Consider the Octopus

Sponsored by The Authors Guild Foundation Today in The New York Review of Books: Verlyn Klinkenborg considers the octopus; Marcela Turati memorializes the disappeared in Mexico; Joshua Hammer follows the Wagner Group’s trail of carnage across Africa and Ukraine; Catherine Nicholson studies King Lear alongside Chinese scholars; Duncan Hosie details the cruelty of the Supreme […]

‘Nowhere to run’

Saturday, Week XXXVIII, MMXXV Recently: Why the spread of major crime within the U.S. Special Forces? Seth Harp on a dark legacy of America’s war on terror. Today: Putin’s last critic resigns from the Kremlin. Russian jets test Estonian airspace—as Trump warns of “big trouble.” Haiti’s gangs expand […]

Tom DiLorenzo on “Virtuous” War Crimes – The American and Israeli Traditions (PFS Bodrum 2025)

21 September, 2025 Sebastian Wang Tom DiLorenzo on “Virtuous” War Crimes – The American and Israeli Traditions (PFS Bodrum 2025) Property and Freedom Society, Bodrum 2025 Tom DiLorenzo on “Virtuous” War Crimes: The American and Israeli Traditions Reported by Sebastian Wang This was a characteristically incendiary address. Tom […]

Why “Woke Right” is Wrong

The Boomer Establishment Is Weaponizing “Woke” to Maintain Power Jack Donovan May 28, 2025 Sheepdog photo from Adobe Stock James Lindsay first started pushing “woke right” just before and after the 2024 election. Lindsay did great work attacking communism and “woke” culture, so I wanted to see what […]

Israel, Charlie Kirk, and the Weaponization of Murder (w/ Max Blumenthal) | The Chris Hedges Report

Support my independent journalism at Substack: https://chrishedges.substack.com/ Follow The Chris Hedges Report on social media: https://linktr.ee/chrishedges (0:00) Intro (2:16) The Silent Feud Between Israel and Kirk (12:52) Netanyahu and Kirk (19:54) Netanyahu’s courting of alt media (23:19) The coming crackdown (30:57) Years of Lead (35:38) Rittenhouse (39:30) McCarthyism […]

Daily CryptoBeat for 9/19/2025

Text “MarketBeat” to  68285  to get SMS breaking news alerts for stocks on your watchlist and other special reports.  Learn More. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio September 19th, 2025   7 Tiny “Trump Stocks” Poised for Large Moves (ad) 7 Cheap and Good Stocks to Buy Now 💰 Discover […]

The Woke Right Comes Of Age

And you thought they were in favor of free speech! Andrew Sullivan Sep 19, 2025 President-elect Donald Trump speaks to Brendan Carr, his intended pick for Chairman of the FCC, on November 19, 2024. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Let’s talk for a second about what Jimmy Kimmel actually said […]

Jimmy Kimmel’s Political Hackery

Greg Collard Sep 19, 2025 One of the many problems with the legacy press is its consistent implication — hell, often outright insistence — that criticism from conservatives is not legitimate. Friday’s piece from the New York Times mis/disinformation reporter Stuart Thompson is yet another example. Another way […]

The killing joke

Thursday, Week XXXVIII, MMXXV Recently: How much control does China really have over Russia? Sergey Radchenko on great-power politics, Moscow’s growing energy exports, and Beijing’s new sway. Today: U.K. authorities arrest two teenagers, allegedly from the Scattered Spider cybercrime collective that cons corporate help desks. Donald Trump floats a “NATO […]

How Words Kill

A Collection of Poetry and Martyred Palestinian Poets Ahmad Ibsais Sep 17, 2025 As we head into two years of Israel’s Genocide of Gaza, more than 300 journalists, artists, intellectuals, and poets have been killed. They are among the over 200,000 Palestinians who have been murdered in the […]