Welcome to the Second Trump Era

NATIONAL REVIEW JANUARY 24, 2025 ◼ “Pardon me” has a whole different meaning in the Biden household.   ◼ So relentless has been the release of Donald Trump’s first-week executive orders that it has been tough to keep pace. Once, presidencies were judged after a year. Later, this […]

In The Thick Of It

Caitlin Johnstone Jan 25, 2025 Listen to a reading of this piece (reading by Tim Foley): Here in the thick of it, our eyes full of pixels and our veins full of microplastics, out here with the child amputees in Gaza and the frightened street schizophrenics in Los […]

The Ungovernable Economy

“Capitalism is predicated on atomized individuals, democracy on shared publics,” writes Trevor Jackson in the Review’s January 16 issue. Reviewing Martin Wolf’s The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, Jackson examines capitalist democracies past and present to find where the economic system of capitalism and the political system of democracy have aligned and […]

Postcolonial Theory

Troy Southgate Jan 26, 2025 FOR those of you unfamiliar with so-called Postcolonial Theory, it relates to the enormous impact that colonialist regimes have had on the countries they once governed. It is true, for example, that great swathes of Africa and Asia have been ‘civilised’ to the […]

From the Desk of Franz Kafka

Deborah Eisenberg Urgent Messages from Eternity An exhibition of Franz Kafka’s postcards, letters, and manuscript pages rekindles our sense of him as a writer deeply connected to his own time and place. Yonatan Mendel Israel: Life by the Sword For fifteen months Israel’s government clung to the fantasy […]

Will Xi Jinping and Trump Clash Over Taiwan?, Greenland’s Coming Significance, The Think Tank Industrial Complex, LA on Fire, H.G. Wells: Awful in Every Way

Niccolo Soldo Jan 26, 2025 Every weekend (almost) I share five articles/essays/reports with you. I select these over the course of the week because they are either insightful, informative, interesting, important, or a combination of the above. Share This past November, I had the pleasure of speaking at […]

Trumpland: The Sequel

JANUARY 24, 2025 “We’ve tried to do citizenship Trump’s way before. It led to war.” A Line-by-Line Breakdown of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order → In the first 24 hours of the new administration, the GOP removed the United States Constitution from the White House website, Elon Musk […]

The Trump 2.0 NIGHTMARE Begins

Episode 209 with Mark Figueredo Krystal Kyle & Friends Jan 24, 2025 Pardoning January 6th rioters. Drill, baby, drill. Attacks on anti-discrimination laws. Inviting oligarchs to destroy jobs. It’s been less than a week since the inauguration, and with Humanist Report’s Mike Figueredo, we have the opportunity to […]

12 Radical Teachings of Jesus That American Christians Have Abandoned

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Farewell Jean-Jacques Cellier

by anon (not verified)Jan 23, 2025 From International Center for Research on Anarchism (CIRA) & Éditions la Digitale Jean-Jacques Cellier passed away on August 30, 2024 at the age of 78. For 40 years, he was a publisher, printer, typographer and bookbinder. In 1978, he founded Editions La […]

“We Shall Prevail”

by anon (not verified)Jan 22, 2025 From Muntjac Magazine Lessons from the Sudanese resistance committees The Sudanese working class have always stood and fought for their freedom, from the multi-century struggle against British, Ottoman and Egyptian imperialism to the ongoing struggle against the neocolonialism of the UAE. In […]

Trump’s Imperial Presidency?

THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2025 … to disarm the people – that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them. – George Mason HORNBERGER’S BLOG January 23, 2025 Trump Deserves No Thanks for Pardoning Ross Ulbricht While there are libertarians praising and thanking President Trump for fulfilling […]