Americans Like Taxing The Rich EVEN MORE Than Infrastructure
Regrettably, during times of enormous wealth disparities, sympathy for statism tends to escalate.
Wall Street TRIES TO BUY Manhattan District Attorney Race
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to a new ultra-rich candidate for Manhattan District Attorney, Tali Farhadian Weinstein.
IRS Commissioner ADMITS Rich Avoiding $1 TRILLION In Taxes
Host of Bad Faith podcast, Briahna Joy Gray, discusses the how much in taxes the wealthy avoid each year.
Was The Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Halted For Safety Or Was It For Money?
But don’t forget to “trust science.”
What Skyrocketing Home Prices Say About Inflation
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Anyone who says inflation isn’t a problem hasn’t tried shopping for a new home recently. Housing costs are skyrocketing. The median sales price of existing homes has spiked 16% over the past 12 months (from $270,400 to $313,000) – the fastest pace […]
Bernie Vs Pelosi! Battle Brewing Over Healthcare
I tend to agree with Michael Lind’s view that not only will the Democrats be the dominant party in the years ahead, but also that the real debates in mainstream politics will be between progressives and neoliberals in the Democratic Party over the issue of to what degree […]
Pelosi CAUGHT Buying Microsoft Stock BEFORE Giant Military Contract
Isn’t that more or less insider trading? Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s latest investments in Roblox.
Billionaires GO ALL OUT To FIGHT Tax Hike, Progressives Preemptively Surrender
I am opposed to taxes generally, but we need to start by reducing taxes from the bottom up. Some unusually insightful comments about the relationship between corporate profits and infrastructure about 11 minutes in. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss progressive priorities for the infrastructure bill.
COVID Cronyism: How Government-Industry Ties Shaped Our Pandemic Response
It’s interesting that a bunch of Republicans are most aware of all this than much of the so-called Left. The American Conservative’s 5th Annual Crony Capitalism Conference The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was created to be a lifeline to small businesses struggling to stay afloat as the response […]
Building alternative futures in the present: the case of Syria’s communes
By Leila Al-Shami We are no less than the Paris commune workers: they resisted for 70 days and we are still going on for a year and a half.” Omar Aziz, 2012 On 18 March 2021 people around the globe will be commemorating the 150th anniversary of the […]
Eliminate Taxes for the Poor
Wow. Gillis said something reasonable. Broken clock, twice a day. By William Gillis, Center for a Stateless Society If the problem with taxation is the coercion, then surely the priority of any coherent and consistent libertarian reformism on taxes should be to minimize the number of people who […]
Biggest Inflation Threat in 40 Years Looms over Markets
By Clint Siegner, Money Metals Exchange William Watts with MarketWatch sees the “biggest Inflation scare in 40 years” on its way. He expects massive amounts of stimulus coupled with a boom associated with easing COVID restrictions to generate a surge in prices like the nation hasn’t seen since […]
Does National Debt Still Matter? America’s Gamble
Fiscal hawks have been sounding the alarm about rising debt levels for decades, but their nightmare scenario of runaway inflation hasn’t come to pass. How do we know if this time is different?
Media GASLIGHTS On Biden’s RECORD BREAKING Pentagon Budget
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss President Biden’s Pentagon budget compared to Trump’s.
500 CEOs PLOT To Stop GOP Voting Laws
Wow. The capitalist class really is fragmenting. Team Rising reacts to the virtual meeting of hundreds of CEOs to discuss the Georgia voter laws.
Amazon Union Vote FAILS, Here’s Everything That Went Wrong
Oh, well. So much for an anarcho-syndicalist revival. I always figured a modern union movement would be hampered by issues like this. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti break down the Amazon workers’ union election results.
Property Anarchy: Is Sectarianism a Problem?
By Hogeye Bill Is Sectarianism a Problem? There are a significant number of anarchists who hold a narrow view of what anarchism is, defining it in such a way to disqualify other anti-state ideologies. Some try to justify this historically – but in this case only mutualists are […]
The Environmental Impacts of “Green” Technology
By Julia Barnes, Counterpunch Solar panels, wind turbines, and electric cars have long been touted as solutions to the climate crisis. The “green” image attached to these technologies masks a dark reality; they are adding to the problem of environmental destruction, failing to reduce CO2 emissions, and accelerating […]
Who owns the world?
By Kevin Cahill, New Stateman The Queen, the family of the actress Nicole Kidman, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and the media tyco The world relative to its human population is quite large. It is 123 billion acres in size, of which 37 billion acres are land. This […]
Special Jurisdictions in a Post-COVID World
A virtual conference hosted by the Startup Societies Foundation is happening in a few weeks. About the Event In the aftermath of COVID-19, the world will need to rebuild economically and politically. To prepare for this, the Startup Societies Foundation is hosting a virtual summit that will explore […]
The Art of the New Racism
By K. Lloyd Billingsley, Independent Institute “Certain San Francisco artists may receive $1,000 a month under a new city program, the latest in a series of universal basic income initiatives cropping up in cities across California,” writes Faith Pinho of msn.com. Anybody eager for the extra $1000 might […]
Rising Debt Means a Weaker Dollar
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Americans appear to be growing more concerned about the skyrocketing national debt level – officially $28.1 trillion and counting. The Peter G. Peterson Foundation’s monthly Fiscal Confidence Index recently shed five points, dropping to a level of 47, in the wake of […]
ELITIST National Review Writer Blames VOTERS For National Mess In Anti-Democracy Piece
Krystal Ball reacts to a new National Review about the Georgia voter laws.
Balaji Srinivasan: Technology Will Lead to a Borderless World
The Silicon Valley entrepreneur says cryptocurrencies, virtual reality, and mobile devices are helping individuals escape failed institutions.
POLL: Americans Want THE ROCK & Other Celebs To Be President
Well, why not?
Billionaire WEALTH Explodes In 2020
Host of Bad Faith podcast, Briahna Joy Gray, discusses the rise in billionaires in 2020.
McConnell Says Get CEOs Out Of Politics While SELLING OUT Harder Than Anyone
Krystal Ball breaks down Sen. Mitch McConnell’s hypocritical comments on corporations involvement in politics.
Dan Crenshaw’s IDIOTIC Argument Against Stimulus Checks On Joe Rogan
Saagar Enjeti reacts to Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s attack on populism in his latest interview with Joe Rogan.
Bezos BACKS Corporate Tax Hike, Revealing That It’s All FAKE
Team Rising reacts to Jeff Bezos endorsing President Biden’s infrastructure bill.
How Amazon Union Drive Could TRANSFORM Every Worker In America
Senior reporter at ProPublica, Alec MacGillis, discusses the latest updates on the Amazon workers’ union vote in Alabama.
Caitlyn Jenner To Challenge Gavin Newsom For California Governor
Good luck with this, Caitlyn.
Kamala Harris Warns New Wars Will Be Fought Over WATER Not Oil
Welcome to water imperialism.
The Meaning of the Democrats’ Spending Spree
By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, New York Judging from last year’s Democratic primaries, few would have believed that former Vice-President Joe Biden would be leading the Democratic Party out of the political wilderness armed with some of the most expensive bills in American history. In a crowded primary field, Biden […]
REVIEW: On Anarchism and the Black Revolution
Black Agenda Report “The principles of anarchism appear to be growing in some corners of the Black community,” due largely to the work and thought of former Black Panther Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin. In our opening post, the Black Agenda Review described its objective to provide a longer historical and more explicitly […]
Mobile Homelessness Is the Highest It Has Ever Been
By Cynthia Griffith, Invisible People On the Heels of the Pandemic, the Growing Population of Unsheltered People Are Forced to Live in Their Vehicles A friend of mine who works in the criminal justice system once said to me in confidence, “I know incarceration is a scam because […]
Quite a Day in the Right Turn Against Corporate America
Now that “woke capitalism” is becoming hegemonic, the right-wing is developing anti-capitalist ideas. Hilarious. By Curt Mills, The American Conservative Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Justice Clarence Thomas signaled camaraderie Monday with those who would check corporate power. Two events came to pass Monday that, for now, […]
The Next Housing CRISIS Is Here And The Villains Are Exactly Who You’d Expect
Krystal Ball explains why the housing market is booming for those in the upper middle class and breaks down what it means for costs of homes in the future.
A review of a collection of articles on anarchism and syndicalism in the colonial and postcolonial world, 1870-1940
A review of: Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World (1870-1940): The Praxis of National Liberation, Internationalism, and Social LiberationEdited by Steven Hirsch and Lucien van der Walt; with a Foreword by Benedict Anderson Abstract: The volume under review is a very informative and, an immenselythought-provoking […]
Michael Lind, The Failure of Populism & the Class War After Trump
Michael Lind, author of The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite, returns to The Realignment to discuss the end of the Trump administration, and the start of the Biden presidency. He also expands on his formulation that “neoliberalism is the disease, populism is the symptom, […]
Michael Lind on Class Warfare
An interview with Michael Lind from January. In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Michael Lind, the author of “The New Class War”, to discuss the recent riots in the nation’s capital and to examine how it is that America arrived at such a violent […]
USSR was not “State Capitalism” – What is Bureaucracy?
I agree that the USSR was not state-capitalist. What we have in the USA is state capitalism. I consider Soviet-type economies to be party/military/state/bureaucratic dictatorships but not “capitalist.” If anything, I would compare them to ancient tyrannies like Egypt and Babylon.
Who is Winning the Culture War?
This is an interesting discussion of the culture wars from a serious left/Marxist perspective. My viewpoint is that the cultural left has been the hands-down winner on most cultural issues (outside of certain narrow geographical, subcultural, institutional, or socioeconomic sectors). But the economic right has been the hands-down […]
Buttigieg’s Idea To Screw Workers for Driving To Work
They want to tax how much you drive, then they want to only allow you to go to certain places with vaccine passports.
How We Can DISMANTLE The Surveillance Economy
The American Prospect’s executive editor, David Dayen, discusses the growing backlash against targeted advertising.
Key Biden Cabinet Secretary FLOATS Getting Back Into TPP
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to reports that Biden’s AG Secretary, Tom Vilsack, is encouraging him to rejoin the TPP.
Biden, West MUST STAND Up Against China Efforts To Cover Up Slave Labor
Saagar Enjeti analyzes the politicization of pop culture and its daily consequences around the world.
The US–Chinese power shift and the end of the Pax Americana
But will China be able to escape its dependency on American capital and the American security framework that facilitates global trade? By Christopher Layne, Texas A&M University In this article, I show that far from consenting to be bound by institutions and rules of the Pax Americana, China […]
How the WWE Won and Lost its Dominance
It was out-competed by politics and corporate media? By Ben Sixsmith, The American Conservative For decades, World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., and its chairman Vince McMahon have dominated professional wrestling. For most casual fans, their business is the business. The company and the pursuit can seem inextricable. It was […]
Former Obama Spox, Amazon VP GOES TO WAR With Bernie Over Unionization
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to Jay Carney’s attack on Sen. Bernie Sanders.
New Poll Shows Americans UNITED In Hatred Of Billionaires
Krystal Ball discusses the morality of billionaires existing.
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