Breaking Points: 8/18/22 FULL UNCUT SHOW The CDC shake up, Trump documents taken by FBI, Liz Cheney defeat, more

Krystal and Saagar discuss the CDC shake up, Trump documents taken by FBI, Liz Cheney defeat, Kushner’s book criticism, MSNBC Maddow replacement, Biden siding with railway bosses, GOP as the Trump party, & a panel on the midterm elections! Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Tickets: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0E… Ryan Grim: https://theintercept.com/staff/ryangrim/ Emily Jashinsky: […]

Some Anarchists Want to be Losers

It is interesting how Thad Russell’s latest anarchist educational project is being attacked in this thread. Instead of being happy that a somewhat influential thinker with a large audience is trying to educate others about anarchist thought and history……these folks are about nothing but negativity. I have for […]

Technology vs. the nation-state

By BEN SCHRECKINGER  With help from Derek Robertson Balaji Srinivasan speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017 at Pier 48 on September 20, 2017 in San Francisco, California. | Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch, via Flickr In the world of crypto and Web3, manifestos are the […]

Left News: August 18, 2022 The Intercept-The Killing of a Portland Antifascist Activist Went Unsolved. Then Journalists Sued the City.

The Killing of a Portland Antifascist Activist Went Unsolved. Then Journalists Sued the City. Alice Speri Three years after Sean Kealiher was killed, police arrested a suspect, just as The Intercept’s public records lawsuit neared a ruling. READ MORE → Donald Trump Has His Own History With the […]

Rural Power in Spain

New York Review of Books Omar G. Encarnación The Revolt of Empty Spain A nonpartisan movement to bring attention to the depopulation of Spain’s countryside has begun to shape national politics. Jenny Uglow Out of His Element In a new selection of John James Audubon’s oceangoing writings, we […]

Thaddeus Russell and Anarchism?

CyberDandy Thaddeus Russell and Anarchism? For $95.00 historian Thaddeus Russell is now offering a 3-part course that “will ask whether anarchism provides a useful critique of the state, capitalism, and social relations and offers a way toward a freer society.” Here is the full description: “With the rise […]

Anarchists and Parliamentarianism

From Red & Black Notes, by Matt Crossin | Published August 13, 2022 Elections and Social Change This is the final article in a series of articles by Matt Crossin, ‘Critical Notes on Developments in the Anarchist Movement’. There are some who now consider themselves anarchists who tell […]

Not anarchist

Topic of the Week – Here at Anarchist News, we sometimes receive article submissions that are not anarchist, don’t mention the anarchist word, and come from more of a leftist space. Often, these texts mention related words like “radical,” “anti-authoritarian,” “anti-capitalist,” “anti-state,” and “antifa” or talk about subjects […]

Sudan: Birth of the Anarchist Student Union

August 15, 2022 الحركة الاناركية بالسودان- By “The anarchist movement in Sudan” https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057071783169 On Sunday, August 14, at Dongola University (Faculty of Sharia and Law), in Dongola, Sudan, a discussion and debate of class war, social revolution, and a libertarian socialist society took place. “For free organization, workplace […]

America’s wealthiest, including Tom Brady, Khloe Kardashian, Reese Witherspoon, Kanye and Nancy Pelosi’s husband took millions in PPP loans – and nearly all have been forgiven

By Chris White For Dailymail.com Celebrities including Kanye West, Jay-Z and Khloe Kardashian received millions in government PPP (Payment Protection Program) loans, set up for desperate businesses hit by the Covid pandemic DailyMail.com can now reveal the exact amounts that these millionaires took out via the government program  […]

The Cost of Biden’s Racialism

By Joel Kotkin Joe Biden may have once bragged about his cooperative relations with segregationists, but he still arguably owes more to African-American leadership and voters than any politician in recent history. After all, it was black voters who bequeathed him the two critical victories in South Carolina […]

Mass Media Q & A – Questions For Corbett

The Corbett Report Watch video on Archive / BitChute / Odysee or Download the video As promised, today James does a question and answer with some students of his Mass Media: A History online course. From the history of media to our relationship with to an intriguing question about Gulf War embedded reporting that goes […]

87,000 Racists

Analyzing the structural behavior of the IRS and comparing to modern emergent redefinitions of the term ‘racism.’ Handwaving Freakoutery The Inflation Reduction Act took it on the chin a week ago with lots of people sharing a not totally true yet not entirely false either statistic that the […]

The Left and Right in Historical Context

Murray Rothbard’s enormously important essay from 1965 pointed out the fallacies of the left/right model of the political spectrum. Read it here. Rothbard’s anarcho-capitalism was essentially a restatement of the panarchist philosophy of Gustave Molinari and Paul Emile de Puydt, a position also embraced by the classical anarchist […]

Sweeps Week on FBI TV!

National news media and federal law enforcement are now as indistinguishable in America as in any autocratic country anywhere By Matt Taibbi And they told two friends, and so on, and so on…   CNN Newsroom anchor Jim Acosta, famed for being the WWE version of a media […]

The Lighthouse Weekly Newsletter: August 16, 2022 Pelosi’s Seriously Misguided Taiwan Trip | Big Government Vaccine Failures | The FBI, Stasi Style?

Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip Heightens the US-China Perceptual Dilemma Christopher J. Coyne (The Hill) Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) recently visited Taiwan amid strong rebukes from the Chinese government. Presumably she intended to signal American strength and deter China from taking Taiwan. But her intentions may achieve the opposite effect—heightening […]