A new scramble for Africa

As I’ve said before, we’re moving back to the 19th century’s world of unprecedented technological advancement, massive socioeconomic disparities, and multi-order geopolitics. Three new trans-Mediterranean corridors are emerging that will glue #Europe​ and #Africa​. However, the routes will traverse North Africa’s gatekeepers.

The Ghost of Empires Past

By William S. Lind, The American Conservative President Joe Biden was working late in his private office in the White House. At the end of the day his chief of staff had handed him a somewhat unfortunate report from the Justice Department. It seemed Hunter recently sold the […]

Why America Throws the Poor in Prison

America built mass incarceration: the wholesale imprisonment of entire populations. Why, exactly, are so many people in prison – more than the entire population of New Mexico? That’s our focus for this week’s video: how a crisis of capitalism created a surplus population of former workers concentrated in […]

Daily Beast thrashed over op-ed that ‘dirtbag left’ is actively courting the far-right

By Claire Goforth, Daily Dot The Daily Beast is facing intense backlash over an op-ed that claims members from the “dirtbag left”—a collection of leftist podcasters and Twitter personalities—are cozying up with right-wing extremists. The roughly 4,500-word article posits that leftist media personalities are legitimizing and even adopting […]

Remembering Eartha Kitt

By Chung Wong A day after her birthday, Santa Baby singer Eartha Kitt aka Catwoman would lose her career after being invited to the White House today in 1968, for her charity work with youth-at-risk. Lady Bird Johnson invited 50 mostly wealthy women to discuss the rise of […]

Aiming to Overthrow the State (Without Using the State): Political Opportunities for Anarchist Movements

By Dana Williams The anarchist movement utilizes non-statist and anti-statist strategies for radical social transformation, thus indicating the limits of political opportunity theory and its emphasis upon the state. Using historical narratives from present-day anarchist movement literature, we note various events and phenomena in the last two centuries […]

Kick the Puppy S2: E8

Experts sound the alarm on declining birth rates among younger generations: “it’s a crisis,” the super old as the fastest growing age demographic, Thomas Malthus and overpopulation, soap operas, birth control, condoms, the union of two houses: the Windsors and Celebrities is complete, is Greta Thunberg writing letters […]

The Myth of Monolithic Communism

This is a classic Murray Rothbard article from 1979 that debunked Cold War mythology regarding the “international communist conspiracy” and so forth. Learning many of these same things in the 1980s (not from Rothbard but from other sources), and learning more about US conduct in the Cold War,  […]

Tanzania – The second Covid coup?

By Kit Knightly, Off-Guardian President John Magufuli’s disappearance makes him potentially the 2nd “Covid denier” head of state to lose power. John Magufuli, President of Tanzania, has disappeared. He’s not been seen in public for several weeks, and speculation is building as to where he might be. The […]

Vaush Debates Jon Zherka (Infrared)

Vaush debate vs Infrared who is a bootleg version of Jon Zherka. They cover a variety of topics, but it gets quite heated especially from Infrared’s side and he starts screaming/malding. Timestamps: 00:00​ Debate Starts 01:27​ Liberalism 04:07​ Ukraine/Russia 05:16​ Define the word 09:17​ Vaush mutes him 13:00​ […]

A Reflection on “Property Rights”

I view “property rights” the same way that the Left views race, gender, sexuality, etc. i.e. as a social construct that is relative to time, place, and the particular cultural framework that is involved, like table manners, marital customs, sexual morals, religious rituals, styles of dress or music, […]

Overcriminalization and Criminal Justice Reform

One thing that is interesting is that overcriminalization has become so far-reaching and pervasive that even many traditionally conservative groups have criticized it like the Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, the Koch-affiliated groups, etc. The issue seems to be that the police state and overcriminalization has been […]