By Sean Gabb Remembering Brian Micklethwait: The Man Who Made Libertarianism Fun Obituary by Sean Gabb Published on the 20th October 2021 in The Critic Magazine Brian Hugh Micklethwait was born on the 26th September 1947, the youngest son of Sir Robert Micklethwait, a lawyer of some distinction […]
Paris Hilton spoke at the U.S. Capitol Wednesday to advocate for the Accountability for Congregate Care Act of 2021. The presser discussed establishing a bill of rights for children placed in congregate care facilities, according to organizers. Earlier this year, Hilton lauded the passage of a troubled teen […]
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to breaking news that former Secretary of State Colin Powell has died as a result of complications from COVID-19. Powell had previously been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer that hurts the body’s ability to fight infections.
What I found the most interesting about this was the degree to which the “old money” industrial bourgeoisie WASP elites are being integrated with the “newly rich” and “rainbowized” digital capitalist class. By Max DeNike, Family Minded America’s richest families are taking the whole idea of “born with a […]
Concerned about what they believed were plans by Russia to sneak Assange out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where the WikiLeaks founder had lived since 2012, and onward to Moscow, CIA and Trump administration officials also discussed crashing a car into a Russian diplomatic vehicle carrying Assange […]
By Triumph Kerins The McGill International Review Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have witnessed a proliferation of conspiracy theories. While it may seem peculiar, this recent rise in conspiratorial thinking follows a historically significant trend: conspiracy theories often take hold during periods of societal crisis, […]
This is an illustration of why I do not consider Trump to be a threat as far as being some kind of “fascist dictator.” Clearly, the military-industrial complex and intelligence services despise him, and they’re certainly not going to help him facilitate a personal coup. And the majority […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley 2016 was a strange fucking year to be an antiwar voter. It was the first open Democratic primary since the Iraq War without a clear peace candidate and Ron Paul’s heir apparent, Rand, proved to be a total […]
U.S. Capitol Police are investigating an active bomb threat near the Library of Congress. According to reports officials are negotiating with a man in a suspicious vehicle.
The good news for liberals is that the US is becoming more diverse ethnically and otherwise. The good news for conservatives is that many Hispanics are becoming the “new white ethnics,” comparable to the descendants of Southern and Eastern Europeans who started moving rightward in the aftermath of […]
By Benjamin Kerstein Quillette When you have lived long enough in a foreign country, you eventually begin to realize that the one you left behind, once accepted as utterly unique since it was all you knew, is not particularly different from anywhere else. One can call this perspective, […]
Rachel Bovard details a new initiative to track and disrupt payment activity from extremist and hate groups.
Yeonmi: “And that’s where I saw rats eating their eye” Joe:”Because they’re soft”
“An entire country became a concentration camp.”
The rising wing of the ruling class is grooming Kamala to be the next Hillary and wants to install her as the President eventually. Fortunately, most of the public seems to know better. From the comments thread: “Instead of prosecuting Mnuchin she tried to put single moms like […]
Krystal and Saagar give their thoughts on the luxury lifestyle of Pete Buttigieg and his husband.
By Isabel Vincent New York Post Shaun King has built his image on being a champion of the poor and disenfranchised, but the controversial civil rights activist lives like a one-percenter in a sprawling lakefront home, records show. King, 41, moved earlier this year from a luxury two-bedroom […]
One thing that both the riots last year after George Floyd’s murder and the January 6 riot reveal is that the President is not the real power in the US. In both situations, the President’s wishes were overruled by the wider overlords of the system in the military, […]
By Daniel Y. Teng Epoch Times New South Wales (NSW) Police Commissioner Mick Fuller has labelled protestors who attended the massive July 24 Sydney rally against COVID restrictions “anarchists.” Fuller revealed that police had received over 10,000 tip-offs regarding individuals involved in the protests and that 57 people […]
By Pete Williams A Florida man who was seen carrying a large red “Trump 2020” flag on the floor of the U.S. Senate during the Capitol riot received eight months in prison Monday in the first felony sentence from the Jan. 6 attack. Paul Allard Hodgkins, 38, of […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Tuning into the evening news has begun to take on all the charming qualities of a seventies Scorsese flick. Some nights I have to wipe the blood from the screen. From coast to coast, from sea to rising […]
Crimethinc In August 2020, a revolt broke out in Belarus, nearly toppling Alexander Lukashenko, the dictator who has ruled the country since 1994. In the following analysis, anarchists who participated in the revolt discuss the ways that it succeeded and how both the regime and its liberal opposition […]
Many things don’t come to light till many years later. It was during the “Church Hearings” in 75 that most of us first heard of the CIA Allende/Chile coup of 9-11-73.
By Brittany Bernstein, National Review Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt claimed on Wednesday that the Capitol riot is a more dangerous event for the future of the United States than the September 11 terrorist attacks were and is likely to cause more deaths. “The 1/6 attack for the […]
An interesting take on gun rights from a left perspective.
I know people like this. This is not a parody.
Human rights activist and author Yeonmi Park grew up in North Korea, a brutal, communist society devoted to the worship of Kim Jong-Il. At the age of 13, she and her family made a daring escape to China in search of a life free of tyranny. In her […]
A blast from the past.
By Don Fitz “Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets!… Accumulation for the sake of accumulation, production for the sake of production: this was the historical mission of the bourgeoisie in the period of its domination …” Karl Marx, Capital, Vol 1, Ch 25 The world is […]
A discussion of a recent piece by anarcho-fed Alexander Reid-Ross starts about 36 minutes into this.
Krystal and Saagar talk to Irami, known as the Funky Academic, about a whole range of different topics that make for a wonderful conversation.
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead, Rutherford Institute June 28, 2021 “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”— George Orwell, 1984 Tread cautiously: the fiction of George Orwell (Jun. 25, 1903-Jan. 21, 1950) has become an operation manual […]
US student Otto Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years in a North Korean labor camp in 2016. Warmbier was released the following year, but he died of brain damage shortly after his return to the United States. Was he really the victim of torture?
A step toward bringing the Chinese social credit system to the US? By Marissa Gamache House lawmakers on Tuesday called for sweeping reforms to the credit reporting industry — with some Democrats going so far as proposing a nationally run system, saying the three major bureaus are failing […]
By Kierra Frazier, Oriana Gonzalez Axios President Biden signed legislation on Friday designating the Pulse nightclub a national memorial. Why it matters: The 2016 mass shooting at the Orlando, Florida gay club that left 49 people dead and more than 50 people injured is one of the deadliest attacks […]
This is at least the third find of this type in the past few weeks. By Alex Migdal CBC WARNING: This story contains distressing details. A First Nation in B.C.’s South Interior says 182 unmarked grave sites have been discovered near the location of a former residential school. […]
Good news. By ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Rumsfeld, the two-time defense secretary and one-time presidential candidate whose reputation as a skilled bureaucrat and visionary of a modern U.S. military was unraveled by the long and costly Iraq war, died Tuesday. He was […]
Emily Jashinsky breaks down the relationships between major corporations and media outlets.
Krystal and Saagar discuss the latest news surrounding Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure plan.
Krystal and Saagar go over the horrible mismanagement that lead to a building collapsing in Florida
Shades of the anarchist revolution in Spain. Although nowadays most Canadians are about as religious as the Western Europeans or the East Asians, i.e. not religious at all. VANCOUVER — Two more Catholic churches on First Nations reserve land in B.C. have burned to the ground. The churches, […]
This is a pretty interesting report from the National Intelligence Council. Read the full document here. There is more discussion of non-state actors from Beau below:
This is a pretty good discussion of the problematic aspects of the “cold dead fingers” types who cite Vietnam as a model for insurrection in the US. Beau is absolutely correct that the Viet Cong won only because they took over a million casualties in a war of […]
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Colin Rogero and Robby Soave react to reports that large companies are hiring for remote positions that can be performed anywhere but Colorado.
BY PATRICIA TOLSON Epoch Times In a contentious three to two vote, the Collier County Board of County Commissioners (CCBOCC) agreed on June 22 to postpone the vote on a proposed ordinance that would establish Collier County as a Bill of Rights sanctuary. However, even after the county sheriff, one […]
Colin Rogero breaks down the dangers of private military contractors.
The CHP says a 54-year-old homeless man had “aggressively” approached the governor, and threw a water bottle at him.
I’d argue the ruling class propaganda model has been changed from “manufacturing consent” to deliberately creating conflict as a marketing tool (Matt Taibbi’s “Hate, Inc” thesis) and as a “divide and conquer” strategy, although the fragmentation of the media also reflects the fragmentation of the ruling class itself. […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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