It All Goes Back to Tehran

Recently at The Signal: Omair Ahmad on how Hindu nationalism is transforming India. Today: What is Iran up to in the Middle East? Vali Nasr on the Islamic Republic’s strategy to come away as the Gaza war’s biggest winners. Also: Ivan Krastev on how the war in Ukraine […]

Sweden In NATO (Recap)

by Peter Zeihan on February 21, 2024 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has indicated that Sweden accession to NATO shall be ratified by the Hungarian Parliament before March 1, which means Sweden will soon be welcomed into the alliance as a full member. Sweden will be a very […]

2/21/24: Alabama Rules Embryos Are Kids, Trump Team Plots Abortion Ban, Nikki Haley Home State Humiliation, SCOTUS Rejects Affirmative Action Case, Biden Spox Glitches On IDF Sexual Assault, IDF Tells Troops Stop Posting War Crimes, Assange Final Appeal Hearing, Jon Stewart Attacks BlueAnon And Tucker, Former Miner Reveals Coal Baron Secrets

Krystal and Emily discuss Alabama’s SCOTUS ruling embryos are kids, Trump team plots abortion ban, Nikki Haley home state humiliation, SCOTUS rejects hearing affirmative action case, Biden spox glitches over sexual assault IDF allegations, IDF chief tells troops to stop posting war crimes online, Assange final appeal hearing […]

The Anarchists of Dune

By thecollective From The Transmetropolitan Review Across the world, the movie-watching public will soon behold the Fremen of Dune sack and destroy the Empire, starting on their homeworld of Arrakis. This irresistible moment, where the rebels actually win, is sure to sink into the mass-public consciousness, but despite […]

Review: No spiritual surrender: Indigenous anarchy in defense of the sacred

From Journal of Political Ecology by Alexander Dunlap Why has political ecology ignored Indigenous anarchism? While there are a few exceptions, researchers across social science are confronted with an uncomfortable issue. Academia tends towards fetishizing, even instrumentalizing, Indigenous peoples in their projects. Meanwhile university publishers crank out volumes […]

Anarchists on Alexei Navalny

From The Polar Blast, Section of I.W.A. in the region of Russia about the last protests for Navalny We, anarchists and anarcho-syndicalists, consider it completely unacceptable for ourselves to take any part in political shows organized by supporters of the right-wing populist Navalny, who is sadly “famous” for […]

Warped Terminology on Open Borders

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2024 If government is not “under the law,” citizens will be under the federal boot. Apathy over arbitrary power exemplifies the rising political illiteracy. If people don’t recognize the peril of government violating its own laws, is American democracy beyond redemption? – James Bovard, Last […]

Flaneur in the Third Rome

by Richard Wilson Arktos Journal Feb 20, 2024 Richard Wilson reflects on the eternal glory of Moscow and the splendor of St. Petersburg. Some say it’s a Finnic word, Moskva, some say it’s proto-Slavic, whatever the case, you come here already with two images in your mind: Red […]

The Ballad of Barrett Brown

Almost ten years ago I read a review of Jonathan Franzen’s Purity in the Intercept that I’ve never forgotten. Written from a federal prison cell by Barrett Brown, a radical hacktivist with a pen dripping venom instead of ink, it heralded the kind of voice that, it seemed […]

2/20/24: NYT Sounds Alarm On Biden Age, Hunter Biden Star Witness Indicted, Wild New Sora AI Videos, US Backs Temporary Ceasefire, Houthis Most Damaging Attack Yet, ICJ Hears Israel Occupation Case, MSNBC Horrible Best And Worst Presidents List

Krystal and Saagar discuss the NYT and Nate Silver sounding the alarm on Biden’s age, Fox News humiliated as Hunter star witness indicted, Krystal and Saagar react to Sora AI videos, US backs ceasefire proposal, Houthis most damaging Red Sea attack yet, The Hague hears case on Israel […]

The case for no rate cuts

February 20, 2024 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Welcome back! Mark Zuckerberg got plenty of attention at UFC 298, including getting the meme treatment again. In today’s big story, we’re looking at the chances of there being no rate cuts this year, and how the markets […]

An A for Failure

New York Review of Books In the Review’s March 7 issue, Robert Pogue Harrison reviews two recent books, by Costica Bradatan and Geoff Dyer, about failure, humility, and death. Losing—and a head-on confrontation with the sense of losing—might, Harrison offers, help us “gain insight into the mortal, fallible, and […]

Dodcast #57: Jeff Russell

Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more   Dodcast Dodcast #57: Jeff Russell 0:00 2:01:58 Dodcast #57: Jeff Russell Luke Dodson and Jeff Russell Feb 20 READ IN APP Jeff Russell on growing up in Texas; religiosity and rationalism; studying classics; serving in the military; BAP and the […]

U.S. Begins To Talk Ceasefire

U.S. Begins To Talk Ceasefire Plus: Catholic funeral for transgender activist, Donald Trump’s props, deep tech in El Segundo, and more… LIZ WOLFE U.S. works to negotiate ceasefire: The United States, via a U.N. Security Council resolution, is urging a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas “as soon as practicable”—using ceasefire […]