Is American Freedom Only For The Rich?
Krystal questions the notion of freedom in the United States applying to all people equally.
Exxon Lobbyist CAUGHT Saying Quiet Part Out Loud On Corruption
Once again, this is exactly how business is done in “Third World” countries. Krystal and Saagar cover the shocking footage revealing the extent of Exxon’s power and corruption
Amazon Execs ADMIT Workers Treated As Collateral Damage On Bezos’s Last Day
Like I said, the 19th century revisited. Krystal and Saagar take another look at the inhuman working conditions at Amazon.
Amazon Tries to BLOCK Anti-Trust Suit
The 19th century revisited.
Joel Kotkin | Elites: The New Ruling Class?
In this Direct interview, John is joined by American demographer, academic and author Joel Kotkin. John and Joel discuss some of the key theses of Joel’s widely-praised recent book, ‘The Coming of Neo-Feudalism’. Joel shines the spotlight on the Western progressive elite or, as he terms them, the […]
The Syndicalist challenge in the Durham coalfield before 1914
By Lewis Mates The unprecedented levels of industrial unrest in Britain in the years immediately before the outbreak of the Great War in 1914 presented revolutionaries with significant opportunities. The emergence of syndicalist ideas, influenced by ideas and movements from France and the United States, also appeared to […]
Group of “sovereign citizens” take over house, claiming they deserve it – lock out actual homeowners
By Pat Droney, Law Enforcement Today NEWARK, NJ- What exactly is a “sovereign citizen?” The definition says they are: A member of a political movement of people who oppose taxation, question the legitimacy of government, and believe that they are not subject to the law. For police officers, […]
Facing Reality | Glenn Loury & Charles Murray | The Glenn Show
0:00 Intro 1:37 How Charles deals with his notoriety 5:26 Charles’s new book, Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America 13:49 Grappling with the fact of group disparities 21:04 Threats from the left, threats from the right 27:33 The shift in white attitudes toward race since the […]
EXPLOSIVE Study Finds Socialism Gaining MOMENTUM In U.S., Buoyed By Gen-Z, Black Americans
“Socialism” has once again assumed the meaning it had in the early 19th century when it was just an all-purposes term for social reformism/welfarism. Also, in this segment, Emily mistakenly claims capitalism and free enterprise are the same things. No, they’re not. Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react […]
Company Turns To Hiring PRISON WORKERS Instead of Raising Wages, Uncovering SYSTEM FAILURE
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react to reporting that a Russell Stover Factory in Kansas employs 150 work-release inmates from a nearby Topeka Correctional Facility.
Nina Turner Fundraising PROVES Candidates Can Back Wildly Popular Ideas Like M4A
The more popular economic leftism (or economic populism) becomes the more the ruling class will attempt to disarm such trends by seeking to coopt, suppress, fragment, or deflect them. Daily Poster founder, David Sirota, shares reporting on the proxy war against Medicare For All.
J&J SETTLES Opioid Case For MILLIONS, Is It Enough?
It’s interesting how the “war on drugs” is now starting to resemble the “war on tobacco” now that totalitarian humanism has become hegemonic and the therapeutic state model is becoming even more entrenched. As Thomas Szasz pointed out in “Ceremonial Chemistry,” the Anslinger/Nixon/Reagan/Bush version of the drug war […]
Toyota Gave HUGE Donations To GOP Election Objectors, MSM Goes BERSERK
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react to Toyota’s political donations.
Governments Can’t Stop Bitcoin ‘Despite All Their Guns and Weapons’
We’ll see. The ShapeShift founder and early pioneer in the space talks about why bitcoin poses an existential threat to fiat money. Few figures in the bitcoin community are as controversial and visionary as Erik Voorhees, founder and CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift. Back when cryptocurrency was […]
The Deeply Flawed Studies Behind the Eviction Moratoriums
Reason Magazine is too plutocrat-friendly for my tastes but here are their arguments. The government and media relied on studies plagued by shoddy statistics to make the case for blocking evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
U.S. Officials COZIED Up To BlackRock During Market Madness, Now Millions In Housing CRISIS
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss BlackRock’s role in the current housing crisis.
DEEP SEATED Hatred For Establishment REVEALED By Trip Through Rural Midwest
The main danger the alienation of rural/small-town Middle America presents is that this discontent will be marshaled by a Red Tribe revanchist like Tom Cotton or Ted Cruz, which seeks a Latin American-like caudillo, and which is a much more dangerous situation than Trump’s neo-Nixonian implicit Rockefeller Republicanism. […]
SECRET VIDEO: Exxon Lobbyist Tells Truth About CLIMATE DENIAL, Admits To SCHMOOZING Lawmakers
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discusses just released reported that reveals “Exxon aggressively fought early climate science through “shadow groups” to protect its investments.
Billionaire DIRECTLY FUNDS Military Deployment in DYSTOPIAN move
As fourth-generation warfare theory would predict. Krystal Ball expresses her concerns about a billionaire paying for an army in South Dakota.
Ohio Becomes 41st State to End Sales Taxes on Gold and Silver
By Money Metals Columbus, Ohio (July 1, 2021) – By signing legislation last night, Governor Mike DeWine has officially ended Ohio’s sales taxation of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium bullion and coins, enabling the Buckeye State to join Arkansas as the two states having canceled taxation of the […]
Capitalism and the State Are Not Enemies
Crossing the Color Lines, Crossing the Continents: Comparing the Racial Politics of the IWW in South Africa and the United States, 1905-1925”
By Peter Cole In two of the planet’s most highly racialized countries, South Africa and the United States, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, or “Wobblies”), were remarkable. A key revolutionary syndicalist current operating globally, aspiring to unite the world’s working class into a revolutionary One Big […]
Trump Organization CFO surrenders ahead of expected charges
While it’s entirely likely that Trump and his associates have violated all kinds of laws (which is largely normal in “corporate America” and probably unavoidable given the prolificacy of overcriminalization and hyperregulation generally), this seems more like a calculated move to distract Trump from his position as the […]
Child Tax Credit Payments Begin, What You Need To Know
Washington Post economics reporter, Jeff Stein, discusses the latest updates in the infrastructure bill and explains the child tax credit plan.
Anarchism: Vignettes Against Hobbes
This is a story about medieval Maghribi merchants, Kalahari San Bushmen, American ranchers, Arctic Inuits, Pygmies, The Semai, and Wisconsin businessmen. For people wanting more stories like these you should read Elinor Ostrom’s “Governing the Commons”. She was the first woman to win the Nobel prize in economics, […]
Liberty Webinars: How (and Why) to Be a Free-Market Radical Leftist
How do free markets go together with leftism, and what is left-libertarianism? Are the markets in fact the best methods for addressing conventional leftist values, like concerns for discrimination, exclusion and hierarchy? Why might a libertarian reject capitalism? These are the questions we are going to discuss at […]
Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says
By Tess Riley, The Guardian Just 100 companies have been the source of more than 70% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions since 1988, according to a new report. The Carbon Majors Report (pdf) “pinpoints how a relatively small set of fossil fuel producers may hold the key […]
Socialism’s Popularity SKYROCKETS – New Poll
It’s really interesting how history repeats itself it’s almost eerie how similar the 2020s is playing out compared to the 1920s. Rising support for socialism, increasing disparity in wealth, labor movements, and strikes gaining traction. Let’s just hope the 2030s turns out better than the 1930s.
Flight Attendant Union Pres RESPONDS To Ted Cruz ‘Follow The Science’ Comment: MASKS Still NECESSARY
Sara Nelson, President of the International Association of Flight Attendants, discusses airline staff shortages and ongoing plane mask mandates.
Biden FLOUNDERS On Infrastructure, Bernie DIGS IN, Trump LASHES OUT At McConnell
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react to Sen. Bernie Sanders latest pushback in the infrastructure negotiations.
Obama Judge THROWS OUT Facebook Anti-Trust Suit
Matt Stollers joins the show to analyze the latest Facebook anti-trust decision alongside Krystal and Saagar.
Bernie CAVES On Tax Break For Millionaires
Krystal and Saagar cover the decision by Bernie Sanders to put a tax break for the rich in his budget
Logs REVEAL How BlackRock Ran Pandemic Bailouts
Krystal and Saagar break down the extent to which BlackRock controls the US Government
Did Unemployment Benefits ACTUALLY Stop People From Working?
Krystal and Saagar separate fact from fiction when it comes to the covid unemployment benefits.
Why Class Politics Fails in the US
The US has a two-tiered and multi-dimensional class system that largely pits unionized public sector workers against private-sector workers, and highly skilled blue/white-collar workers against the low-skilled, unskilled, or unemployed. It’s one of the main reasons why the “free market vs welfare statist” and “unions vs right to […]
Miami Condo Collapse EMBODIES Unchecked Capitalism And Runaway Climate Change
Ryan Grim breaks down the history of MSM’s coverage, or lack thereof, of the climate crisis.
BREAKING UP Big Tech, Does GOP Hate Dems Or Big Tech More?
Author, Matt Stoller, explains why Congress voted to break up Big Tech.
SCREWED Americans Turn To Socialism
Krystal Ball explains the new polling numbers that show increasing support for socialism in America
Wealthy bankers and businessmen plotted to overthrow FDR. A retired general foiled it.
The scenario described in this story is not particularly analogous to where we are today. Political conflict in the 1930s was genuinely class-based. Class conflict exists today and continues to increase, but it is tertiary in relation to the intra-elite conflict (see Pareto on elites and counter-elites) pitting […]
Rubio Shows NEOCON Colors, Only TERRORIST ATTACK Survivors Get Student Debt RELIEF
Colin Rogero and Robby Soave react to Sen. Marco Rubio’s new student debt proposal.
Employees WALK OUT ON “Dead-End” Jobs As U.S. REEVALUATES Work-Life Balance
Colin Rogero and Robby Soave react to reports that retail workers are leaving their jobs at rates this year.
Goldman Sachs SINKS Its Teeth Into Bitcoin REVEALING Downside Of Crypto Going Mainstream
I knew this was going to happen with Bitcoin. The state would try to suppress it while the banksters would try to co-opt it. Here it is. Team Rising reacts to the newly announced Bitcoin update, Taproot.
Elite Media IGNORES Gov’t PROFITING Off Americans’ $27B Court Debt
Founder of The Daily Poster, David Sirota, discusses the challenges of independent media.
Supreme Court Rules AGAINST Farm Workers Dealing Another BLOW To Unions
It’s funny that now that there is a market for economic populism, a capitalist corporation like The Hill is trying to capitalize on it.
SCOTUS Rules AGAINST Unions, Stands Up For Snapchat Free Speech
Krystal and Saagar go over the latest Supreme Court rulings against workers and for free speech.
Coal Miners Tells Blackrock They SUCK To Their Face
Krystal and Saagar speak about the latest worker strikes and unionization efforts happening across the country.
The End of More
By Peter Zeihan The world that we’re entering is fundamentally different than where we’ve been. The modern period we live in began with Columbus. It has been one of “more:”–near unending growth (population, capital, consumption)–all accelerated by post-Bretton Woods Order. Modern Monetary Theory is probably not the answer to address […]
The U.S. Is Increasingly Diverse, So Why Is Segregation Getting Worse?
By Alana Semuels, Time The integration battles of the Civil Rights era happened more than half a century ago, but the U.S. is getting more, not less, segregated, as that past recedes. More than 80% of large metropolitan areas in the United States were more segregated in 2019 […]
Peter Zeihan on US Labor Markets
A combination of factors have workers feeling more confident in looking for better-paying jobs (or at least, less willing to work ones they don’t like for at-or-near minimum wage). While things may seem bleak now between fewer restaurant worker shifts and meme-able signs on fast food drive-thrus, the […]
Capitalism Triumphant: The Failure of the Left
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston and Derrick Jensen to discuss the failure of the left to challenge Capitalism.
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