The run-up to the coming US elections has seen an America more divided than ever before. As President Trump seeks re-election, national security observers in America watch the rise of the far-right with alarm and say politics, conspiracy and extreme right-wing ideology are all stirring the pot of […]
Tech companies have long argued that users should be able to judge content for themselves – but critics say social media giants such as Facebook and Twitter have a responsibility to make sure their platforms are not being used to incite violence or spread misinformation. Facebook says it […]
White supremacist and nationalist groups pose the greatest threat, spurred by a summer of protests, some experts say.
Today our own Communications Director Don Feder interviews Phillip Jauregui of the Judicial Action Group on Amy Coney Barrett filling the Supreme Court vacancy.
Fierce partisan divisions and social upheaval in the United States are feeding fears of large-scale political violence after the 2020 presidential election. Some describe the expected disorder as a form of domestic terrorism. Others are using the term “insurgency” to describe it, while some people are raising fears […]
By Lee Drutman, Five Thirty Eight To anyone following American politics, it’s not exactly news that Democrats and Republicans don’t like each other. Take what happened in the presidential debate last week. President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden did little to conceal their disdain of one […]
The neocon/neoliberal alliance continues its efforts to defeat the Trumpists why marginalizing the Left. Daily Beast reporter, Hanna Trudo, discusses why progressives are upset with Joe Biden over his attacks on Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Leftists who think these laws can’t or won’t be used against them are fools. See the Smith Act. Helena Smith A court verdict in Athens with ramifications for the far right across Europe has been met with jubilation in Greece and internationally after judges ruled the neo-fascist Golden […]
This is my assessment of the recent piece by Peter Gelderloos at Crimethinc, “Preparing for Electoral Unrest and a Right-Wing Power Grab.” The Crimethinc article is a great companion piece to the recent commentary by It’s Going Down (which I critique here) and Three-Way Fight (which I had […]
By Peter Gelderloos Crimethinc It is vital that anarchist strategy be situated: that we see strategy not as a chessboard from above, as in the authoritarian worldview, but as a perspective on the situation we inhabit, looking outward with our own eyes. Nonetheless, we should not make the […]
It’s Going Down throws in their two cents worth. Listen to their original podcast here. My assessment follows. By Keith Preston As for my assessment of the IGD podcast, I agree that if the election is close, what mainstream political scientists call a “constitutional crisis” is likely to […]
By Nancy Rommelman Reason Erin Smith was at a GOP election watch party at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco on November 8, 2016. For the one-time deputy vice chair of communications for the city Republication Party, it should have been a time of jubilation. “As soon as they […]
Marianne was my second favorite candidate in the primaries, after Tulsi. Liberal and left opinion regards Trump as an incipient fascist. Conservative and right-wing opinion regards Trump as an incipient Bolshevik. Both are focused on Biden’s obvious senility. Though I think all of these are missing some of […]
It’s Going Down. Correction: On the opening to this podcast, it states that Trump said “stand down and stand by,” which in reality Trump stated “stand back and stand by.” The first debate between the ruling corporate parties has now come and gone, with even the mainstream media […]
On the other hand, a lot of white supremacist groups probably wouldn’t exist without all the moles in their ranks who keep their membership going. By Alice Speri The Intercept The FBI has long been concerned about the infiltration of law enforcement by white supremacist groups and its […]
If there is one truism about Americans, it is that Americans do everything half-assed. American fascists are half-assed fascists. American communists are half-assed communists. American religious fundamentalists are half-assed fundamentalists. American anarchists are half-assed anarchists. Groups like Antifa or BLM are rookie leaguers compared to insurrectionary groups in […]
This article amounts to a plan to create a one-party state. Not that I would miss the Republicans if they were permanently marginalized, but shutting the right-wing out of the electoral process altogether is likely to generate some other less than pleasant consequences. By Ian Millhise Vox The […]
Apparently, this is a meme that is circulating in commie circles with some saying it is brilliant branding and others saying, “Yikes! Nationalism!” LOL
An interview I did earlier today discussing current events. Listen to the interview here. Richard is joined by guest Keith Preston to discuss domestic politics and recent geopolitical developments. Keith is the managing editor of AttacktheSystem.com, an analyst at Press TV, author at Black House Publishing, online podcast […]
A new work out from TELOS that looks interesting. by Fred Siegel With a Foreword by Joel KotkinAlso available in Kindle ebook format from Amazon.com. Release dates: October 1, 2020 (paperback), September 15, 2020 (ebook). In The Crisis of Liberalism: Prelude to Trump, Fred Siegel leverages New York […]
By Troy Southgate The majority of people on the Right and Left of the political spectrum have an equally distorted idea of what is actually taking place in the world. Although this applies to most countries, allow me to use the example of Portugal. In the mid-1970s the […]
Of all the political conflicts I have ever studied, anywhere in the world, or from any time in history, there are none which I have found to be nearly as ridiculous as the American “culture wars.” Culture warriors, whether red, blue, white, black, pink, green, or purple, generally […]
By Nick Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Libertarians regard the state as the supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public” -Murray Rothbard “In Reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the […]
One of the problems with “movement conservatism” of the Buckley-Goldwater-Reagan axis was that it was never anything more than a means of providing ideological cover for the military-industrial-complex and American empire-builders, which is why the isolationists have always been the main group that has been unwelcome in “conservative” […]
I don’t consider myself to be a “progressive.” My outlook transcends the progressive/reactionary and/or socialism/capitalism false dichotomies. But Kim is always such a refreshingly rational and lucid commentator. This analysis is spot on. The main disagreement that I have with Kim is the same one that I have […]
The anti-jerk off club named after a Disney character goes to Portland, presumably to get into a fight with Antifa. What could possibly go wrong? My advice to anyone interested in dissident politics is to avoid either participating in these groups or getting into confrontations with them. Protest […]
“Conservatards” probably jerk off to her pictures. Although at least she’s more attractive than RBG (but what isn’t?) By Elizabeth Dias and Adam Liptak New York Times This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: An earlier version of this article, based on the recollection of […]
This data is very interesting. People of all races generally reject race war politics and embrace class war politics, albeit is a rather moderate form.
Now that liberals increasingly hold cultural power, they have become proponents of judicial restraint and rule by legislative majorities while conservatives appear to increasingly favor judicial activism, something they spent decades denouncing. As Matt Karp points out, there are plenty of precedents for Presidents simply ignoring the Supreme […]
I would actually agree with Pakman’s critique of the Koch-model of libertarianism and suggest that political decentralization must necessarily be accompanied by economic decentralization. But where this commentary goes wrong is with its failure to recognize the role of national governments in creating the transnational corporate and financial […]
My main criticism of the Left is its failure to recognize the centuries-long history of leftist genocides, massacres, purges, repression, and authoritarianism. Most leftists treat this as a side issue at best, even they acknowledge the issue at all. Too many holocaust-deniers on the Left. By David Cole […]
The ongoing leftward shift of US culture combined with an increasingly solid Republican control of the courts should make for an interesting political future.
Saager nails it in this. Fortunately, I am neither a “cultural conservative” nor a “cultural progressive” so I don’t need to care about all this Supreme Court stuff.
I tend to agree with this assessment from the “Sovereign Counties” site. Anarcho-capitalism is a contradiction in terms. The system presumes a state enforcing exclusive entitlement to productive means. Competing security agencies, enforcing these entitlements and only these entitlements, constitute a state. Anarcho-communism as usually described is not […]
A pretty good overview fo the state of the far-right from a far-left perspective. WORT Community Radio The far-right movement isn’t monolithic—it’s a complex spectrum of organizations and ideologies. To help us break it down, today Allen is joined by Matthew N. Lyons, co-author of the landmark book […]
I disagree with aspects of the ideological flavor reflected in this article. But its core thesis seems to be cogent enough. A multi-dimensional insurrection (consisting of distinct but overlapping sectors such as the lumpenproletariat, middle-class radicals, ordinary hooligans, the far left, and sectors of the far right) is […]
Kim is always refreshingly independent.
These folks who travel from city to city for the purpose of escalating left/right conflict need to stay at home and mind their own business. If all of the different political factions worked toward the purpose of turning their local communities into their ideal model of a startup […]
The Soviet analogy really isn’t appropriate. Neoliberals are proponents of globalized technocratic state-capitalism, which uses feminism and multiculturalism to meet its human resources needs and construct a self-legitimating ideology. That has nothing to do with Communism.
This is a fairly nuanced discussion of BLM from a right-libertarian perspective. The gist of the discussion is that it is necessary to distinguish between the BLM movement and the organization bearing its name. By Brad Polumbo Foundation for Economic Education On Monday night, Terry Crews was grilled […]
Who needs the World Series or the Super Bowl when we’ve got this shitshow? The 2020 Presidential Election will be close, but what are the best case scenarios for both the Joe Biden and Donald Trump campaigns this November…
After the election, look for a crackdown on protestors. If Trump wins, the claim will be that the feds are fighting left-wing terrorism and ordinary crime. If Biden wins, the claim will be that the feds are fighting right-wing terrorism and “hate.” The goal will be to make […]
I am constantly coming across media commentary where both Blue Tribers and Red Tribers accuse each other of planning a coup or to steal the election. They’re probably both partially correct.
The conventional media and much of the dissident milieu are focused on Trump’s Nixonian authoritarianism because is Trump is both the President and the bane of dominant ruling class sectors, but other dangers lurk in the form of millenarian progressivism and neocon opportunism. What seems to be going […]
A lot of “anti-system” folks are focusing on Trump’s shenanigans while ignoring the neocons’ attempted comeback by colonizing the Democratic Party and embedding themselves in the Trump administration simultaneously while trying to ride the wave of protests to power. Gottfried predicts a minor league “Night of the Long […]
By Norbet Bolz TELOS The rage about corona and its consequences has evidently elicited a mental disturbance with global reach. Every insanity has now become acceptable—on the condition that the insanity claims to be of the “left,” i.e., anti-fascist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist, etc. Whoever wants to keep it at […]
Athens can be an-cap and Sparta can be an-com. Not a problem at all. In which Playwright, Journalist and Ringo-Nominated Comic Creator Brenton Lengel teams up with Emerican Johnson of NonCompete for an EPIC live debate against Dr. David D. Friedman (The son of economist Milton Friedman) and […]
An electoral contest between Nina Turner and Tucker Carlson would actually be something of an improvement over the norm. Not because it would make any difference in terms of state actions because Presidents are not the real bosses of the USA, only managers. But because it would elevate […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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