The chaos came for gaming

Tariffs and teachable moments   Last week, I wrote about how excited I was to buy the Nintendo Switch 2, which was supposed to go on sale for preorders. I said the launch of the video gaming console was “unrelated” to the ongoing political chaos. This week, the […]

Contra Principem, Part 2: The Prince

Troy Southgate Apr 11, 2025 MACHIAVELLI’S Il Principe was written in 1513, after its author had been removed from his important diplomatic role with the Florentine bureaucracy and then returned to his secluded farmhouse. In 1532, when the book first appeared in printed form, five years after his […]

Contra Principem, Part 1: An Italian in the Sixteenth Century – Machiavelli and his World

Troy Southgate Apr 10, 2025 Introduction The name Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) has become a popular euphemism for deceit, ruthlessness and manipulation. As a politician, diplomat and philosopher, Machiavelli spent his twilight years producing what eventually became one of the Renaissance period’s most notorious and reviled tracts. First published […]

A War with Iran Would Not Be Wise

by Kenneth Schmidt Kenneth Schmidt Apr 11, 2025 Kenneth Schmidt warns that despite Trump’s peaceful instincts, escalating tensions with Iran — fueled by Zionist advisors — risk dragging the U.S. into a disastrous, unwinnable war against a vast, mountainous, and fanatically defended nation. President Trump has been engaging […]

SCOTUS Rules on Deportation Case

SCOTUS Rules on Deportation Case Plus: China-U.S. relations heat up, ICE says ideas shouldn’t cross borders, sexytime with the computer, and more… LIZ WOLFE Supreme Court rules on deportation: The Court, in an unsigned order, told the Trump administration that it must “facilitate and effectuate the return” of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia […]

4/11/25: Dollar Plunges, SCOTUS Orders Return of Deported Man, Douglas Murray Beclowned By Dave Smith4/11/25: Dollar Plunges, SCOTUS Orders Return of Deported Man, Douglas Murray Beclowned By Dave Smith

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War With China

War With China Plus: Theories to explain Trump’s behavior, the radium girls, university investigations, and more… LIZ WOLFE We’re doing a trade war: It’s just not quite as extensive as previously feared. President Donald Trump announced yesterday, after more market bloodbath, that he would pause the implementation of his […]

The Numbers Go Up Hypothesis

The numbers determine our reality Neoliberal Feudalism Apr 05, 2025 Wealthy boomers and wage earners, regardless of political affiliation are beginning to express panic amid a drop in the stock market. This reaction highlights the “Numbers Go Up” mindset, where stock market performance is seen as the sole […]

Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Mexico?

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 2025 It would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights… Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. It is […]

Upcoming Anarchist Events

Upcoming events Cultivate Resistance Festival (Brazil) Fri Apr 18 – Sun Apr 20 International Anarchist Agitation & Culture Fair (Mexico) Fri Apr 18 – Sun Apr 20 Cambridge Radical Bookfair (UK) Sun Apr 27 – Sun Apr 27 Anarchist-Communist Days (Hungary) Thu May 1 – Sat May 3 […]

Endeavouring to think Gaza

Endeavouring to think Gaza Mourners gather around the bodies of Palestinians who were killed by the Israeli army, at al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City on March 18, 2025 [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP] What is the power, or even usefulness of thought, before the physical violence of mass murder? Perhaps […]

Messiness

TotW: Messiness by thecollectiveMar 30, 2025 Anarchists, in my experience, are a mess. And believe it or not, this isn’t a condemnation. Rather, we have much to gain by not shying away from it. Take chances, make mistakes, get messy! — Ms. Frizzle Tags totw topic of the […]