Breaking Points: 7/11/22 FULL SHOW

Krystal and Saagar examine Biden’s response on abortion, Elon’s Twitter deal falling through, Ukraine war fears, Biden trip to Saudi Arabia, WH coverup of Biden’s gaffe, Buttigieg’s blunders at DOT, debates about Biden’s age, and Shinzo Abe’s legacy in Japan! Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Tobias Harris: https://observingjapan.com/book/ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/09/op… Timestamps: Abortion: […]

America: The Last Ideological Empire

By Arta Moeini, Compact What explains America’s hyper-ideological response to the Ukraine crisis? Less than a year before Vladimir Putin launched his invasion, Washington had wrapped up two decades of lousy regime-change wars, waged in the name of planting “freedom” in that region’s inhospitable soil. There was, or […]

DoorDash launches PAC

By HAILEY FUCHS  Politico DOORDASH CASH: DoorDash has created its own political action committee, moving to expand its already growing Washington influence presence, according to paperwork filed with the Federal Election Commission on Thursday. — The delivery and takeout company brought on its first federally registered lobbyists in […]

Chicago’s 4th of July weekend death toll surpassed the Highland Park shooting. ‘I thought there would be more outcry,’ mother says

By Jacquelyne Germain, CNN Angela Gregg, center, is consoled by police Cmdr. Roderick Watson and community members during a prayer vigil days after her son, Mychal Moultry Jr., was killed Labor Day weekend last year. (CNN)Angela Gregg’s 4-year-old son, Mychal Moultry Jr., known to loved ones as MJ, […]

Freedom News Digest: SATURDAY, July 9, 2022 Retrospective on the National Security Establishment’s Deep State Coup d’état That Murdered JFK

“This National-Security Establishment’s deep state assassination of President John F. Kennedy was one of the pivotal events in our lifetime, and it continues to have an adverse impact on American life today.” — Charles Burris, “Retrospective on the National Security Establishment’s Deep State Coup d’état That Murdered JFK” […]

Anarchism and the Archaeology of Anarchic Societies: Resistance to Centralization in the Coast Salish Region of the Pacific Northwest Coast

By Bill Angelbeck and  Colin Grier Throughout human history, people have lived in societies without formalized government. We argue that the theory of anarchism presents a productive framework for analyzing decentralized societies. Anarchism encompasses a broad array of interrelated principles for organizing societies without the centralization of authority. […]

The Abe Assassination

by James Corbett corbettreport.com July 9, 2022 As you no doubt know by now, Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan, was assassinated in broad daylight on Friday. So what happened? Who was responsible? And what does it mean? Following are the results of an open source […]

Tomorrow’s Gods: What is the future of religion?

By Sumit Paul-Choudhury 1st August 2019 Throughout history, people’s faith and their attachments to religious institutions have transformed, argues Sumit Paul-Choudhury. So what’s next? * This story is featured in BBC Future’s “Best of 2019” collection. Discover more of our picks. Before Mohammed, before Jesus, before Buddha, there was […]

Rising: July 8, 2022 Full Show

Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss breaking news of the day, including the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe. Ryan Grim breaks down proposed changes to the Espionage Act, used in the prosecution of Julian Assange and Daniel Ellsberg. Emily Jashinsky criticizes the media’s portrayal of […]

Breaking Points Weekly Roundup 7/8/22

Krystal and Saagar talk about the recession coming, Highland Park shooting, Biden’s incompetence, airline chaos, oil market swings, Boris Johnson, & more! Timestamps: Recession: 0:00 – 18:42 Highland Park: 18:43 – 27:10 Biden 2024: 27:11 – 40:01 Airlines: 40:02 – 49:29 Oil Markets: 49:30 – 58:37 Boris: 58:38 […]

Two Americas Index: The post-Roe divide

By Margaret Talev Axios Divisions in U.S. society worsened significantly after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to the latest Axios-Ipsos Two Americas Index. Why it matters: From December through May, our national survey found a small window in which Americans were feeling more in common […]

The Network State: How to Build New Countries

Balaji Srinivasan, author of The Network State, returns to The Realignment to discuss why he thinks internet-native “Network States” are the successors to the nation-state, how he sees American and global politics reorienting around cryptocurrencies in the 2020s, compares and contrasts the prospects of the United States, China, […]

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is forced to escape D.C. steakhouse with his security detail after pro-abortion protesters ‘harassed’ him during dinner and told the manager to throw him out

By Dailymail.com Reporter Kavanaugh was eating dinner this week when activists showed up at the venue They told the manager to kick him out, forcing him to escape via the back door Comes amid nationwide fury at the Supreme Court for overturning Roe v. Wade  Latest incident against […]