Krystal dives into the Biden administration’s photo op with leading labor union organizers that took place right before renewing Amazon’s NSA contract in what amounts to a betrayal of the company’s workers
Krystal and Saagar have Max Alvarez talk about workers quitting in the workplace and how the mindset is changing to one where workers stay in their job to make it better instead of leaving
Someone on another thread described exactly what Tomi does: simping for the Oligarchs.
The Mindcrime liberty show is joined by Todd Lewis to discuss whether wealth inequality is a problem and why? What are the causes of wealth inequality? Is wealth inequality just an extension of talent inequality? Who or what ideology is to blame? What can be done? Would wealth […]
By Laurie Wastel Quillette Ever since Marx, the concept of class has been foundational to sociology—as well as to almost everything else. This would not have surprised the German economist, for class, as he saw it, determines all: one’s motivations, one’s social position, even one’s consciousness. Britain, where […]
The Herland Report Herland Report: Massive Redistribution of Wealth: The Covid-19 virus makes billionaires’ fortune soar with massive profits. Elon Musk is now the richest man in the world, second only to Jeff Bezos – whose fortune also has rocketed during the pandemic. Bill Gates is left behind, […]
By Darel E. Paul, Compact Across the West, right populism is in retreat. Both right and left liberals were shocked in 2016 by the victory of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. In 2017, things then went from bad to worse. Even as Emmanuel Macron emerged as […]
This is complete divorce. But Russia was a donor for the Western economy. How will they explain later losses because of impossibility to sell their cars in Russia, absence of Russian tourists with their money in their hotels and restaurants, losses because of significant reduction of export of […]
Emily Jashinsky explains that the “foundation for nationwide legalized abortion has always been fragile, but the media just wasn’t saying it.”
Krystal and Saagar point out the irony in the Jeff Bezos owned Washington Post article criticizing the billionaire boys club that media ownership has become
Krystal is joined by journalist Julia Rock of THE LEVER to better understand the corporate tax breaks in Senate legislation that Bernie Sanders was critical of
By Joel Mathis The Week The Federal Reserve is going on offense against inflation. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday announced the biggest interest rate hike in two decades, and experts expect the Fed to raise the rate even more in the coming months. “The Fed’s suite of […]
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — the most consequential military conflict Europe has witnessed since the Second World War — has riveted the attention of the world. Observers have grappled with the meaning of the act of aggression and scrambled to ponder the wider implications of the war. Almost […]
Economy reporter, Ben Winck, discusses the anticipated hike in interest rates and what it means for addressing the national debt.
Krystal and Saagar question the legality of Starbucks union busting practice of raising wages and extending benefits solely to non union workers as the company escalates it battle against unionization
Krystal and Saagar analyze the decision by the Fed to raise interest rates to fight inflation and how that will affect the housing market, tech investing, and the economy as a whole
by Peter Zeihan on May 5, 2022 Europe is moving rapidly toward enacting an embargo against Russian crude oil. One of the main enforcement mechanisms will likely be denying maritime insurance coverage to ships carrying Russian crude to European ports. We’ve already seen many ship captains and crews […]
By David Louie ABC 7 PALO ALTO, Calif. — Rent in the Bay Area is unaffordable for many people, especially if they’re starting a new job or working as an intern. A new concept — sleeping in small, individual pods in a shared house — is being tried […]
Haha!!! Love this line Kyle “I’m not triggered, you’re just a moron!”
They’re not taking him seriously…. He’s meeting with Kamala lol…….
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss reports that Elon Musk plans to take Twitter public.
Editor-in-Chief, The Real News Network, Max Alvarez, and Newsweek Contributor, Pamela Denise Long, weigh in on the Americans who would be impacted the most if Roe V Wade is overturned.
By Matt Taibbi A series of moves against media outlets by PayPal shows the next step in speech control: confiscation. Why won’t the company answer questions? In the last week or so, the online payment platform PayPal without explanation suspended the accounts of a series of individual journalists […]
Reminder to Americans: Denmark pays it’s McDonald’s employees $22/hour and that’s pretty much the lowest wage in the country. They also get an entire year(52 weeks) of paid time off the moment they get hired. This is the power of living in a heavily unionized country. This is […]
“Why didn’t she get a second job to pay for her chemo?” Republicans
Krystal examines the changing dynamics of the working class caused by the growth in college educated youth taking up working class jobs and leading labor union drives
Krystal and Saagar look at the Amazon Labor Union’s response to the loss they suffered in the second unionization drive in the Staten Island facility they have been organizing in
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave debate student loan debt cancellation.
Labor reporter Kim Kelly previews her new book, “Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor.
Krystal looks back on the false bill of goods sold to students by Bill Clinton and the neoliberal establishment who saddled entire generations with student debt burdens on their future
Krystal and Saagar briefly discuss the new Amazon covid policies that went into effect right after the union vote in NYC ended which will be tallied up this week
Krystal and Saagar are joined by economist Richard Wolff to better understand the GDP contraction and why the consensus of economists missed the mark with their forecasts
Krystal and Saagar bring the news on the rough month for the stock market and the economic figures from the first quarter of 2022 that have some market experts predicting a massive crash
By George Hare, Compact We live now in a world cast in the image of the professional managerial class, or PMC. Our politics—from the response to Trump and Brexit to the Covid crisis and now anti-Russian hysteria—reflects their whims, prejudices, and psychopathologies. Every few months, they launch a […]
Murray N. Rothbard Mises Institute The Problem of Land Theft A particularly important application of our theory of property titles is the case of landed property. For one thing, land is a fixed quotal portion of the earth, and therefore the ground land endures virtually permanently. Historical investigation […]
This will have absolutely NO effect. People will just use code words until the mods find that they can’t ban the entire English dictionary. Pathetic.
Krystal and Saagar have Matt Stoller breakdown the methods used by large hearing aid monopolies to rob seniors and impaired people blind to get their hearing back at a huge cost
On The Realignment Podcast, Saagar and Marshall Kosloff debate the policy decisions Biden should make to address student debt now that he is considering widespread loan forgiveness
Krystal and Saagar examine a new study demonstrating the major effects that corporate price spikes are having on inflation in the economy
by Alan Bickley Last summer, I went with my wife and daughter on holiday to Shropshire. While there, we spent an afternoon in Ironbridge. This has as good a claim as any to being the place where the Industrial Revolution began. It was close by here that, in […]
By Emma Bowman, NPR May Day, celebrated by workers across the globe as International Labor Day, falls on May 1. But you’d be forgiven if that’s news to you. While the day traces its origins to an American laborers’ fight for a shorter work day, the U.S. does […]
Leftism is the domain of middle-class radicals who are upwardly mobile but politically frustrated. Trade unionism is the vehicle of the respectable working class who are instinctively conservative due largely to status anxiety. The actual revolutionary classes are those who have no stake in the wider society and […]
Russia is a big country. You cannot compare sanctions in Russia and estimate that it will work the same in other small countries. Russia can survive sanctions because of how big it is. They can survive even if they are completely cut off from the rest of the […]
Seems like whenever it hits, it’s gonna be worse than 2008. We never truly recovered from 2008. We put a band-aid on the issue and propped up the markets. We never addressed the core issues that caused it.
Krystal and Saagar bring a highlight reel of the interviews conducted by Jordan Chariton with Amazon workers and activists attending the Donziger freedom party
Krystal and Saagar are joined by reporter Matthew Cunningham-Cook of THE LEVER to better understand how governments such as New York are responding to Amazon union busting’
By Samuel Goldman The Week What are the sources of political instability? Conventional wisdom holds that unrest starts at the bottom. It makes sense, that those who derive the fewest benefits from a particular order would want the biggest changes. Freedom, as the song goes, is just another […]
By Peter Zeihan on April 29, 2022 Russia and its military have lagged considerably behind the Ukrainians in several categories: logistics, communications, and especially in metabolizing and deploying new technology, such as drones. It is especially in this latter instance where Kyiv has shown a remarkable nimbleness over Moscow. […]
Krystal and Saagar break down the indictment of a wall street hedge fund manager for fraud related charges after he was investigated for manipulating financial markets to the tune of billions of dollars
Krystal critiques the Fox News simping for billionaires and going against wealth taxes or other economic measures to curb their power and redistribute resources
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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