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Nexus X HumectressKrystal and Saagar talk about Putin being declared a war criminal, dissent within Russia, renewed discussions of nuclear war, Trump’s fails in GOP primaries, Kamala and Biden infighting, first amendment protections, investors restricting oil supply, Iraq War amnesia, and the future of the Iran nuclear deal! Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ […]
By Peter Zeihan on March 24, 2022 A mix of punitive sanctions and market forces is working to keep Russian energy exports out of global refineries and power plants, and ultimately in the ground as Moscow will have fewer markets willing (or able) to take deliveries. Russia’s network of […]
By Damon Linker, The Week You’ve no doubt heard about it: A new COVID wave is coming. The Omicron subvariant known as BA.2 has already led China to shut down whole cities to stop the spread while also raising alarms in South Korea and across Europe and the […]
By Samuel Goldman The Week Post-religious America is growing up. That’s the bottom line of a new survey by Deseret News and Marist Poll. Researchers saw declines in religious practice in most demographic groups, but generational differences were especially stark. According to the report, Americans “60 or older […]
But the standard neocon/Reaganite/supply-sider alliance would still be pulling the strings of all this. If the MAGAists are the new hardhats and silent majority, these folks are merely the new moral majority. By Damon Linker The Week With Democrats in Congress facing strong headwinds in November’s midterm elections […]
By Peter Zeihan on March 23, 2022 I identified the likely challenges facing Russian oil production at the outset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine – chief among them Moscow’s inability to keep oil flowing in the absence of foreign investment and tech, but also buyers. Without customers to […]
By William Briggs The main reason you can be assured global warming of doom, a.k.a. climate change, is yet another slow-burn moral panic is that scientists in charge of its theory can never, in public, imagine any good coming out of slightly warmer temperatures. The few scientists who […]
THEMED SHOW: War on Drugs Keeps Failing, Countries Try Decriminalization / Opiate Users Switching to Marijuana / Which Drugs Should Be Legalized & Decriminalized? / and much more… 00:00 Start 00:35 War on Drugs Keeps Failing, Countries Try Decriminalization 06:17 Opiate Users Switching to Marijuana 11:03 Which Drugs Should Be Legalized […]
By Kyle Stock, BloombergQuint The robots will take the most tedious, most dangerous jobs first, in most things. Trucking is no exception. Autonomous driving engineers are squarely focused on long-haul freight, the interstate runs with almost no complexity save for a slow curve or an E-ZPass lane. As […]
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate talk live with ex-UN weapons inspector and military expert Scott Ritter about the Russia-Ukraine war. Ritter provides a detailed analysis of the battlefield that stands in stark contrast to the rose-colored perspective of most Western analysts, and offers his perspective on […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the future of the federal government’s pandemic strategy.
Krystal and Saagar bring Marshall Kosloff’s latest interview with creator and markets analyst Kyla Scanlon about the surge in commodity prices due to the Russian war in Ukraine
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to Donald Trump’s withdrawal of his endorsement of Mo Brooks for U.S. Senate.
So Mitch McConnell’s marriage would be unrecognized in some states
Kim Iversen questions why the American and Ukranian governments seem to be pushing aside the prospect of ending Ukraine’s war with Russia through peace negotiations.
Kid rock looks like Dana Carvey playing Joe Dirt.
Shaunna Thomas and Pamela Denise Long react to new reporting from Insider identifying 19 members of Congress who stand to profit off of the war in Ukraine due to their Raytheon and Lockheed Martin stock holdings.
“Nobody talks about the future as much as I do, but enough of the future, let’s keep talking about 2020 because we don’t talk about that enough”
Briahna Joy Gray makes the case for nationalizing the oil and gas industry.
Based on how hands-off NATO has been so far, a first strike would be more likely to come from Putin and would be selectively targeted to a prominent location in Ukraine. Even then, I don’t think NATO would respond in kind. NATO would respond, with conventional weapons, and […]
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave debate solutions to the continuing surge in gas prices.
“There’s class warfare, alright, but it’s my class, the rich class that’s making war… And we’re winning.” -Warren Buffett.
Robby Soave breaks down tough questions Ketanji Brown Jackson faced during her confirmation hearings yesterday.
Krystal and Saagar talk with author Justin Gest to understand the political and historical context surrounding the Latino shift to the GOP that will play a major role in elections to come
Kyle needs to diversify his information storage design. Screenshot the tweet. Save the link to the article. Gotta have backups…
Ryan Grim details a major change to how major firms compute your credit score.
Krystal and Saagar bring fresh content from political commentator Kyle Kulinski where he covers the liberal obsession with Putin and Trump’s relationship and why the war in Ukraine started under Biden
By Ali Fathollah-Nejad Middle East Institute Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, which triggered Europe’s first major conflict since the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, marks a watershed in the continent’s post-Cold War history. The conflict poses significant security challenges for countries throughout Eurasia and beyond, and has […]
By Thomas Fazi The Unherd The West, following the lead of the United States, has reacted to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by introducing a “crippling” regime of sanctions. It is a “total economic and financial war” aimed at “caus[ing] the collapse of the Russian economy”, the French finance […]
Caleb Maupin is a widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst. He has traveled extensively in the Middle East and in Latin America. He was involved with the Occupy Wall Street movement from its early planning stages, and has been involved many struggles for social justice. He […]
The sphere of politics is almost never about logically determining the best path forward. It is most often about carving the way that benefits those in power the most. The logical inconsistencies between the media ignoring Nazi Ukranian brigades because it doesn’t fit their agenda while trying to […]
Chas Freeman, a retired senior US diplomat, analyzes Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the US role, and the geopolitical fallout. “Everything we are doing, rather than accelerate an end to the fighting and some compromise, seems to be aimed at prolonging the fighting,” Freeman says. Guest: Chas Freeman. Veteran […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) ended his questioning of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Tuesday by asking Jackson why she accused former President George W. Bush and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld of being “war criminals.” “I don’t know you well, […]
By Jason Fields The Week One question keeping NATO leaders up at night is whether Russian President Vladimir Putin has designs on other territories beyond Ukraine. The answer is to be seen in Belarus, now largely a Russian vassal state. How it happened and what life is like in […]
By Damon Linker, The Week I’ve been a harsh critic of U.S. foreign policy, and especially of analysts who favor the aggressive use of military force in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy, for a long time now. But Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is different. For the first […]
Matthias Matthijs on how the war in Ukraine is changing the global security, economic, and political terrain. Germany’s historic remilitarization may be the clearest sign yet that Moscow’s war on Ukraine has reinvigorated the Western alliance. Meanwhile, the European Union imposed severe sanctions on Russia, and NATO member states approved […]
Krystal and Saagar talk with Russian anti-war activist Egor Kotkin who is currently in Moscow about conditions at home after sanctions, Putin’s calculations, wartime propaganda, and similarities to the US political moment
MSNBC contributor Malcolm Nance tweeted out recently that the notorious Ukrainian paramilitary force known as the Azov Battalion had been “cleansed” of its Nazi elements in 2014, shortly after helping to lead the Maidan Rebellion. Nance offered no supporting evidence for the claim, but his tweet fits into […]
Krystal and Saagar break down the warnings from the Biden administration about a coming Russian cyberattack on the US in response to western sanctions over the war in Ukraine
White House reporters love two things more than any others – getting to be on camera when they ask questions, and war. And thanks to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the current crop of predominantly women who comprise the White House press pool have been able to explore […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to physical abuse allegations against Missouri Senate candidate Eric Greitens.
Saagar looks at the humiliating response by the Biden administration to Saudi Arabia’s refusal to drill more oil to fulfill the supply needs of the US and elsewhere despite our continued support for their regime
Actor, comedian and podcaster Russell Brand has lately come under fire from the establishment press in his native England, labeled a “conspiracy theorist” who spreads misinformation and makes wild accusations without providing supporting evidence. Now Brand has used his platform to strike back, posting a video refuting the […]
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to horrific new reporting on the famine in Afghanistan. Lina holds her baby boy, Osman, as he undergoes treatment at the malnutrition ward of the Ataturk National Children’s Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec, 2, 2021. According to U.N. figures from early […]
Krystal and Saagar join the chorus of those ridiculing the comedian and Oscars host Amy Schumer for inviting Zelensky to the show as Ukraine faces an all-consuming invasion from Russia
Remember when actors were just court jesters and we didn’t give a f*ck what they thought? Wait, I still feel that way.
Kim Iversen calls out U.S. media for condemning Vladimir Putin’s attacks on free speech but ignoring the same kind of attacks happening in Ukraine.
Krystal and Saagar examine the growing generational wealth gap between Baby Boomers and Millennials exacerbated by covid that has caused major problems in the housing market
Not a surprise. When people are in economic dire straits do you have a tendency to try to take the edge off with all sorts of stuff. It just so happens that alcohol is one of the easiest things to get your hands on. It’s just another sign […]
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