Caitlin Johnstone Mar 01, 2025 I publish my work in print form every month in a collection called JOHNSTONE magazine. The new edition is titled “We Are Ruled By Sociopaths Because Capitalism Elevates The Worst Among Us,” and it’s available to order in print or download as a […]
What Is Happening Now Troy Keith Preston Mar 02, 2025 Here is my general take on what is going on now: Within domestic US politics, partisan cycles tend to run in 40-year intervals. The Republicans were the dominant party between 1969 and 2008, which represented the transition from […]
23 February, 2025 Sebastian Wang Another day, another whine-fest from The Daily Telegraph, this time about the “middle-class poor.” Apparently, inflation has made it difficult for some people to afford cleaners and nannies and after-school tutors. The horror. This is meant to tug at our heartstrings, but my […]
By Joel Kotkin February 27, 2025/in Politics The ever-mounting hysteria over Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) seems to largely be coming from that large sector of Americans who work for, or in other ways feed from, Washington’s seemingly bottomless trough. As government employment and spending have […]
Trump Takes on Trade by Peter Zeihan on February 27, 2025 Today’s video was originally released on Patreon 1 week ago. If you want to see the videos as soon as they come out, join the Patreon! You’ll get early access to videos and newsletters, as well as exclusive perks […]
Week IX, MMXXV Recently at The Signal: The 2025 Oscar-nominee for best documentary feature, Johan Grimonprez, on what’s driving the terrible conflict in Congo. … Today: Why are bond yields going up so much around the world? Rebecca Patterson on economic growth, expectations of inflation, and unsustainable government […]
What’s happening right now in Congress, with Trump’s guidance from the White House, is decades in the making: GOP cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. Last night, House Republicans voted to gut Medicaid — which 80 million people rely on for health care. Passage of the House […]
View in browser Watch now How to Get Eggs for Free!!! – #SolutionsWatch The Corbett Report Feb 26 ∙ Paid READ IN APP SHOW NOTES AND COMMENTS: https://corbettreport.com/how-to-get-eggs-for-free/ Are you concerned with the price of eggs? Well, as I see it, there are two options. Either you could […]
Posted on February 26, 2025 by winter oak by W.D. James We like to dislike financiers (and usually lawyers). In a sense, this is odd. Personally, my interactions with bankers have mainly been positive; then again, I’ve never had anything I own foreclosed upon or repossessed. That’s largely […]
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2025 Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have greater power in the world than an idea that is true but complex. –Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America [1835] […]
When class theory gets fuzzy… Alex Strekal Feb 24, 2025 There is much talk on the discourse of the left these days about the “professional-managerial class”. This term was first coined by Barbara Ehrenreich in the 70’s to refer to educated professionals or mental laborers, often with higher-than-average […]
Caitlin Johnstone Feb 23, 2025 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): The trouble is that there’s no money in the pursuit of the good, and there’s no goodness in the pursuit of money. If you want to devote your life to doing good, […]
Trump is president so stop bitching and go work at Panda Express Robert Stark Feb 24, 2025 source: @MAGAVoice on X There was a major vibe shift right after Trump was elected to this new exuberance and optimism that Trump will usher in this golden age of prosperity, […]
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If Congo were a person, it would be the most cherished, most respected, most protected individual on Earth. It is the backbone of modern technology, the lifeblood of the global economy, and the nucleus of Africa’s wealth. But instead of being honored, it is looted, sabotaged, and kept […]
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“You don’t need a formal conspiracy when interests converge. These people went to the same universities, they’re on the same boards of directors, they’re in the same country clubs. They have like interests, they don’t need to call a meeting. They know what’s good for them.” – George […]
s homelessness truly solvable? Rosanne Haggerty believes it is—and she has the data to prove it. As the founder and CEO of Community Solutions, Rosanne has spent decades pioneering game-changing strategies that are transforming how cities tackle homelessness. In this episode, we dive into: ✅ Why traditional approaches […]
Read in browser February 22, 2025 Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair Phillip W. Magness faces off against tariff advocates Ian Fletcher and Marc Fasteau on the Better Wealth podcast. Adam Smith Is a Better Economist Than Donald Trump Senior Fellow Richard Vedder argues that tariffs are […]
The richest man on Earth refusing to help his sick kid is the definition of scum
February 19, 2025 Welcome to The Lighthouse, the weekly email newsletter of the Independent Institute covering politics, economics, current events, and everything in between. Dear Readers, What branch of the government controls federal spending? It is a debate that has occasionally popped up throughout the decades and is […]
View this email in your browser Can Tariffs Replace Income Taxes? by Peter Zeihan on February 19, 2025 Today’s video was originally released on Patreon 1 week ago. If you want to see the videos as soon as they come out, join the Patreon! You’ll get early access to videos […]
Most Read Poised to Take Over TikTok, Oracle Is Accused of Clamping Down on Pro-Palestine Dissent Georgia Gee Oracle, which has secret partnerships with Israel, has told employees to love the country or work elsewhere. Read More → This Is the Way to Stop Elon Musk Sunjeev Bery […]
The left-behind are likely to remain left behind, even in the neopopulist era Nigel Bowen Nov 21, 2024 Photo by Natilyn Photography on Unsplash Video summary “If there is hope, it lies in the proles.” George Orwell, via Winston Smith The industrial age did famously have the proletarian class — […]
The PMC has spent decades throwing the lower orders under the bus. Can it now win the working class back over to rein in the growing power of the ruling class? Nigel Bowen Feb 13, 2025 Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash Video summary For the past […]
By Tom Nawrocki February 14, 2025 Payments Journal As the Trump administration continues to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Republican lawmakers have set their sights on reversing a major CFPB rule. Two key legislators have introduced a resolution to repeal the $5 cap on bank overdraft fees, […]
Ryan Zickgraf February 19, 2025 7 mins UNHERD It’s a toy store called Treasure Trove, but the first thing you see when you enter is no child’s play. Boxes of Narcan, a medication used to treat emergency drug overdoses, sit on the front counter near the cash register, […]
A new report showcases just how bad the American economy and employment actually is, with unemployment levels close to that of the Great Depression. Jordan Chariton and Zeynab Day react to this news and how we got here.
Michael A Alexander Nov 04, 2024 The Wikipedia entry for Neoliberalism describes it as both a political and economic philosophy. I use the word in its political sense. In this vein, it is primarily employed to delineate the societal transformation resulting from market-based reforms. One objective of this […]
The Magma of Global Capitalist War In this reply to Maurizio Lazzarato’s “Why War?” and “Political Conditions for a New World Order,” Edgar Illas argues that the intertwinement of global war and capitalism signals the collapse of the systematic potential of materialist political analysis. Maurizio Lazzarato’s articles “Why… […]
Federal workers organize against billionaire power grab This story originally appeared in Labor Notes on Feb. 14, 2025. It is shared here with permission. The second Trump administration has the federal workforce in its crosshairs. Spearheading the effort is Elon Musk (the richest man in the world) and […]
The illusion of progress is due to an economic sleight of statistical hand and a selective historical analysis that sanitizes capitalism’s brutal human toll Ryan Ward Feb 10, 2025 Reconstruction of historical global extreme poverty rates. Source: Roser and Hasell (2021) and World Bank (2020); https://ourworldindata.org/history-of-poverty-data-appendix Anyone who […]
At a Senate Budget Committee hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) spoke about Social Security in the budget proposal. Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat […]
The President advances a three-pronged strategy for national security: 1. Negotiate a peace deal for Ukraine. 2. Negotiate nuclear arms drawdown with China and Russia. 3. Cut military spending by 50% Dennis Kucinich and Elizabeth Kucinich Feb 17, 2025 It is Presidents’ Day, and President Donald Trump has […]
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Elon Musk is spreading lies about Social Security, saying that tax dollars are being stolen due to “massive fraud.”1 It’s a reckless set up as DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) sets its sights on the Social Security Administration after causing havoc at the Treasury Department, USAID, and the […]
Troy Southgate Feb 17, 2025 WHY am I not surprised that the trout-faced billionaire responsible for throwing his money at Silicon Valley’s transhumanists looks less and less human every day? It’s not even like he’s in the process of transitioning from one form of existence to another; in […]
winter oak Read on blog or Reader A decade of dissent: parasites in power By winter oak on February 17, 2025 In the latest part of his retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, editor Paul Cudenec looks back on its content in 2017. The online document covering the […]
Sponsored by Reaktion Books Among the fusillade of President Trump’s executive orders, policy musings, and social media eructations, a seemingly absurd set of territorial demands have emerged: trading Puerto Rico for Denmark, incorporating Canada as the fifty-first state, annexing Gaza, and seizing authority of the Panama Canal away […]
New in Telos Insights Geopolitics, Ecology, and the International Economy From the 2024 Postliberalism Conference Over the coming days, we will be posting videos from Political Economy and the Good Life: The 2024 Postliberalism Conference, which took place on December 13–14, 2024, at the University of Cambridge. If […]
Elon Musk is making technofascism a reality before our eyes Within the first month of the new Trump administration, the federal government has already become nearly unrecognizable. Operating through the unofficial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been given carte blanche to […]
Inequality Watch: Why Democrats lose, how they can fix it, and what we’ll be watching Last week, we attended a protest outside the US treasury to oppose Elon Musk’s takeover of the federal purse. It was raucous and impassioned but also revealed something that we had not fully […]
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2025 This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists’ tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the “hidden” confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps […]
From the 2024 Postliberalism Conference Over the coming days, we will be posting videos from Political Economy and the Good Life: The 2024 Postliberalism Conference, which took place on December 13–14, 2024, at the University of Cambridge. If you are not yet a subscriber, be sure to subscribe […]
February 12, 2025/in California, Politics For generations, the ultra-rich in big American cities have been willing to go along with progressives and their policies. But now, as urban areas across the country depopulate and lose jobs, some of those oligarchs – from San Francisco and Los Angeles to […]
winter oak Read on blog or Reader A decade of dissent: against corporate dictatorship By winter oak on February 13, 2025 In the second part of his retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, editor Paul Cudenec looks back on its content in 2016. The online document covering the […]
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2025 We ask of the State and Society only one thing — a fair field and no favors … a strict cutting out of all paternalistic activities, and the unfaltering insistence that government shall really perform its basic and fundamental duty, the protection of the […]
Political Economist Feb 06, 2025 Last year I thought of buying some Palantir shares. The share price was at historic lows, but I had been paying attention to what kind of business Palantir was doing and with whom. It was clear that it was quietly positioning itself to […]
Michael Rectenwald Feb 11, 2025 What do DOGE and Donald Trump’s proposed Gaza takeover have in common? On the surface, the answer would seem to be “nothing.” Yet, Trump’s insistence that the U.S. will “take over” Gaza is antithetical to his America First agenda and the mission of […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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