By Jon Schwarz The Intercept From 1915 through today, politicians have made lots of great-sounding speeches. But human suffering is never part of the equation. If there’s one thing we can say for sure about the governments of the U.S. and Europe, it’s that they sound upset about […]
This is an excellent book that explains how the neoliberal model of capitalism actually works. Neoliberalism is by design a state-centric and not a “free market” paradigm. 99.9% of “free market” economists aren’t free market at all. The exceptions would be individualist anarchists like Benjamin Tucker or radical […]
The coming American Fascism was something often discussed on the Left in the late 2010’s around the Trump Movement, how well does the Left in North America truly know the history? Steven Jones joins Ewoks Unhinged to discuss the origins of Fascism, as we urge contemporary Socialists to […]
Another thing to keep in mind is Lincoln chose Johnson as his running mate in June 1864 when the war was looking like a stalemate and Lincoln himself believed he would be unable to win r-election. The Johnson pick was to win over “War Democrats” to hinder the […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There are few places on this wretched ball of shit we call earth that could benefit more from the concept of neutrality than the territory currently classified as Ukraine. For centuries these fields and forests have been the […]
By Jason Fields, The Week The scenes in the Kyiv suburbs are devastating: masses of bodies piled in shallow graves; people found tortured and killed — their “crime” unclear — and reports of widespread rape. Russian President Vladimir Putin “is brutal, and what’s happening in Bucha is outrageous and everyone’s […]
Technology is going to reintegrate the warrior class.
Clip from “Marxism and Energy” film by Space Commune Podcast : https://youtu.be/8L5Uo_4Ch4Y
While history does not repeat itself it does rhyme. Todd Lewis will be joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson and Terminal Philosophy to discuss the similarities on the international stage between decade of the 2020s and the 1970s.
Ryan Grim recounts the history of how honor culture has played out in American politics.
The “anarchist abduction” story from 1910 described in this article sounds like the idiotic drama that goes on in anarchist circles today. By William Gillis, Center for a Stateless Society Review: The Anarchist-Individualist Origins of Italian Fascism In 1910 Luigi Fabbri and Armando Borghi abducted an anarchist woman […]
By Bill Angelbeck and Colin Grier Throughout human history, people have lived in societies without formalized government. We argue that the theory of anarchism presents a productive framework for analyzing decentralized societies. Anarchism encompasses a broad array of interrelated principles for organizing societies without the centralization of authority. […]
By Bård Amundsen An international research group has found that the pandemic affected different areas of Europe differently. Norway may have been hit hard. The Black Death ravaged Europe in the years around 1350. It became the most notorious pandemic in human history, although the plague and other […]
The Iraq war was the height of American arrogance. Premeditated, unsanctioned, unlawful, and last but not least unilateral aggression against a country that did not threaten the US in any way.
By David Kirby, Reason The education pioneer’s authoritarian personality was at odds with her commitment to children’s independence. The Child Is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori, by Cristina De Stefano, Other Press, 248 pages, $28.99 Maria Montessori’s ideas about education stem from the principles of choice, […]
By William S. Lind, Traditional Right As of this writing, March 4, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has turned into a typical Russian mess. Ukraine is not dead yet. The Russian army’s logistics have broken down, as they usually do. And Russia has suffered a monumental self-inflicted defeat at […]
By Yuliy Dubovyk Multipolarista A left-wing peace activist raised in Ukraine explains how the US government created the crisis, backing two coups in a decade, fueling a devastating civil war, and exploiting his nation as a proxy against Russia. I am a Ukrainian-American. I grew up and spent […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley 9/11 seemed to come out of nowhere when I was a kid. One minute it was all bubblegum, Britney Spears, Pokémon cards, and gender dysphoria and the next the sky was raining commercial airliners and America was at […]
By Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone In the new podcast ‘Wind of Change,’ host Patrick Radden Keefe explores how the CIA used music to change hearts and minds. What if it turned out your favorite song had been written by the CIA? That’s exactly what a new podcast aims […]
By R.H. Lossin The Nation Ted Kaczynski’s violence—reexamined in a new biopic—fascinates US audiences, but not for the reasons we think. In 1995, The Washington Post published a 35,000-word manifesto in a bid to prevent the detonation of a bomb at Los Angeles International Airport and end the […]
By Katy Hull A historical look at the American fascination with Italian fascism during the interwar period. In the interwar years, the United States grappled with economic volatility, and Americans expressed anxieties about a decline in moral values, the erosion of families and communities, and the decay of […]
By Rainer Zitelmann Mises Institute Was Hitler really “right wing”? The German-British publicist Sebastian Haffner, who wrote one of the most notable essays on Adolf Hitler, has pointed out that the only opposition which could really have become dangerous for Hitler came from the Right: “From its vantage, […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week It sure seems like we’ve seen the Russo-Ukrainian war before — the story of a seemingly superior Great Power military invading an apparently weaker underdog nation, only to find itself stymied by the irregular tactics and fierce nationalism of the defenders. “The Russians were […]
Robert Stark talks to Keith Preston about the geopolitics of the war in Ukraine. Keith Preston is a historian, social scientist, political analyst, author, lecturer, trends researcher, and the editor of Attack the System. Follow Keith on Twitter. Stark Truth Radio Topics: The Geopolitical background of the conflict, […]
By Yuval Noah Harari, The Economist Humanity’s greatest political achievement has been the decline of war. That is now in jeopardy. AT THE HEART of the Ukraine crisis lies a fundamental question about the nature of history and the nature of humanity: is change possible? Can humans change […]
By Elie Mystal The Nation In a nod to the bad old days, an amendment to a Missouri anti-abortion bill would make it a crime to help a pregnant Missourian get an abortion outside the state. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 mandated the seizure and return of […]
By Razib Khan, City-Journal For many of us Cold War kids, the Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc, and the battle between capitalism and global Communism were just background conditions of our youth. But in the United States, what we really talked about wasn’t the Soviets or the Communists […]
By Mikhaila Peterson In this episode, I spoke with two members of the government, one in Ukraine and one in Russia. I don’t believe these guys necessarily have the view of an average Russian or Ukrainian. However, they do represent people in their countries. First I spoke with […]
By Harold James, Quillette February 24th, 2022, constituted a shock to the European psyche. The invasion of Ukraine, without any plausible casus belli, the massive use of military force against civilians, the attempted hunting down of a legitimately elected government, all came as a complete surprise. But so […]
For day six of The Realignment’s near-daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with Hal Brands, author of The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches About Great-Power Rivalry Today, John Hopkins University professor, AEI Resident Fellow, and Bloomberg columnist. They discussed America’s successes and failures during the Cold War, […]
By Keaton Mansfield, Center for Political Innovation Why does the liberal antiwar movement often side with NATO by default of their faux “neutrality”? The difference between antiwar and anti-imperialism may hold the answer. With the Russian Federation’s decision to recognize the independence of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s […]
By Keaton Mansfield, Center for Political Innovation The “New Left,” born out of the hippie era and social justice movements of the 1960’s, has been a disaster for the socialist cause. When the Communist Party USA was founded in 1919, it quickly became a political force to be […]
By Jordan Jardine, Center for a Stateless Society Muammar Gaddafi was, is, and always will be a controversial figure. Though his rise from Bedouin nomad to ruler of Libya is impressive, many of the things he did while in control of the country were unquestionably authoritarian and criminal. […]
Praise of Folly joins me on Ukraine, and larger geopolitical implications of what might come next.
By Darryl Pinckney The Nation Digging down into the roots of white America’s infatuation with Black. Norman Mailer was proud of his essay “The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster.” Published in Dissent in 1957, it was reprinted in Advertisements for Myself (1959), Mailer’s anthology of selections […]
Saagar compares the present moment in America with high gas and food prices to a similar time in the 1970s when geopolitical instability and domestic unrest also had dramatic effects on American politics
By Maximus Brown, Sof Mag Sen Graham is truly unhinged. Even after being called to resign for the sake of Americans with publicly stating that Putin should be assassinated, he continues to be defiant. Even after the corrupt U.S. State Department and Biden explained the illegality of his […]
By W. James Antle III, The Week The Russian invasion of Ukraine has turned out to be a much tougher slog than the Kremlin anticipated. The Kyiv offensive appears stalled. The morale of Russia’s conscripts is poor. Instead of swiftly folding, Ukraine is fighting back. None of this […]
By Robert Stark The 2020s started off with a global pandemic and now a major war, two black swan events. Could this be the official end to “The End of History,” a political concept that is most often associated with the book that Francis Fukuyama wrote after the […]
By Anthony Gregory This is a critical historiographical essay animated by the research question of how the decisions of police and sheriffs illuminated and drove the transformation of white supremacy through different forms from emancipation to the end of Jim Crow segregation. It situates this focus amidst current […]
By Ed West Putin’s ‘historian, here’ talk refers to the Soviet Union’s policy of affirmative action. You know that nations are all just artificial creations, mostly Victorian inventions designed for political purposes? That your loyalty and patriotism is entirely false? The now-popular argument of post-war academics, that countries […]
by Benjamin Studebaker Most of the people writing about the Ukraine crisis are too busy trying to prove that they are on the right side to give decent analysis of it. They are worried about appearing too friendly to either Russia or the United States, and their career […]
Todd Lewis will be joined by Existentialist Non-Grata to discuss the nature and implications of the Industrial Revolution.
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I don’t believe in taxes. I know that’s not exactly the trendiest take on the left these days, but I just can’t justify giving any institution that kind of power. I would love nothing better than to play […]
By David A. Bell New York Review of Books Colin Jones gives an hour-by-hour account of the Ninth of Thermidor, a day that marked a turning point in the French Revolution. Imagine a government divided between two ferociously opposed political forces, both of which claim the right to […]
From the mind of acclaimed director Tony Stone comes TED K- a bracing, cinematic journey into the tortured mind of The Unabomber. Deep in the American Rocky Mountains lived a man who sought refuge from modern society. His dark writings forewarned of a society ruled by technology. As […]
Norman Naimark is a historian at Stanford, specializing in the history of genocide.
The People’s World October marks 50 years since Canada’s “October Crisis” of 1970, during which Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (father of the current PM) invoked the War Measures Act, suspended civil and democratic rights across Canada and sent thousands of troops to occupy Quebec. The government’s real purpose […]
Impromptu interview of Pierre Elliott Trudeau with Tim Ralfe of the CBC and Peter Reilly of CJON-TV on October 13, 1970.
He actually created a recession to control inflation, and then lifted the economy out of the recession with Keynesian policies. It is amazing that he is so admired by fiscal conservatives, deficit hawks, libertarians, and gold bugs. Ronald (Ronald Wilson, 1911-2004) Reagan, Republican candidate for United States President. […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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