This is well worth checking out. This is one of the best descriptions of the condition of Western politics that I have seen to date. Present political conflict is not about class (or race or gender), although such conflicts exist in a way that is subordinated to the […]
Emily Jashinsky explains how identity politics can be used as a band-aid for deeper societal issues.
These would seem to be more issues of poverty than race per see, although poverty and race are obviously issues that overlap. By Andis Robeznieks, American Medical Association The country’s pervasive health inequities were evidenced by a tragic tally of 74,402 excess deaths, on average, among Black people […]
Futurism Cobalt mining is having a disastrous impact on the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As the demand for gadgets and electric cars grows, so too are the mining operations that dig up cobalt to use in lithium-ion batteries. And that’s become a serious problem for the Democratic […]
By Tom Ozimek ,Epoch Times Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon on June 2 announced that a next-generation nuclear power plant will be built at a soon-to-be-retired coal-fired plant in Wyoming in the next several years, with the project a joint initiative between Bill Gates’s TerraPower and PacifiCorp, owned by Warren […]
Ryan and Emily break down the latest jobs report numbers.
Team Rising reacts to the increase in rental rates throughout the past year.
Team Rising reacts to a new Census Bureau analysis after the two latest rounds of stimulus checks.
Yes, the threshold of subsistence is the real issue with poverty in the US. Ryan Grim discusses overdraft fees and who they disproportionately affect.
By Michael Lind, Tablet The great civil rights leaders of the 1960s were right to champion universal, inclusive social programs. Americans on the left, right, and center agree that America has too much inequality. They just can’t agree on what kind of inequality to complain about. Unable to […]
J. P. Cortez, Sound Defense Money Gov. Bill Lee signed legislation last week requiring the Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (TACIR) to examine the feasibility of creating a state depository to secure gold owned by the state and/or citizens. House Bill 353, introduced by Rep. Bud Hulsey, […]
By Oliver Bateman, The American Conservative Vince McMahon’s wrestlers are trademarked IP subject to extraordinary levels of control. John Cena recently made waves after apologizing to the People’s Republic of China for calling Taiwan a “country” during an interview with a Taiwanese broadcaster. Cena’s apology, delivered in Mandarin […]
I advise the paleo-populists to jettison the capitalist class and conservative “big media.” By Keith Preston, Chronicles Broad swaths of conservative opinion today would have it that the enemy of the right is some variant of Marxism. But this does not accurately describe people like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, […]
The Real News’ senior reporter, Jaisal Noor, shares his reporting on worker cooperatives.
By Victor Tangermann, Futurism Amazon is being roasted for sharing a video of its “AmaZen,” a phonebooth-sized box where employees can go to “focus on their mental wellbeing.” In other words, one of the largest companies in the world is offering its overworked employees a, well, box to […]
By Sharon Zhang, Truthout Last month, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) chose Elon Musk’s space exploration company SpaceX for a $2.9 billion contract to help develop the agency’s moon landing project, Artemis. Now, Congress is debating an amendment to a science and research funding bill that […]
Founder of The Daily Poster, David Sirota, breaks down The Koch Foundation’s recent financing of legal groups fighting to end prohibitions against evictions.
In this clip from the Waking Up With Julianna Forlano show, Professor Richard D. Wolff discusses how “if we stop funding the Military-Industrial Complex we could afford the greening of America, the infrastructure program, the American family program. All of these things wouldn’t require a nickel of government […]
This discussion between Michael Lind and Walter Russell Mead is a must-watch. Among Lind’s observations: -The USA is actually becoming less racially polarized as more integration is taking place along socioeconomic, geographical, institutional, and even partisan lines. -More class polarization is taking place but the working class is […]
By Robert Stark, Medium The nation is caught up in a reckoning over racial justice that coincides with civil unrest and greater political polarization. In line with these national trends, California has put forth measures on racial justice grounds that include racial favoritist cash payouts, educational curriculum based […]
The most immediately obvious problem with this analysis is that it ignores the rise in the expected threshold of subsistence during the time period that is being discussed. Politicians and the media are telling bogus stories about falling fertility rates, rising inequality, and supposed lack of economic mobility. […]
Saagar Enjeti reacts to Amazon’s Jeff Bezos purchasing MGM for $8.45 billion.
Amazon has introduced the ‘Ama-Zen’, a wellness isolation box for employees to distract from the fact that they just busted a unionization effort in Alabama.
By Sara Fischer, Danielle Alberti , Axios Americans are leaning into companies that have strong political positions, in the wake of one of the country’s most divisive election years. Driving the news: New rankings from the Axios/Harris 100 poll — an annual survey to gauge the reputation of the […]
Class divisions are the widest they have been since the Great Depression. But tribal/sectarian divisions are the widest they have been since the Civil War. Existential issues trump class politics. Among the Red Tribe, there is an audience for “national-conservatism,” “national-populism,” etc. Among the Blue Tribe, there is […]
Housing and homelessness may well replace labor conflict as the basis of “class struggle” in the future. Krystal Ball analyzes the housing market crisis and how it only benefits Wall Street.
Of course. Big Tech and the Media represent the left-wing of the capitalist class just as the fossil fuel and Big Ag represent the right-wing of the capitalist class. By Tim Pearce, Daily Wire Comedian Russell Brand ripped into the Democratic Party and accused it of colluding with […]
Instead, they want to raise fuel taxes on the working class. Washington Post economics reporter, Jeff Stein, discusses pushback from Dems on Biden’s tax plan.
Duh? Host of Bad Faith Podcast, Briahna Joy Gray, discusses the need for businesses to raise their wages in order to bring back workers.
When are these social democrats going to give up on electoralism? Krystal Ball explains the long-term financial effects of coronavirus on Americans.
What does anyone expect? Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti break down the latest updates in the infrastructure bill negotiations.
By JP Cortez, Sound Money Defense League Washington, DC (May 26, 2021) – America’s gold reserves would be audited for the first time in more than 60 years if a measure introduced yesterday by U.S. Representative Alex Mooney (R-WV) becomes law. The Gold Reserve Transparency Act of 2021 […]
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to Biden’s nominee for Air Force Secretary, Frank Kendall.
D.C. bureau chief at The Intercept, Ryan Grim, discusses Senate’s proposed $10 billion bailout for Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, which lost out on a NASA contract to SpaceX.
By Mya Frazier, New York Times Suzy Niffenegger slept outside in Las Vegas for the first time in late August 2019. She put what belongings she still had — including her collection of what she refers to as her “ ’80s big-hair wigs” — into storage and filled a […]
By Joel Kotkin, Claremont Institute In explaining his shift away from Maoist economics, Deng Xiao Ping, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, described his market-oriented changes as “socialism with Chinese characteristics.” Today, American businesses, as well as the media and academic establishments that serve them, increasingly embrace what […]
Michael Lind really is one of the very best political analysts and social scientists out there today. Here, he thoroughly exposes both Biden and the Green New Deal as statist-capitalist, corporatist-plutocratic scams that will have a negligible impact on carbon emissions. By Michael Lind, Tablet The Biden administration’s […]
Critics of anarchism often argue, “But without the state we would have corporate feudalism!” apparently not recognizing that we already have corporate feudalism. By Oliver Milman, The Guardian Steven Donziger has been detained at home since August 2019, the result of a Kafkaesque legal battle stemming from his […]
This article makes an empirical case that the economy still isn’t that bad, although data from the post-covid period has been deliberately excluded by the author, and the statistics presented end in 2019. My initial impression of this author’s arguments is that he/she relies too strongly on the […]
Krystal Ball discusses the pay rises major CEOs received in 2020.
Max Alvarez, host of Working People Podcast, discusses Amazon’s alleged union busting tactics.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to reports that WarnerMedia is planning to merge with Discovery.
Actress and activist, Susan Sarandon, and former presidential candidate, Marianne Williamson discuss the trial of Steven Donziger.
JP Cortez, Sound Money Defense League The critical efforts of the Sound Money Defense League to protect and defend the interests of precious metals owners — and the public at large — continues to gain recognition as the organization racks up new policy victories once again in 2021. Principally […]
Ben is going to hop on at 7:30 to briefly interview Brianna Westbrook from Downballot Progress and chat a bit with Producer Forrest, and then Forrest will take over the stream while Ben heads over to Modern-Day Debate to debate libertarian philosophy professor Michael Huemer on whether taxation […]
The human rights attorney who sued Chevron over environmental pollution, Steven Donziger, discusses the details of his own contempt trial.
Krystal Ball reacts to the protests taking place across Palestine in response to recent Israeli attacks.
By Peter Zeihan I’m going to attempt the impossible with this one: making economics not necessarily fun, but painfully relevant to someone who cannot work an Excel document. Here goes: The United States is experiencing the fastest increase in prices since at least the peak of the subprime […]
The Mindcrime libertyshow is joined by Duncan Whitmore of Mises UK who wrote an essay entitled Crypto Skepticism to discuss both his essay and crypto currency in general. Does crypto currency ranging from the very well established Bitcoin and Ethereum to the plethora of startup alt coins and […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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