I can’t say I much care if the bourgeois bohemians are running scared of lumpen crime. The US elites wanted the domestic United States to be a Third World country and they’re going to get it. By Georgett Roberts and Gabrielle Fonrouge Open fires burning on the street. […]
By Alan Feuer New York Times Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia charged with seditious conspiracy in connection with the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6 last year, was denied bail on Wednesday by a federal judge in Texas who said he was a […]
In a way, Newt is responsible for what happened that day, most toxic political figure in US politics in recent decades. Perhaps he is the one who needs to be jailed, nobody would miss him anyway.
By Peter Van Buren, The American Conservative Hard questions about January 6 are being left unanswered because they might disturb the Democratic narrative. Let’s ask some. Hard questions about January 6 are being left unanswered because they might disturb the Democratic narrative. So let’s ask some. Like the […]
In the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, academics and journalists have taken the possibility of future political violence in America increasingly serious. In her new book “How Civil Wars Start And How To Stop Them,” Barbara F. Walter writes, “We are now closer […]
By Pedro Gonzalez Chronicles The sound of screams replaced the music as a red Ford Escape slammed into the crowd, killing six people and wounding more than 60 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Nov. 21. Amid the bloodbath that evening were dead and dying victims as old as 81 […]
By William S. Lind, Traditional Right This column is not another retrospective on the Capitol Hill riot of January 6, 2021. rather it is a retrospective on the recent retrospective of the original event. What we saw in that retrospective is what anyone who understands the system would […]
‘The threat of violence is a powerful political tool.’ Ines Pohl, DW’s Washington bureau chief, spoke with Rick Wilson, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, about the political future of the United States, the consequences of the Capital riot a year ago, and the dangers of the fractionalized country. […]
Infrastructure falling apart is always the most obvious early symptom of absolute corruption.
We keep claiming FBI over and over, completely missing that Ray could be a CIA asset operating domestically in violation of their charter.
Timothy Snyder’s viewpoint is interesting. Of course, he is a Yale academic, and therefore a high priest among the new clerisy, and his main concerns are both preserving the empire and achieving the hegemony of the Blue Tribe within the empire. His main fear is the emergence of […]
By Timothy Snyder As we reach the first anniversary of Trump’s failed coup attempt, the former president and his supporters are indulging in a pleasant dream of his return to power in 2025. An electoral victory seems unlikely: he lost last time as an incumbent by seven million […]
This is the biggest sedition case in a third of a century, since the Fort Smith trial in 1988. Krystal and Saagar analyze the sedition charges brought by the Biden DOJ against the Oathkeepers who played a central role in the Jan 6th Capitol riot
By Joseph M. Hanneman Epoch Times Ashli Babbitt desperately tried to prevent rioters from vandalizing the doors leading to the Speaker’s Lobby at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, even stepping between one troublemaker and police officers guarding the doors, a video analysis shows. Frame-by-frame video evidence […]
The threat to American democracy and the U.S. electoral system did not end when the U.S. Capitol building was cleared and the presidential vote was certified on January 6, 2021. In fact, because of actions taken in states around the country throughout 2021, the threat today is as […]
One thing Stephen Marche gets right is with his recognition that the primary conflict in the USA is over existential issues which makes it an essentially religious conflict. Conflicts pertaining to class and race are only subsets of the larger conflict, which explains why we increasingly have people […]
By Matt Zapotosky, Josh Dawsey, Tom Hamburger and Rachel Weiner The Justice Department’s decision to charge Oath Keepers with seditious conspiracy last week makes clear that prosecutors consider the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol part of an organized assault to prevent the peaceful transfer of presidential […]
By Dennis Romero and Ken Dilanian, NBC News Aafia Siddiqui, whose release was demanded by a man who took hostages inside a Texas synagogue, would not condone the man’s actions, her attorney said Saturday. The unidentified man, who took an unspecified number of people hostage inside Congregation Beth […]
By Matt Taibbi TK partners News2Share capture the demonstrations outside the trials of three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery. “We believe in armed self-defense,” one of many activists said in Brunswick, Georgia in November, demanding convictions in the cases of three men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery. […]
Brianna Keilar interviews Jon Moseley, attorney for Oath Keeper leader Stewart Rhodes, about the the federal seditious conspiracy charge for his client’s role in the January 6 riot.
By Matt Agorist, Free Thought Project Since before he was elected, president Joe Biden has promised more gun control, and he is doing everything in his power to keep this one promise — up to and including executive action — specifically targeting 3D printing of guns. Or, as […]
By Victor Davis Hanson, Independent Institute “Indeed, men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which alike can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day […]
Here it is. By MICHAEL BALSAMO, COLLEEN LONG and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, Associated Press 1 of 5 FILE – In this Sunday, June 25, 2017 file photo, Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington. Rhodes has been arrested […]
By Matt Taibbi In actions featuring prominent politicians on both the left and the right, two starkly different world views came into relief on the 1/6 anniversary. TK Partners News2Share report. News2Share captured a series of actions in Washington on the anniversary of January 6th. Ford Fischer walks […]
One of the best analyses of the current US political situation I have seen to date. By Ed West Back in the late 1940s American politics had a problem. The issue was serious enough for Congress to authorise a committee looking into divisions between the country’s two parties. […]
Glenn Greenwald, Emily Jashinsky, and Kim Iversen discuss the FBI’s refusal to deny their involvement in January 6.
I’m not exactly sure how different this is from what goes on now. By Jim Chrisinger, Yahoo Donald Trump and Republicans are shoving America toward authoritarianism. That’s why many of us are shouting about a threat to democracy. Many Americans don’t fear a potential slide into authoritarianism because […]
C.J. Polychroniou,Truthout In the third and final presidential debate of 2016, Donald Trump had signaled that he might not concede the election should he lose to Hillary Clinton. However, he did say to his supporters a day later that he would definitely accept the results of the election […]
By Jimmy Carter, New York Times Mr. Carter was the 39th president of the United States. This article is part of a collection on the events of Jan. 6, one year later. Read more in a note from Times Opinion’s politics editor Ezekiel Kweku in our Opinion Today […]
–One year after the January 6 Trump riots, the coup fears are only bigger, with recent op-eds from Jimmy Carter and Noam Chomsky, as well as warnings from retired generals and many others
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react to comments made by former FBI deputy director, Andrew McCabe, about right-wing extremism.
By Kevin Carson, Anarchist Library Reviews Abstract Preface Part One: Background Chapter One: The Age of Mass and Maneuver I. A Conflict of Visions II. The Triumph of Mass in the Old Left III. The Assault on Working Class Agency IV. Workerism/Laborism Chapter Two: Transition I. Drastic Reductions […]
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to Novak Djokovic’s legal victory in his fight to remain in Australia as protests break out in Melbourne.
Team Rising debates whether America is headed towards a second Civil War.
By Anders Anglesey Newsweek A majority of American voters fear election-related violence at the next presidential election in 2024, recent polling suggests. It comes after three former U.S. Army generals raised concerns about the risk of “civil war” over the White House vote, although some experts downplayed such […]
Clashing ideologies about the meaning of democracy in America are no less harrowing than the events of January 6. Journalist Bill Moyers, a 30-time Emmy Award winner, shares his views and concerns in the new PBS documentary “Preserving Democracy,” airing tomorrow. Moyers speaks with Hari Sreenivasan alongside historian […]
By Zack Beauchamp Vox Americans have long believed our country to be exceptional. That is true today in perhaps the worst possible sense: No other established Western democracy is at such risk of democratic collapse. January 6, 2021, should have been a pivot point. The Capitol riot was […]
Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley sees January 6, 2021 as part of a history of fascist impulses in American politics. This is the focus of his book “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them.” His latest article in The Guardian is titled “America is now in […]
Is a “second civil war” possible? On the latest “Reality Check with John Avlon,” historian Professor Edna Greene Medford and CNN’s Elle Reeve talk about the American history of violent struggles to hold onto power – from Reconstruction to January 6.
Author Barbara F. Walter warns in her new book that the country is closer to a civil war than it has been for more than 100 years. She joins Mehdi to discuss what should be an unthinkable question: Is America one step closer to civil war?
By Stephen Marche, Washington Post When Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) talks about a “National Divorce,” as she did again in a tweet on Wednesday, she may be advancing the cause of secession or she may just be seeking attention. Either way, she knows what she’s doing — […]
By Stephen Marche, The Guardian The right has recognized that the system is in collapse, and it has a plan: violence and solidarity with treasonous far-right factions. Nobody wants what’s coming, so nobody wants to see what’s coming. On the eve of the first civil war, the most […]
By Holly McCall, Tennessee Lookout Tennessee’s leaders have already shown an eagerness to bend to Donald Trump at the sacrifice of American democracy. The day Joe Biden was declared winner of the 2020 presidential election, my husband asked me why I wasn’t happier: He thought I’d be in […]
By David Remnick New Yorker A year after the attack on the Capitol, America is suspended between democracy and autocracy. The edifice of American exceptionalism has always wobbled on a shoddy foundation of self-delusion, and yet most Americans have readily accepted the commonplace that the United States is […]
By Peter T. Coleman Newsweek Coleman, PhD, is a Professor at Columbia University who studies intractable conflict and sustainable peace. His latest book is The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization. An astonishing moment occurred at the apex of the horrifying violence that erupted on the steps […]
By JOHN F. HARRIS Politico For most of my reporting career, to refer to some dispute or another — over a judicial nomination, perhaps, or an uproar over a proposed shopping mall near a battlefield — as “a new Civil War” was to reach for a metaphor. On […]
By Peter Ramjug Northeastern University Civil War is coming,” a New Jersey woman posted on social media days after participating in last year’s storming of the U.S. Capitol. Indeed, America had not experienced a disruption in the peaceful transfer of power like what happened a year ago since the […]
By Amanda Foreman, Sunday Times Experts on conflict predict unrest, but America has a long way to go before it is as divided as it was in 1861. iolence is in the air. No one who saw the shocking scenes during the Capitol riot in Washington on January […]
By Konrad Yakabuski Toronto Globe and Mail It will be up to future historians to determine whether the Jan. 6 Capitol riot marked the beginning of the end of American democracy. But that has not stopped countless observers from marking the first anniversary of a day that will […]
By Carlos Lozada Washington Post Journalist Stephen Marche envisions multiple scenarios propelling the country into conflict. THE NEXT CIVIL WAR: Dispatches from the American Future By Stephen Marche. Avid Reader Press. 238 pp. $27. To glimpse the coming dismemberment of the United States of America, just stop by […]
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