Fmr US Ambassador To Haiti Proposed “Prime Minister Solution” MONTHS Before Assassination
Ryan Grim breaks down controversy surrounding March Congressional testimony from the former U.S. ambassador to Haiti.
Ryan Grim breaks down controversy surrounding March Congressional testimony from the former U.S. ambassador to Haiti.
Krystal and Saagar review the inflation numbers for 2021 on a range of vital household items and how Senator Elizabeth Warren pressed Fed Chair Jerome Powell on what has caused inflation
By Noah Millan, The Week It may not always feel like it, but we live in an age of miracles. The most recent: the first successful transplant of a heart from a non-human mammal to a human being. This was not the first successful xenotransplantation of a working […]
By Ryan Cooper, The Week Last year saw the highest inflation in almost 40 years, with the Consumer Price Index up 7 percent. “Core” inflation, which leaves out food and energy costs, was a still-high 5.5 percent. The Federal Reserve is now expected to start hiking interest rates in […]
By Brigid Kennedy, The Week Former President Donald Trump doesn’t think very highly of politicians who refuse to admit they’ve received a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, it seems. During an interview with the far-right One America News Network that aired Tuesday, Trump described politicos who dodge […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week Here’s the problem with all the recent “vaxxed and done” discourse: While my pandemic may be over, ours isn’t. Like a lot of Americans, I’m vaxxed and boosted, and so is everybody in my household. My son goes to middle school every day and […]
By W. James Antle III, The Week Can calling people racist get them to support your agenda? President Biden will soon find out, at least where Democrats’ voting legislation is concerned. Continuing the pattern of his Jan. 6 speech in his address in Georgia on Tuesday, Biden presented his political opponents […]
By Samuel Goldman, The Week British politics are different. While American politicians tend to hold onto their jobs until — and sometimes even after — they face charges for actual crimes, British officials are routinely forced out or resign for comparably minor lapses of behavior or judgment. That’s why U.K. […]
By Ryan Cooper The Week Afghanistan is starving. The country’s economy has collapsed, a bitter winter has taken hold, and half the population doesn’t have enough to eat. Already many have died — and it could get much, much worse. UNICEF estimates 1 million children could perish over the […]
By Victor Davis Hanson, Independent Institute “Indeed, men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which alike can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day […]
By Alice Giordano, Epoch Times One of New Hampshire’s leading political conservatives is fighting to keep his children from the state’s child protection services agency after giving his 13-year-old son ivermectin. JR Hoell is the founder of ReOpen NH, an activist group that criticizes COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Hoell, […]
By Simon Springer, James D Sidaway, Richard J White, Nicholas J Crane The Anarchist Roots of Geography: Toward Spatial Emancipation advances several arguments. On the one hand, it wishes to recover and applaud the legacies of two anarchists who were also geographers—Kropotkin (1842– 1921) and Reclus (1830–1905)—and celebrate […]
By Matt Taibbi As yokel-bashing reaches impressive new heights, reports of yet another year of record profits and a widening wealth gap go unnoticed. Jimmy Kimmel Live, fast becoming Leonid Brezhnev’s never-realized dream of a Soviet Tonight Show, just put out a high-effort gag called “Anti-Vax Barbie.” It’s […]
By Audrey Williams June Chronicle of Higher Education New data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center provides a somber final tally of college enrollment during the fall of 2021: It dropped 2.7 percent from a year earlier, a decline of 476,100 students. Undergraduate enrollment, which was down at […]
Here it is. By MICHAEL BALSAMO, COLLEEN LONG and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, Associated Press 1 of 5 FILE – In this Sunday, June 25, 2017 file photo, Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington. Rhodes has been arrested […]
The Signal Why are voters across Latin America rejecting right-wing authoritarian populists? Amy Erica Smith on economic inequality, cultural backlash, and a shifting anger with elites. Right-wing authoritarian populists have been building power and rolling back democracy around the world for more than a decade. From Donald Trump in […]
By John Reid Blackwell Richmond Times-Dispatch The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the job market seems likely to have long-lasting affects on the U.S. economy, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond said Thursday. “We have been living for decades in a world of excess workers, driven […]
Krystal and Saagar talk about the FBI’s involvement in Jan 6th, stock trading by members of Congress, inflation numbers over the past year, Trump’s comments on getting the booster shot, outrageous mainstream media proposals for 2024, Elon Musk caving to China, federal reserve policy, healing American politics with […]
Sounds reasonable enough. If some Internet platforms don’t want you, start your own. By Jack Jenkins Religion News This article is the second in a series on Christian nationalism supported by the Pulitzer Center. (RNS) — It was late September when Andrew Torba, founder of the social media […]
Drug overdoses, alcoholism, suicides, murders, medical neglect, poor diet, deaths from accidents due to recklessness…Decreasing life expectancy in developed countries is almost unheard of. This is one of the sharpest indications the USA is in serious social decline. By Petr Svab Epoch Times Deaths among people aged 18 […]
Buckle up, this one is a wild ride. Author of “The Anarchist Handbook” and podcast host of “Your Welcome” Michael Malice wants to burn it all down, peacefully and with a smile. “My rights are NOT up for discussion,” he tells Glenn. He explains why his version of […]
January 12, 2022 Leave Cuba, and Leave Cuba Alone On the 20-year anniversary of the Pentagon’s and CIA’s torture and prison center and their military-tribunal judicial system at their imperial base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, some critics are asking the obvious question: Why doesn’t President Biden simply order […]
By Tom Ozimek, Epoch Times U.S. consumer prices accelerated in the year through December at their fastest pace in 39 years, new government data shows, marking the seventh straight month of inflation running above 5 percent and a fresh sign that inflationary woes continue to weigh on American consumers. The […]
By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge gave the green light Wednesday to a lawsuit against Prince Andrew by an American woman who says he sexually abused her when she was 17. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan wrote in an […]
New York Review of Books The Cowshed (Paperback)Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Ji Xianlin, introduction by Zha Jianying, translated from the Chinese by Chenxin Jiang The Cowshed has sold out but more copies are on the way. Please check back in a few days. The Chinese […]
By Matt Taibbi In actions featuring prominent politicians on both the left and the right, two starkly different world views came into relief on the 1/6 anniversary. TK Partners News2Share report. News2Share captured a series of actions in Washington on the anniversary of January 6th. Ford Fischer walks […]
One of the best analyses of the current US political situation I have seen to date. By Ed West Back in the late 1940s American politics had a problem. The issue was serious enough for Congress to authorise a committee looking into divisions between the country’s two parties. […]
This is a discussion between Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony. Yaron Brook argues for individualism and capitalism. Yoram Hazony argues that individualism is an incomplete philosophy and argues for conservatism. This segment is the last exchange of the debate.
By giovannifascio Futurism My political journey has been abnormal compared to most people I’ve met in the online “Third Position” community. So I’ll start by divulging a bit about my background. When I was 15 or 16 I heard The Feeding of the 5000 by Crass for the […]
By Scott McClallen | The Center Square (The Center Square) – New court filings say the FBI was aware an informant, or Confidential Human Source (CHS), used a charity to fund weapons in the alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer but authorities didn’t charge him until more […]
By Konstantin Toropin Military.Com The Department of Defense inspector general has begun an audit of how the military is doing at screening out extremists during enlistment, the latest move in a new push to root out the activity, according to a publicly released memo. The watchdog audit comes […]
They’re not even trying to pretend that there’s a difference between Republicans and Democrats at this point.
Honestly, if someone would just campaign on the numbers and drop the social/culture war stuff they’d have immense support from both “sides.”
Kim Iversen asks “where do we go from here?” in regards to Covid.
Glenn Greenwald, Emily Jashinsky, and Kim Iversen discuss the FBI’s refusal to deny their involvement in January 6.
Former President Donald Trump made a hasty retreat, hanging up on National Public Radio’s Steve Inskeep after he was asked about Republican candidates being forced to back Trump’s false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
Washington Post foreign affairs journalist, Pamela Constable, details the winter famine facing Afghan civilians.
I’m not exactly sure how different this is from what goes on now. By Jim Chrisinger, Yahoo Donald Trump and Republicans are shoving America toward authoritarianism. That’s why many of us are shouting about a threat to democracy. Many Americans don’t fear a potential slide into authoritarianism because […]
C.J. Polychroniou,Truthout In the third and final presidential debate of 2016, Donald Trump had signaled that he might not concede the election should he lose to Hillary Clinton. However, he did say to his supporters a day later that he would definitely accept the results of the election […]
By Jimmy Carter, New York Times Mr. Carter was the 39th president of the United States. This article is part of a collection on the events of Jan. 6, one year later. Read more in a note from Times Opinion’s politics editor Ezekiel Kweku in our Opinion Today […]
–One year after the January 6 Trump riots, the coup fears are only bigger, with recent op-eds from Jimmy Carter and Noam Chomsky, as well as warnings from retired generals and many others
Briahna Joy Gray makes her predictions about whether President Biden’s push voting rights reform will fail.
That’s how it normally works. Prosecutors will ask for more than what the judge is likely to impose and defense attorneys will ask for less, and the judge will impose a sentence that he or she thinks is a happy medium. Sentencing is also determined in part by […]
Team Rising weighs in on shocking new survey results showing many Kroger employees are facing serious financial struggles.
Ryan Grim breaks down the content of the NIH emails released by the House Oversight Committee GOP.
–In a completely incoherent rant on Fox News, former Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin claims that liberals want to “pound pound pound” the idea of sex into the minds of Americans (???)
Emily Jashinsky examines the impact of populism on the trajectory of both parties.
Golden showers are good for your health? Maybe Sophia Urista was on the right track. –Anti-vaccine lunatic Christopher Keys is now recommending so-called “urine therapy” to treat COVID, a bogus “treatment”
Krystal and Saagar cover the decision by AOC to bail on a march by Amazon workers in New York City looking to build momentum for a union drive
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react to another round of heated confrontation between Dr. Anthony Facui and Senator Rand Paul.
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