by Alexander Chipman Koty ASEAN Briefing ndonesia is set to open two new special economic zones (SEZs) in the island city of Batam after President Joko Widodo recently approved the decision. The new zones aim to develop a number of industries in Batam, with an emphasis on the […]
Futurism Acclaimed musician Claire “Grimes” Boucher posted a TikTok video on Wednesday night in which she returned to one of her favorite pastimes: overpromising what artificial intelligence can provide to society. “I have a proposition for the communists,” she said in the video. “Typically, most of the communists […]
Briahna Joy Gray, Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss whether the pandemic has permanently changed the way Americans think about the public safety net.
Robby Soave makes the case for waiving pandemic restrictions for everyone, not just the celebrity class
The progressives are showing that their priorities are simply to increase the amount of welfare for corporations, private contractors, and state and local governments. Why isn’t their priority to defund the Saudi genocide in Yemen or Israel’s open-air concentration camp in Gaza, or end America’s drone wars against […]
It’s like ATS now has a de facto mass army of inadvertent troops, comprised almost entirely of folks who have never heard of us and wouldn’t like us if they had. As most readers know, I have long been an advocate of a political realignment along decentralist vs. […]
I frankly don’t give a flying fuck about this infrastructure bill thing but it’s news so I post about it anyway. Ryan Grim breaks down Joe Manchin’s efforts to kill the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package.
Thom Hartmann discusses his new book, “The Hidden History of American Healthcare,” and why previous attempts to bring universal healthcare to the U.S. have failed.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by policy expert Matt Stoller who details how Wall Street executives profited off the 9/11 disaster
David Sirota breaks down why the White House hasn’t shared life-saving vaccine research with the rest of the world, despite having the legal standing to do so.
Investigative reporters Stephen Janis and Taya Graham explain why Big Pharma is lobbying against allowing the federal government to negotiate drug prices.
By Peter Zeihan September 10, 2021 The seven-day moving average for new COVID deaths in the United States is back up above 1,000 – a figure the Americans have not suffered since before COVID vaccines became widely available back in April. To that end, a series of new […]
When I founded Attack the System over 20 years ago, my objective was to lay the blueprint for an insurgent anarchist movement in North America that could eventually take down the US regime and ruling class, in solidarity with those under attack by US imperialism in each of […]
Do it. And anti-wokesters can build their own cities as well. By Will Feuer Former Walmart executive and e-commerce billionaire Marc Lore wants to build the world’s first woke city from scratch — somewhere in the US. Lore last week unveiled plans for his utopia, called Telosa, from […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds 87 percent of employed voters said they are satisfied with the way they are treated by their employers. Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, Robby Soave discuss.
Activist and filmmaker Michael Moore gives his take on vaccine hesitancy and COVID disinformation.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to data from the Treasury Department showing that the top one percent of wealthy people in the U.S. owe more than $160B in taxes.
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Money Metals Silver’s near-term price trajectory remains uncertain amid choppy market conditions. Its future, however, looks bright. In addition to the white metal’s growing uses in high-tech and alternative energy industries, some silver bulls are banking on rising bullion demand by retail […]
Krystal and Saagar break down the documents that were disclosed as the Elizabeth Holmes trial begins and what they could mean for the MeToo defense she plans on using
Krystal provides a rundown of the corruption and criminal activity that has occurred in the Manchin family, especially in the sales and distribution of lifesaving treatments by pharma companies
Ben Mezrich, author of The Accidental Billionaires (adapted into The Social Network,) Bitcoin Billionaires, and The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders that Brought Wall Street to Its Knees, joins Saagar and Marshall at The Realignment to explain why he believes […]
The principal dividing line in the “culture wars” is between the college-educated and non-college-educated, rather than class, race, gender, or religion. By Nate Cohn, New York Times The front lines of America’s cultural clashes have shifted in recent years. A vigorous wave of progressive activism has helped push […]
By Yves Smith A couple of years ago, when Lambert would talk about professional pundits and official Democratic spokescritters behaving as if they were trying to stoke civil war in the US, I thought he’d been spending too much time on Twitter and might benefit from a dose […]
Once again, issues I have been debating for years are now becoming mainstream. At this point, I would have to say that the majority of ideas (taken from a myriad of diverse and often seemingly contradictory sources) that I have been discussing, criticizing, debating, or advocating for here […]
As much as it pains me to have to agree with the late Irving Kristol, the godfather of the neocons, on anything, it seems his theory of the “new class” was largely correct. James Burnham argued that capitalism had assumed a new form in the mid-20th century (managerial […]
While I don’t share his loopy Maoism, this video by Jason Unruhe explains pretty well why I reject virtually all US political factions, from far-left to far-right. Nearly all of these are merely rival teams within the global 1%. Most of the anti-one percenters are in fact one-percenters. […]
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff break down the underwhelming jobs numbers for August and what they mean for Biden going forward.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to the expiration of federal unemployment benefits.
As concepts like startup societies and pan-secessionism become more pervasive, it is likely that such activities will originate from many different sources, including billionaire philanthropists, communes, religious communities, eco-villages, and many other things. By Adam Williams New Atlas American entrepreneur Marc Lore has revealed an incredibly ambitious plan to […]
Associated Press For millions of Americans, Labor Day 2021 represents a perilous crossroads. Two primary anchors of the government’s COVID protection package are ending or have recently ended. Starting today, an estimated 8.9 million people will lose all unemployment benefits. A federal eviction moratorium already has expired. While […]
Zaid Jilani breaks down how elite private universities are like the alcohol and tobacco industries, and why they should face taxes on their endowments.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen and Alyssa Farah respond to reports that reveal the average pay for restaurant and grocery workers is above fifteen dollars an hour.
Josh Barro makes the case against increased healthcare costs for the unvaccinated.
Los Angeles temporarily eased parking requirements during the pandemic, offering a glimpse of how much a less restrictive zoning code improves urban life. Before Los Angeles temporarily eased its zoning requirements and allowed restaurants to expand outdoor seating during the COVID-19 pandemic, the parking lot of The Golden […]
By Heather Long Alyssa Fowers Andrew Van Dam Washington Post A mystery sits at the heart of the economic recovery: There are 10 million job openings, yet more than 8.4 million unemployed are still actively looking for work. The job market looks, in some ways, like a boom-time […]
BY CHRISTINE CHMURA Special correspondent As we celebrate our second Labor Day in a pandemic, there are still many unknowns about when employment will return to pre-COVID levels. Although infections continue to rise in many states, some businesses are reopening and consumers are spending. The pandemic still influences […]
Interestingly, Lyft has issued the following statement concerning the Texas abortion. If Roe is either de jour or de facto repealed, the culture wars and political conflict are going to escalate fairly dramatically. Dear Lyft Riders and Drivers, A new Texas law, SB8, threatens to punish drivers for […]
This article is relevant because Kamala is woke capital’s handpicked successor to Uncle Joe the Pedo. They’re going all out to build her myth, the same way they promoted Michelle Obama as Jackie Kennedy, Joan of Arc, and Florence Nightingale all rolled into one. Promoting Harris’ hideous stepdaughter […]
This is obviously a mixed bag because it is reminiscent of the “company towns” of the industrial revolution but, big picture-wise, I believe this helps fuel the pan-secessionist strategic paradigm in the same way that CHAZ/CHOP was a step in the right direction from the other side of […]
Social Justice, Inc. Team Rising discusses the role of corporations in issues of social, racial, and economic justice.
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff are joined by author Vivek Ramaswamy to discuss the problems with woke capital and why the left and right should be concerned.
Guest host Marshall Kosloff describes the connection between the fraud by Elizabeth Holmes at Theranos and the failures in the 20 years spent in Afghanistan.
This Julius Krein article is interesting. It’s somewhat similar to Howard Zinn’s call for the “revolt of the guards.” I think we largely see what Krein is describing playing out in the Democratic Party now, where the social democrats and progressive liberals have created a de facto opposition […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Alyssa Farah break down how the pandemic and climate change could create a major housing crisis.
Saagar covers the important story of how China pulled off the semiconductor heist of the century and what it tells us about US elites more broadly
Krystal and Saagar go over the immediate consequences of the supreme court’s decision to end Biden’s eviction moratorium and why rental relief funds from congress failed to get distributed
Krystal and Saagar look at the potential consequences for million of renters following the supreme court’s decision to overturn Biden’s eviction moratorium
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Alyssa Farah discuss a new survey of California rideshare drivers about their benefits under Proposition 22.
Chris Smalls, organizer and former Amazon employee, discusses the unionization efforts at a warehouse in Staten Island.
Representative Ro Khanna, Deputy Whip for the Congressional Progressive Caucus, details plans to take action on the federal eviction moratorium and makes the case for increased FDA transparency.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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