Hillary Clinton Ensures Kamala Harris as VP (and then on to President)
Kim nails it.
Kim nails it.
By Chase Strangio Out Kamala Harris has spent her career building the carceral state. She is a skilled prosecutor, a believer in punishment and prisons, and has specifically targeted trans people and sex workers in the past five years. I believe that people can evolve but I don’t […]
It’s ironic that in the same year as massive anti-police riots and protests the Democrats, supposedly the “left” party, have a ticket that is arguably to the right of Trump/Pence on “criminal justice” issues. Laura Ingraham is about as sophisticated a political analyst as Alex Jones who generally […]
I suppose Pelosi and Biden might seem to be “far-left” to a Likudnik with Randian economic views like Shapiro, but the reality is that the “far-left” has virtually no influence in US politics. The Democrats are far-right (imperialist) on foreign policy, although they prefer a thicker gloss of […]
I clearly disagree with Carlson on quite a few things, to say the least, but when you’re right, you’re right. What is probably most interesting about her selection is that the Silicon Valley techno-oligarchs and diversity-obsessed new clerisy apparently have greater influence in the Democratic Party than the […]
At this point, I am inclined to think Susan Rice will be Biden’s running mate. The plan of the dominant factions of the ruling class seems to be to get rid of Trump, whom they regard as a loose cannon with “dangerous” isolationist instincts, elect Biden and then […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Oh what a democracy we have in America! What a free and vibrant land of choices we’ve created for ourselves on the graves of more primitive civilizations. We just have so many goddamn choices to chose from, it’s […]
This is an old document that was prepared by the California state government back in the 1950s during the height of the Cold War. It predictably contains the usual hysteria of the time but the description it provides of Marxist-Leninist organizational strategies and tactics is largely accurate. Take […]
A New Republic article from January 2020 following the Suleimani assassination. Probably the most important thing that is happening in US politics right now is something that almost no one is aware of which is the present effort by the neocons to put themselves back in charge of […]
Bye. By Tal Axelrod The Hill Former Maricopa County, Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio narrowly lost his campaign to get his old job back Friday, ending a nearly successful comeback for one of the state’s most polarizing figures. Arpaio, who held the position from 1993-2017, lost the GOP primary […]
Susan Rice is a “liberal internationalist” (basically, a left-neocon). Liberal internationalists prefer to exercise imperial power through the use of international institutions like the UN as opposed to US unilateralism, maintaining the empire through economic and trade dominance, the use of sanctions rather than military invasion (“starve ’em […]
Sean Hannity is obviously a professional liar and charlatan but some of the Biden footage in this is hilarious.
Kim says no to Biden.
Fragmentation among the ruling class parties is a good thing. More “squad” folks, please.
This is some pretty good commentary. The Democrats are fine with “diversity” as long as it’s within their own class.
Shit. Just when I thought Noam had redeemed himself. What about Libya and Syria, Noam?
Heel vs. Heel matches are always the best.
This is an excellent interview. Chomsky really puts the phenomenon of Trumpism in context in this interview. In recent years, Chomsky has at times gone off the deep end with hyperbolic comments but he doesn’t drop the ball in this one. It is good to hear Chomsky distinguishing […]
Whatever else could be said about the Democraps, the last thing they are is Commies. They’ve gone out of their way to marginalize Rooseveltian New Dealers and McGovernite liberals like Sanders and AOC. Team Rising shares their thoughts on who Joe Biden is considering for his running mate […]
Whoever wins, the other side is likely to claim the winner cheated their way to victory. And they’ll probably be right. I’m pretty sure both sides plan on cheating with the question being who will be the most effective cheater? Krystal Ball reacts to Donald Trump’s Axios interview […]
It’s interesting to see (comparatively) fringe people being elected to Congress. Look for more of this in the future from both Left and Right. A Congress full of social democrats and QAnon types would be hilarious, although the ruling class would still control things from the top.
I don’t consider Breitbart to be reliable journalism but this is certainly very interesting if true. The main thing anti-authoritarian radicals need to be doing is building a movement to peacefully dissolve the USA, with the only violence, if any, being resistance to state repression. By Joel B. […]
The main thing Trump has going for him is Biden. Of course, the opposite is also true. Krystal Ball and Rachel Bovard weigh in on reports that Joe Biden is increasing his staffing in Texas, polling that shows Biden leading President Trump in four battleground states, and calls […]
What is most interesting about the “polarization” is that most of it is make-believe. The problem with US politics is not that “extremist” viewpoints have too much influence, but that access to the political system is very narrowly restricted to the parameter of opinions favorable to ruling class […]
And to think the RCP was once the US allies of the Shining Path. Contra the Washington Times, I would argue that the fact that so many on the supposed “hard left” such as Bob Avakian, Angela Davis, and Bill Ayers have endorsed Biden out of Trump Derangement […]
The discussion of Susan Rice’s views on foreign policy in this is pretty good.
The Republicans have the Christian Zionists and the Democrats have the Communist Scientologists. Fair enough.
Ten years ago, I identified what I considered to be the “ten core demographics” that proponents of the ideas we discuss here at ATS will have to reach in order to eventually find the Holy Grail. The original piece is available here. It is interesting to evaluate the […]
This interview contains my general take on the great lumpenproletarian cultural revolution of 2020 from a Howard Cosell perspective.
Trump is a dickhead, but he’s too lazy and incompetent to be an actual strong man dictator. Trump is not a “man of action.” He is a man of talk who doesn’t know how to back it up. I don’t really see him being a Putin or Erdogan, […]
The Neocon Review attacks Biden’s embrace of totalitarian humanism. Many of them are probably secretly hoping Biden will get elected, and worry that Biden will push centrist voters to the right with this stuff. Ever since the Trump era began, the neocons have been divided between those who […]
It’s hilarious how the “At least Dementia Man isn’t Orange Man” strategy actually seems to be working for the Democraps, at least on the surface.
The upcoming election is going to be a shitshow. In a highly polarized society, elections are by nature going to be contentious anyway, with different sides (probably correctly) accusing the others of cheating. The chaos caused by the pandemic will exacerbate the situation.
Progressives are such a collection of sad sacks…kind of like the Trumpists. The neoliberal strategy of co-opting the center-left while repressing the far-left is becoming clearer. Krystal and Saagar give their thoughts on an grassroots organization, Settle for Biden, created by former Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders […]
As class divisions continue to dramatically widen, with political and cultural polarization continuing to intensify, it is likely that extremist ideologies with an anti-capital bent will continue to become prevalent on the left and right. Krystal is right when she says the conservatism of the future will look […]
It appears that the present strategy of the dominant factions of the power elite, the upper strata of the ruling class, is to allow Trump to fuck up as much as possible in order to get rid of him in November, as they clearly want him gone. They […]
Fossil fuel companies, one of the most significant sectors of the old bourgeoisie/right-wing of the ruling class, are among the funders/backers of the Republican Party, as opposed to the rising tech-oligarchs who back the Democratic Party, with Wall Street and banksters having their hands in both. By Nina […]
The neocons are plotting their comeback in the Republican Party even while they are also colonizing the Democratic Party.
It couldn’t happen to nicer people. The aristocrats are on their way out. Time to attack the bourgeoisie. Will the Repugs try to rig a foreign policy crisis before the election to distract from domestic issues? Look for the Repugs to start escalating their rhetoric against China and […]
Todd Lewis joined by Keith Preston, Right Ruminations and Swithun Dobson to discuss our thoughts on how 2020 in the USA will develop.
A political scientist describes the methods the Democrats will eventually use to create a one-party state (which he favors as a “progressive”). The Dutton strategy that was devised in 1970 (co-optation of the cultural left by corporate liberals) is nearly complete half a century later. As soon as […]
By STEVE PEOPLES and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Murtice Sherek is not excited about Joe Biden. The Minnesota Democrat, a 79-year-old retired nurse, preferred another candidate in the presidential primary. She also worries about Biden’s age, 77. But anxious about another four years of President […]
People are individuals, not colors. “…among self-identified Democrats, blacks and Latinos are less likely to describe themselves as liberal than whites. Data from this AP/NORC poll comports with Pew’s findings: The majority of blacks say they are moderate (44 percent) or conservative (27 percent), while just 26 percent […]
The battle lines have obviously been drawn between the partisans, but what I am most curious about is what the actual turnout for the election is going to be. This 13% seems to come mostly from the “politically disengaged” category identified by the “Hidden Tribes” study from 2018. […]
I came across this recent statement from a leftist activist. The comments below were made as part of a wider argument that opposition to PC is nothing more special pleading by reactionaries who merely want to be exempt from criticism, which is the standard leftist reply to criticisms […]
By Keith Preston A book published a couple of years ago, which is reviewed by the Guardian below, outlines the structural methods the Democrats will eventually use to create a de facto one-party state as they continue to gain the upper hand through cultural, demographic, technological, generational, and […]
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