Bezos Post: DENY Unemployment to the Unvaccinated
Krystal and Saagar respond on an op-ed by the Washington Post Editorial Board calling for unemployment insurance to be denied to the unvaccinated while owner Jeff Bezos parties on a Yacht
Elizabeth Holmes GUILTY Of Fraud. Devos Family, Walmart Heirs, And Rupert Murdoch DUPED By Theranos
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to the jury’s verdict in Elizabeth Holmes’ fraud trial.
BREAKING: Elizabeth Holmes GUILTY of Fraud
Krystal and Saagar cover the verdict in the Elizabeth Holmes trial that saw the disgraced Silicon Valley billionaire charged with multiple counts of wire fraud by the jury
BIPARTISAN push to PUNISH Meatpackers Jacking Up Prices
Krystal and Saagar outline the bipartisan push in congress supported by the Biden administration to reign in the meatpacking giants who have been jacking up prices and screwing ranchers
Over 4.5 million people quit their jobs in November, shattering September’s previous record
By Brigid Kennedy, The Week A record number of workers voluntarily left their jobs in November, CNBC reports, according to the Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS. The aptly-named quits level jumped to 4.53 million that month, an 8.9 percent increase from October. The […]
Inflation or Recession? The Fed Faces a Choice.
By Siddharth Gundapaneni Mises Institute On December 15, the Federal Reserve announced numerous quantitative tightening measures that have the intended goal of combating the rising inflation that has been bogging down the American economy. As of November 2021, the rate of inflation has reached 6.8 percent, the highest […]
Realignment or Not, Normies Get Votes
Writer and attorney Mark Yzaguirre joins The Realignment to discuss our show’s original focus: cultural, economic, and political realignments are reshaping the right and left.
Hey Kid, Wanna Buy a City?
By Olúfémi O. Táíwò The Nation Elite economists have been promoting a model of governance resembling nothing so much as a game of Monopoly. If you’re in the market for a banana republic, have I got a deal for you. Head on down to the digital offices of […]
Trouble in Paradise: The Crumbling California Model
By Joel Kotkin National Review Some horrified conservatives dismiss California as the progressive dystopia, bound for bankruptcy and, let’s hope, growing irrelevance. Progressives, for their part, hail the Golden State as the avatar of a better future, the role model for a new, more environmentally friendly and socially […]
Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Found Guilty of Four Charges of Criminal Fraud
By Caroline Downey National Review Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of health-technology company Theranos, has been found guilty of four charges of criminal fraud, for which she potentially faces a sentence of up to 20 years in jail. The jury returned the verdict after three months of testimony from […]
RECORD Number Of States To Raise Minimum Wage
Krystal and Saagar examine the economic figures in the 2021 job market and how newly implemented raises in the minimum wage in states across America will benefit workers
FIRST Socialist Elected In Florida In 100 Years Launches Creative New Working Class Project
St. Petersburg, Florida councilmember-elect Richie Floyd breaks down what it takes for progressives and democratic socialists to win in red and purple states.
EXPOSED: 60% Of Inflation Caused By CORPORATE GREED
Krystal and Saagar look at the metrics surrounding inflation and corporate profit margins that how how approximately 60% of the surge in prices of goods is resulting from rampant price gauging
Starbucks Workers EXPOSE Anti-Union ‘Psychological Warfare’
Krystal and Saagar talk with two Starbucks workers leading unionization efforts in various stores across Buffalo, New York about how the company tried to bust the worker activism from the start
Nebraska becomes the first state to say they will NOT comply with Biden’s snooping plan to have banks report every transaction over $600 to the IRS
More pan-secessionism in action. So far this hasn’t passed. By Morgan Phillips, Politics Reporter For Dailymail.Com ‘If the Biden administration sues me, we will take it all the way to the Supreme Court,’ state treasurer John Murante said The proposal, backed by $79 billion in additional funding, would […]
The Price of Happiness
By Mara Hvistendahl The Intercept U.N. Power Broker Jeffrey Sachs Took Millions From the UAE to Research “Well-Being” Starting in 2016, the men who run the United Arab Emirates went all-in on positivity. They installed a giant smiley face on the dome crowning a Dubai police station. They created a […]
Worker Cooperatives Are More Productive Than Normal Companies
By Michelle Chen, The Nation When maximizing profits isn’t the only goal, companies can actually work better. Imagine an economy without bosses. It’s not a utopian vision but a growing daily reality for many enterprises. A close analysis of the performance of worker-owned cooperative firms—companies in which workers […]
Conservative was allegedly denied a mortgage due to political views
Rebel News Founder Ezra Levant alleges he was denied a mortgage from a bank due to his political views.
Americans RENOUNCING Citizenship To AVOID Taxes, Media Narrative MISSES The Mark
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave weigh in on data regarding Americans who have renounced their citizenship.
NEW Book Documents First-Hand Accounts From Gravedigger, Bartender, Nurse, And More Amid PANDEMIC
Host of Working People Podcast and editor-in-chief of The Real News, Max Alvarez, details his new book, “The Work of living.”
Food insecurity rises in US military ranks. So does honesty about it.
By Anna Mulrine Grobe Christian Science Monitor When her husband was a Marine Corps sergeant, Bianca Strzalkowski struggled with what, to the couple, felt like a shameful secret: Even on their active-duty military salary, which included a housing allowance, they could not afford enough food and diapers for […]
NYU Student FORCED TO SELL EGGS To Pay For Scam Education
Krystal and Saagar tell the story of graduate students at NYU who are paying sky high prices for tuition and living expenses that leads to colossal debt and desperate methods to pay it off
Why is everyone quitting their jobs?
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America’s Huge Pile of National Debt Makes Combating Inflation More Difficult
By Eric Boehm Reason A one percentage point increase in interest rates translates into a $30 trillion increase in interest costs on the national debt. The optimistic scenario goes like this. America shakes off what remains of the pandemic in the coming months without the need for trillions […]
Ranchers DROPPING LIKE FLIES As Meatpackers Fleece Public
Krystal and Saagar are joined by nonprofit director and former rancher Bill Bullard to better understand how large meatpackers are ripping off ranchers and the American people
EVEN MSNBC SLAMS Pelosi’s Defense Of Insider Trading
Krystal and Saagar respond to the surprising comments made by MSNBC pundits that expressed criticism over Nancy Pelosi’s justification of insider trading by members of congress
ONLY 50% Of 2020 College Grads Have Jobs So Far
Krystal and Saagar examine the new data showing how poorly the graduating class of 2020 has fared in the job market and what that means for America going forward
Today’s Capital STRIKE And Labor Shortage Reveal The AUDACITY Of Big Business
Ryan Grim details the relationship between inflation and corporate profits.
The 10 Worst Americans of 2021
By Jon Schwarz Intercept At Christmas we traditionally reflect upon our blessings and forgive those who have trespassed against us. Let’s not this year. At this time of year we traditionally reflect upon our blessings and forgive those who have trespassed against us. But we’ve been trying that […]
After accusations of forcing employees to visit strip clubs and brothels, Servotronics CEO resigns
Geoff Herbert, Syracuse.com An Upstate New York manufacturer’s top executive has resigned after being accused of forcing his employees to visit strip clubs and brothels, according to a new report. Servotronics Inc., located in Elma, N.Y., announced Monday that Kenneth D. Trbovich has resigned as president and CEO and been removed as […]
Charles Sykes: How the Right Lost its Mind
From 2017. The rise of the neo-know-nothings is in part a pushback against the rise of the alliance between digital capitalism, the traditional financial elites, and the professional-managerial class, with totalitarian humanism its ideological superstructure, along with the parallel cultural and demographic decline of traditionally hegemonic WASP culture, […]
Biden Admin BUCKLES On Student Loan Payments, RE-EXTENDS Freeze To May. Is Debt Cancellation Next?
Team Rising discusses the re-extension of the student loan repayment freeze, and whether student loan debt will ever be cancelled.
Meet New TOO BIG TO FAIL Wall Street Giants
Krystal and Saagar are joined by American Prospect writer Lee Harris to dive into the future of financial regulation given the presence of new giants on Wall Street
Gen Y vs. Z
Like their parents, the American Millennial cohort is defined by their size. Making up a larger share of the US population than either the preceding (and dare I say, cooler?) Gen X and younger Gen Z, they are having their own outsized impact on American society. Millennials and […]
Christmas 2021: AOC Shames the Evangelicals
Proto-Protestant https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/us-news/2021/12/09/ocasio-cortez-slams-republicans-over-gun-toting-christmas-photos/ What a sad moment. Ocasio-Cortez the much vilified Democratic representative from New York and member of the hated ‘Squad’ has spoken truth – and a truth that puts Evangelicals to shame. The Right has made too much of Ocasio-Cortez. Some commentators suggest that ‘The Squad’ in […]
The fake struggle between workers and consumers
This week, we’re joined on KK&F by Maximillian Alvarez, host of Working People podcast and editor-in-chief at The Real News. In the wake of recent news about the tragic, needless deaths of six workers at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer this year, Krystal sat down with Max for […]
REVEALED: Amazon COVERED UP Worker Deaths
Krystal and Saagar cover the shocking news that Amazon covered up worker deaths in their warehouses including two that took place in a single day
UNDER PRESSURE Biden Flip Flops On Student Loan Pause
Krystal and Saagar break down the decision by the Biden administration to halt student loan payments until May after pressure from media outlets caused them to change their position
The Criminal Justice System CRUELLY Punishes America’s Most Vulnerable Simply For Being Poor
Author Tony Messenger details his new book, “Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice.”
Western Greed Fuels China’s Domination
By Joel Kotkin There is a hypocrisy at the heart of the West’s attitude to China: although we’re constantly warned about the threat from Beijing, our political and corporate elites seem intent on making this century a Chinese one. Unlike in the Thirties, this appeasement isn’t driven by […]
Our Neo-Feudal Future
By Joel Kotkin America has only a limited feudal past, the plantation aristocracy of the antebellum South and the enormous class chasms of the Gilded Age being pretty much our only examples. Yet today—after decades of social mobility, a digital revolution that was supposed to empower individuals everywhere, […]
As COVID fueled the drug crisis, Native Americans hit worst
By CLAIRE GALOFARO, AP National Writer BEMIDJI, Minn. (AP) — The medicine man told her she should soon give her son back to the earth. Rachel Taylor kissed her fingertips and pressed them to the crow sewn onto a leather bag nestled on the couch in the living […]
David Dayen UNIONS Negotiate USPS Pilot Banking System, Could Benefit MILLIONS Of Americans
David Dayen: UNIONS Negotiate USPS Pilot Banking System, Could Benefit MILLIONS Of Americans
New film REVEALS Americans DROWNING in $15T of debt, “Your Debt Is Someone Else’s ASSET”
Co-director of “Your Debt Is Someone Else’s Asset,” Kim Boekbinder, describes her new film.
Boomers, Mexicans, and Trucking
By Peter Zeihan on December 22, 2021 Demographics are at the core of what we do here at Zeihan on Geopolitics. More than just a count of population, demographic data–often expressed as a pyramid-shaped graph–can deliver a wealth of information about a society. Is the country in question rapidly […]
Voters BURY Neoliberalism in the Place Where it Was Born
Krystal examines the election results in Chile, the birthplace of neoliberalism, and what it could indicate about global political trends and voter behavior going forward
INSIDE BIPARTISAN Push To INVESTIGATE Amazon’s Abuse
Krystal and Saagar break down the significance of the bipartisan coalition forming to fight the dangerous working conditions faced by those in Amazon warehouses across the country
Alabama Miners SLAM Corporate Media Blackout Of Struggle
Krystal and Saagar talk to Haeden Wright, the wife of an Alabama coal miner on strike against Warrior Met and BlackRock about their months long struggle for a better deal
STARK Divide: Survey Shows College-Educated Americans MORE LIKELY To Have Close Friendships
Daniel Cox, Director of the Survey Center on American Life, breaks down new survey results on community, friendship, and college education.
Investigation Finds Corporate Diversity Training “Privilege Walk” Has Roots In Cult Offshoot
It’s interesting to listen to Christian Parenti, an actual Marxist and the son of US Marxist-Leninist icon Michael Parenti (the Noam Chomsky of the actual commies rather than the anarcho-liberals), discussing the relationship between Herbert Marcuse and PC culture, and the cult-like nature of the “woke” liberal-left subculture. […]
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