Troy Southgate Apr 30, 2025 HAVING already mentioned that it is possible for a prince to possess a wide variety of different traits, Machiavelli explains that whilst generosity is a positive characteristic it is worthless if it leads to problems of its own. Of course, the Italian is […]
In today’s show I will discuss the nature of power. You will learn where real power comes from. The difference between external and internal sources of power and much more.
100 Days of Trump Plus: “Calm corners” in the subway system, mysterious 18-hour power outage, and more… LIZ WOLFE It’s been 100 days of Donald Trump: “The numbers are good,” says Tom Homan, the border czar, referring to the reported 139,000 people who have been deported since the president was inaugurated […]
Troy Southgate Apr 29, 2025 IN some ways, it must be said, Machiavelli’s idea of the perfectly-managed principality never develops beyond the theoretical stage. He is more than prepared to illustrate his ideas with examples from history, but they nonetheless remain idealistic and, perhaps ironically, utopian. Indeed, as […]
Troy Southgate Apr 28, 2025 ALTHOUGH the title of this section implies that Machiavelli treats warfare as just one aspect in the affairs of the prince, his opening comments suggest that it must have priority above and beyond anything else: A prince ought to have no other aim […]
A major legal challenge seeks to overturn a Biden-era case that helped lay the groundwork for Trump’s tattoo-based deportation regime. Murtaza Hussain Apr 29, 2025 This morning, Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill spoke with Mohammad Alsaafin, a Palestinian independent journalist and senior producer for AJ+, about the state of […]
From the Libertarian Alliance Week Ending 27th April 2025 Dear All, Here is the digest of Libertarian Alliance activity for the past week. Our writers explore whether Britain is entering its “Thermidor” phase—the point in a revolution when the crazies are pushed aside and pragmatists take over. Other […]
Caitlin Johnstone Apr 27, 2025 Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): The main reason more people don’t just go all in with opposing the US empire and rejecting all its propaganda about enemy states is […]
Mark Weber returns to the show to discuss how foreign policy realism challenges the utopian fantasies of modern foreign policy. Apr 27 READ IN APP Has foreign policy realism made a comeback? Mark Weber returns to the show to discuss the resurgence of realism in international affairs. While […]
Troy Southgate Apr 27, 2025 CONTINUING his discussion of militaristic strengths and weaknesses, Machiavelli argues that auxiliary soldiers are just as ineffectual as the mercenaries themselves: These soldiers may be useful and good in themselves, but for the person who calls them in they are always disadvantageous, because […]
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Truth Jihad Radio Oliver Boyd-Barrett on Why Tr… 0:00 56:15 Listen now Oliver Boyd-Barrett on Why Trump Can’t End Ukraine War Kevin Barrett Apr 25 READ IN APP Oliver Boyd-Barrett discusses the train wreck that Trump’s Ukraine peace […]
SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2025 Several Nobel laureates have made it a point to publicly express that the war on drugs has failed, all while leading to corruption and violence. – Jonathan Hofer, “Gang Deportations Are a Fool’s Errand; Instead, End the Drug War” [2025] HORNBERGER’S BLOG April 25, 2025 […]
Next up in our series of virtual events on the most pressing issues emerging from the second Trump administration: Advising Editor Fintan O’Toole will speak with New York Review contributors Astra Taylor and Zephyr Teachout, and AFA-CWA, AFL-CIO President Sara Nelson for a conversation on what successful opposition looks like […]
Troy Southgate Apr 26, 2025 HAVING outlined the different principalities and their strengths and weaknesses, Machiavelli turns his thoughts to more militaristic matters. It goes without saying, of course, that in order for a principality to endure it must learn how to defend itself and to attack others. […]
Troy Southgate Apr 25, 2025 AS a result of their decidedly spiritual character, Machiavelli understands that those territories which fall under the control of the Church are fairly unique and their laws are so powerful, and of such character that the principalities may be held no matter how […]
Week XVII, MMXXV “When you talk to people in America, on both the left and the right, they’ll often say that things were better in the past. They’ll romanticize the times when America had two or three broadcast networks. People trusted news presenters like Walter Cronkite, even though […]
Sponsored by the University of Chicago Press photo by Tori Ferenc In early 2021 the artist and jeweler Kaye Blegvad sent me a set of erotic zines, sometimes known as Tijuana bibles, including one by Maria-Ines Gul. I’d seen Gul’s work for years in the pages of Rookie magazine, where she […]
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Ryan Grim Apr 22, 2025 US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth arrives in Panama City on April 7, 2025. (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images) On the night of April 3, Colin Carroll got a simple phone call that set off a chain of events leading to […]
Troy Southgate Apr 24, 2025 THIS section deals with the issue of whether a principality that is forced to rely on the help of others can nonetheless enjoy a state of robustness and stability. Machiavelli summarises his position thus: I consider those who are able to support themselves […]
Troy Southgate Apr 23, 2025 TURNING now to the question of a prince obtaining his position by securing the favour of his fellow citizens, Machiavelli is clearly not talking about what we now regard as ‘democracy,’ but a situation whereby the citizens of a given region do not […]
Caitlin Johnstone Apr 22, 2025 Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): It’s not okay to claim ignorance or uncertainty about what’s happening in Gaza in 2025. You’re an adult. You have internet access. If you […]
View this email in your browser READ ON SITE NOW The long knives are out at the Pentagon. We have in recent days seen the ouster of some of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s top aides, including at least one leading voice for foreign-policy restraint. But the real target is clearly […]
President Nayib Bukele’s framing of security as a spiritual battle between good and evil helps to explain his popularity and his support for Israel Isabel Rikkers and Noelle Brigden October 9, 2024 El Salvador’s President, Nayib Bukele, stands beside the country’s flags during the country’s Independence Day celebrations […]
by Richard Wilson Escape from Pindostan Apr 22, 2025 Richard Wilson details the long history of the peoples of the Caucasus, a region marked by imperial invasions, shifting alliances, ethnolinguistic complexity, and martial traditions rooted in mountainous terrain and ancestral codes of honor. Since we may boast that […]
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Watch now REPORTAGE Book Launch Announcement The Corbett Report Apr 22 READ IN APP EVENT DETAILS: https://corbettreport.com/reportage-book-launch-announcement/ REPORTAGE: Essays on the New World Order has been available at reportagebook.com for months now . . . so, maybe it’s time for me […]
Trump Tariffs As ‘Sound Vision, Poor Execution’, China, the USA, and the Thucydides Trap, The New Moroccan Empire, Travels in El Salvador, Middle-Aged Japanese Man Trading Cards Niccolo Soldo Apr 21, 2025 Every weekend (almost) I share five articles/essays/reports with you. I select these over the course of […]
Troy Southgate Apr 22, 2025 IN addition to his previous thoughts on how a prince might rise to the fore as a result of good fortune or innate skill, Machiavelli suggests that there are two further methods by which this process might come about. One is through wickedness, […]
Caitlin Johnstone Apr 22, 2025 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): If you believe that all the violence and destruction in Gaza is the fault of Hamas, then by your own logic you must also accept that the coming wave of violent extremism […]
Fleeing America before you are threatened is a lot like obeying in advance. Source By George Packer Professors Timothy Snyder, Marci Shore, and Jason Stanley are leaving Yale for the University of Toronto. Some of their reasons might be personal and professional, but these well-known academics—two historians and […]
One of the key guarantees against authoritarian rule in the United States is the independence of a number of key institutions, especially the judiciary, but also academia, the press, and legislators. We know that President Trump is keen to maximise executive power – but is it simply a […]
Troy Southgate Apr 21, 2025 IN this section, Il Principe appears to express a modicum of snobbery: Those who solely by good fortune become princes from being private citizens have little trouble in rising, but have much trouble in staying at the top. They do not have any […]
Once a regime starts to send people to concentration camps — including those in El Salvador — it creates a system of detention that eschews due process and disappears citizens into black holes. Chris Hedges Apr 16, 2025 U.S. Export – by Mr. Fish Our offshore concentration camps, […]
Troy Southgate Apr 19, 2025 I WISH more people would realise that age classifications are designed to set one generation at the throat of another and prevent us from collaborating on the issues that really matter. Whilst I’m not quite old enough to fall into the so-called ‘boomer’ […]
Fortissax Apr 17, 2025 Patriote Commander Dr. Wolfred Nelson and the Flag of Montreal — Lower Canada Rebellion, 1837 Je me souviens/ Que né sous le lys/ Je croîs sous la rose. I remember/ That born under the lily/ I grow under the rose. — Étienne-Paschal Taché Introduction […]
Text “MarketBeat” to 68285 to get SMS breaking news alerts for stocks on your watchlist and other special reports. Learn More. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio April 20th, 2025 Elon’s Greatest Invention… Hidden in South Memphis? (ad) Tech legend Jeff Brown recently traveled to the industrial zone of […]
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Truth Jihad Radio The Crucifixion of Palestine … 0:00 45:12 Listen now The Crucifixion of Palestine (FFWN with J. Michael Springmann) Plus, a transcript of my conversation with former congressman and presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich Kevin Barrett Apr […]
The Heterodox Marxism of Sorel and Ludwig Woltmann murica Apr 19, 2025 I have this debate with NS people all the time. I try to explain the geneology of the ideology, and people who don’t understand and have never done the research just go a-round in circles, and […]
Charles Haywood A vanity metric for an age of stupidity. If 21st-century Republicans have an idol, a graven image we collectively worship, it is Gross Domestic Product. All discussion about the flourishing of our nation is reduced to GDP, and its increase is seen as an ironclad refutation […]
Troy Southgate Apr 20, 2025 THE concluding paragraph in Cultures of Post-war British Fascism (2015), by John E. Richardson of Loughborough University, in a piece titled “Cultural Marxism and the British National Party: Towards a Transnational Discourse,” is a sinister reminder of the crass naivity and inverted fascism […]
Troy Southgate Apr 20, 2025 IN terms of the actual conduct that Machiavelli’s prince should display, he believes that any prospective ruler should try to emulate the great men of the past: He should act like those who are skilled at shooting with a bow and arrow who, […]
Troy Southgate Apr 19, 2025 MACHIAVELLI believes that there are three ways to dominate a conquered people which has become used to its own specific codes of practice: The first is to ruin them, the next is to reside there in person, the third is to permit them […]
Caitlin Johnstone Apr 18, 2025 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): The Trump administration continues to arrest and deport people for criticizing Israel’s genocidal atrocities in Gaza and the US empire’s support for it — and Trump’s supporters continue to applaud these abuses. To call […]
Sen. Van Hollen showed that Congress actually does have agency, and a federal judge finally scorched the administration in crystal-clear language about how it’s violating the essence of our constitutional republic. But the White House is just treating the whole Abrego Garcia affair like it’s a joke. Meanwhile, […]
Arktos Journal Apr 18, 2025 NEW FROM ARKTOS Antoine Dresse — Political Realism: Principles and Assumptions Since time immemorial, man has sought to subordinate what is to what ought to be. This is why moralists, clergy, idealists, and technocrats are often tempted to subject the ‘art of the […]
Troy Southgate Apr 18, 2025 IN this section, Machiavelli addresses the survival of Greek rule in Persia after the demise of Darius III (380-330 BCE), last king of the Achaemenid Empire. Having been defeated by the armies of Alexander III of Macedon (356-323 BCE), also known as Alexander […]
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Krystal and Saagar discuss the weakening of the US dollar, Trump rages at China meeting with Vietnam, judge threatens contempt for Trump admin, Trump voter admits he was wrong, Elon admits DOGE savings fail, Trump rejected Bibi Iran war demands, Trump insurrection act on April 20th. Timestamps: (00:00)Intro […]
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