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Nexus X HumectressBy Peter Krause and guest contributor Nils Hägerdal Political Violence at a Glance The crescendo of missile and drone strikes into Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are just the latest in a growing trend turning civil wars into international ones: blowback, or violent retaliation at home in response to intervention abroad. Civil war is […]
Proto-Protestant Blog Many Evangelicals will undoubtedly celebrate the recent legislative moves in Texas and Florida and both governors (one Catholic and one Evangelical) are certainly viewed as allies or even champions in the Christian Right’s culture wars. Let’s be clear. Sodomy is an abomination and parents that encourage […]
By Gary Saul Morson, New York Review of Books Detecting the same incompetence and self-satisfaction among the liberals of the Provisional Government in 1917 and the reformers of the post-Soviet era in the 1990s, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn feared another descent into authoritarian rule. For Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, no literary form […]
By James Oakes, New York Review of Books In The Broken Constitution, Noah Feldman argues that the Confederate states had a constitutional right to secede and that Lincoln violated the Constitution in forcing them back into the Union and freeing the slaves. Noah Feldman, the Felix Frankfurter Professor […]
By Peter Zeihan on April 29, 2022 Russia and its military have lagged considerably behind the Ukrainians in several categories: logistics, communications, and especially in metabolizing and deploying new technology, such as drones. It is especially in this latter instance where Kyiv has shown a remarkable nimbleness over Moscow. […]
Bottled Water Giant BlueTriton Admits Claims of Recycling and Sustainability Are “Puffery” Sharon Lerner BlueTriton, owner of Poland Spring and other brands of water packaged in plastic, stated in a court filing that its claims of sustainability are “vague and hyperbolic.” READ MORE → The $287 Million […]
By Matt Taibbi On drinking the delicious tears of blue-check hypocrites, who’ve suddenly discovered the perils of a privatized speech landscape. The New York Times earlier this week ran a guest essay by Gawker founding editor Elizabeth Spiers, fulminating about Elon Musk’s effort to purchase Twitter. She wrote: […]
A major lesson of the pandemic is that science is “not a priesthood,” says Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer, a general surgeon and senior fellow at the Cato Institute.
The Signal Why aren’t non-Western countries joining the sanctions against Russia? Richard Gowan on food, guns, and global risk management. Andy Art Renewing ties that had frayed since the Cold War, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has united the West against Moscow. This bond is the foundation for the unprecedented […]
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss the CDC’s role in deciding pandemic policy.
Krystal and Saagar break down the indictment of a wall street hedge fund manager for fraud related charges after he was investigated for manipulating financial markets to the tune of billions of dollars
Twitter’s head attorney and the individual most responsible for promoting Twitter censorship of Donald Trump and others Vijaya Gedde reportedly cried when she revealed to staffers that Elon Musk was taking over the social media platform. And after she received vitriolic and racist comments from randos on Twitter, […]
Candidate for New York’s 11th Congressional district, Brittany Ramos Debarros, criticizes U.S. arms sales to Ukraine.
Saagar goes deeper into the Washington Post article that implicated him alongside Elon Musk for Twitter comments about high ranking employees involved in curtailing free speech
An organization called Newsguard Technology has taken to evaluating traditional and independent news organizations and rating the outlets for their trustworthiness and independence from outside influence. The only problem? Newsguard is itself controlled by national security apparatchiks, former administration officials and others with decided biases of their own. […]
Krystal critiques the Fox News simping for billionaires and going against wealth taxes or other economic measures to curb their power and redistribute resources
Just watched a video of Jordan Chariton tearing Tulsi down so I was glad to hear Max Blumenthal explain the other side of her situation.
Candidate for New York’s 11th Congressional district, Brittany Ramos DeBarros, calls for the end of government subsidies for Big Business.
Krystal and Saagar review the scandals plaguing conservative firebrand Madison Cawthorn who was caught crossdressing, carrying a gun through TSA, and in a pump and dump crypot scheme
Slavery is still legal in this country for felons. Not only do private prisons get money from the government for warehousing prisoners, they are allowed to hire them out as super-cheap labor for private companies. We really need to start a list of companies that use prison labor […]
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave criticize Kamala Harris’ pandemic theatre after she was diagnosed with Covid-19.
Krystal and Saagar evaluate the points made by Elon Musk about Trump’s TRUTH social network and it’s performance in the app store now that conservatives are coming back to Twitter
Hah. The constitution has power? Signing violating bills into law is a day’s walk in the park for politicians.
Union tradesman Russell Dalton argues that both parties have abandoned the working class.
Krystal and Saagar respond to the journalistic tactics and attacks by the Washington Post after they featured Saagar’s Twitter comments in a story about Elon Musk’s online activity over the weekend
The public education system in the US needs to be completely torn down and reworked from top to bottom.
Will Jawando and Denise Long debate whether police presence makes schools safer.
Krystal and Saagar have an extended debate about student debt cancellation on a political level and on the policy proposals themselves now that Biden has expressed openness to loan forgiveness
They always say this and yet they end up going with the two major parties.
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave condemn The Washington Post for accusing Elon Musk and Saagar Enjeti of encouraging harassment of Twitter executives.
Krystal and Saagar review the leaked audio of Twitter employees who privately freaked out about Musk’s takeover to the point of tears for some worried about their future
The only issue I have with student loan debt forgiveness is that we need a plan to prevent this from becoming an issue again in the future. Politicians are interested in the benefits for them about forgiving student debt, but they also need to do a ton of […]
Briahna Joy Gray makes the definitive case for cancelling student loan debt.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by executive editor of the American Prospect David Dayen to understand the economic contraction that happened last quarter and the future of supply chains
First time I have ever fully agreed with Biden or Kamala on anything.
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave react to Dr. Fauci’s statements that the U.S. is “out of the pandemic phase.”
Krystal and Saagar cover the public comments made by Bernie Sanders to Joe Biden about cancelling the federal contracts with Amazon for their union busting tactics after Sanders rallied with Amazon workers
By Caitlin Johnstone In what appears to be yet another escalation in Silicon Valley’s redoubled efforts to quash dissident voices since the beginning of the Ukraine war, PayPal has just blocked the accounts of multiple alternative media voices who’ve been speaking critically against official US empire narratives. These […]
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave react to Dr. Fauci’s statements that the U.S. is “out of the pandemic phase.” Briahna Joy Gray makes the definitive case for canceling student loan debt. Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave condemn The Washington Post for accusing Elon Musk and Saagar […]
In the early stages of the Keynesian revolution, macroeconomists emphasized fiscal policy as the most powerful and balanced remedy for demand management. Gradually, shortcomings of fiscal policy became apparent. The shortcomings stem from timing, macroeconomic theory, and the deficit itself. – Paul Samuelson, Economics (15th ed.) [1995] April 28, […]
Krystal and Saagar talk about the Elon Musk Twitter firestorm happening online and in private, student debt cancellation, Bernie rallying Amazon workers, hedge fund manager’s financial fraud, Madison Cawthorn scandals, media fawning over billionaires, Saagar’s role in the Musk discourse, & the outlook on the economy and supply […]
Todd Lewish will be discussing with James Kunstler his work on the Long Emergency; Tech Skepticism and the future we all can expect to live through.
Anarchist News via Freedom News Freedom is pleased to present the next Ukraine video dispatch produced for us by film-maker and journalist Alexis Daloumis. Alexis spent last few weeks in Kiyv, and previously you may have heard of him due to his other production, Belkî Sibê: A Journey […]
By Michael Roberts Apart from inflation and war, what grips current economic thought is the apparent failure of what mainstream economics likes to call ‘globalisation’. What mainstream economics means by globalisation is the expansion of trade and capital flows freely across borders. In 2000, the IMF identified four […]
By Matt Bruenig, The Jacobin Libertarians tend to get flummoxed when confronted with this simple question. Perhaps the most interesting thing about libertarian thought is that it has no way of coherently justifying the initial acquisition of property. How does something that was once unowned become owned without nonconsensually destroying others’ liberty? It […]
By Brian Doherty, Reason No more new ZEDEs will exist, after a unanimous congressional vote to end program; existing ZEDEs are optimistic their deals will be honored. Honduras had been a pioneer in experimenting with what were called ZEDEs—”Zones for Employment and Economic Development” in English translation. But […]
By Caitlin Johnstone If you get the feeling that all this Ukraine flag-waving is one more vapid mainstream propaganda initiative used to manufacture consent for an agenda that has nothing to do with what you’re being told, it’s because that’s exactly what is happening. In this war Russia […]
US: “No military bases in the Solomon Isles!” China: “We can agree to that. That sounds reasonable.” US: “No no no, you misunderstand. YOU can’t have military bases in the Solomon Isles…”
By Harold Maass The Week Disney just learned the hard way why companies shouldn’t force their “woke” politics on lawmakers, said The Wall Street Journal in an editorial. “Disney employees demanded that Mickey Mouse oppose Florida’s misdescribed ‘don’t say gay’ bill,” and CEO Bob Chapek dutifully vowed to […]
By Grayson Quay Russian officials said Wednesday that an ammunition depot caught fire near the border with Ukraine and that air defense systems shot down Ukrainian drones flying over Russia, The Wall Street Journal reports. Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for the incidents, which are only the latest […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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