Russians Support Wagner, Actually

Let’s dispel the rumor that anybody likes Shoigu. Rolo Slavskiy Jun 26, 2023 The headline says it all. I spent the last 2+ days in Russian chats, interacting with Russians, writing to people in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar, Siberia. The vast majority of everyone, even if they themselves […]

Prigozhin and Putin: Dead Men Walking

Most Read Ukraine Blocks Journalists From Front Lines With Escalating Censorship Alice Speri“It’s wild how little of what’s happening is being chronicled.” READ MORE →   Prigozhin and Putin: Dead Men Walking James RisenIn the duel between the Wagner Group’s Yevgeny Prigozhin and Russian President Vladimir Putin, both […]

Rebellion weakens Putin

June 26, 2023 Hi there! This is Peter Gelling, Insider’s weekend bureau chief. This weekend was all about Russia, where in a stunning 36 hours, the mercenary organization known as the Wagner Group staged a rebellion and marched to within 120 miles of Moscow. It was the most […]

Wagner Group Banished for Attempted Coup; ‘A Year of Trauma and Terror’; Trump Proclaims ‘I’m being indicted for you’

Kremlin Drops Criminal Charges Against Wagner Coup Chief After Exile To Belarus The event represented the largest existential threat to Putin’s regime since he took control of Russia in 2000. Read more | Join the discussion ‘Classic False Flag’: Analyst on Fox News Says Putin ‘Orchestrated’ Wagner Coup […]

Crisis in Russia

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WFH is crushing Middle America

June 25, 2023 Hi, I’m Matt Turner, the editor in chief of business at Insider. Welcome back to Insider Today’s Sunday edition, a roundup of some of our top stories.   On the agenda: Work from home is crushing Midwestern downtowns. How the Brown economist Emily Oster became […]

What Is Marxism?

An explanation of classical Marxism, followed by an explanation of the general term ‘Marxism.’ If you want to support the channel, here are the best ways to do it: 1) Watch the full video 2) Subscribe if you haven’t 3) Share with a friend 4) Support me with […]

Body Politics

Our July 10/17, 2023 Issue Read Online Read as PDF FEATURED We Need a New Body Politics Our new special issue is about one thing: defending the right of everyone to be able to do what he or she or they want with their own body, free from […]

Wagner Group stages armed rebellion

Harold  Maass Did DOJ let Hunter Biden off easy? Catherine  Garcia The Check-In: Catacomb music, reducing jet lag, and more Justin  Klawans Wagner Group stages armed rebellion Advertisement from Wisebread Earn $200 After Spending $500 The Week  Staff The hybrid-work mega-commute The Week  Staff 7 guilt-ridden cartoons about […]

Why Julian Assange Must Be Freed

Speaking in London, on behalf of the jailed Wikileaks founder Matt Taibbi Jun 24, 2023 At Parliament Hill in London Saturday, there was a demonstration on behalf of jailed Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Present was the famed rendering of Assange, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden made by sculptor […]

Russian Anarchists on the Wagner Mutiny

Statements from Three Anarchist Organizations 2023-06-24 Current Events Български čeština čeština Deutsch Early on June 24, Vladimir Putin addressed Russia about the unfolding rebellion of the Wagner private military company, saying that Yevgeny Prigozhin’s rebellion is “pushing the country toward anarchy and fratricide.” This is a misuse of […]

Who Swims with the Scientist?

“Defining wildness is not an easy task,” writes David Quammen in an essay we published online last month, but at the least it “requires living creatures of many different forms entangled in a system of surging and ebbing interactions.” These are the insights of a writer who has spent a […]

Airbnb’s cruel summer

June 24, 2023 Happy Saturday, Insiders! Americans are still booking short-term rentals from Airbnb and Vrbo at record rates. But the growing pool of hosts means some short-term-rental owners are seeing their revenue drop by up to 18%. More last-minute bookings, shorter stays, and budget travelers are leaving […]