By Brigid Kennedy The Week It’s almost the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and Americans are still at odds over how to describe what happened that fateful winter day, according to a new poll from PBS NewsHour, NPR, and Marist. While 49 percent of those […]
By Dan Balz Scott Clement and Emily Guskin Washington Post One year after the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, Republicans and Democrats are deeply divided over what happened that day and the degree to which former president Donald Trump bears responsibility for the assault, amid more universal signs […]
By Thomas Homer-Dixon, Special to The Globe and Mail The U.S. is becoming increasingly ungovernable, and some experts believe it could descend into civil war. What should Canada do then? Thomas Homer-Dixon is executive director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University. His latest book is Commanding […]
Saagar breaks down the sudden messaging shift from public health authorities such as Dr. Fauci and the CDC that exposes their past mistakes on covid guidelines
By Meryl Kornfield and Mariana Alfaro Washington Post Phil Spampinato had never contemplated the question of whether violence against the government might be justified — at least not in the United States. But as he watched Republicans across the country move to reshape election laws in response to former […]
By Mary Louise Kelly, Noah Caldwell, and Ashish Valentine, National Public Radio As the anniversary of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol approaches, three retired U.S. generals have warned that another insurrection could occur after the 2024 presidential election and the military could instigate it. The generals – […]
By Aruna Viswanatha, Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON—The U.S. criminal investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is entering a more contentious phase as it nears the one-year mark, with initial trials set to test the government’s strategy of using provisions first laid out in a 2002 financial-industry law […]
By Catherine Garcia The Week One of the oldest people facing charges related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, 81-year-old Army veteran Gary Wickersham, was sentenced on Tuesday to three years probation for illegally breaching the Capitol. Wickersham must also spend 90 days under home detention and pay […]
By Charles M. Blow, New York Times The Supreme Court on Friday issued a decision allowing abortion providers in Texas to continue challenging a new law that bans most abortions in the state after about six weeks of pregnancy. But while the conservative majority didn’t close the door […]
By Brandon Gillespie , Lindsay Kornick | Fox News Charles M. Blow joined Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor in invoking former Vice President John C. Calhoun in comparing the sentiment surrounding today’s debate over abortion to the slavery debate. Liberal New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow claimed […]
Daily Kos I’m having a real hard time understanding how a civil war between liberals and conservatives would actually play out in this country. Would we have to wear uniforms to mark ourselves as part of the vast progressive horde, or would the conspicuous lack of misspelled MAGA […]
By Kerry Hawley, New York Magazine “They can’t arrest us all,’’ a future defendant had posted days before, and this was the vibe in the moment, the ecstatic invulnerability that leads someone to smear feces on the floor of the building in which the most powerful country on […]
By David Freedman, Newsweek Mike “Wompus” Nieznany is a 73-year-old Vietnam veteran who walks with a cane from the combat wounds he received during his service. That disability doesn’t keep Nieznany from making a living selling custom motorcycle luggage racks from his home in Gainesville, Georgia. Neither will […]
Retired Brig. Gen. Steven Anderson speaks with CNN’s Kate Bolduan about his op-ed in the Washington Post in which he and two other retired generals warn that the US military must work to quell unrest within the armed forces to prevent another insurrection from occurring in 2024.
By Tara Copp, Defense One The “underlying factors are not going away,” says one researcher. The number of people with military backgrounds who committed criminal acts motivated by extremist views has jumped during the last ten years, according to new research at the University of Maryland. Without intervention, […]
Krystal and Saagar review more investigative reporting into the unindicted co-conspirators who were central players in the events that unfolded at the US Capitol on January 6th
By Ken Stone, San Diego Times America is close to being at high risk of a civil war, a UC San Diego political scientist said Sunday night on CNN. “If a second civil war happens in the United States, it’s going to look very different from the first, […]
By Martin Pengelly in New York, The Guardian The US is “closer to civil war than any of us would like to believe”, a member of a key CIA advisory panel has said. The analysis by Barbara F Walter, a political science professor at the University of California […]
By Paul D. Eaton, Antonio M. Taguba and Steven M. Anderson Paul D. Eaton is a retired U.S. Army major general and a senior adviser to VoteVets. Antonio M. Taguba is a retired Army major general, with 34 years of active duty service. Steven M. Anderson is a […]
By Damon Linker, The Week So now we know: Although Fox News’ primetime message for much of the past year has been that Democrats are wildly exaggerating the seriousness of the insurrection that took place on Capitol Hill last Jan. 6, major figures at the network — including […]
By Damon Linker, The Week It didn’t take long following the shocking events of Jan. 6 for journalists to begin referring to what transpired on Capitol Hill that afternoon as an “insurrection.” Some on the right dissented from the term, insisting it was merely a popular protest against […]
By Samuel Goldman The Week It’s getting worse. While the basic storyline holds true, new information revealed by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot deepens our understanding of the final weeks of the Trump presidency. In its report recommending contempt of Congress charges against Chief of […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week The Jan. 6 House select committee made waves Monday night after revealing a slew of text messages sent to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the Capitol riot, urging him to convince then-President Donald Trump to denounce the attack. Everyone […]
Team Rising weighs in on Mark Meadows’ contempt charges in relation to the House investigation into January 6.
By Charlie Lee Pansecession News from AP: While defenseless city dwellers are massacred by the Burmese military dictatorship, the rekindled fight for Karen Independence has born fruit: An important army base was captured near the border with Thailand. The Two freedom fighting factions have began to form a […]
By Charlie Lee, Springtime of Nations All of our previous entries in this series have discussed current and therefore not yet successful struggles against imperialist states. Today however, we get to talk about a movement that fought for secession and won. This week, Bougainville. You probably haven’t heard […]
This is exactly what I predicted would happen when the George Floyd riots/protests were going on last year. It seemed to me at the time that the totalitarian humanist sector of the ruling class was trying to weaponize the protestors, rioters, and general “Left” against Trump, with the […]
By Steven Kovac Epoch Times DOYLINE, La.—“Crinkle-cut fries are better than curly fries.” And with that, Officer Billy Collins got the last word in on a long-running household controversy. The joke was the last thing 17-year-old Danielle Collins heard from her father as she left the house to […]
NatConTalk Episode 15. Special Edition: Yoram Hazony on “The Capitol Riot.” NatConTalk is produced by the Edmund Burke Foundation and White House Writers Group. You can find out more about EBF’s national conservatism project at nationalconservatism.org.
By Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The media’s blatant lies amount to racial arson. Both Wisconsin towns, Kenosha, and Waukesha, about 50 miles apart by car, were the recent sites of multiple deaths. The violence in both made national news. Yet in contradictory ways both reflected the common themes of […]
By Dr. Joseph Mercola Children’s Health Defense Fund BlackRock and the Vanguard Group, the two largest asset management firms in the world, combined own The New York Times and other legacy media, along with Big Pharma. Story at-a-glance: Big Pharma and mainstream media are largely owned by two […]
This is a timeline of how the de facto civil war in Northern Ireland began in the late 1960s. The conflict lasted until the late 1990s, and there have been “incidents” since then. A civil war in the United States that involved the total breakdown of civil society […]
The Intercept Rittenhouse being acquitted of all charges clears the way for more guns and right-wing violence at protests nationwide. Jurors in the trial of three men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery began deliberations Tuesday. Last week, a jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse of all charges, including two counts […]
By Emma Green The Atlantic A faction of the right believes America has been riven into two countries. The Claremont Institute is building the intellectual architecture for whatever comes next. “Let me start big. The mission of the Claremont Institute is to save Western civilization,” says Ryan Williams, […]
By Brian Michael Jenkins, senior adviser to the president of RAND Last week, an anonymous caller told a Republican congressman who voted with Democrats in favor of the infrastructure bill that he and his staff should die. On Monday, Twitter added a warning label to a cartoon video […]
By Chauncey DeVega, Salon If there is a second American Civil War, which side would you choose? It may be wise to make that decision now, in the spirit of planning for the worst while hoping for the best. A recent public opinion poll by the University of Virginia Center for […]
BY Malcom Kyeyune Unherd Historically speaking, empires on average last for around 250 years, after which they tend to either slowly — or very, very quickly — fall apart due to overreach and internal conflict. Somewhat ominously, the 250th birthday of America is coming up in 2026. Yet […]
By Dartunorro Clark and Haley Talbot, Rolling Stone The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol issued subpoenas Monday to high-profile allies of former President Donald Trump, including Roger Stone and Alex Jones. The committee is looking at Stone, a longtime adviser to Trump, […]
By Peter Wade Rolling Stone Just a day after the House committee investigating Jan. 6 subpoenaed Trump ally Roger Stone and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, the committee has subpoenaed the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, both right-wing extremist groups with members who were present during the insurrection. The […]
Now, who does this sound like? Imagine if the Northern Ireland of the 1970s had been populated by 331 million people. “More than 3,600 people died during that conflict, and tens of thousands were injured. Despite the vast majority of Northern Irish people wanting peace, the era came […]
By Chantal Da Silva and Associated Press Police opened fire on anti-lockdown protesters in the Dutch city of Rotterdam Friday ahead of demonstrations in several European cities against new Covid restrictions. Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb told reporters about police officers “felt it necessary to draw their weapons to defend themselves” more […]
By Grayson Quay Protestors reacting to Kyle Rittenhouse’s exoneration broke windows and threw rocks at police officers in Portland, Oregon, Friday night, the New York Post reported. Local law enforcement said they had expected some upheaval in response to a not-guilty verdict. The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office declared […]
By Robert Mackey The Intercept Kyle Rittenhouse’s far-right defenders say he is not a murderer but a hero. The prosecutor says the protesters who tried to disarm him were the real heroes. The twelve jurors who will decide Kyle Rittenhouse’s fate began their deliberations on Tuesday in Kenosha, […]
By Trevor Aaronson The Intercept In a new documentary, Tareena Shakil, whose marriage to Dennison was first revealed in an Intercept podcast, describes her journey to the Islamic State. “I did what I had to do to survive.” That’s what Tareena Shakil, the first British woman to be […]
The National Guard is activated in Kenosha, Wisconsin and the governor has authorized 500 troops to support local law enforcement in preparation for a verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse homicide trial.»
Team Rising reacts to shocking polling on whether Americans believe political violence may be justified, and/or necessary,
Washington Post For 187 harrowing minutes, the president watched his supporters attack the Capitol — and resisted pleas to stop them. President Donald Trump had just returned to the White House from his rally at the Ellipse on Jan. 6 when he retired to his private dining room […]
By Declan Walsh, Eric Schmitt and Julian E. Barnes New York Times MOGADISHU, Somalia — The C.I.A. convoy rolled out of Mogadishu in the dead of night, headed south along a crumbling ocean road that led deep into territory controlled by Al Shabab, one of Africa’s deadliest militant groups. […]
A lot more people seem to be getting a lot more pissed off.
By William S. Lind, Traditional Right The October, 2021 Marine Corps Gazette contains a long letter from Lt. Gen. Paul K. Van Riper and Col James K. Van Riper, both USMC Ret., denying the value of the concept of Fourth Generation war and of the broader intellectual framework […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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