Jose Nino’s Digest: October 9, 2022 Illinois, Kentucky, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island Deployed National Guard Units to the Southern Border with Mexico, and more

Here are my most recent articles for you Illinois, Kentucky, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island Deployed National Guard Units to the Southern Border with Mexico Per the office of New Hampshire Governor Chris Sunnunu, four states are sending roughly 500 soldiers to help shore up the southern border. […]

The West: An Elephant On Stilts?

Is the progressive view of history a mirage propped up on vulnerable infrascture? Morgoth There’s a scene in The Matrix Reloaded in which Councillor Hamann engages Neo in conversation and suggests that they take a walk down to the engineering level of the real world city, curiously named […]

The Gay McCarthyites

By Cheryl Bates Gay/Lesbian Review ONE OF THE LOW POINTS in American history was in the early 1950’s when Senator Joseph McCarthy successfully fueled and exploited Americans’ fear and paranoia about secret governmental conspiracies, launching witch hunts to expose allegedly subversive infiltrators and Communists within the U.S. government. […]

The Last Defense Against Tyranny

By Jeff Minick, Intellectual Takeout Feminist writer Naomi Wolf, once beloved by progressives, has decided to go a different direction in the last few years. She has written much about totalitarianism and believes the United States is marching swiftly along the road to such a dictatorship. Needless to […]

Fanaticism of the Apocalypse

As Europeans burn garbage to stay warm, climate activists step up the war on natural gas Michael Shellenberger Members of Extinction Rebellion called on African leaders to end the production of natural gas in Cape Town, South Africa on October 4, 2022. (Photo by Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via […]

Once Upon A Time

Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article:   Once upon a time there was born a baby universe. Like most babies, it didn’t have a lot going on for itself at first. It existed as nothing but a plasmic ocean of energy roaring outward from its […]

How Ukraine Wins

by Peter Zeihan on October 8, 2022 A Ukrainian attack has severely damaged the Kerch Strait Bridge, the primary supply line for Russian food, fuel, ammunition and reinforcements into the Crimean Peninsula and southwestern Ukraine. It is, simply put, the single-most important piece of infrastructure in the war. […]

Daily News: October 8, 2022 The Week-Kanye West defends wearing White Lives Matter shirt to Tucker Carlson: ‘The idea of me wearing it was funny’

Brendan  Morrow The best 2022 horror films to watch for Halloween Harold  Maass Herschel Walker’s abortion controversy and the fight for Senate control Justin  Klawans Gas station explosion in Ireland kills at least 10 Advertisement by University of Pennsylvania’s Post-Baccalaureate Studies Learn more about Penn’s tailored curriculum: Attend […]

Holding Ground, Losing War

Douglas Macgregor Sep 22, 2022 12:05 AM The American Conservative At the end of 1942, when the Wehrmacht could advance no further east, Hitler switched German ground forces from an “enemy force-oriented” strategy to a “ground-holding” strategy. Hitler demanded that his armies defend vast, largely empty and irrelevant […]

A Massacre in Slow Motion

New York Review of Books Last month, the United Nations Security Council held a briefing on famine during war, pursuant to Resolution 2417, which it adopted in 2018 and which in part addresses “the need to break the vicious cycle between armed conflict and food insecurity.” Four days […]

Jose Nino’s Digest: October 7, 2022 Elon Musk and Lindsey Graham Get Into a Twitter Scuffle Over the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict, and more

Here are my most recent articles for you Elon Musk and Lindsey Graham Get Into a Twitter Scuffle Over the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict Earlier this week, Tesla founder and PayPal co-founder Elon Musk put forward an otherwise reasonable proposal to end the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. It consisted of the following: […]

America This Week, October 2-8, 2022

Musk panic returns, Fed disappoints with good news, NATO promises new Ukraine merch, Prez evokes Armageddon, Mexico hacked, Chess innovates butt scan, Onion outdone, Three finance headlines, and more Matt Taibbi Daniel Medina Eric Salzman Welcome back to America This Week, where we pull out all the stops […]

The Nation Weekly: October 7, 2022

The Nation How has automation and deindustrialization changed the nature of work? For our Fall Books issue, Alyssa Battistoni writes about Aaron Benanav’s Automation and the Future of Work and Sarah Jaffe’s Work Won’t Love You Back. If the pandemic and its downstream effects have, however temporarily and […]

The GOP Is Herschel Walker

A clarifying glimpse into the values of the Party of Trump Andrew Sullivan (Demetrius Freeman/WaPo via Getty Images) There are times, I confess, when I decide to pass on writing another column on how degenerate the Republican Party is. What else is there to say? It’s not as […]

Breaking Points: 10/7/22 WEEKLY ROUNDUP Nuclear threats, Brazil elections, housing market, Herschel Walker, Iran protests, & men without work!

Krystal and Saagar discuss nuclear threats, Brazil elections, housing market, Herschel Walker, Iran protests, & men without work! Chicago Tickets: https://www.axs.com/events/449151/bre… Nicholas Eberstadt: https://templetonpress.org/books/men-… Glenn Greenwald: https://greenwald.substack.com/ Timestamps: Nuclear 0:00 – 9:55 Brazil: 9:56 – 21:57 Housing: 21:58 – 29:23 Walker: 29:24 – 38:12 Iran: 38:13 – 47:21 […]

The News is Just Guesswork Now

A New York Times story pinning an assassination on Ukraine was a blockbuster, but why was it made public? How news in the “Information Warfare” age has become incomprehensible Matt Taibbi The site of the car bomb blast in the Daria Dugina affair. On Wednesday, October 5, the […]