Wildfire Special: California Burning

January 10, 2025 Special Edition Welcome to The Lighthouse, the weekly email newsletter of the Independent Institute covering politics, economics, current events, and everything in between. Dear Readers, As heartbreak and devastation are wrought by the Palisades, Eaton, Hurst, Lidia, Woodley, Tyler and Sunset Fires, the State of […]

Freedom UK Review: Prison Freedom UK Review: Prison solidarity, Farage fiasco, and Zapatista gatheringsolidarity, Farage fiasco, and Zapatista gathering

by thecollective8 January 2025 From Freedom News UK Discussing New Year’s Eve prison demos and why they will become more important, the short Farage-Musk love affair, and the challenge of restoring community networks as the Zapatistas’ call to prepare for the fall of capitalism within seven generations Tags […]

The Importance of Mortality

Troy Southgate Jan 04, 2025 JUST as Transhumanism’s claim to improve or supplement human existence ultimately spells death for authentic individuality, so too does attempting to escape mortality help to forego our true path to immortality. We see this in Neoplatonism, for example, when Iamblichus of Syria (240-325) […]

TikTok Woe

David Cole Free Speech for TikTok? As the Supreme Court decides whether to let the US ban a hugely popular social media platform, it can either learn from its earlier mistakes or repeat them. Yi-Ling Liu Planet TikTok The app’s young user base, fragmented content, and amped-up algorithm […]

Transition to Satanocracy

by Micha Kat Arktos Journal Jan 09, 2025 Micha Kat introduces the concept of ‘satanocracy’ — a form of governance marked by deliberate harm to populations — drawing on examples such as Mark Rutte’s policies in the Netherlands, grooming gangs in the UK, and California’s wildfires, while referencing […]

Is Gavin Newsom Responsible for Enabling California’s Devastating Wildfires?

January 9 2025 Is Gavin Newsom Responsible for Enabling California’s Devastating Wildfires? COMMENTARY By Tyler O’Neil California media outlets have revealed the governor’s penchant for exaggerating his accomplishments in managing the forests to prevent wildfires. More Fani Willis’ Refusal to Hand Over Documents Will Cost Taxpayers, Judge Rules […]

Trump’s New Grand Strategy

by Peter Zeihan on January 9, 2025 Today’s video was originally released on Patreon 1 week ago. If you want to see the videos as soon as they come out, join the Patreon! You’ll get early access to videos and newsletters, as well as exclusive perks like live Q&A sessions, […]

Bad History

by anon (not verified)8 January 2025 From Collective of Anarchist Writers December 13, 2024 I wrote this before Luigi Mangione shot the CEO of United Healthcare. Such an act, totally unpredictable but ripping open the seams of this world to instantiate possibility in the present, is a beautiful […]

by anon (not verified)8 January 2025 From Têkoşîna Anarşîst January 7, 2025 05-06/Jan/2025 # NES Heavy clashes in Eufrates region A massive SNA attack on the strategic hill near Tishrin dam was repelled by the SDF, inflicting heavy losses in SNA ranks. Air units of the SDF (drones) […]

Bad History

by anon (not verified)8 January 2025 From Collective of Anarchist Writers I wrote this before Luigi Mangione shot the CEO of United Healthcare. Such an act, totally unpredictable but ripping open the seams of this world to instantiate possibility in the present, is a beautiful act—not historical, since […]

Greece/Chania: Two-day Event – Discussion

by thecollective6 January 2025 Received via email Chania: Two-day Event – Discussion Mapping the legal “arsenal” // Planning the attack on sovereignty – Galera occupata Friday 10/01, 20:00 Documentary screening of Fino All’ Ultimo Respiro (Until the Last Breath) – on Alfredo Cospito’s detention conditions and the 41bis […]

Call for Support as Riseup.net Turns 25

by thecollective6 January 2025 From It’s Going Down Call to support long-running anarchist tech-collective, Riseup.Net. Riseup is a small anarchist, anti-capitalist, volunteer-run, social movement organization offering secure email, email lists, a VPN service, chat, and other online services to support activists engaged in various social justice causes. Riseup.net […]

How We Stormed Concordia University

by thecollective6 January 2025 From Montreal Counterinfo Full title: How We Stormed Concordia University: De-arresting, Painting, Shutting Down Classes and Exams On November 21st, over 85,000 students across Quebec were on strike demanding their academic institutions align with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, drop the political suspensions […]