Biden Won’t Support Emergency UBI $2k Per Month
“Let them eat cake.”
Wall Street breathes “sigh of relief” at Harris pick, report says
LOL. The banskers are happy with Princess Kamala.
SHOCK POLL: UBI support SKYROCKETS
It’s quite possible that “Medicare for All” and the UBI will be enacted eventually as class divisions continue to widen, and the ruling class is faced with popular rebellion and the rise of demagogic politicians from the left and right that make New Deal Democrat Sanders and Blue […]
Biden Reaffirms His Hatred Of Medicare For All
Okay, Tucker, Sean, Noam, Pakman. Here’s your revolutionary Marxist most progressive candidate ever, lol.
Rising Inflation Fears Transform Precious Metals Demand
By Mike Gleason, Money Metals Exchange As Joe Biden announced his VP pick, Wall Street’s hopes for a V-shaped economic recovery were revived by falling jobless claims and the S&P 500 inching closer to an all-time high. Precious metals markets, meanwhile, were hit with a big V for […]
New Sound Money Caucus Launched on Capitol Hill
Jp Cortez As the political and central banking establishment in Washington continues to bail out the economy and markets by creating trillions of unbacked pieces of paper and electronic digits, a handful of Congressmen hope to shine a new spotlight on the devastating effects of this runaway financial […]
How Liberals Turned On The Working Class
Today’s “liberalism” (neoliberalism) is the ideology of the ascendant sectors of the upper and upper-middle classes. Historian and author, Thomas Frank, discusses his new book, “The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism.”
Rich Get RICHER In Depression & Working Class Suffers, Congress LEAVES FOR WEEKS
Prior to the pandemic, class divisions were already at a 100-year high. The pandemic has exercised an accelerationist effect and the ruling class continues with its “let them eat cake” attitude. The upper strata proletariat was already sinking fast, and the petite bourgeoisie is being decimated as well, […]
Pence warns of what will happen to middle class during a Biden presidency
One thing that I actually with Mikey the Empty Suit Toady on is that the Biden-Harris ticket does symbolize the transition of the US economy to the present “California model”(neofeudalism ruled by tech-oligarchs and the new clerisy). The problem is that Mikey still clings to the failed supply-side […]
Kamala: Woke Capitalism’s Dream Pick
Kamala Harris largely symbolizes the transformation that is presently taking place in the entire Western world. The managerial revolution of the middle 20th century still functioned within the wider framework of the industrial capitalist mode of production and the bourgeois nation-state system. However, the present transformation involves a […]
Christian Parenti: How Spoiled Elites Have DESTROYED Hamilton’s Radical Legacy
It figures that a full-blown commie like Christian Parenti, son of US Marxist-Leninist godfather Mike Parenti, would be an admirer of Hamilton, and favor Hamilton over Jefferson. However, what Parenti is saying in this interview is what a genuine Marxist would say about economic history and the development […]
Trump’s $400 in unemployment aid: When would it start?
“If I give you $400 will you vote for me?”-Donald Trump By Aimee Picchi President Donald Trump on Saturday authorized an extra $400 in weekly unemployment insurance benefits, a potential financial lifeline for the nation’s 16.3 million jobless workers. Yet while his memorandum makes those payments retroactive to August […]
Has the Fed Let the Inflation Genie Out of the Bottle?
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange The dramatic ascent of precious metals markets this summer reflects what could be just the start of a longer-term decline and fall in the Federal Reserve Note’s value and status. With gold prices surpassing $2,000/oz recently, the monetary metal has now made […]
Have We Not Had Enough?
By Stratton J. Davis Originally published at The Cotton Report The CoronaVirus has hurt Americans more than just medically. With the economy in a recession and countless businesses closing down leading to skyrocketing unemployment, the American people have looked to the government for answers to their financial problems. […]
The Neocons Strike Back
A New Republic article from January 2020 following the Suleimani assassination. Probably the most important thing that is happening in US politics right now is something that almost no one is aware of which is the present effort by the neocons to put themselves back in charge of […]
Wall Street and FDR
Both Marxists and radical libertarians like Antony Sutton pointed out how Roosevelt was not a “traitor to his class” but a friend of the power elite who wished to preserve the position of the ruling class against insurgent populist, labor, farmer, socialist, communist, and fascist movements that were […]
How FDR Saved Capitalism
Both the reformist left and the reactionary right have promoted the idea that FDR was a socialist or fascist that was either the working class’ savior or a villain who undermined America’s free enterprise system. Neither of these narratives of true. FDR originated from a patrician family, and […]
Thomas Frank on Anti-Populism, Plus Biden’s Most-Stoned Moment Ever
This is a pretty good discussion of populism in the US during the late 19th century. Author Thomas Frank joins the show to discuss his latest book ‘The People, NO: A Brief History of Anti-Populism.’ Katie Halper and Matt Taibbi dissect Biden’s most-stoned moment ever.
US Covid Stimulus Vs The World = Pathetic
The suicide of the US ruling class.
Cori Bush’s CLASS Identity Politics Are A REBUKE To Wealthy Dem Establishment
This is some pretty good commentary. The Democrats are fine with “diversity” as long as it’s within their own class.
Noam Chomsky’s New Biden Pitch ‘Your Feelings Are Irrelevant’
Shit. Just when I thought Noam had redeemed himself. What about Libya and Syria, Noam?
Trump: Tinpot Dictator? (w/ Noam Chomsky)
This is an excellent interview. Chomsky really puts the phenomenon of Trumpism in context in this interview. In recent years, Chomsky has at times gone off the deep end with hyperbolic comments but he doesn’t drop the ball in this one. It is good to hear Chomsky distinguishing […]
Small Businesses Are Overrated
The Jacobin commies attack the petite bourgeoisie. By Matt Kruenig The Jacobin As the anti-monopoly movement has picked up steam in important policy circles, some have begun thinking that small business promotion is a good idea. This seems to be partially driven by the technical view that small […]
Corporations That Back BLM Also Fund the Police
Of course. They’re covering all their bases.
Trump Pretends To Care About Income & Wealth Inequality, After Making It Worse
Of course. That’s what Presidents are for.
Kim Tries to Convince Right Wingers To Cancel Student Debt
Universities, corporations, tech companies, banks, and media conglomerates should all be considered agencies or branches of government, just like Congress or the Division of Motor Vehicles. The Bill of Rights should apply to all of these institutions and organizations. Un
OUR FUTURE: The Basic Income Plan (with Author Steve Shafarman)
After 40 years of capitalism, China’s income is divided almost as unequally as America’s
The Chinese are just now entering their Gilded Age. By Dan Kopf Quartz Increasing inequality is now at the center of world policy debates, and there is perhaps no person more responsible for that than French economist Thomas Piketty. His book Capital in the Twenty-First Century examined trends in […]
In Rich Countries, the Middle Class Is Getting Smaller and Smaller, Generation by Generation
Feudalism is on its way back. By Eshe Nelson Quartz Across Western Europe and North America, the middle class is shrinking, according to a 2019 report by the OECD. With each new generation, a smaller share of the population find themselves earning middle incomes. When the Baby Boomers, […]
The Case for Economic Nationalism
Economic nationalism, which is favored by guys like Tucker Carlson and Pat Buchanan, is just another term for mercantilism. It’s the system that societies in an early phase of industrial development tend to use in order to protect domestic industries. It’s more or less the system the US […]
The Case for Laissez-Faire Capitalism
Walter Block is much superior to most right-libertarians in that he recognizes that a stateless society would not necessarily be “capitalist” at all. By Walter Block Chronicles Under laissez-faire capitalism, government is limited to armies, which keep foreign bad guys from attacking us; police, to quell local criminals; […]
The Case for Christian Distributism
The economic vision of distributism, which is more or less the economic doctrine of the modern Catholic Church, is very similar to that of left-anarchism and libertarian-socialism, but socially conservative and minus anticlericalism. By Allan C. Carlson Chronicles Christian distributism celebrates the small and the human. It rests […]
Anti-Eviction Protests Have Begun
The next wave of riots? Hopefully.
Facing Imminent Economic CRASH, Now Is The Time For A Federal Jobs Program
Fuck some make-work “federal jobs program.” What we need is a debt jubilee. Economist, Pavlina Tcherneva, weighs in on the CARES Act and what lawmakers need to do to help strengthen the U.S. economy.
Exposing How Corporate Wokeness Gives Business A Pass To Screw Workers
Journalist, Zaid Jilani, gives his take on ‘corporate wokeness’ and how to keep it from destroying America.
White House And Congress Negotiations COLLAPSE. Millions Of Americans Face RUIN
The solution is simple: “Dear government, ruling class, power elite, banksters, and others whom it may concern…We want a complete moratorium if not a jubilee on rents, mortgages, car payments, credit cards, student loans, utility bills, and medical bills. We want it now. Please deliver immediately. Or we’ll […]
The Ten Core Demographics Revisited Ten Years Later
Ten years ago, I identified what I considered to be the “ten core demographics” that proponents of the ideas we discuss here at ATS will have to reach in order to eventually find the Holy Grail. The original piece is available here. It is interesting to evaluate the […]
Will ‘Law and Order’ Win Trump Reelection?
This interview contains my general take on the great lumpenproletarian cultural revolution of 2020 from a Howard Cosell perspective.
The Potlatch as an Illustration of the Gift Economy
It’s interesting how the potlatch or the Jewish concept of jubilee are forms of what FOX News fans would probably denounce as “socialism” that are largely cultural rather than political in nature. By Troy Southgate Some of you may have heard of the potlatch system, an economic practice […]
Trump heads to his own golf club as Covid-19 surges and jobless benefits expire
And Trump’s critics actually thought he wouldn’t “act presidential.” Wasting time on the golf course while everything falls apart is what presidents are for. The Guardian Donald Trump prompted a familiar barrage of criticism on Saturday by visiting one of his own golf clubs as the country remains […]
Residents living permanently in Japan’s cyber-cafés
The economic future: Living in cubicles in Internet cafes while working remotely.
Manga Kissa: Life in Japan’s Smallest Rooms
In the future, places like this will start to appear in the US as housing becomes more and more unaffordable. And the first thing that will happen is the bourgie sectors will try to use zoning laws and building codes to repress them.
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
An old article from the 1980s describing Libya’s economic system. There were many problems with Qaddafi, but the reason he was so hated by the Western imperialists is that he expelled Western petroleum interests from the country and created the wealthiest nation on the African continent. The Western […]
The Exploitation Debate: Ben Burgis VS. Antony Sammeroff
An interesting libertarian/ancap vs Marxist debate. I tend to lend more toward the idea that concentrated economic power is the primary problem rather than wage labor per se and that the relationship between the state and economic elites (the “power elite”) is what makes massive concentrations of economic […]
Trump FOLDS In Bailout Negotiations, Senate Leaves Town, MILLIONS Face Eviction
The ruling class continues with its “Let them eat cake!” attitude. Are the guillotines on the way?
These 15 countries have the widest gaps between rich and poor
The US is #9 on this list. Unbelievably, I am constantly coming across “libertarians” who think this doesn’t matter. Read some Aristotle or Tocqueville, folks. By Grant Suneson and Samuel Stebbins USA Today In American politics, the issue of income inequality comes up frequently. As wealth continues to […]
Latin America is the world’s most unequal region
Notice how the USA is starting to resemble Latin America and South Africa in terms of class divisions. World Economic Forum Global leaders will meet at the Annual Meeting in Davos this week to discuss how to improve the state of the world and address its most pressing […]
Dems Propose Embarrassing Half Measure To Fight Eviction Apocalypse
The ruling class continues to dig its own grave.
WORST Economic Contraction In American History, Unemployment Claims SPIKE, Congress Wavers
Great Depression Two is here and the ruling class doesn’t give a damn. Krystal and Saagar react to news that the U.S. GDP fell 9.5% and 1.43 million Americans filed new state unemployment claims.
Dems, GOP Should Be Fired For Feeding Workers To Wolves
Duh?
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