, The Intercept In 2006, Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx had healthier patients, just enough nursing staff to take care of them, and a CEO who was earning $2 million a year, a senior nurse and union leader told The Intercept. Fifteen years later, its patients […]
By Moe Tkacik, In These Times The Left has yet to properly absorb two major revelations of 2020: 1) The ruling class, for all its platitudes, decisively does not care about small business, and 2) We are all small businesses now. To the first point, a court-ordered Small Business […]
What Vince says here is spot on. There is zero chance the “far-left” carried out a major insurrection in hundreds of cities spontaneously. The leftists’ protests were a side show to the main event. The main thing that most commentators (nearly all of whom are middle-class people) have […]
The economic policies that have been imposed on the poor countries for decades are now being imposed on the domestic population. Founder of The Daily Poster, David Sirota, explains why “when it comes to austerity politics, Joe Biden, remains much more focused on delivering on his promise to […]
Even the most milquetoast forms of social democracy/populist are too much for the ruling class. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss President Trump’s reported calls for at least $1,200 stimulus checks for Americans. They also discuss Sen. Mark Warner’s criticism of Bernie Sanders and Ilhan Omar.
The “let them eat cake” news for today. As I have frequently said, Trump is actually to the left of the normal Republicans, and many Democrats. Washington Post White House economics reporter, Jeffrey Stein, details the latest stimulus negotiations taking place on Capitol Hill.
2020 is hardly the only year in which elites have “failed.” Krystal Ball highlights what she believes were the worst moments of 2020.
Eliminating big tech’s intellectual property protections and encouraging worker occupation of big box stores would be a better idea but she’s got the right attitude at least.
Instead of begging for crumbs from the feds, the transport workers should be demanding the syndicalization of the public transportation system.
In the “let them eat cake” news for today… Morning Consult economist, John Leer, digs into the latest unemployment numbers and discusses consumer confidence.
I do not oppose tax cuts for the rich per se. Taxes are still the means of funding the state even if they are collected from the rich, a fact that many left-wing anarchists seem to lose sight of. But the state also creates the wider plutocratic economic […]
Regional principalities and magnates take on a techno-feudal manor. By Billy Binion, Reason A group of state attorneys general filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google today, alleging that the company maintains monopoly control over internet search via competition-squashing behavior. The complaint, brought by 38 states and U.S. territories, […]
Alexandria ain’t wrong. Although Trump has done nothing except building his own personality cult. By Brett Wilkin, Common Dreams Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a stern warning for President-elect Joe Biden about filling his Cabinet with the types of war and Wall Street candidates that have come to characterize […]
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Did the Federal Reserve just usher in the next phase of the U.S. dollar’s decline? On Wednesday, the central bank recommitted to leaving its benchmark interest rate near zero for the foreseeable future. Fed officials also vowed to keep pumping cash into […]
I remember people laughing 20 years ago when I said that eventually, the USA would more closely resemble Brazil. I guess I had the last laugh, kinda sorta. The Latin Americanization of the USA with the related class stratification, institutional corruption, social conflict, and high rates of violence […]
As it should be. Imore.Com A violent riot has broken out at an iPhone factory in India over allegations of unpaid wages. Employees can be seen on video attacking a Wistron iPhone plant in Bengaluru, images show broken glass, overturned cars and fires being started. Update, December 14 […]
What this speaker in this video is describing sounds fairly accurate in the sense of merely recognizing prevailing trends. What’s going on now is a repeat of what happened in the Industrial Revolution with unprecedented technological expansion and the emergence of elites with unprecedented wealth, combined with the […]
The postwar West was a historically unique time of unprecedented economic expansion, technological development, and economic reforms that allowed the working class to live like an upper middle class. All of that is disappearing now, and we’re becoming “normal” societies once again with traditional levels of social stratification. […]
Duh? At least the public is getting an education about how the system really works.
The actual leadership (ownership) of the Republican Party (American ARENA/American Likudniks) is actually to the right of both New York liberal Trump and the know-nothing populist “basis.”
A quarter of a billion people engaged in direct action. The main problem with this action so far is that the demands of the strikers amount to little more than pittances and handouts. They should be demanding the keys to the kingdom.
The daily “let them eat cake” report. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the latest stimulus negotiations, a reported wave of evictions threatening black and latino residents, and Tuesday’s cancelled house vote.
By John Lauritis In 2015, studies estimate that US renters paid $535 billion to landlords in residential rents. To put this in perspective, $535 billion is about enough to give $15,000 to every human being in the US state of California. It would also be enough to replace […]
A grassroots stimulus plan. Fair enough.
So much for Trump as the working class populist.
The “let them eat cake” news of the day. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss reporting that “at a Goldman Sachs conference this week, Steve Schwarzman publicly celebrated his Wall Street firm’s profits off ‘huge increases in rents.’
Well, the neocons do have their roots in Trotskyism and social democracy. They appear to be concerned that the Republicans have become irretrievably Trumpist and have decided to look leftward. Who needs sports, comedy, soap operas, or pro wrestling when you’ve got this stuff. Journalist, Zaid Jilani, weighs […]
According to Zeihan, Democrats greatly improved their performance among the military, business interests, and fiscal conservatives, while the Republicans improved their performance among labor unions and Hispanics. If Obama was George McGovern’s revenge, can we say that Trump is Ross Perot’s and Pat Buchanan’s revenge? He also estimates […]
The Democrats are hoping they can exploit ongoing cultural, generation, and demographic change by presenting themselves as the part of “diversity and inclusion” against the party of the “deplorables,” but that’s not going to be good enough when we are moving toward a Latin American class system. The […]
My take on social welfare programs is that workers and taxpayers should demand their full salaries, with no deductions, and create their own unemployment, healthcare, and retirement programs. This perspective isn’t original to me. I learned it from Sam Dolgoff over 30 years ago.
This Hawley dude knows which way the political winds are blowing. Look for him to try to run for prez on some kind of economic nationalist/right-wing welfarist program in the future. It is likely that GOP factions will emerge that use rhetoric similar to the Christian Democrats in […]
By Eric Todisco, People A Los Angeles judge has ruled that L.A. County’s outdoor dining ban will be limited to three weeks as planned, and then must be reassessed by the health department before the ban can be extended. On Tuesday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James Chalfant […]
Oregon Live The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office late Wednesday offered its first glimpse into Tuesday morning’s legal action at Portland’s “red house on Mississippi,” describing deputies breaking down fortifications, making arrests and finding weapons. The deputies, with assistance from Portland Police Bureau officers, were accompanying contractors there to […]
By Hallie Golden, The Guardian Dozens of protesters have been occupying a street in Portland, Oregon, surrounded by makeshift barriers, in an effort to keep a Black and Indigenous family from being evicted from the home they have lived in for 65 years. The home, known as the […]
By Scott Remer, In These Times In 1770, the novelist Oliver Goldsmith observed, “Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.” Modernize the language, and he could have been writing about the situation in the United States today. The pandemic has exacerbated a debt […]
Some more bread and circuses comedy. Although now that the bread supply has decreased, the ruling class seems to be doubling down on the circuses. Theoretically, I would prefer that all organizations were voluntary (meaning genuinely voluntary, unlike state-capitalist corporations). That means organizations could be as diverse or […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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